People: Faculty
Lacy Alexander
Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Dr. Alexander utilizes in vivo and in vitro approaches using the human cutaneous circulation to examine the underlying signaling mechanisms mediating microvascular dysfunction with primary human aging, hypercholesterolemia, and essential…
Paul Bartell
Associate Professor of Avian Biology The regulation of biological clocks in birds at the systems level.
Peter Butler
Professor of Bioengineering Fundamental molecular mechanisms by which vascular endothelial cells sense the forces from flowing blood and transduce this mechanical information into adjustments of cell and tissue biology.
Orfeu Buxton
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
The causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society; the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency, especially cardiometabolic outcomes, and the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise. Successful…
Margherita Cantorna
Emphasis Area Representative, Immunology and Infectious Disease; Director of the Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease; Distinguished Professor in Molecular Immunology
The research in the Cantorna lab seeks to understand the working of the immune system. Animal models of several human diseases including enteric infections and inflammatory bowel disease are utilized to determine the cellular targets and molecular…
Mary Jane De Souza
Professor of Kinesiology
Women's health and Physical Activity, Endocrinology of the Female Athlete, Effects of Exercise on the Menstrual Cycle, Female Athlete Triad (Eating disorders, amenorrhea and osteoporosis), Eating Behaviors, Food Intake, and Exercise, Luteal Phase…
Francisco Diaz
Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology Ovarian physiology. Role of SMAD-mediated signaling in follicular and female germ cell (oocyte) development.
Patrick Drew
Huck Distinguished Associate Professor of Neural Engineering and Neurosurgery Control and development of the cerebral blood flow, neurovascular coupling.
Pamela Giblin
Professor of Immunology The role of receptor tyrosine kinases in normal physiology and disease progression; the downstream signals that mediate these responses in vivo and in vitro.
Molly Hall
Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Building tools to elucidate the complex genetic and environmental underpinnings of human disease. Integrating genetic (genotype, sequence, structural variation) and exposure (derived from surveys and metabolomics methods) big data to predict disease…
William Hancock
Professor of Bioengineering The detailed workings of motor proteins and their role in intracellular transport and cell motility.
Kevin Harvatine
Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology
Investigation of dietary factors that modify ruminal fatty acid biohydrogenation, regulation of synthesis of milk components, and basic regulation of lipid synthesis with the continual goal of developing feeding strategies to improve the efficiency…
Alan Johnson
Professor of Reproductive Biology; Walther H. Ott Professor in Avian Biology Ovarian dynamics and follicle differentiation; granulosa cell tumors.
Mary Kennett
Professor, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences; Director, Animal Resource Program The pathogenesis of infectious disease: examining bacterial virulence and associated pathology in relation to host immune responses.
W. Larry Kenney
Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology Environmental and exercise physiology, particularly human thermoregulation, skin blood flow, and the biophysics of heat exchange.
Girish Kirimanjeswara
Associate Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Science Establishing the Virulence Factors
Laura Klein
Professor of Biobehavioral Health Biobehavioral effects of stress on drug abuse; sex differences in neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses; nicotine regulation of stress reactivity.
Donna Korzick
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Physiology; Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
My research is focused on aging, post-menopausal women, and cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury using animal models. We are particularly interested in the effects of estrogen deficiency on mitochondrial regulation of cell survival following…
Joshua Lambert
Associate Professor of Food Science
Dietary polyphenols in prevention of obesity and fatty liver disease; efficacy and mechanisms of action of food-derived phytochemicals in prevention of lung cancer; biotransformation, bioavailability and potential hepatotoxicity of dietary…
Wansheng Liu
Professor of Genomics Functional annotation of farm animal genomes, structure and function of mammalian sex (X and Y) chromosome, spermatogenesis and male fertility.
