Elisar Barbar

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

Protein Biophysics and/or in cell work: Viral parasitism – Ebola/rabies/rotaviruses; Crystallin aggregation – Cataracts; Motor protein regulation – Neurodegeneration

Computational work/Bioinformatics: LC8 motif analysis – Hub regulation; Database for LC8 interactions

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Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya

Associate Professor of Statistics

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Research Interests:

Human and Rat Brain Analysis based on ECoG Array Data with Kristofer Bouchard, LBNL. • Mouse Brain Analysis based on optogenetic mesoscale data from Luca Mazzucato, University of Oregon. • Hops disease network and plant epidemiology with Chris Mundt, OSU and David Gent, USGA and OSU. • Statistics and Public Policy with the interdisciplinary Covid-19 Statistics group in the Department of Statistics.

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Vrushali Bokil

Professor of Mathematics

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Research Interests:

Multi-Scale Models of Materials; Numerical Simulation of Solutions; Modeling of Co-infection of Viruses

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Francis Chan

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology

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Research Interests:

Ecosystem ecology of a Changing Ocean. Looking at the consequences of a "hot, sour, and breathless ocean" 

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Itchung Cheung

Integrative Biology Instructor - Hatfield

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Rick Colwell

Professor of Microbiology

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Research Interests:

Investigates microbes in earth and ocean systems. Specific opportunity: Looking at the relationship between thiamine deficiency in fish and microbial communities. 

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Rick Cooely

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

Genetic Code Expansion (GCE)

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Dee Denver

Professor of Integrative Biology

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Research Interests:

How do Western-scientific and Buddhist cause-and-effect frameworks align? How do they differ? (2)What does Buddhist philosophy think about different species concepts in biology? The scientific method? (3)Do Buddhist meditation and mindfulness practices offer scientists and students paths to: • Reduced anxiety? • Improved focus? • Inclusive mindsets?

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Michael Freitag

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

Gene silencing, design a chromosome from scratch, mutators

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Stephen Giovannoni

Professor of Microbiology

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Research Interests:

Microbial evolution in ocean deserts, looking at how microorganisms adapt to nutrient loss in warming seas due to global warming. Investigating the Ocean’s Smallest and Most Abundant Life Forms

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Fritz (Adrian) Gombart

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

Fighting infection with vitamin D and other natural compounds; Fighting fat with natural compounds

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Sarah Henkel

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology

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Research Interests:

Egregia and Hedophyllum: Canopy and Community Will learn species identification very well Lots of fieldwork Data analysis skills and possible poster presentation opportunities at marine biology conferences like WSN Egregia and Phyllospadix: Physiology and Oceanic Conditions Connecting seaweed/seagrass physiology to warming or cooling oceanic conditions in the lab Lots of fieldwork Data analysis skills and possible poster presentation opportunities at marine biology conferences like WSN

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Kenton Hokanson

Microbiology Instructor

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Research Interests:

Come study how the living brain works in Electrophysiology Facility; The amazing thing that cells like neurons or muscles do is they fire

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Phil McFadden

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

OSU students are being asked to donate to us their childhood teeth, collected originally by the tooth fairy. ● We are scoring the strength of those teeth: ● Visual and microscopic measurements ● Mechanical strength (tooth crushing) ● Mineral loss ● Protein strength (molecular

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Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Research Interests:

"Seeing gold." Investigating whether tiny gold pieces can be used to visually track therapeutic cells in vivo, while studying cell transplantation to treat Age-related Macular Degradation.

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Claudia S. Maier

Professor of Chemistry

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Research Interests:

Mass spectrometry for the exploration of biological systems

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Ryan Mehl

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Research Interests:

NSF: Can we build a site-specific protein labeling system that will allow for tracking single protein molecules in live cells? How long does a transcription factor reside on DNA? NIH: Can we monitor the removal of nitrated tyrosine on proteins and elucidate the mechanism? Is protein nitration a fundamentally new regulatory system for biology? Industry: Can we develop develop a new class of therapeutic protein conjugates? GCE4All Center: Increasing access to GCE technology Can we optimize GCE tools so everyone can implement in their protein research?

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Bruce Menge

Professor of Biology

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Research Interests:

Understanding the dynamics of natural ecological communities. Our insights into community regulation, biodiversity, and global change are generated primarily by research on rocky shores and marine ecosystems. We approach questions at a variety of scales and with a diversity of tools ranging from biochemical studies at the suborganismal level, to controlled field experiments in intertidal communities, to biogeographic comparisons among the coasts of Oregon, New Zealand, and Chile

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Swati Patel

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

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Research Interests:

ecology evolution population dynamics infectious diseases mathematical modeling dynamical systems stochastic simulations data analysis

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Vince Remcho

Professor of Chemistry

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Research Interests:

Microfluidic systems: for medical diagnostics, chemical sensing & analysis and synthesis/purification of nanomaterials;  We innovate in the areas of: materials and surface chemistry, fluidic design & polymer chip fabrication,  chemical and biochemical separations and analysis

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Axel Saenz Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

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Hannah Rowe

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

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Research Interests:

Role of Bacterial-viral interactions in transmission, studying direct and indirect interactions between Influenza viruses and the microbiome of the host. 

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Su Sponaugle

Professor of Integrative Biology

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Research Interests:

• What factors influence survival of fish throughout early life? • How will changes in ocean conditions (temperature, hypoxia, acidification, nutrients) affect planktonic communities?

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Kyriakos Stylianou

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Research Interests:

Metal-organic Frameworks; Develop design-strategies for the discovery of new MOF materials for energy, environmental and sensing applications; Our projects lie at the interface of inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, physics, nanotechnology and device fabrication

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Janet Tate

Professor of Physics

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Research Interests:

Metastable semiconductors. Specific project: when amorphous films crystallize, what determines how fast they grow. 

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Andrew Thurber

Associate Professor of Microbiology

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Research Interests:

Antarctic Biology;  PNW Deep-Sea Biology;  Coral Reef Functioning; Deep-Sea Ecosystem Services.

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Rebecka Tumblin

Physics Instructor

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Research Interests:

Influence of metalicity on the types and distribution of extrasolar planets that form. 

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Rebecca Vega- Thurber

Professor of Microbiology

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Research Interests:

A microbiological and viral view of the causes and consequences of coral reef decline.

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Virginia Weis

Acting Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, OSU Distinguished Professor, Dr. Russ and Dolores Gorman College of Science Faculty Scholar, Department of Integrative Biology

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Research Interests:

Exaiptasia pallida (Aiptasia) tropical sea anemone host;  Breviolum minutum dinoflagellate symbiont

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