Faculty

Name Research Interests
R. Craig Albertson

Professor, Biology

Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Dominique R. Alfandari

Professor of Developmental Biology, Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Cell migration in Developmental systems

Lauren Andrews

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Uncovering genetic design rules to reprogram regulation and metabolism in living cells for applications in health and biotechnology

Kathleen F. Arcaro

Professor of Environmental Toxicology, University of Massachusetts

Breast Cancer: Assesing Individual Breast Cancer Risk

Courtney C. Babbitt

Associate Professor, Biology

Associate Professor, Commonwealth Honors College

Evolutionary Genomics

Michael J.F. Barresi

Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College

Developmental Neurobiology, Assistant Neuron and Glial Cell Interactions; Astroglial Cell Development in the CNS

Madelaine Bartlett

Associate Professor, Biology

Evolution of plant development; Molecular evolution

Tobias Baskin

Professor, Biology

Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development

Joseph Bergan

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

We seek to understand the principles of how social and defensive stimuli are encoded in the activity of neurons, and how this process can be modulated by behavior state, experience, and neuromodulation.

Eric L. Bittman

Professor Emeritus, Biology

Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function

Jeffrey L. Blanchard

Associate Professor, Biology

Microbial cellular and community networks; influence of environmental change on the evolution of molecular processes; systems biology; bioinformatics

Jianhan Chen

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Computational Biochemistry & Biophysics

Min Chen

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Application of Proteins in Biotechnology; Functional Mechanism of Membrane Protein Pores, Channels and Transporters

Alice Cheung

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular and cell biology of male-female interaction and polarized cell growth in plant reproduction

Peter Chien

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Regulated Protein Degradation in Bacterial Cell-Cycle Progression

Soonkyu Chung

Associate Professor, Nutrition

Obesity, Brown adipocytes, Adipose Inflammation, Dietary polyphenols, Epigenetics

Eugenia Clerico

Research Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Hélène Cousin

Research Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts

Cranial Neural Crest Migration during Embryonic Development

Edward P. Debold

Associate Professor of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts

Muscle Myosin in Cardiovascular Disease and Muscular Fatigue

Nathan Derr

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

Biophysical and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin

Gerald B. Downes

Professor, Biology

Development and function of spinal cord networks

Stephen J. Eyles

Extension Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Director, Mass Spectrometry Core, Institute for Applied Life Sciences

Biological mass spectrometry, protein folding and dynamics

Michelle Facette

Assistant Professor, Biology

Cell polarization and asymmetric cell division; cytoskeletal regulation; cellular physiology

Michelle Farkas

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Development and Application of Chemical Biology Methods for the Study of Cancer Progression and Metastasis

Rafael A. Fissore

Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Ca2+ Release Mechanisms in Mammalian Oocytes during Maturation and Fertilization

Patrick Flaherty

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Statistical machine-learning methods for genomic and biomedical data analysis

Neil St. John Forbes

Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Engineering Tumor-Targeting Therapies

Lillian Fritz–Laylin

Associate Professor, Biology

Quantitative Evolutionary Cell Biology

Scott C. Garman

Associate Graduate Program Director, MCB; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural biology of glycoproteins in human disease

John G. Gibbons

Associate Professor, Food Science

Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics

Lori Goldner

Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts

Single Molecule Biophysics

Jeanne A. Hardy

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Design of allosteric pathways in caspases and phosphatases; x-ray crystallography

Lili He

Associate Professor, Food Science

The analysis of chemical, physical and biological targets in complex systems

Daniel N. Hebert

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Protein Folding, Quality Control and Degradation of Membrane Glycoproteins

Alejandro P. Heuck

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Bacterial Pathogenesis

Abigail Jensen

Associate Professor, Biology

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of vertebrate retinal development and retinal disease.

D. Joseph Jerry

Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Tumor Suppressor Genes and the Cellular Basis for Susceptibility to Breast Cancer

Juan M Jiménez

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Fluid flow characteristics and fluid flow-dependent biomolecular pathways relevant to diseases and processes in the body.

