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: Multivariate variance components estimation, experimental design, biostatistics, applied statistics |
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Carroll, Raymond |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology |
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Mallick, Bani |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Bayesian modeling, Non and semiparametric models, Bioinformatics and machine learning, MCMC computation |
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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 |
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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 |
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Wang, Suojin |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: saddlepoint approximations; 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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Cassone, Vincent |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: behavioral neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action |
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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 |
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Patterson, Comer |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: physiology of photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria |
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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: research on fundamental ion chemistry and instrument development; particular emphasis on laser mass spectrometry methods and biological mass spectrometry |
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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 & 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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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 |
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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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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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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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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 |
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Stidham, Thomas |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: organismal and ecological evolution of birds and insects |
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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 circadian rhythms in Neurospora crassa |
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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; stochastic processes and applications |
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Greenbaum, Ira |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: animal cytogenetics and evolution |
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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 |
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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: molecular analysis of protein secretion in plants; plant genome organization and evolution |
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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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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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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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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. |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Saslow, Wayne |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: theoretical condensed matter; electromagnetism; superfluidity; magnetics; nanomagnetism; biophysics |
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Simanek, Eric |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: molecular recognition; dry delivery; polymer chemistry; environmental chemistry; pesticides |
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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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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 |
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McKnight, Thomas |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: molecular analysis of protein secretion in plants; plant genome organization and evolution |
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Patterson, Comer |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: physiology of photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria |
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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 and fungal molecular biology phosphate transport and metabolism |
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Neuroscience |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Zoran, Mark |
Chair, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synaptogenesis and synaptic specificity; mechanisms of synaptic plasticity |
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Cassone, Vincent |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: behavioral neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action |
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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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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: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology |
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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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Toxicology |
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| Name | Title/Research | |
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Calvin, James |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Multivariate variance components estimation, experimental design, biostatistics, applied statistics |
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Carroll, Raymond |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Regression, variance function estimation, transformations, measurement error modeling, nutritional epidemiology, toxicology |
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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 |
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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; survival analysis |
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Simanek, Eric |
Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: molecular recognition; dry delivery; polymer chemistry; environmental chemistry; pesticides |
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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 |
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