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: Statistical application to environmental modeling issues
	Carroll, Raymond	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory
	Mallick, Bani	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric modeling, survival analysis, generalized linear models, neural networks, spatial statistics
	Wang, Suojin	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Bioinformatics Research Interests: 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
	Pepper, Alan	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Biotechnology Research Interests: Environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana
	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.
	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 and 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
	Guermond, Jean-Luc	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Numerical analysis
	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
	Sinova, Jairo	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Computational Nanoscience and Materials - IGERT Research Interests: Condensed matter theoretical
	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
	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
	Carney, Ginger	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Nervous system development and function, genetic control of behaviors
	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
	Walton, Jay	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Solid mechanics

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 biological clocks in fungi, gene regulatory mechanisms
	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 and applied probability
	Greenbaum, Ira	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Animal cytogenetics and evolution
	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: Plant moleular biology
	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
	Rosenthal, Gil	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Genetics Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes
	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
	Roshchin, Igor	Director Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Solid-State Physics: Superconductivity, Semiconductors and Magnetism, and Nanotechnology
	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
	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
	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
	Gabbai, Francois	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Polyfunctional Lewis Acids in Molecular Recognition. Catalysis and Supramolecular Materials; Physical organic chemistry
	Holzenburg, Andreas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Architecture of photosynthesis, structure-function relationships of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast division proteins
	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
	Naugle, Donald	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Condensed matter
	Saslow, Wayne	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter; electromagnetism; superfluidity; magnetics; nanomagnetism; biophysics; multi-carrier conduction; semiconductors; oxides
	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
	McKnight, Thomas	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Research Interests: Plant moleular biology
	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 cell and molecular biology

Neuroscience
	Name	Title/Research
	Carney, Ginger	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Nervous system development and function, genetic control of behaviors
	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
	Rosenthal, Gil	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Neuroscience Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes
	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: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory

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
	Rosenthal, Gil	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Reproductive Biology Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes

Toxicology
	Name	Title/Research
	Calvin, James	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Statistical application to environmental modeling issues
	Carroll, Raymond	Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Toxicology Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory
	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