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PERT Faculty

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Name Research Interests Department E-mail
Jennifer K. Barton optical coherence tomography (more info) Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering (UA) barton@u.arizona.edu
Judith Becerra plant-insect interactions and chemical ecology (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) 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 (UA) gbosco@azcc.arizona.edu
Judith Bronstein evolution and ecology of mutualisms (more info) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (UA) judieb@u.arizona.edu
Judith Brown (pdf) virus-vector-host relations for whitefly transmitted pathogens (more info) Department of Plant Sciences (UA) jbrown@ag.arizona.edu
Richard C. Brusca invertebrate systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography, and biodiversity pattern analysis (more info) Director, Science & Conservation, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum rbrusca@desertmuseum.org
Yves Carriere insect ecology, resistance to transgenic crops, host-selection behaviors, diapause (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) ycarrier@ag.arizona.edu
Vicki Chandler regulation of gene expression (more info) Department of Plant Sciences (UA) chandler@ag.arizona.edu
Michael Cusanovich mechanisms used by proteins for recognition and specificity in physiologically relevant reactions, and protein dynamics (more info) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (UA) cusanovi@u.arizona.edu
Goggy Davidowitz ecological development Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (UA) goggy@email.arizona.edu
Anna Dornhaus social insect colonies Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (UA) dornhaus@email.arizona.edu
Jennifer Fewell behavioral ecology and evolution of social insects (more info) Department of Biology (ASU) j.fewell@asu.edu
Andrew J. Fuglevand how the mammalian nervous system controls the action of skeletal muscles to produce coordinated movements (more info) Department of Physiology &
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA)
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 (UA) galbraith@u.arizona.edu
Wulfila Gronenberg movement control, muscle biomechanics, neuroethology (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) wulfi@neurobio.arizona.edu
Jon Harrison the physiological mechanisms of insects in the context of environmental stress and evolutionary theory (more info) Department of Biology, ASU j.harrison@asu.edu
Charles M. Higgins insect visual navigation (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology and Electrical and Computer Engineering (UA) higgins@ece.arizona.edu
John G. Hildebrand olfaction, chemical ecology, neuronal and synaptic development, neurochemistry (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) jgh@neurobio.arizona.edu
Martha Hunter ecology and evolutionary biology of parasitoids (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) mhunter@ag.arizona.edu
Shanker Karunanithi the strength of the transmitted signal at individual synapses (synaptic strength) (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) shanker@neurobio.arizona.edu
Carlos A. Machado population genetics, plant-insect evolution, genetic basis of speciation (more info) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (UA) cmachado@email.arizona.edu
David Maddison insect systematics, phylogenetics and evolution, beetles (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) beetle@ag.arizona.edu
Bill Montfort macromolecular structure and function at atomic resolution using X-ray crystallography (more info) Department of Biochemistry (UA) montfort@u.arizona.edu
Nancy Moran molecular phylogenetics, endosymbioses, life-cycle evolution, phenotypic plasticity (more info) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (UA) nmoran@u.arizona.edu
Lisa Nagy development and evolution of pattern formation in arthropods (more info) Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (UA) lnagy@u.arizona.edu
Lynne Oland the role of glial cells in the developing nervous system (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) 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 (UA) papaj@u.arizona.edu
Linda Restifo

genetic control of brain development and plasticity; genetics of mental retardation (more info)

Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) LLR@neurobio.arizona.edu
Michael Riehle

how the insulin signaling cascade impacts the balance between lifespan and reproduction in mosquitos

Department of Entomology

(UA)

mriehle@ag.arizona.edu
Ron Rutowski sexual selection and mating behavior in butterflies (more info) Department of Biology, ASU r.rutowski@asu.edu
Robert Smith behavioral ecology, reproductive biology of aquatic insects (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) bobsmith@ag.arizona.edu
S. Patricia Stock Biodiversity, ecology,and evolution of entomopathogenic nematodes

Department of Entomology/

Plant Sciences (UA)

spstock@ag.arizona.edu
Nicholas Strausfeld function organization of arthropod central nervous systems, learning and memory (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) 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 (UA) mbsulli@email.arizona.edu
Bruce Tabashnik evolution and management of insect resistance to biological and synthetic insecticides (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) brucet@ag.arizona.edu
Leslie Tolbert neural development, neuron-glia interactions (more info) Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology (UA) tolbert@neurobio.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 (UA) 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 (UA) utzinger@u.arizona.edu
F. Ann Walker the heme centers in heme proteins (more info) Department of Chemistry (UA) awalker@u.arizona.edu
Diana Wheeler physiology and evolution of insect sociality, phenotypic plasticity, nutritional regulation of reproduction (more info) Department of Entomology (UA) dewsants@ag.arizona.edu
Joy Winzerling iron and copper metabolism (more info) Department of Nutritional Sciences (UA) 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 (UA) worobey@email.arizona.edu
Konrad Zinsmaier molecular mechanisms of excitation-dependent neurotransmitter exocytosis at nerve terminals (more info) Arizona Research Labs Division of Neurobiology (UA) kez@neurobio.arizona.edu

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