Kent Campus Faculty Research Expertise

 

 

RESEARCH AREAS

(last updated 12/2023)

  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Darren Bade, PhD Limnology and biogeochemistry of the Great Lakes systems.
Christie Bahlai, PhD Phenology and population ecology of insects.
David Costello, PhD Biogeochemistry with a focus on chemical contaminants and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems.
Sarah Eichler, PhD Global sustainability solutions.
Ferenc de Szalay, PhD Factors regulating invertebrate communities in aquatic habitats.
Mark Kershner, PhD Lake community ecology, predator-prey interactions, and fish ecology.
Lauren Kinsman-Costello, PhD Effects of hydrology on aquatic nutrient biogeochemistry and ecosystem function.
Sangeet Lamichhaney, PhD Integrating comparative 'omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to study the genetic basis of adaptive traits in vertebrates.
Laura Leff, PhD Microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems with an emphasis on the bacterial ecology of streams.
Jen Mou, PhD Linking of bacterial phylogeny with metabolic function in natural aquatic environments.
Oscar Rocha, PhD Ecological factors that affect genetic variation in natural populations of plants and animals.
Brian Trevelline, PhD How the microbiome shapes the ecology and evolution of hosts
David Ward, PhD The ecology of plant species redistributions.
   
  Cell Biology
Elda Hegmann, PhD Liquid crystal elastomers as novel dynamic and spatial 3D in vitro systems to simulate and study development of tissues, and complex interplay between cells.
Min-Ho Kim, PhD Mechanisms underlying the inflammatory response and the development of therapeutics to promote the resolution of non-healing chronic wounds.
Edgar Kooijman, PhD Biophysical characterization of protein-lipid interactions.
Gary Koski, PhD Cancer immunology.
Manabu Kurokawa, PhD Cancer biology, resistance to targeted therapy, and protein ubiquitination and degradation pathways.
Michael Model, PhD The physiology of cell volume and death.
Helen Piontkivska, PhD Molecular evolution of genes and genomes.
Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, PhD Biochemical basis for the development of sperm function.
   
  Neurobiology
Joe Bedont, PhD Sleep, circadian rhythms, and metabolism.
Heather Caldwell, PhD Behavioral neuroendocrinology with a focus on the contributions of oxytocin and vasopressin to the neural regulation of behavior.
Wilson Chung, PhD The role of fibroblast growth factors in the regulation of fetal brain morphogenesis.
Robert Clements, PhD Biomedical and stereoscopic imaging and visualization.
Lique Coolen, PhD Spinal cord injury, drug addiction, and neuroendocrine function.
John Johnson, PhD Interactions between the nervous and immune systems, with a focus on changes in behavior.
Woo-Yang Kim, PhD Cellular and molecular mechanism underlying brain development.
Michael Lehman, PhD Reproductive neuroendocrinology, developmental programming of reproduction, and neurobiology of circadian rhythms.
Jennifer McDonough, PhD Identification of neuroprotective therapies for multiple sclerosis.
Eric Mintz, PhD Neural mechanisms of circadian rhythm regulation.
Aleisha Moore, PhD Neural regulation of fertility.
Devin Mueller, PhD Neural mechanisms of drug-related learning and memory.
Colleen Novak, PhD Neural modulation of physical activity and energy expenditure.
Richard Piet, PhD Neurophysiology of reproduction and circadian rhythmicity
Greg Tinkler, PhD Comparative neuroanatomy of the aging brain.
Mechanisms regulating the development of sex differences in the brain.