Igor A. Kaltashov

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Architecture and Dynamics of Transport Proteins

Ilia Karatsoreos

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

The general research objective in our lab is to understand the neural and physiological systems that the brain and body use to protect us from harm and adapt to changes in the environment. We focus on biological rhythms, stress, immunology, and metabolism

Rolf O. Karlstrom

Professor, Biology

Developmental neurobiology; axon guidance and forebrain patterning

Laura A. Katz

Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

Genome evolution and biodiversity studies of microbial eukaryotes

Paul S. Katz

Professor, Biology

Neuroethology, central pattern generators, single neuron RNA-seq, developmental neuroscience, evolution of neural circuits, molluscan systems

 

Young–Cheul Kim

Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Massachusetts

Impact of Nutrients and Dietary Bioactive Components on Chronic Diseases

Michele M. Klingbeil

Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts

Parasitology, the replication and repair of mitochondrial DNA (kinetoplast DNA network) in African trypanosomes

Mike Knapp

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Biological and Inorganic Chemistry; Enzyme structure and mechanisms, Hypoxia sensing, Metalloenzymes, Redesign of the second coordination sphere

Ashish Kulkarni

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Immunoengineering
Nano-immunotheraputics
Immunotheranostics
Bio-inspired Materials
Drug Delivery

Gwenael Layec

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

Musculoskeletal Physiology, Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, Cardiovascular Physiology, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/imaging

Jungwoo Lee

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Translational Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Zhenhua Liu

Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Massachusetts

Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

Li–Jun Ma

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Fungal comparative genomics, eukaryotic genome evolution and organism adaptation

Sibongile Mafu

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Biological chemistry of plant natural products

Jesse Mager

Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Developmental Biology: Cell-Cell Signaling

Thomas J. Maresca

Graduate Program Director, MCB; Associate Professor of Biology

Ensuring Genomic Integrity through Cell Division

Craig T. Martin

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Transcription; Protein-DNA Interactions

Lynne A. McLandsborough

Professor of Food Science, University of Massachusetts

Involvement of Bacterial Surface Molecules in Attachment to Food and Food Processing Surfaces

Mark S. Miller

Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology

Aging, Exercise, Skeletal Muscle, Muscle Mechanics, Sex Differences

Lisa M. Minter

Associate Professor of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Notch signaling in autoimmune diseases

Matthew D. Moore

Assistant Professor of Food Science

Food microbiology; food and environmental virology; eukaryotic virus-bacteria interactions; portable detection and sequencing platforms; viral inactivation strategies and therapeutics; viral concentration techniques.

Sarah Moore

Assistant Professor of Engineering, Smith College

Yasu S. Morita

Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts

Mycobacterial Pathogenesis: Glycobiology, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology

Mandy Muller

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

Using viruses as a tool to understand cell biology

Murugappan Muthukumar

Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Statistical Mechanics of Polymers

Barbara A. Osborne

Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Immunoglobulin Gene Diversification; Induction of Apoptosis in Lymphocytes

Stephanie L. Padilla

Assistant Professor of Biology

Sex hormones, feeding behavior and body weight homeostasis, circadian rhythms, women’s health

ChangHui Pak

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

synaptic adhesion molecules

Sarah Pallas

Associate Professor, Biology

Developmental neuroscience, Sensory neurophysiology

Om Parkash Dhankher

Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Plant genetic engineering and biotechnology, phytoremediation of soil contaminants

Shelly Peyton

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Breast Cancer, Metastasis, Drug Resistance, Biomaterials

Leonid A. Pobezinsky

Associate Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Non-coding RNAs in the immune system

Jenny Rauch

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The neurodegenerative protein tau and its role in disease progression

Luke Remage–Healey

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Neural basis of behavior

Heather N. Richardson

Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

The focus of the Stress and Addiction Lab is to determine the neurobiological mechanisms underlying stress-related disorders using rodent models.

