Directory
Ben Fry
Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Neurobiology of learning and memory, specifically as it pertains to the circuit-specific role of dopamine in motivated behavior, pre-clinical models of schizophrenia, and the use of Pavlovian learning theory to understand the manner in which the brain processes incoming sensory information and gives rise to such phenomena as hallucinations.
Erika Ganda
Emphasis Area Representative, Microbiome Sciences; Associate Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production efficiency.
Scott Gartner
Director, Penn State School of International Affairs; Professor of International Affairs
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Developmental neuroscience of psychopathology with a focus on aggression, hyperactivity, and substance abuse; relationship between experience, environment, and neurobiological dysfunction.
David Geiser
Professor of Mycology
Genomics of fungi, applied to the evolution of plant and animal disease, toxin production, and beneficial roles. Fungal phylogenetics and population genetics, especially in Fusarium, and sequence-based identification tools. Identification of unique pathogen-specific genomic regions in pathogens, and diagnostic markers.
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares
Assistant Professor
The development and implementation of new computational methods in genomics and molecular biology, with the aim of identifying genetic biomarkers for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of human diseases, including bacterial and viral infections and of aging-associated diseases including neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.
Alison Gernand
Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health; Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences