Faculty and Staff

Faculty members in the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences represent a number of area institutions and are engaged in a host of different research activities. Symbols servomg to indicate to institution and research area for each faculty member are explained at the bottom.

**Listing of Regular and Adjunct Faculty**
person	descriptors	research interests
Alexandru Almasan		apoptosis and cell cycle control of tumor cells; genotoxic stress; radiobiology
Abbed Babaei		structural geology, deformation fabrics of the shear zones, geochemical and tectonic interpretation of ophiolitic complexes
Cornelia Bergmann--pending		regulation of and function of CD8 T cells during viral infections of the central nervous system (CNS) associated with demyelination
Kathleen L. Berkner		homeostasis and the physiology of vitamin K
G. Valentin Börner		molecular genetics: functional analysis of chromosome dynamics
Martha K. Cathcart		monocyte activation, superoxide anion, lipid oxidation
Pete Clapham		environmental geology: geological implications of solid and hazardous waste management, Geographic Information Systems
Miles M. Coburn		ecology and systematics of freshwater fishes
Clemencia Colmenares		cancer biology: molecular mechanisms of muscle and neural tissue differentiation, role of oncogenes during development, gene knockouts
R. Jeffrey Dean		neuroscience: motor control of limb movement & coordination in insects, amphibians, humans and robots; neuroethology: lateral line orientation; cybernetics, neural modeling & artificial neural networks
Christin DeJong		applied environmental science; urban plant ecology;
Paul E. DiCorleto		cell biology: vascular endothelium, leukocyte adhesion proteins, atherosclerosis, intracellular signaling, gene expression
F. Paul Doerder		genetics and cell biology: molecular genetics of Tetrahymena cell-surface proteins; genetic regulation of differential gene expression; cytogenetics of ciliate macronuclei; ciliate population genetics
Paul Fox		cell biology: regulation of cell motility, structure and function of ceruloplasmin, lipoprotein oxidation, cellular iron metabolism
Michael A. Gates		evolutionary biology and biometrics: morphometrics, quantitative genetics, ecology, and evolution of ciliated protists; biological pattern analysis
A. Ralph Gibson		ecology, behavior and evolution: quantitative biology; thermal and reproductive biology of snakes
Yohannes Haile-Selassie		paleoanthropology: early hominid evolution
Joe Hannibal		invertebrate paleontology
Jaharul Haque		cancer biology: cytokine-mediated cell signaling, especially in allergic inflammation and brain cancer
Stanley Hazen		cell biology: biochemistry of oxidative tissue damage
Philip Howe		cell biology: mediation of growth inhibition and signal transduction by TGF-beta
Donald W. Jacobsen		cell biology: homocysteinemia and vascular disease, cellular transport and metabolism of sulfur amino acids
Jeffrey P. Johansen		botany: ecology and systematics of algae; use of diatoms as water quality indicators; biogeography of terrestrial algae; ecology and rehabilitation of cryptogamic soil crusts
Andrew Jones		phyogeography of birds in island and mountain habitats; avian natural history
Michael Kalafatis		biochemistry of blood coagulation and thrombosis
Sadashiva Karnik		molecular cardiology: molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in blood pressure regulation
Joe B. Keiper		invertebrate zoology: population and community ecology of aquatic insects, especially caddisflies and mosquitoes
Anton A. Komar		molecular biology: translational regulation of gene expression
Roman Kondratov		molecular mechanisms of aging and circadian rhythms
Robert A. Krebs		evolutionary biology: historical changes in freshwater mussel (Unionidae) distributions; models of genetic changes associated with colonization and isolation in refugia; mussel conservation
Andrea N. Ladd		cell biology: role of alternative splicing regulation in the development of vertebrate heart and skeletal muscle
Cathi Lehn		biodiversity; wildlife conservation; population biology
Bibo Li		molecular biology: telomere functions; pathogenesis of Trypanosoma brucei (a protozoan parasite causing sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in cattle) in relation to telomere function and regulation of surface antigen switching to avoid immune responses
Xiaoxia Li		immunology: molecular biology of interferon signaling pathways
