| Name | Research Interests | Department | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nafees Ahmad |
understanding the molecular mechanisms of differential HIV-1 infection (more info) |
Department of Immunobiology | nafees@email.arizona.edu |
| 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 |
| David Baltrus |
evolutionary and ecological dynamics within microbial populations (more info) |
The School of Plant Sciences | baltrus@email.arizona.edu |
| Michael S. Barker |
Evolutionary consequences of polyploidy, hybridization, and chromosomal evolution using genomic, bionformatic, field work, and modeling approaches (more info) |
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | msbarker@email.arizona.edu |
| Jennifer K. Barton |
optical coherence tomography (more info) |
Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering | barton@u.arizona.edu |
| Judith Bronstein |
evolution and ecology of mutualisms (more info) |
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | judieb@u.arizona.edu |
| Heidi Brown |
epidemiology and control of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases (more info) |
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division | heidibrown@email.arizona.edu |
| Judith Brown |
virus-vector-host relations for whitefly transmitted pathogens (more info) |
The School of Plant Sciences | jbrown@ag.arizona.edu |
| 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 |
| Kacey C. Ernst |
Identifying how ecological and social changes impact the transmission of infectious diseases, and to incorporate that knowledge into the design of sustainable community-driven prevention and control strategies. |
College of Public Health | kernst@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) |
The School of Plant Sciences | galbraith@u.arizona.edu |
| Carol C. Gregorio |
Identification of the components and molecular mechanisms regulating actin architecture in cardiac and skeletal muscle during normal development and disease. |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Heart Center | gregorio@email.arizona.edu |
| Wulfila Gronenberg |
movement control, muscle biomechanics, neuroethology (more info) |
Department of Neuroscience | wulfi@neurobio.arizona.edu |
| Martha Hunter |
ecology and evolutionary biology of parasitoids (more info) |
Department of Entomology | mhunter@ag.arizona.edu |
| Stephen Klotz |
Infectious diseases; adherence of Candida albicans to human tissue; and kissing bug/human interactions |
Department of Medicine | sklotz@email.arizona.edu |
| Joanna Masel |
Evolutionary theory, with an emphasis on studying the robustness and evolvability of biological systems, including the origin of novelty at the level of new protein-coding sequences. |
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | masel@email.arizona.edu |
| Luciano M. Matzkin |
Dr. Matzkin is an evolutionary biologist whose lab focuses on the evolutionary and ecological genetics of adaptation and speciation (more info) |
Department of Entomology | lmatzkin@email.arizona.edu |
| Istvan Molnar |
biosynthetic engineering of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and algae) (more info) |
School of Plant Sciences | imolnar@email.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 |
| Daniel 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 |
| Sairam Parthasarathy |
Dr. Parthasarathy’s main research focuses on sleep disorders and circadian science (more info) |
Department of Medicine | spartha1@email.arizona.edu |
| Linda Restifo |
genetic control of brain development and plasticity; genetics of mental retardation (more info) |
Department of Neurology | llr@email.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 |
| 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@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 |
| Donata Vercelli |
the mechanisms underlying human complex diseases, particularly asthma and allergy (more info) |
Arizona Respiratory Center | donata@arc.arizona.edu |
| George Watts |
Dr. Watts utilizes next-generation sequencing to perform whole genome analysis of pathogens in clinical infections to improve diagnosis and treatment. (more info) |
Department of Pharmacology | gwatts@email.arizona.edu |
| John J. Wiens |
origin of biodiversity patterns (speciation, diversification, species richness, macroecology, biogeography), including why are there so many species of insects? global change biology; phylogenetic approaches to ecology and evolution; phylogenetic theory (more info) |
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | wiensj@email.arizona.edu |
| Rod A. Wing |
Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Crop Plants (Rice, Oryza, Maize, Cotton, Brassica, Amborella) |
The School of Plant Sciences | rwing@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 |
