Faculty and Research Interests

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• Ades, Ibrahim Z. (Professor, CBMG) Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.
• Alexander, Millard (Distinguished University Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Dynamics of inelastic and reactive collisions involving atoms and small molecules; rotational, vibrational, and electronic energy transfer.
• Allewell, Norma M. (Dean and Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Three-dimensional structure, energetics and mechanisms of biological function of multisubunit proteins, particularly enzymes involved in diseases of nitrogen metabolism.
• Ammon, Herman (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Organic chemistry; structural chemistry and X-ray crystallography; explosives; lattice energy calculations; crystal packing analysis.
• Anisimov, Mikhail A. (Affiliate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Professor of Statistical Physics, Institute for Physical Science & Technology) Mesoscopic and nanoscalethermodynamics of soft matter, critical phenomena and phase transitions.
• Araneda, Ricardo C. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Neuromodulation and sensory physiology of the olfactory system; mechanisms underlying the processing of olfactory information in the context of behavior. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Armstrong, Earlene (Associate Professor, Entomology) Insect pathology; parasitology; medical entomology.
  

• Baehrecke, Eric (Adjunct Associate Professor, CBMG & Entomology; Associate Professor, Center for Biosystems Research) Steroid regulation of gene expression, differentiation, and programmed cell death during insect development.
• Barbosa, Pedro (Professor, Entomology) Host plant interactions; ecology and behavior of parasitic insects, forest and shade tree insects.
• Bean, George (Professor, CBMG) Plant pathology; occurrence, development and control of mycotoxins.
• Beckett, Dorothy (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Macromolecular interactions in transcriptional regulation; thermodynamics and kinetics of ligand binding; E. coli biotin regulatory systems; post-translational addition of biotin.
• Bely, Alexandra E. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Evolution of development; invertebrate regeneration and asexual reproduction.
• Benson, Spencer (Associate Professor, CBMG) Genetic analysis of bacterial surfaces; prokaryotic molecular biology; evolution.
• Blough, Neil (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Photochemical and free radical reactions in condensed phases; development of molecular probes to examine these reactions in biological and environmental systems; optical properties and the remote sensing of seawater constituents.
• Borgia, Gerald (Professor, Biology) Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.
• Bottrell, Dale (Professor, Entomology) Biological control; international crop protection.
• Braun, Michael J. (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Curator, Department of Entomology, Laboratories of Analytical Biology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Molecular systematics and population genetics; speciation and hybridization; neotropical ornithology.
• Breitburg, Denise L. (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Curator, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Estuarine Research Center) Marine and estuarine ecology; relationship between behavior and community ecology; behavior and ecology of fishes.
• Briken, Volker (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions.
• Brown, Amy E. (Professor, Entomology) Pesticide effects on human health; pesticide policy. Pesticide Education and Assessment Programs (PEAP).
• Buck, Christopher B. (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Human papillomavirus assembly and entry into host cells. (Start date: Fall 2006)

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• Carleton, Karen L. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Molecular evolution of vision in cichlid fishes, molecular biology of vertebrate phototransduction. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Carr, Catherine E. (Professor, Biology) Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.
• Castillo-Davis, Cristian I. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Molecular genetic basis of morphological evolution and the analysis of genomic data in a statistical and experimental framework. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Chang, Caren (Associate Chair and Associate Professor, CBMG) Molecular biology of signal transduction in plants; hormonal signaling.
• Clark, Eugenie (Professor Emerita, Biology) Marine biology and animal behavior; ichthyology.
• Coats, D. Wayne (Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology; Senior Scientist, Protistan Ecology Lab, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center) Protistology, with emphasis on ciliate and dinoflagellate ecology, structure and function, and taxonomy.
• Cohen, Avis H. (Professor, Biology) Motor physiology and control; computational neuroscience with an emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.
• Colombini, Marco (Professor, Biology; Affiliate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.
• Colwell Rita R. (Professor Emeritus, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, and former Director, National Science Foundation) Global infectious diseases, water and health.
• Cooke, Todd (Professor, CBMG) Plant morphogenesis; carrot somatic embryogenesis; developmental processes in lower vascular plants; origins of biological form.
• Compton,Reid(Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer)
• Cropp, Ashton (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Natural products biosynthesis; protein engineering, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry.
• Culver, James (Adjunct Associate Professor, CBMG; Associate Professor, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology) Tobacco mosaicvirus/host interactions; how viruses cause disease and induce resistance responses.
• Cummings, Michael P. (Associate Professor, Biology & UMIACS) Molecular evolution; bioinformatics; computational biology.
• Cushing, Bruce S. (Associate Research Scientist, Biology) Reproductive endocrinology, behavior.

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• Dagdigian, Paul J. (Adjunct Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Arthur D. Chambers Professor, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University) Dynamics of gas-phase atomic and molecular interactions; collisional energy transfer; laser spectroscopy of small molecules; laser diagnostics for the detections of transient and trace species.
• Davidson, John A. (Professor Emeritus, Entomology) Taxonomy of Scale Insects; IPM of Ornamental Plants in Nurseries and Landscapes.
• Davis, Donald (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Curator of Lepidoptera, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Systematics of lower Lepidoptera.
• Davis, Jeffery (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Glycopeptide structure and function; formation of ionophores using hydrogen bonding; bioorganic chemistry; chemical synthesis and chemistry of bioconjugates; molecular recognition.
• Delwiche, Charles F. (Associate Professor, CBMG; Affiliate Associate Professor,Biology) Molecular systematics; phylogenetic origin of land plants, and the evolution of chloroplasts.
• Denno, Robert (Professor, Entomology) Plant-herbivore interactions; population dynamics; multi-trophic interactions; food-web dynamics; life history evolution; ecological stoichiometry.
• DeShong, Philip (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Development of methodologies for the synthesis of heterocyclic systems and application to the total synthesis of natural products; mechanistic and synthetic organometallic chemistry.
• DeStefano, Jeffrey (Associate Professor, CBMG, and Director of Graduate Studies) Mechanism of retroviral reverse transcriptases in replication and recombination.
• Dickerson, Russell (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Atmospheric chemistry; photochemistry; air pollution.
• Dietz, James M. (Associate Professor, Biology) Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals.
• Dinman, Jonathan D. (Professor, CBMG; Affiliate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Mechanisms of translational reading frame maintenance using viral programmed ribosomal frameshift signals.
• DiRuggiero, Jocelyne (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Archaeal molecular biology, comparative and functional genomics.
• Dively, Galen P. (Professor, Entomology) Agricultural pest management; resistance management; development and risk assessment of transgenic crops.
• Dixon, Bonnie (Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Dooling, Robert J. (Affiliate Professor, Biology; Professor, Psychology; Co-Director, Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing) Comparative psychoacoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.
• Doyle, Michael P. (Professor and Chair, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Asymmetric chemical catalysis; molecular recognition; organic synthesis.
• Dudash, Michele R. (Associate Professor, Biology and Director, Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics) Plant population biology; inbreeding depression; mating system evolution.

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• Ebrahimian, Sohelia (Instructor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Eichhorn, Bryan (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Materials science; synthesis and characterization of transition metal derivatives of Zintl ions; synthesis and properties of magnetic and/or conductive solid state materials.
• el-Sayed, Najib M. (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, joint with Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) Genomics of human parasites and archeal extremophiles, particularly trypanosomatids, such as Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania major. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• English, Doug (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Fundamental physical properties ofmodel membrane surfaces and molecules in spatially confined environments, transport of small molecules and ions across bilayers, and polypeptide/surface interactions.

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• Fagan, William (Associate Professor, Biology) Conservation biology; quantitative and theoretical ecology; spatial ecology; community ecology; insect ecology.
• Falvey, Daniel (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Photochemistry; use of ultrafast laserspectroscopy to study dynamics of organic and enzymatic reactions; reactive intermediates; biophysical chemistry; photothermal methods; nitrenium ion; UV-damage and repair of DNA; photoremovable protecting groups.
• Fenselau, Catherine (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Interactions of drugs with proteins; mechanisms of acquired drug resistance; new methods for proteomics; rapid detection and identification of environmental microorganism.
• Fenster, Charles B. (Associate Professor, Biology) Plant evolutionary biology; mating systems;epistasis.
• Fleischer, Robert (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Head, Genetics Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, ornithology.
• Forseth, Jr., Irwin N. (Associate Professor, Biology and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies) Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism; nitrogen metabolism.
• Fourkas, John (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy of liquids; dynamics of nanoconfined liquids; nonlinear optical microscopy; nontraditional approaches to micro- and nanofabrication; dynamics of single molecules and single nanoparticles.
• Frauwirth, Kenneth (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Cell signaling in the expression of the immune response.
• Fredericksen, Brenda L. (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) Comparison of the host anti-viral response to pathogentic and nonpathogenic strains of West Nile Virus. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Freed, Eric O. (Adjunct Associate Professor, CBMG; Chief, Virus-Cell Interaction Section, National Cancer Institute) Molecular biology of HIV-1 replication; retrovirus assembly and release.
• Friedman, Lee(Instructor, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• Fushman, David (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Development and application of experimental and theoretical approaches to structural genomics. Structure determination and analysis of multidomain proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation, molecular dynamics simulations, and physical and mathematical modeling.

