People: Faculty

Jacqueline O'Connor

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Edward O’Brien

Professor of Chemistry
Developing and applying Physical Bioinformatic techniques to measure rates of translation transcriptome-wide and their molecular origins as relates to fundamental biology and disease.

Denise Okafor

Huck Early Career Chair in Biophysics, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural mechanisms of signaling and regulation in protein complexes.

Richard Ordway

Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics
Genetic analysis of neural function.

Troy Ott

Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences; C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences; Professor of Reproductive Physiology
Reproductive immunology and the physiology of early pregnancy.

Rimnoma Serge Ouedraogo

Assistant Research Professor of Entomology

Ibrahim Ozbolat

Huck Chair in 3D Bioprinting and Regenerative Medicine, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Dipanjan Pan

Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine; Professor of Material Science and Engineering; Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Mohan Kumar Papanna

Assistant Research Professor of Global Health

Leslie Parent

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology

Harland Patch

Assistant Research Professor; Research Associate of Entomology

Andrew Patterson

Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Professor and Huck Chair of Molecular Toxicology; Faculty Oversight, Metabolomics Core Facility
The Patterson lab is focused on understanding the host-metabolite-microbiome axis

Abigail Pauley

Assistant Research Professor

Robert Paulson

Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
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.

John Pecchia

Assistant Research Professor

Anthony Pedley

Assistant Research Professor
Nucleotide metabolism in mammalian cells and human disease

Gary Perdew

Director of the Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis; H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Mechanisms of receptor-mediated carcinogenesis.

Koraly Perez-Edgar

McCourtney Professor of Child Studies
Early temperament and influences on developmental trajectories. Biological substrates and cognitive mechanisms.

George Perry

Professor of Anthropology and Biology
Anthropological genomics, paleogenomics, human body size evolution, parasite evolution, and evolutionary medicine.

Kari Peter

Associate Research Professor of Tree Fruit Pathology
Commercial tree fruit disease management: Diseases of stone and pome fruit, especially those caused by bacteria, apple fruit rots, soilborne fungi, and emerging issues; Extesion programming for integrated management for pre- and postharvest tree fruit diseases and fungicide resistance

Jeffrey Peters

Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
Roles of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in the regulation of homeostasis, toxicology, and carcinogenesis.

Kristina Petersen

Assistant Research Professor