Keefe Manning
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Surgery Understanding the native cardiovascular system fluid mechanics; understanding the diseased cardiovascular system fluid mechanics, and the impact that cardiovascular prosthetics generate during and post implantation
James Marden
Associate Director of Operations, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Professor of Biology How physiological variation within species affects their ecology and evolution. Primarily with insects, but recently also with plants, and a particular interest in allelic variation in the pathogen resistance genes of tropical trees.
Gustavo Nader
Associate Professor of Kinesiology Skeletal muscle growth control and adaptations to exercise. Ribosome biogenesis, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of RNA Polymerase I.
Troy Ott
Associate Director for Graduate Education, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Professor of Reproductive Physiology Fertility and reproductive immunology in domestic farm animals.
Joy Pate
Director of the Center for Reproductive Biology and Health; Professor of Reproductive Physiology; C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences Specializing in the area of corpus luteum function. Primary research interests focus on the regulation of luteolysis, prostaglandin production by the corpus luteum, and the interactions between the immune system & the reproductive system.
Andrew Patterson
Associate Professor of Molecular Toxicology The Patterson lab is focused on understanding the host-metabolite-microbiome axis
Robert Paulson
Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Emphasis Area Representative, Genetics The Paulson lab studies the mechanisms that regulate tissue regeneration with a focus on understanding the response to anemic and hypoxic stress
James Pawelczyk
Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology Neural control of circulation, particularly skeletal muscle blood flow, as it is affected by exercise or spaceflight.
Gary Perdew
Director of the Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis; John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in Agricultural Sciences Mechanisms of receptor-mediated carcinogenesis.
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu
Professor of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology Molecular mechanisms by which bioactives such as selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, and other products of natural origin alter the host response and immune function in inflammation and cancer
David Proctor
Professor of Kinesiology, Physiology, and Medicine Physiology of aging and exercise; cardiovascular responses to exercise; regulation of skeletal muscle blood flow; skeletal muscle adaptation; vascular adaptation.
Ramesh Ramachandran
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology The influence of hypothalamic neurotransmitters, hormones, and their receptors on avian reproduction.
Connie Rogers
Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Associate Professor; Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Role of changes in energy balance and related nutritional factors on inflammation, immune regulation and cancer risk using both animal models and human subjects.
Catharine Ross
Professor in Nutritional Science; Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair Vitamin A metabolism; hepatic retinoid function and gene expression; vitamin A in infection and immunity.
Jonas Rubenson
Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Integrating experimental and modeling approaches to study gait and skeletal muscle function during locomotion in both health and disease/impairment. In particular, the relationship between in vivo muscle mechanics and metabolic energetics and…
Robert Sainburg
Director of the Center for Movement Science and Technology; Professor of Kinesiology; Professor of Neurology Neural mechanisms underlying control of multijoint arm movements in humans.
Rudolf Schilder
Research Associate Professor Comparative & ecological physiology of insect and mammalian locomotion
Anthony Schmitt
Professor of Molecular Immunology and Infectious Diseases The process of paramyxovirus particle formation by budding: identifying and characterizing viral proteins used in budding, and learning how these manipulate host budding machinery to allow virus release.
Greg Shearer
Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
We seek to understand disease-related functional changes in the context of global changes in lipid mediators (bioactive metabolites of dietary fatty acids) and use them to identify markers of disease and better ways to prevent or manage…
Troy Sutton
Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Animal models of influenza; Airborne transmission of influenza viruses; Evolution of pandemic influenza viruses; Highly pathogenic avian influenza; Development of live-attenuated influenza vaccine platforms; High containment BSL3+ research
Regina Vasilatos-Younken
Dean of the Graduate School; Professor of Poultry Science, Endocrine Physiology, and Nutrition Role of endocrine and metabolic factors in the regulation of muscle and adipose tissue growth.
Nancy Williams
Professor and Head of Kinesiology Exercise physiology, effects of alterations in energy balance on reproductive function, neuroendocrinology, metabolism, clinical issues pertaining to womens health and reproductive status.