Grad Programs Directory
Meet the faculty, staff, and students advancing life sciences research and education across the Huck Institutes.
Elsa Chen
- Graduate Student
- Plant Institute, Web and Social Media Representative
Assessing the Effects of Persistent Pollutants on Plant-Insect Interactions
Keith Cheng
- Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and of Pharmacology
Computational phenomics, image informatics, and "Geometry of Life" based on x-ray histotomography, population, genomic, and. . .
Francesca Chiaromonte
- Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences
- Professor of Statistics
Developing methods for the analysis of large, high-dimensional and complex data.
Surinder Chopra
- Professor of Maize Genetics
Regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis during plant development and plant-pathogen interaction. Epigenetic regulation and. . .
Eric Claus
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Identifying neural and cognitive mechanisms that support behavior change in substance use disorders.
Charles Andrew Cole
- Professor of Landscape Architecture
Ecosystem ecology: wetlands, hydrology, restoration, seed banks, plant communities, historical ecology.
Erin Connolly
- Professor and Head of Plant Science
Molecular mechanisms of micronutrient transport. Iron uptake and compartmentalization. Metal ion homeostasis
Daniel Cosgrove
- Eberly Chair and Professor of Biology
Mechanism of plant growth. Function and evolution of expansins. Biochemistry and rheology of plant cell walls. Growth. . .
Estelle Couradeau
- Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Science & Management
Dana Coval-Dinant
- Graduate Program Office Coordinator and Supervisor
Oversight of the six Huck inter-college graduate degree programs and supervision of day-to-day operations of graduate office. . .
Nikki Crowley
- Director, Penn State Neuroscience Institute – University Park
- Huck Chair in Neural Engineering
Investigation of peptidergic transmission throughout the brain, using cell-specific and pathway-specific manipulations to. . .
Timothy Currier
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Joining the Huck in January 2027. Open to taking graduate students. Developmental mechanisms that build properly functioning. . .