Vincent M. Rotello

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Synthetic Models of Biomolecular Activity

Alissa Rothchild

Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Alveolar macrophages and innate immunity, immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, host-pathogen interactions

Ana M. Salicioni

Research Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts

Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for Sperm Function. Role of Testis-Specific Kinases in Male Fertility and as Targets for Contraception

Steven J. Sandler

Professor and Department Head of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts

The Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Replication and Homologous Recombination

Maria M. Santore

Professor of Polymer Science & Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Interfacial Polymer Physics, Dynamics, and Colloidal Phenomena

Nathan Schnarr

Lecturer of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Polyketide Synthase Engingeering

Larry M. Schwartz

Professor, Department of Biology

Molecular mechanisms that mediate programmed cell death

David A. Sela

Associate Professor, Food Science

Nutrition, human milk, gut microbiome, systems biology, host-microbe interactions/co-evolution, translational research

Tricia Serio

Dean, College of Natural Sciences

Prion cycle regulation in vivo, cellular mechanisms and consequences of protein misfolding and resolution

M. Sloan Siegrist

Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts

Adaptation of Intracellular Pathogens to the Host Environment

Sallie W. Smith–Schneider

Scientist, Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Signaling During Mammary Gland Development and Carcinogenesis

Andrew Stephens

Assistant Professor of Biology

Nuclear mechanics

Meg Stratton

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department

Molecular level understanding of proteins that are involved in long-term memory formation

Eric R Strieter

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Protein Post-Translational Modifications

Yubing Sun

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Microengineered stem cells and neural organoids models to study human brain development and diseases

Alexander Suvorov

Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Graduate Program Direction, Environmental Heath Sciences

Effects on behavior by environmental xenobiotics with endocrine disruptive properties

Gregory N. Tew

Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Supramolecular Polymer Science

Sankaran (Thai) Thayumanavan

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Biomimetic Organic Molecules and Polymers

Lynmarie K. Thompson

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Director, Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program

Structure and Mechanism of Membrane Proteins

Alicia R. Timme–Laragy

Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Developmental toxicology of environmental contaminants, transcription-factor-mediated antioxidant defenses, pancreatic B-cell development

Kimberly D. Tremblay

Professor of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts

Stem Cells and Developmental Biology

Ludmila Tyler

Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Using the model grass Brachypodium distachyon to understand development and bioenergy traits. 

Richard Vachet

Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts

Bioanalytical Chemistry: Analytical Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Protein Folding, Metal-Protein Interactions, Gas-Phase Chemistry, Nanomaterials

Elena Vazey

Associate Professor, Departement of Biology

Neuromodulation and Neurodegeneration

Pablo E. Visconti

Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Signal Transduction Pathways During Sperm Capacitation

Patricia Wadsworth

Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts

Director, IDGP

Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Living Cells

Elsbeth Walker

Professor, Biology

Molecular genetic approaches to studying mechanisms of metal ion homeostasis in plants

Dong Wang

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanisms of symbiosis between plant hosts and beneficial microbes

Christine A. White–Ziegler

Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

Steven A. Williams

Gates Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

Molecular Biology of Human Parasitic Diseases/Genome Projects

Sarah Witkowski

Chair and Associate Professor of Exercise & Sport Studies, Smith College

Molecular Mechanisms Contributing to Deleterious changes in Myocardial and Vascular Tissue

Hen–ming Wu

Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Molecular Biology of Plant Development

Hang Xiao

Professor of Food Science, University of Massachusetts

Cancer Preventive Dietary Components, Diet-based Strategy for Cancer Prevention

Nagendra Yadava

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Understand how mitochondrial dysfunction leads to neurodegeneration and other age-associated diseases such as diabetes and cancer, and the molecular, biochemical and physiological causes of mitochondrial dysfunction.

Mingxu You

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

DNA/RNA nanotechnology, bioimaging and biosensing