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• Gantt, Elisabeth (Distinguished University Professor, CBMG) Cell biology; photosynthetic apparatus and accessory pigments; physiology of algae; phylogenetic relationships.
• Gao, Lian-Yong (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Molecular genetics; bacterial pathogenesis and host defense mechanisms; zebrafish model of tuberculosis disease; bacterial toxins, secretion and interaction with host cells.
• Gerratana, Barbara (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Mechanistic enzymology; natural product biosynthesis.
• Gill, Douglas E. (Professor, Biology) Native grassland restoration; orchid demography and evolution; population dynamics; evolution of life history parameters; host-parasite coevolution; plant-animal interactions.
• Gdovin, Sue (Lecture, Biology)
• Green, Kim Y. (Adjunct Associate Professor, CBMG; Investigator, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health) Molecular studies of viral agents of gastroenteritis; relating to epidemiology and vaccine development; replication of Calciviruses.
• Greer, Sandra (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) Experimental thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of fluids and fluid mixtures, biopolymers, and polymer solutions.
• Grim, Samuel (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Organophosphorus chemistry; synthesis of novel ligands; anionic tripod ligands; sulfur ligands; phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance; coordination compounds; organometallic chemistry.
• Gruner, Daniel (Assistant Professor, Entomology) Terrestrial Community and Ecosystems Ecology, Biological Diversity.

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• Haag, Eric S. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Developmental genetics of nematodes; sex determination, molecular evolution of genes controlling animal development.
• Hamza, Iqbal (Affiliate Assistant Professor, CBMG; Assistant Professor, Animal and Avian Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources) Cell biology and genetics of micronutrient metabolism.
• Hansen, J. Norman (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Molecular genetics; biosynthesis and mechanism of action of bacterial antimicrobial peptides.
• Hare, Matthew P. (Assistant Professor, Biology) Population and conservation genetics of marine organisms: phylogenetics, population genetics and biogeographic analyses.
• Hawthorne, David (Associate Professor, Entomology and Director of Graduate Studies) Insect population genetics and evolution, particularly the genetics of host plant mediated adaptation and speciation, biological invasions and insecticide resistance management.
• Helz, George (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Physical chemistry of aqueous solutions; water pollution chemistry.
• Higgins, William J. (Associate Professor, Biology) Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.
• Highton, Richard (Professor Emeritus, Biology) Systematics and molecular evolution of plethodontid salamanders.
• Hines, Anson (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Director & Senior Scientist, Fish & Invertebrate Ecology, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center) Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey interactions.
• Hobart, Peter (Adjunct Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; Scientific Director, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Vaccine Development.
• Hodos, William (Affiliate Professor, Biology; Professor, Psychology) Vision and visual system in birds; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of brain and behavior; animal intelligence.
• Hutcheson, Steven W. (Professor, CBMG) Molecular plant pathology; molecular biology of Pseudomonas parasitism; role and regulation of Type III protein secretion systems; pathogenicity and non-host plant resistance.

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• Infantino, Robert (Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in Biology)
• Inouye, David W. (Professor, Biology and Director, Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology) Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology of bumblebees and hummingbirds; pollination biology; flowering phenology; climate change.
• Isaacs, Lyle (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Self-assembly in aqueous and organic solution; biosensors; self-assembly of monolayers; dynamic combinatorial chemistry; self-sorting; sterochemical aspects of assembly; cucurbit[n]uril analogs; functional self-assembled systems; synthetic organic chemistry.

