Directory
Kyra LoPiccolo
Graduate Student
Population and conservation genomics of Fraxinus species
Carrie Lordan Heron
Graduate Student
Research focused on the intersection of Art Education and Environmentalism and Sustainability
Elizabeth Losin
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health; Bennett Pierce Associate Professor of Caring and Compassion in Adulthood
Bidirectional relationship between culture and the brain; for example, how cultural experiences (e.g., discrimination) and social situations (e.g., the doctor-patient relationship) influence pain perception, pain treatment, and associated brain mechanisms
Quinn Loudy
Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science Graduate Student
The genetic basis of flavonoid accumulation in maize leaves: phytochemical composition and concentration, and QTL analysis.
Maria Lovallo
Undergraduate Student
Utilizing Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the evolutionary link between physiology and the microbiome.
Erin Luley
Assistant Clinical Professor, Resident in Pathology, Animal Diagnostic Lab
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Yuxin Luo
Graduate Student
Selection of natural environmental variations on the genetic and phenotypic traits of Arabidopsis thaliana
Bernhard Luscher
Emeritus Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Function of GABAergic synaptic transmission in health and disease, with emphasis of stress based psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorders and mechanisms of antidepressant drug action
Jonathan Lynch
Distinguished Professor of Plant Nutrition
Plant adaptation to nutrient and water stress. Global change. World hunger. Root biology.
Hong Ma
Huck Chair in Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution; Professor of Biology
Plant development under favorable and stressful conditions; phylogeny and evolutionary biology of plant groups containing major crops and ecologically important species.
Jennifer Macalady
Director of the Ecology Institute; Professor of Geosciences
Microbial interactions with earth materials: soils, sediments, solutes, atmospheric gases, minerals, and rocks. Early evolution of Earth’s biosphere, including photosynthesis and sulfur cycling. Microbial ecology, environmental omics, microbial biogeography.
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Erina MacGeorge
Professor of Communication Arts and Science
Antibiotic stewardship, doctor-patient communication
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Erika Machtinger
Associate Professor of Entomology
Veterinary entomology, including vector-borne diseases. Focus is on ecology and behavior associated with host-parasite interactions to improve or develop new control methods.
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics