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:

Bioinformatics
	Name	Title/Research
	Calvin, James	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Multivariate variance components estimation, experimental design, biostatistics, applied statistics
	Carroll, Raymond	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology
	Mallick, Bani	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Bayesian modeling, Non and semiparametric models, Bioinformatics and machine learning, MCMC computation
	Vannucci, Marina	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: wavelet methods in statistics; Bayesian variable selection; classification; statistical computing; molecular biology; chemometrics; modeling of network traffic
	Wang, Naisyin	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: measurement error models; missing data issues; nonlinear mixed effect models; nonparametric and semiparametric approaches; weighting and transformation in regression
	Wang, Suojin	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: saddlepoint approximations; bootstrap methods; measurement error models; survey sampling; biostatistics

Biotechnology
	Name	Title/Research
	Aramayo, Rodolfo	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: meiotic transvection in Neurospora crassa
	Cassone, Vincent	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: behavioral neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action
	Hall, Timothy	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: molecular basis of gene regulation in plants, especially the involvement of chromatin in spatial control of expression and gene silencing
	Patterson, Comer	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: physiology of photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria
	Pepper, Alan	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana
	Russell, David	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: research on fundamental ion chemistry and instrument development; particular emphasis on laser mass spectrometry methods and biological mass spectrometry
	Siegele, Deborah	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: genetics and molecular biology of genes required for stationary-phase survival of E. coli
	Thomas, Terry	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: plant molecular biology; developmental and environmental control of plant gene expression, functional genomics of diverse species

Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT
	Name	Title/Research
	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
	Bangerth, Wolfgang	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical Analysis & Computational Mathematics
	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
	Efendiev, Yalchin	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: numerical analysis
	Hall, Michael	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: theoretical studies of the electronic structure of inorganic complexes, organometallic compounds, metal, cluster and metalloenzymes; relationship between electronic structure and chemical behavior, especially catalysis
	Kuchment, Peter	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: partial differential equations
	Lazarov, Raytcho	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical Analysis
	Teizer, Winfried	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: condensed matter physics; materials physics; low temperature physics; magnetism; thin films; nanosystems
	Walton, Jay	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: solid mechanics

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Name	Title/Research
	Greenbaum, Ira	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: animal cytogenetics and evolution
	Jones, Adam	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: evolutionary genetics, including molecular ecology, sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and molecular evolution
	Rosenthal, Gil	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: evolution and ecology of animal communiation, mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes, visual ecology and evolution of Neotropical reef fishes
	Stidham, Thomas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: organismal and ecological evolution of birds and insects

Genetics
	Name	Title/Research
	Aramayo, Rodolfo	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: meiotic transvection in Neurospora crassa
	Bell-Pedersen, Deborah	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: molecular genetics and genomics of circadian rhythms in Neurospora crassa
	Benedik, Michael	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: microbial genetics, protein translocation and microbial biotechnology
	Erickson, James	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: sex determination in Drosophilia, temporal and transcriptional controls in development, RNA silencing mechanisms
	Fan, Ruzong	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: statistical genetics; stochastic processes and applications
	Greenbaum, Ira	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: animal cytogenetics and evolution
	Hall, Timothy	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: molecular basis of gene regulation in plants, especially the involvement of chromatin in spatial control of expression and gene silencing
	Maggert, Keith	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: genetic and molecular analysis of genomic imprinting in Drosophilia
	McKnight, Thomas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: molecular analysis of protein secretion in plants; plant genome organization and evolution
	Pepper, Alan	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana
	Riley, Bruce	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: genetic regulation of zebra fish development
	Siegele, Deborah	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: genetics and molecular biology of genes required for stationary-phase survival of E. coli

Materials Science and Engineering
	Name	Title/Research
	Ross, Jr., Joseph	Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: magnetic resonance in solids; metal alloy ordering and magnetism; magnetic force microscopy
	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
	Allen, Roland	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: theoretical physics
	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.
	Bergbreiter, David	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Reactions at polymeric surfaces; polymers in heterogeneous catalysis; polymer chemistry; transition metal catalysis; polymer synthesis; asymmetric organic synthesis; organometallic chemistry.
	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
	Cremer, Paul	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: investigations of biological interfaces by nonlinear optical spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and microfluidic techniques
	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
	Fackler, Jr., John	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: coordination and organometallic chemistry; spectra, structures and reactivities; Jahn-Teller ions; sulfur ligands; metal-metal bonding; bioinorganic compounds; transition metal catalysis; ylide compounds of transition elements; gold chemistry
	Gabbai, Francois	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: polyfunctional Lewis Acids in Molecular Recognition. Catalysis and Supramolecular Materials; Physical organic chemistry
	Goodman, D. Wayne	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: studies of chemisorption, catalysis, and related phenomena on atomically clean and chemically modified single crystal surfaces using modern surface science techniques
	Hall, Michael	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: theoretical studies of the electronic structure of inorganic complexes, organometallic compounds, metal, cluster and metalloenzymes; relationship between electronic structure and chemical behavior, especially catalysis
	Holzenburg, Andreas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: structure-function relationships of macromolecular assemblies, biogenesis and architecture of chloroplast membranes, photosynthesis, bio-nanotechnolgoy
	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
	Saslow, Wayne	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: theoretical condensed matter; electromagnetism; superfluidity; magnetics; nanomagnetism; biophysics
	Simanek, Eric	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: molecular recognition; dry delivery; polymer chemistry; environmental chemistry; pesticides
	Sokolov, Alexei	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: lasers, attosecond physics, femtosecond pulses, molecular modulation
	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
	Teizer, Winfried	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: condensed matter physics; materials physics; low temperature physics; magnetism; thin films; nanosystems
	Vigh, Gyula	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: analytical and preparative separations by liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and capillary electrophoresis
	Walton, Jay	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: solid mechanics

Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences
	Name	Title/Research
	Griffing, Lawrence	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: structure and biochemical organization of cells; membrane trafficking
	Hall, Timothy	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: molecular basis of gene regulation in plants, especially the involvement of chromatin in spatial control of expression and gene silencing
	McKnight, Thomas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: molecular analysis of protein secretion in plants; plant genome organization and evolution
	Patterson, Comer	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: physiology of photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria
	Pepper, Alan	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana
	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
	Versaw, Wayne	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: plant and fungal molecular biology phosphate transport and metabolism

Neuroscience
	Name	Title/Research
	Zoran, Mark	Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synaptogenesis and synaptic specificity; mechanisms of synaptic plasticity
	Cassone, Vincent	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: behavioral neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action
	Garcia, Rene	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: genetics of behavior and development in C. elegans
	Perkins, Brian	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: genetic and cell biological studies of retinal development in zebrafish
	Smotherman, Michael	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: neurobiology of animal communication: sensory-motor integration

Nutrition
	Name	Title/Research
	Carroll, Raymond	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Nutrition Research Interests: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology

Reproductive Biology
	Name	Title/Research
	MacKenzie, Duncan	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Reproductive Biology Research Interests: comparative endocrinology of reproduction and thyroid function in fish, amphibians and reptiles

Toxicology
	Name	Title/Research
	Calvin, James	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Multivariate variance components estimation, experimental design, biostatistics, applied statistics
	Carroll, Raymond	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology
	Fackler, Jr., John	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: coordination and organometallic chemistry; spectra, structures and reactivities; Jahn-Teller ions; sulfur ligands; metal-metal bonding; bioinorganic compounds; transition metal catalysis; ylide compounds of transition elements; gold chemistry
	Raushel, Frank	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: determination of enzyme reaction mechanisms and protein structure using kinetic, genetic, and magnetic resonance techniques
	Sherman, Michael	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: subsampling methods; spatial statistics; survival analysis
	Simanek, Eric	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: molecular recognition; dry delivery; polymer chemistry; environmental chemistry; pesticides
	Wang, Naisyin	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: measurement error models; missing data issues; nonlinear mixed effect models; nonparametric and semiparametric approaches; weighting and transformation in regression