Grad Programs Directory
Meet the faculty, staff, and students advancing life sciences research and education across the Huck Institutes.
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. . .
Wayne Curtis
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
Regulation and signal transduction in plant secondary metabolism. Phytoremediation of hydrocarbons. Commercial chemical. . .
Emily Davenport
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Understanding the complex relationship humans have with our microbiomes, using high-throughput sequencing technologies and. . .
Maria Julia de Lima Brossi Andreote
- Assistant Research Professor of Microbial-Mediated Plant Nutrition
Plant-microbe interactions; microbial-mediated nutrient acquisition; rhizosphere microbial ecology; bioinoculant research
Mary Jane De Souza
- Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology
The etiology of and treatment of the Female Athlete Triad, skeletal health in exercising women and athletes, reproductive. . .
Nancy Dennis
- Professor of Psychology
The cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.
Claude dePamphilis
- Director of the Center for Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Plant Biology and Evolutionary Genomics
Genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. Origin and diversification of flowers and developmental pathways.. . .
Francesco Di Gioia
- Associate Professor of Vegetable Crop Science
Plant nutrition, plant physiological and biochemical response to environmental and abiotic stress conditions, sustainable. . .
Francisco Diaz
- Director of the Center for Reproductive Health and Biology
- Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology
Ovarian physiology. Role of SMAD-mediated signaling in follicular and female germ cell (oocyte) development.
Duane Diefenbach
- Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
Wildlife ecology, estimation of population parameters, and harvest management of game populations.