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• Jackson, Fatimah Linda (Affiliate Professor, Biology; Professor, Anthropology) Biological effects of specific human cultural behaviors, particularly dietary practices, in influencing the pattern of human biological diversity and the cadence and direction of human microevolution.
• Jarvis, Bruce (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Isolation of Anti-Tumor Agents from Natural Sources, Chemistry of Indoor Air Molds, Medicinal Plant Chemistry, Mechanisitc Studies in Bio-Organic Chemistry, Chemical Basis of Plant-Fungus Interactions.
• Jarzynski, Christopher (Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, joint with the Institute for Physical Science and Technology) Statistical thermodynamics of nonequilibrium systems. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Jeffery, William R. (Professor, Biology) Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.
• Jensen, Jeffrey (Lecturer, Biology) Evolution and functional morphology of fishes.
• Joseph, Sam W. (Professor, CBMG) Bacterial toxins; mechanisms of virulence; emerging causes of human gastroenteritis; chromosomal and extra chromosomal factors related to bacterial pathogenesis.
• Julin, Douglas (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Mechanisms of enzymes involved in nucleic acid metabolism.

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• Kahn, Jason (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Protein induced DNA deformation; structure of transcription complexes; computer simulation methods.
• Kanold, Patrick (Assistant Professor, Biology) Mechanisms and circuits involved in the maturation of the cortical circuitry, development of patterned projection in the brain and the relation of synaptic maturation to critical periods, and development of the central auditory system. (Start date: Spring 2007)
• Kelley,Matthew W. (Adjunct Associate Professor, (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1993. Development of vertebrate auditory system, determination of cell fate, cellular patterning.)
• Kent, Bretton (Instructor, Entomology & Director of Undergraduate Studies)
• Khachik, Frederick (Adjunct Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Senior Research Scientist, Joint Institute for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition) Synthesis of carotenoids and their metabolites; isolation and characterization of carotenoids from natural products and human serum/tissues; bioavailability and metabolic studies in humans and animals; clinical studies with carotenoids in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration and cancer.
• Khanna, Raj J. (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Infrared and Raman spectroscopy; solid-state physics; crystal structures.
• Klassen, Jane (Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Kleiman, Devra G. (Adjunct Professor, Biology) Social, reproductive and developmental behavior of mammals; mammalian mating systems, especially monogamy; conservation biology; reintroduction programs.
• Kocher, Thomas (Professor, Biology) Evolution of cichlid fish, evolution and development of the jaw and feeding behaviors and speciation. (Start date: Spring 2007)
• Koines, Penny (Instructor, Biology)
• Kosov, Daniel (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Theoretical
  chemical physics; electron transport; molecular electronics.
• Kwak, June (Assistant Professor, CBMG) Plant hormone signal transduction; guard cell biology; abiotic stress signaling; single cell-type functional genomics.

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• Labandeira, Conrad (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Plant-insect associations in the fossil record; insect paleoecology and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
• Lamp, William O. (Associate Professor, Entomology) Forage crop integrated pest management; plant response to vascular feeding; aquatic and terrestrial insect community ecology.
• LaRonde-LeBlanc, Nicole (Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry) RIO kinases involved in ribosomal RNA processing. (Start date: Fall 2007)
• Lee, Cheng (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Bioanalytical chemistry and bioseparation; capillary electrophoresis/liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; microfluids and microfabricated devices; drug screening and monitoring; proteome characterization.
• Lee, Hey-Kyoung (Assistant Professor, Biology) Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation; synaptic function in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Lee, Sang Bok (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Nanochemistry; nano/bio sensors (single-nanopore membranes and nanotubes); electrochemistry.
• Lee, Vincent (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) Mechanisms of pathogenesis by developing peptides that act as inhibitors of bacterial toxins and secretion in host cells. (Start date: Spring 2007)
• Linduska, James (Professor Emeritus, Entomology) Integrated pest management of vegetable crops.
• Lingafelter, Steven W. (Adjunct Associate Professor, Entomology; Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA) Systematics of weevils and longhorned woodboring beetles.
• Liu, Zhongchi (Associate Professor, CBMG) Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.
• Lorimer, George (Distinguished University Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Methods of enzymology; molecular chaperones.

