PERT Faculty
(PERT Faculty interests | back to PERT home page)
| Name | Research Interests | Department | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander V. Badyaev | the origin of adaptations, relationship between epigenetic and genetic inheritance systems, and evolution of behavioral and life history strategies (more info) | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | abadyaev@email.arizona.edu |
| Jennifer K. Barton | optical coherence tomography (more info) | Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering | barton@u.arizona.edu |
| Judith Becerra | plant-insect interactions and chemical ecology (more info) | Biosphere 2 | jxb@u.arizona.edu |
| Giovanni Bosco | how cell cycle events (such as DNA replication, chromosome segregation and cell growth and cytokinesis) are controlled and modified by development (more info) | Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Arizona Cancer Center | gbosco@azcc.arizona.edu |
| Judith Bronstein | evolution and ecology of mutualisms (more info) | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | judieb@u.arizona.edu |
| Judith Brown | virus-vector-host relations for whitefly transmitted pathogens (more info) | Department of Plant Sciences | jbrown@ag.arizona.edu |
| Richard C. Brusca | invertebrate systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography, and biodiversity pattern analysis (more info) | Senior Director of Conservation and Science, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum | rbrusca@desertmuseum.org |
| Yves Carriere | insect ecology, resistance to transgenic crops, host-selection behaviors, diapause (more info) | Department of Entomology | ycarrier@ag.arizona.edu |
| Goggy Davidowitz | ecological and evolutionary physiology (more info) | Entomology | goggy@email.arizona.edu |
| Katrina Dlugosch | genetics of plant colonization and its evolutionary and ecological outcomes (more info) | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
kdlugosch@email.arizona.edu |
| Anna Dornhaus | social insect colonies (more info) | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | dornhaus@email.arizona.edu |
| Andrew J. Fuglevand | how the mammalian nervous system controls the action of skeletal muscles to produce coordinated movements (more info) | Department of Physiology & Department of Neuroscience |
fuglevan@u.arizona.edu |
| David Galbraith | biological instrumentation, developmental plant gene expression, plant functional genomics, and plant-insect interactions (more info) | Department of Plant Sciences | galbraith@u.arizona.edu |
| Wulfila Gronenberg | movement control, muscle biomechanics, neuroethology (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | wulfi@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Charles M. Higgins | insect visual navigation (more info) | Department of Neuroscience, and Electrical and Computer Engineering | higgins@ece.arizona.edu |
| John G. Hildebrand | olfaction, chemical ecology, neuronal and synaptic development, neurochemistry (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | jgh@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Martha Hunter | ecology and evolutionary biology of parasitoids (more info) | Department of Entomology | mhunter@ag.arizona.edu |
| Shanker Karunanithi | the strength of the transmitted signal at individual synapses (synaptic strength) (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | shanker@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Bill Montfort | macromolecular structure and function at atomic resolution using X-ray crystallography (more info) | Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry | montfort@u.arizona.edu |
| Wendy Moore | systematics, phylogenetics, evolution, and biogeography |
Department of Entomology | wmoore@email.arizona.edu |
| Lisa Nagy | development and evolution of pattern formation in arthropods (more info) | Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | lnagy@u.arizona.edu |
| Lynne Oland | the role of glial cells in the developing nervous system (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | lao@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Dan Papaj | behavioral ecology of tephritid fruit flies, butterflies and parasitoids, plant-insect interactions (more info) | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | papaj@u.arizona.edu |
| Linda Restifo | genetic control of brain development and plasticity; genetics of mental retardation (more info) |
Department of Neuroscience | LLR@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Michael Riehle | how the insulin signaling cascade impacts the balance between lifespan and reproduction in mosquitos (more info) |
Department of Entomology |
mriehle@ag.arizona.edu |
| Robert Smith | behavioral ecology, reproductive biology of aquatic insects (more info) | Department of Entomology | bobsmith@ag.arizona.edu |
| S. Patricia Stock | Biodiversity, ecology,and evolution of entomopathogenic nematodes (more info) | Department of Entomology/ Plant Sciences |
spstock@ag.arizona.edu |
| Nicholas Strausfeld | function organization of arthropod central nervous systems, learning and memory (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | flybrain@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Matthew Sullivan | the co-evolution of microbe and virus (phage) in 'wild' populations, impact of marine phages on microbe-mediated global biogeochemistry (more info) | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | mbsulli@email.arizona.edu |
| Bruce Tabashnik | evolution and management of insect resistance to biological and synthetic insecticides (more info) | Department of Entomology | brucet@ag.arizona.edu |
| Theodore P. Trouard | the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) for the study of interesting biological systems (more info) | Biomedical Engineering | trouard@email.arizona.edu |
| Urs Utzinger | development of optical techniques for the early diagnosis of tissue pathologies and monitoring of drug activity (more info) | Biomedical Engineering | utzinger@u.arizona.edu |
| F. Ann Walker | the heme centers in heme proteins (more info) | Department of Chemistry | awalker@u.arizona.edu |
| Diana Wheeler | physiology and evolution of insect sociality, phenotypic plasticity, nutritional regulation of reproduction (more info) | Department of Entomology | dewsants@ag.arizona.edu |
| Noah Whiteman | genetics and genomics of host-parasite interactions (more info) | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | whiteman@email.arizona.edu |
| Joy Winzerling | iron and copper metabolism (more info) | Department of Nutritional Sciences | jwinzerl@ag.arizona.edu |
| Michael Worobey | origins, emergence and control of pathogens, in particular RNA viruses and retroviruses such as HIV and influenza virus (more info) | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | worobey@email.arizona.edu |
| Daniela Zarnescu | Mechanisms for neural development and polarity, mRNA transport (more info) | Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | zarnescu@email.arizona.edu |
| Konrad Zinsmaier | molecular mechanisms of excitation-dependent neurotransmitter exocytosis at nerve terminals (more info) | Department of Neuroscience | kez@neurobio.arizona.edu |