Tenure Faculty


Dr. Deborah Armstrong
  Professor of Neurophysiology
  Neurophysiology; hippocampal slice,
   neurotoxicology, calcium channels
 
 
Dr. Paul Mueller
  Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental
  Biology

  Cell cycle regulation, developmental biology
 

Dr. Bernard Arulanandam
  Associate Professor of Microbiology &
   Immunology

  Cellular immunology, mucosal immunity
 
Dr. Carlos Paladini
  Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
  Dopamine neuron physiology and addiction

 

Dr. Edwin Barea-Rodriguez
  Associate Professor of Neurobiology
  Neurobiology; long-term potentiation

 
 
Dr. George Perry
  Dean and Professor of Biology
  Formation and physiological consequences of the
   cytopathology of Alzheimer disease

Dr. James Bower
  Professor of Neurophysiology
 Neurocomputation; structure and function
   in neural circuits
 
Dr. Clyde Phelix
  Associate Professor of Anatomy &
   Neurobiology

  Anatomy; molecular neurobiology of
   cardiovascular disease

Dr. J. Aaron Cassill
  Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology
 Cell/molecular biology; regulation of signal
   transduction cascades
 
Dr. Rama Ratnam
 
Assistant Professor of Systems & Computational
   Neuroscience

 Sensory information processing; Acoustic
  communication

Dr. James Chambers
  Professor of Biochemistry
  Biochemistry

 
 
Dr. Robert Renthal
  Professor of Biochemistry
  Membranes, protein biochemistry, sensory
   receptors


Dr. G. Jilani Chaudry
  Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular
   Biology

  Mammalian cell intoxication by anthrax toxin

 
Dr. Paul Rodriguez
  Professor of Genetics
  Genetics; biochemical and molecular genetics

Dr. Garry Cole
  Professor of Biology
  Mechanisms of fungal virulence and host
   immunity
 
Dr. Fidel Santamaria
  Assistant Professor of Computation and
   Neural Systems

  Biophysical substrates of neuronal dendritic
   computation

Dr. Brian Derrick
  Associate Professor of Neurobiology
  Neurobiology; cellular/molecular mechanisms
   of potentiation/depression
 
Dr. Stephen Saville
  Assistant Professor of Genetics
  Genetics

Dr. Jurgen Engelberth
  Assistant Professor of Plant Biochemistry
  Plant biochemistry

 
 
Dr. David Senseman
  Associate Professor of Biology
  Neurophysiology; optical imaging, neural
   networks

Dr. Thomas Forsthuber
  Professor of Immunology
  Cellular immunology, T cell immunity,
   autoimmune diseases
 
Dr. Janakiram Seshu
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology
  Genetic analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi lp54
   loci

Dr. Gary Gaufo
  Assistant Professor of Biology
  Molecular and cellular approaches to neural
   development

 
 
Dr. Valerie Sponsel
  Associate Professor of Plant Physiology
  Regulation of plant growth and development
   by plant hormones

Dr. Matthew Gdovin
  Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology
  Developmental aspects of the neural control
   of respiration
 
Dr. Garry Sunter
  Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
  DNA replication and plant-pathogen
   interactions

Dr. M. Neal Guentzel
  Professor of Microbiology
  Microbiology; enteric infections, bioremediation

 
 
Dr. Kelly Jo Suter
  Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
  Sexual reproduction; GnRH "pulse" generator

Dr. Luis Haro
  Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology
  Cell/molecular biology; endocrinology, growth
   hormone, receptors
 
Dr. Judy Teale
  Professor of Immunology
  Immunoparasitology, neuroimmunology and
   immune response to Francisella tularensis

Dr. Hans Heidner
  Associate Professor of Microbiology
  Virology; genetics of alphavirus replication,
   virus/host cell interactions
 
Dr. Todd Troyer
 
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
 
Neural and Behavioral Dynamics

Dr. David Jaffe
  Associate Professor of Neurobiology
  Hippocampal neuron synaptic integration and
   plasticity
 
Dr. Andrew Tsin
  Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology
  Biochemistry and cell/molecular biology of eye

Dr. Karl Klose
  Professor of Microbiology
  Bacterial pathogenesis

 
 
Dr. Oscar Van Auken
  Professor of Physiological Plant Ecology
  Plant ecology, species interactions, community
   composition and structure, rare species

Dr. Richard LeBaron
  Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology
  Cell/molecular biology; tissue engineering,
   extracellular matrix biology
 
Dr. Yufeng Wang
  Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics

Dr. Jose Lopez-Ribot
  Associate Professor of Microbiology
  Study of the opportunistic pathogenic fungus
   Candida albicans
 
Dr. Matthew Wayner
  Professor of Neurobiology
  Hypothalamus-hippocampal interactions;
   learning and memory

Dr. Martha Lundell
  Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics
  Specification of cell fate in the central nervous
   system
 
Dr. Tao Wei
  Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
and
  Microbiology

  Instability of bacterial and yeast genomes
   during DNA replication and recombination

Dr. Andrew Martinez
  Professor of Genetics
  Genetics; cancer biology, cell-cell interactions

 
 
Dr. Nicole Wicha
  Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
  Cognitive neuroscience; human brain imaging
   and cognition

Dr. Joe Martinez, Jr.
  Professor of Neurobiology
  Neuroscience; neurobiology of learning and
   memory
 
Dr. Charles Wilson
  Professor of Neurobiology
  Neurophysiology and computation in the basal
   ganglia

Dr. John McCarrey
  Professor of Genetics
  Cellular biology; cellular development and
   differentiation
 
Dr. Floyd Wormley
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology &
   Immunology
 
Study of protective immune responses against
   Cryptococcus neoformans infections

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