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• Ma, Michael (Professor, Entomology) Insect endocrinology; reproductive physiology and virology.
• Mac Brooks, Michelle (Lecturer, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• Mather, Ian (Affiliate Professor, CBMG; Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences) Expression and function of mammary glycoproteins.
• Mathis, Wayne (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA) Systematics of flies.
• May, Willie E. (Adjunct Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and TEchnology)
• Mazzocchi, Paul (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry and Director, Master of Life Sciences) Photochemistry of unsaturated hydrocarbons; synthesis and properties of strained azacyclic systems; synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of analgesic compounds; applications of nuclear magnetic resonance lanthanide shift reagents to conformational analysis.
• Mazzola, Eugene (Adjunct Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• McDermott-Jones, Maryann (Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• McIver, Kevin (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) Bacterial pathogenesis and the molecular microbiology of Streptococcus pyogenes and Francisella tularensis. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Messersmith, Donald (Professor Emeritus, Entomology) Morphology, Taxonomy of Diptera, Medical Entomology.
• Mignerey, Alice (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Relativistic and ultra-relativistic heavy-ion-induced nuclear reactions, part of the Phobos experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory RHIC; application of accelerator mass spectrometry to environmental problems.
• Miller, Douglass (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Research Entomologist, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA) Scale insects; Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha.
• Miller, Gerald (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Nuclear magnetic resonance of solids, graphite intercalation compounds, molecules adsorbed on surfaces, and electroactive polymers; nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy.
• Miller, Scott (Adjunct Professor, Entomology) Insect biodiversity and conservation.
• Mitter, Charles (Professor and Chair, Entomology) Systematics; evolutionary biology; phylogenetic analyses of insect-plant interactions.
• Moctezuma, Edgar (Instructor, CBMG) Plant physiology - fruit development, plant hormones, postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.
• Moore, John H. (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Electron transmission spectroscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and electron momentum spectroscopy of hydrocarbons, organometallics and halogenated hydrocarbons and silanes in the gas phase and on surfaces; electron correlation; plasma chemistry; instrument development; space physics.
• Moss, Bernard (Adjunct Professor, CBMG; Laboratory Chief, National Institute of Allergy & Infections Diseases, National Institutes oh Health) Poxvirus-host interactions; viral DNA replication; recombinant vaccines and gene therapy; assembly of virions; structure and function of the HIV envelope protein.
• Moss, Cynthia F. (Affiliate Professor, Biology and Director, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS); Professor, Psychology) Comparative sensory physiology and behavior; auditory information processing in bats; psychophysical studies of spatial perception by sonar.
• Mosser, David (Professor, CBMG and Founding Director, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute) The cell biology and immunology of macrophages and dendritic cells.
• Mount, Stephen (Associate Professor, CBMG) Pre-mRNA splicing; computational biology.
• Mullin, Amy (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Dynamics of collisions and reactions of high energy molecules; high resolution time-resolved optical probing of state-resolved molecular pathways; vibrationally enhanced chemical reactions; controlling molecular rotation using strong optical fields; reaction mechanisms of radicals and other transient species.
• Muñoz, Victor (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Protein folding and design; protein engineering; misfolding. Aggregation conformational diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) thermodynamics and kinetics; fluorescence; circular dichroism; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy; statistical mechanics and computational biology; structure prediction.
• Murphy, Thomas J. (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Dynamics and statistical mechanics of classical hard-core systems.

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• Neel, Maile (Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape
  Architecture, Entomology) Conservation ecology, conservation genetics, reserve
  selection and design, landscape ecology.
• Nelson, Judd (Associate Professor, Entomology) Insecticide toxicology; physiology; environmental toxicology.
• Nuss, Donald (Adjunct Professor, CBMG; Director & Professor, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology) Exploiting RNA viruses of the genus Hypovirus to enhance biocontrol potential; identification and dissection of signal transduction pathways involved in fungal pathogenesis.

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• O’Brochta, David (Affiliate Associate Professor, Entomology; Associate Professor, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology) Insect molecular genetics; genetics, molecular genetics and biochemistry of transposable elements; insect gene vector research and development.
• O'Brien, Stephen J. (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Principal Investigator, Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute) Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.
• O’Connor, J. Dennis (Professor, Biology) Mode of action of steroid hormones; developmental biology of metamorphosis.
• Ondov, John (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Measurement and chemical composition of submicrometer aerosol particles, particulate tracer science, particle deposition; tracers of atmospheric particles; development of semicontinuous monitor for airborne metals.
• Opoku-Edusei, Justicia (Instructor, Biology)

