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Bob Sanders
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology


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Research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of nutrition and cancer biology. Long term goals are to develop vitamin E analogs as anticancer agents, and to increase the understanding of the ...
Bob Sanders

Sahotra Sarkar
Professor, Ph.D.
Integrative Biology and Philosophy


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The major thrust of our research is in systematic biodiversity conservation and restoration planning, in particular, the design of conservation area networks. However, we are interested in all areas ...
Sahotra Sarkar

K. Sata Sathasivan
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D.


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I am interested in applied plant molecular biology areas such as plant genetic engineering, genome analysis, expression of foreign proteins in plants and developing biofuels.
K. Sata Sathasivan

Ed Satterwhite
Lecturer, Ph.D.




Ed Satterwhite

Sara Sawyer
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology


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Evolutionary changes driven by historical viral epidemics have left a molecular �fossil record� in our DNA sequence. Our goal is to learn about natural strategies that have been successful at ...
Sara Sawyer

Inder Saxena
Lecturer, Ph.D.




Inder Saxena

Pratibha Saxena
Lecturer, Ph.D.




Pratibha Saxena

Timothy Schallert
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.


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The brain and spinal cord are vulnerable to traumatic injury, stroke, tumors and degenerative diseases, often with devastating functional impairments, but at no time in the history of medicine have ...
Timothy Schallert

Ingo Schlupp
Adjunct Professor





Christine Schmidt
Laurence E. McMakin, Professor of Biomedical Engeering


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Damage to spinal cord and peripheral nerve tissue can have a devastating impact on the quality of life for individuals suffering from nerve injuries. Many attempts are being made to engineer ...
Christine Schmidt

Dennis Schneider
Adjunct Assoc Professor, Ph.D.
Sr. Lecturer




Dennis Schneider

Eyal Seidemann
Associate Professor, Psychology


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The central goal of my research is to understand how perceptual events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. To address these questions, we employ a novel ...
Eyal Seidemann

Marty Shankland
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology


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Our lab investigates the cellular events that underlie the spatial patterning of embryonic body plans, and the way those pattern-forming mechanisms have evolved during the diversification of ...
Marty Shankland

Dee Silverthorn
Sr Lecturer, Ph.D.




Dee Silverthorn

Beryl B. Simpson
C. L. Lundell Professor


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Beryl B. Simpson

Michael C. Singer
Professor, Ph.D.



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Michael C. Singer

John Sisson
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology


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The Sisson lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms that control how cells form and differentiate in early animal embryos. Our research is currently focused on elucidating the molecular ...
John Sisson

Max Snodderly
Professor, Nutritional Sciences


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Dr. Snodderly's core interest is the study of vision. He is interested in the effects of aging on visual function and the potential for nutrition to slow or to prevent age-related diseases such as ...
Max Snodderly

David Stein
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology


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Most of the research in our lab is focused on the question of how a complex multicellular organism develops from a seemingly simple single cell, the fertilized Drosophila egg. In one set of ...
David Stein

Leslie Stevens
Research Asst Prof, PHD





Scott Stevens
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology


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Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) function in many cellular processes and the malfunction of some of these RNPs cause serious human disease. To better understand how disease states can be corrected, our ...
Scott Stevens

Christopher Sullivan
Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology


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The recent discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and small regulatory RNAs such as siRNAs and miRNAs, has dramatically changed our understanding of the regulation of gene expression. Consequently, ...
Christopher  Sullivan

Sibum Sung
Assistant Professor Cell and Developmental Biology


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Our research interests focus on the genetic, molecular and biochemical understandings of plant development through plant-environment interactions. We are particularly interested in the epigenetic ...
Sibum Sung

Eldon H. Sutton
Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.




Eldon H. Sutton

Paul J. Szaniszlo
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology


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Our research uses the model black (melanized) pathogenic mold Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis to identify cell wall-related virulence factors among the more than 100 other ...
Paul J. Szaniszlo