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- Environmental Health (e.g., health hazards of agricultural and environmental chemicals exposure).
Dr. Amadu Ayebo
- Rapid Forensics Evaluation of Microbes in Biodefense (e.g., the development of a rapid screening platform for the detection of multiple biological threats).
Dr. N. Bharathan
- Rapid Forensics Evaluation of Microbes in Biodefense (e.g., the development of a rapid screening platform for the detection of multiple biological threats).
Dr. Seema Bharathan
- Evolutionary Biology and Human Anatomy (e.g., fossil records to understand evolutionary relationships and the pattern of immigration and radiation of mammals through the Neogene of Asia).
Dr. Shundong Bi
- Fish ecology, zoogeography and systematics (e.g., freshwater stream fishes, larval fishes, and macroinvertebrates).
Dr. Bill Brenneman
- Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Developmental Biology (e.g., kidney development using zebrafish as a vertebrate model system).
Dr. Cuong Diep
- Wildlife Population and Community Ecology, Mammalogy, and Biostatistics (e.g., Pennsylvania’s Allegheny woodrat population).
Dr. Joe Duchamp
- Genetics and Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Biochemistry (e.g., the role of biological rhythms in the control of cellular processes in Paramecium tetraurelia).
Dr. Bob Hinrichsen
- Opportunistic evironmental bacteria causing disease in humans (e.g., Mycobacterium avium causing infections in end-stage HIV/AIDS patients and tuberculosis-like disease in the lungs of healthy individuals).
Dr. Vida Irani
- Physiology, Neuroendocrinology (e.g., the role of synaptic zinc in the modulation of circadian rhythms).
Dr. Megan Knoch
- Human physiology and diseases (e.g., treatment and therapy).
Dr. Katalin Komjati
- Wildlife Ecology and Management, Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, Restoration Ecology (e.g., Golden-winged Warbler breeding ecology and response to habitat management in Central Pennsylvania).
Dr. Jeff Larkin
- Lower vascular and nonvascular plants, secondary and higher education, spatial aptitudes (e.g., effective teaching strategies at both the secondary and college levels).
Dr. Tom Lord
- Virology (e.g., use of viruses and other microbes as teaching tools).
Dr. Carl Luciano
- Developmental Biology and Regeneration (e.g., molecular mechanisms governing adult tissue maintenance and regeneration using zebrafish as a model).
Dr. Bob Major
- Animal behavior and physiology, human physiology, computing, statistics (behavior and neurobiology of avain vocal communication).
Dr. Paul Nealen
- Population ecology, especially plants; evolutionary ecology and life history strategies; structure of clonal organisms; tropical ecology (e.g., proficiency of insect capture by temperate and tropical pitcher plants).
Dr. Sandy Newell
- Forest ecology, restoration ecology, ecological modeling (e.g., how deer influence forest diversity).
Dr. Tim Nuttle
- Physiological ecology of vertebrates, evolutionary ecology of vertebrate energetics, and parasite (helminth) ecology (e.g., effects of stressors such as metals or salinity on the metabolism of a variety of fish species).
Dr. David Pistole
- Comparative Toxicology, Environmental Health, Water Pollution Biology (e.g., water mite parasitism of mosquitoes in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection West Nile Virus Program).
Dr. Tom Simmons
- Ecology and Systematics (e.g., evolution and pyhylogeography of Mesoamerican salamanders).
Dr. Joe Townsend
- Inquiry Teaching, Science Education, Environmental Education, Entomology (e.g., best practices in science teaching, authentic assessment practices, the effects of environmental education on attitudes).
Dr. Holly Travis
