Interdisciplinary Research
Because the search for research answers requires an increasingly interdisciplinary approach, the College of Science continues to forge collaborations that break traditional barriers and combine uncommon skills to produce unique and unparalleled results.
To date, our faculty are members of the following intercollegiate or interdisciplinary groups:
- Bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
- Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences
- Neuroscience
- Nutrition
- Reproductive Biology
- Toxicology
The following lists College of Science faculty involved in interdisciplinary research:
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Bioinformatics |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Calvin, James |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Statistical application to environmental modeling issues |
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Carroll, Raymond |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory |
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Mallick, Bani |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric modeling, survival analysis, generalized linear models, neural networks, spatial statistics |
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Wang, Suojin |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Bootstrap methods, measurement error models, survey sampling, biostatistics |
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Biotechnology |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Aramayo, Rodolfo |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Meiotic transvection in neurospora crassa |
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Pepper, Alan |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Russell, David |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Mass spectrometry, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and gas phase ion chemistry. Research projects include development of next-generation instrumentation, fundamental studies aimed at understanding the structure of water, and biophysical studies of peptide aggregation and self-assembly. |
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Siegele, Deborah |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology of genes required for stationary-phase survival of E. coli |
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Thomas, Terry |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Plant molecular biology; developmental and environmental control of plant gene expression, functional genomics of diverse species |
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Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Ross, Jr., Joseph |
Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Magnetic resonance in solids; metal alloy ordering and magnetism; magnetic force microscopy |
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Bangerth, Wolfgang |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical analysis and computational mathematics |
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Dunbar, Kim |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of transition metal compounds and molecule-based materials with unusual physical properties; nucleic acid binding of metal complexes |
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Efendiev, Yalchin |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical analysis |
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Guermond, Jean-Luc |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical analysis |
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Kuchment, Peter |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Partial differential equations |
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Lazarov, Raytcho |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical analysis |
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Sinova, Jairo |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Condensed matter theoretical |
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Teizer, Winfried |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Condensed matter physics; materials physics; low temperature physics; magnetism; thin films; nanosystems |
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Walton, Jay |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Solid mechanics |
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Rosenthal, Gil |
Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes |
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Carney, Ginger |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Nervous system development and function, genetic control of behaviors |
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Greenbaum, Ira |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Animal cytogenetics and evolution |
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Jones, Adam |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics, including molecular ecology, sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and molecular evolution |
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Walton, Jay |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Solid mechanics |
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Genetics |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Aramayo, Rodolfo |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Meiotic transvection in neurospora crassa |
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Bell-Pedersen, Deborah |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Molecular genetics and genomics of biological clocks in fungi, gene regulatory mechanisms |
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Benedik, Michael |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Microbial genetics, protein translocation and microbial biotechnology |
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Erickson, James |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Sex determination in Drosophilia, temporal and transcriptional controls in development, RNA silencing mechanisms |
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Fan, Ruzong |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Statistical genetics and applied probability |
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Greenbaum, Ira |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Animal cytogenetics and evolution |
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Maggert, Keith |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Genetic and molecular analysis of genomic imprinting in Drosophilia |
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McKnight, Thomas |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Plant moleular biology |
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Pepper, Alan |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Riley, Bruce |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Genetic regulation of zebra fish development |
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Rosenthal, Gil |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes |
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Siegele, Deborah |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology of genes required for stationary-phase survival of E. coli |
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Materials Science and Engineering |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Ross, Jr., Joseph |
Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Magnetic resonance in solids; metal alloy ordering and magnetism; magnetic force microscopy |
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Roshchin, Igor |
Director Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Solid-State Physics: Superconductivity, Semiconductors and Magnetism, and Nanotechnology |
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Agnolet, Glenn |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy; two-dimensional phase transitions; quantum liquids; roughening transition in quantum crystals; electron tunneling; surface science; superfluidity |
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Allen, Roland |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Theoretical physics |
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Batteas, James |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Nanoscale materials and devices, nanofabrication via self-assembly and scanned probe lithography, molecular and organic electronics, surface chemistry, plant biopolymer surfaces and interfaces, nanotribology of oxides, molecular forces, directed assembly of proteins on surfaces |
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Clearfield, Abraham |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Crystallography; solid state chemistry; synthesis, structure, and ion exchange behavior of inorganic compounds; chemistry of zirconium; structure of coordination and organometallic compounds; layered compounds; drug delivery and functionalization of surfaces |
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Cremer, Paul |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Investigations of biological interfaces by nonlinear optical spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and microfluidic techniques |
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Dunbar, Kim |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of transition metal compounds and molecule-based materials with unusual physical properties; nucleic acid binding of metal complexes |
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Gabbai, Francois |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Polyfunctional Lewis Acids in Molecular Recognition. Catalysis and Supramolecular Materials; Physical organic chemistry |
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Holzenburg, Andreas |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Architecture of photosynthesis, structure-function relationships of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast division proteins |
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Hughbanks, Timothy |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Solid state chemistry; synthesis and structure of clusters and extended metal-metal bonded arrays; molecular orbital and bond theory applied to clusters and solids, electronic control of structures and properties |
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Naugle, Donald |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Condensed matter |
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Saslow, Wayne |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter; electromagnetism; superfluidity; magnetics; nanomagnetism; biophysics; multi-carrier conduction; semiconductors; oxides |
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Sokolov, Alexei |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Lasers, attosecond physics, femtosecond pulses, molecular modulation |
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Soriaga, Manuel |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Electrochemical Surface Science; surface coordination chemistry; catalysis at well-defined surfaces; in situ scanning probe microscopy; electrosynthesis of ordered superlattices; alloys for Ni-MH batteries; interfacial chemistry of the Grignard reaction |
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Teizer, Winfried |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Condensed matter physics; materials physics; low temperature physics; magnetism; thin films; nanosystems |
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Vigh, Gyula |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Analytical and preparative separations by liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and capillary electrophoresis |
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Walton, Jay |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Solid mechanics |
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Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Griffing, Lawrence |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Structure and biochemical organization of cells; membrane trafficking |
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McKnight, Thomas |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Plant moleular biology |
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Pepper, Alan |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Thomas, Terry |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Plant molecular biology; developmental and environmental control of plant gene expression, functional genomics of diverse species |
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Versaw, Wayne |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Plant cell and molecular biology |
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Neuroscience |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Carney, Ginger |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Nervous system development and function, genetic control of behaviors |
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Garcia, Rene |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Genetics of behavior and development in C. elegans |
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Perkins, Brian |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Genetic and cell biological studies of retinal development in zebrafish |
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Rosenthal, Gil |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes |
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Smotherman, Michael |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Neurobiology of animal communication: sensory-motor integration |
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Nutrition |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Carroll, Raymond |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Nutrition Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory |
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Reproductive Biology |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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MacKenzie, Duncan |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Reproductive Biology Research Interests: Comparative endocrinology of reproduction and thyroid function in fish, amphibians and reptiles |
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Rosenthal, Gil |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Reproductive Biology Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes |
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Toxicology |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Calvin, James |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Statistical application to environmental modeling issues |
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Carroll, Raymond |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory |
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Raushel, Frank |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Determination of enzyme reaction mechanisms and protein structure using kinetic, genetic, and magnetic resonance techniques |
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Sherman, Michael |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Subsampling methods; spatial statistics |
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