Kent Campus Faculty Research Expertise
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RESEARCH AREAS (last updated 09/2021) X indicates an opening |
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| Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | ||
| Darren Bade, PhD | Limnology and biogeochemistry of the Great Lakes systems. | X |
| Christie Bahlai, PhD | Phenology and population ecology of insects. | X |
| Chris Blackwood, PhD | Soil biogeochemistry, plant-microbe interactions, and forest ecology. | X |
| Andrea Case, PhD | Reproductive systems in flowering plants. | X |
| David Costello, PhD | Biogeochemistry with a focus on chemical contaminants and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems. | X |
| Ferenc de Szalay, PhD | Factors regulating invertebrate communities in aquatic habitats. | |
| Mark Kershner, PhD | Lake community ecology, predator-prey interactions, and fish ecology. | X |
| Lauren Kinsman-Costello, PhD | Effects of hydrology on aquatic nutrient biogeochemistry and ecosystem function. | X |
| Sangeet Lamichhaney, PhD | Integrating comparative 'omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to study the genetic basis of adaptive traits in vertebrates. | X |
| Laura Leff, PhD | Microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems with an emphasis on the bacterial ecology of streams. | X |
| Jen Mou, PhD | Linking of bacterial phylogeny with metabolic function in natural aquatic environments. | X |
| Oscar Rocha, PhD | Ecological factors that affect genetic variation in natural populations of plants and animals. | X |
| David Ward, PhD | The ecology of plant species redistributions. | X |
| Cell Biology | ||
| Derek Damron, PhD |
Transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel signal transduction and cardiovascular regulation: cellular and molecular mechanisms of action.
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| 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. | X |
| Gary Koski, PhD | Cancer immunology. | |
| Manabu Kurokawa, PhD | Cancer biology, resistance to targeted therapy, and protein ubiquitination and degradation pathways. | X |
| Michael Model, PhD | The physiology of cell volume and death. | X |
| Helen Piontkivska, PhD | Molecular evolution of genes and genomes. | X |
| Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, PhD | Biochemical basis for the development of sperm function. | X |
| Neurobiology | ||
| 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. | X |
| Robert Clements, PhD | Biomedical and stereoscopic imaging and visualization. | X |
| Lique Coolen, PhD | Spinal cord injury, drug addiction, and neuroendocrine function. | X |
| Ernie Freeman, PhD | Brain mechanisms involved in lesion formation in multiple sclerosis. | X |
| John Johnson, PhD | Interactions between the nervous and immune systems, with a focus on changes in behavior. | X |
| 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. | X |
| Jennifer McDonough, PhD | Identification of neuroprotective therapies for multiple sclerosis. | X |
| Eric Mintz, PhD | Neural mechanisms of circadian rhythm regulation. | |
| Aleisha Moore, PhD | X | |
| Devin Mueller, PhD | Neural mechanisms of drug-related learning and memory. | X |
| Colleen Novak, PhD | Neural modulation of physical activity and energy expenditure. | X |
| Richard Piet, PhD | Neurophysiology of reproduction and circadian rhythmicity | X |
| Greg Tinkler, PhD | Comparative neuroanatomy of the aging brain. | |
| Mechanisms regulating the development of sex differences in the brain. |