Directory
Casey Sclar
H.O. Smith Endowed Director, The Arboretum at Penn State
Applied arthropod ecology and management in landscapes/public horticulture
Derek Sederman
Graduate Student
My research focuses on computational modeling of the neural circuitry underlying model systems and behaviors of interest such as birdsong.
Idan Shalev
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Interdisciplinary approach to identify mechanisms underpinning the biological embedding of stress across the lifespan with a special focus on biological aging.
Mingfu Shao
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Our research interests are designing algorithms and developing methods for solving the various challenging problems in biology using combinatorial optimization and machine learning approaches. Current research topics include: transcript assembly, RNA-seq quantification, single-cell RNA-seq, computational cancer biology, genome rearrangements, protein folding.