Donald G. Lindmark		microbiology: 1) Ohio oenology: grape/yeast speciation, cold resistance, spontaneous fermentation, wine quality; 2) biochemical cytology and molecular biology of protozoan parasites, esp. Trichomonas, Giardia, Cryptosporidium &Hexamita; host-parasite interactions, detection, pathogenesis, and chemotherapeutic implications.
Howard Lo		geology: geochemistry, petrology of igneous rocks, composition and origin of island arcs, volcanic rocks, geochemistry of river and lake water, environmental quality assessment: treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater, and groundwater
Barsanjit Mazumder		molecular biology: molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; post-transcriptional regulation of pro-inflammatory gene expression in endothelial cells, monocytes, and macrophages
Thomas McIntyre		lipid mediators and their role in apoptosis, inflammation, platelet formation, and aging
Ronald J. Midura		molecular physiology: analysis of vertebrate biomineralization mechanisms and embryonic skeletogenesis
Barbara K. Modney		neuroscience: specificity of synaptic connections during development and following injury; development of neuronal circuits and behavior
Christine S. Moravec		molecular cardiology: decreased contractility in heart failure: Ca cycling, sarcoplasmic reticulum function, gene expression
Daniel R. Petit		vertebrate ecology and natural resources planning
Jun Qin		structural biology: relationships between protein structure and function in cellular signal transduction pathways
Hugh R. Quinn		population biology: systematics, ecology, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians
Miguel E. Quinones-Mateu		molecular biology of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and other retroviruses
Ofer Reizes--pending		obesity, adipose tissue development and maintenance, syndecans and heparan sulfate proteoglycan
Neal S. Rote		reproductive biology: human trophoblast differentiation and apoptosis
Michael J. Ryan		vertebrate paleontology: dinosaurs
Tony L. Sahley		auditory neurophysiology and neuropharmacology
Tobili Y. Sam-Yellowe		microbiology, immunology, and parasitology: mechanisms of erythrocyte invasion in malaria; role of apical complex organelles in merozoite invasion in Plasmodium falciparum and P. chabaudi
Mary Jane Saunders		cell biology: plant cell division and nuclear lamins
Girish Shukla		cancer biology: in vivo and in vitro mechanisms of nuclear pre-mRNA splicing, structure-functions of small RNAs, understanding the role of miRNAs in prostate cancer, modulation of androgen receptor by miRNAs in prostate cancer
Robert H. Silverman		cancer biology: mechanism of action of interferons, particularly the role of RNase L
Roy L. Silverstein		cell biology: cellular scavenger receptors in disease processes
Jonathan D. Smith		cell biology: murine models of atherosclerosis
George Stark		molecular biology: protein and nucleic acid biochemistry, DNA amplification, molecular biology of signal transduction pathways
Dennis Stuehr		immunology: biology and biochemistry of nitric oxide, a molecule involved in cell signaling and host defense
Mark A. Tumeo		environmental science, risk assessment, bioremediation, environmental modeling
Vincent Tuohy		immunology: autoimmunity, multiple sclerosis, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Harry van Keulen		biochemistry and molecular biology: 1) molecular biology of protozoan parasites; structure, organization and expression of genes in Giardia; 2) plants and bioremediation
Jacqueline Vitali		protein crystallography, specifically biomedically important enzymes
B. Michael Walton		ecological physiology and evolutionary biology: studies of behavioral energetics, whole organism performance, and the relationship of these variables to growth and survival in natural populations of reptiles and amphibians
Crystal M. Weyman		cell biology: signaling pathways regulating proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and transformation of skeletal myoblasts
Julie A. Wolin		environmental science: diatom assemblage analysis applied to current environmental impact studies and to paleolimnological reconstructions
Riqiang Yan-pending		molecular and cellular biological research in Alzheimer's Disease
Fasong Yuan		geology and environmental science: geochemical and isotopic tracers to investigate physical processes occurring in lakes and rivers, aqueous and environmental geochemistry to assess anthropogenic disturbances, environmental indicators for modern and ancient aquatic systems

**Key to Symbols**
Home Institution:	Research Area:
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Update: 23 July, 2008