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• Parent, Beth (Lecturer, Biology)
• Palmer, Margaret (Professor, Entomology & Biology) Stream ecology, especially urban stream ecosystem functioning and stream restoration.
• Payne, Richard (Professor and Chair, Biology) Mechanisms of visual excitation in photoreceptors.
• Paynter, Kennedy (Research Associate Professor & Director, Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences) Molluscan physiology; oyster disease physiology; oyster restoration; oyster reef ecology.
• Pedersen, Mark (Adjunct Proessor, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• Perez, Daniel (Affiliate Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Assistant Professor, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine) Interspecies transmission, pathogenesis and evolution of avian influenza viruses and the role of cross-protective immunity in the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses to other birds and mammals.
• Pick, Leslie (Associate Professor, Entomology and Director, Molecular and Cell Biology) Function and evolution of Hox genes; Drosophila embryonic development; axon guidance; insulin receptor action.
• Platt, Christopher (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Program Director for Sensory Systems, National Science Foundation) Sensory physiology; vestibular system; fine structure; comparative physiology.
• Poeppel, David (Professor, Biology) Neural basis of speech and language; functional brain imaging.
• Pollack, Steven K. (Adjunct Professor,
• Popper, Arthur N. (Professor, Biology and Interim Associate Dean) Structure, function and evolution of the vertebrate auditory system.
• Portter, Elka (Lecture, Biology)
• Potter, Michael (Adjunct Professor, Biology; Laboratory of Genetics, National Institutes of Health) Mouse immunogenetics; BALB/c monoclonal antibodies; genetic polymorphisms in wild mice.

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• Quinlan, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor, Biology) Molecular neurobiology; molecular mechanisms mediating synaptic plasticity.

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• Raupp, Michael (Professor, Entomology) Herbivore-host plant interactions.
• Reaka, Marjorie L. (Professor, Biology) Coral reef ecology; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life history patterns in crustacea.
• Regier, Jerome C. (Affiliate Professor, Entomology; Professor, Center for Biosystems Research) Molecular phylogenetics of arthropods.
• Reutt-Robey, Janice (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry and Director of Graduate Studies) Surface chemistry and physics; adsorption and reaction; crystallographic etching steps; diffusion mass transfer; scanning tunneling microscopy; surface spectroscopy; molecular beams.
• Reveal, James (Professor Emeritus, Biology) Plant systematics, taxonomy of Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae, botanical nomenclature, and history of botanical explorations and discovery.
• Robbins, Robert (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Research Entomologist, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History) Systematics of butterflies.
• Rokita, Steven (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Sequence and conformation specific reactions of nucleic acids; enzyme-mediated activation of substrates and coenzymes; aromatic substitution and quinone methide generation in bioorganic chemistry; nickel- and copper-mediated reactions; bioinorganic chemistry.

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• Salawitch, Ross J.(Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center) Quantification of the effects of human activity on atmospheric composition: development of numerical models that, together with observations, are used to study the global carbon cycle, the interaction of climate change and air quality, and stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery.
• Salzberg, Steven (Affiliate Professor & Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) Comparative genomics, gene finding, genome sequence assembly, genome evolution, genome sequencing.
• Schauff, Michael (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Associate Director, Agricultural Research Service, USDA) Research Entomologist and Research Leader, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. Systematics of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera), in particular the families Eulophidae, Mymaridae, and Aphelinidae.
• Scheffer, Sonja (Adjunct Associate Professor, Entomology; Molecular Biologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA) Evolution and systematics of leaf-mining flies.
• Shaw, Kerry L. (Associate Professor, Biology) Genetics, behavior and ecology of speciation; molecular genealogies of species groups; genetics and evolution of behavior and mating systems; sexual selection in insects.
• Shields, Patricia (Instructor, CBMG)
• Shrewsbury, Paula (Associate Professor, Entomology) Integrated pest management of insect pests of ornamental plants and turfgrass.
• Shultz, Jeffrey (Associate Professor, Entomology) Functional and evolutionary morphology of arthropods; arachnology; molecular systematics.
• Shultz, Ted (Adjunct Professor, Entomology; Research Entomologist and Chair, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of ants, especially fungus growing ants.
• Simon, Anne (Professor, CBMG; and Head, Virology Specialization Graduate Program) Molecular biology of plant-virus interactions.
• Simon, Jonathan Z. (Assistant Professor, Biology; joint appointment with Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering) Auditory computations; neural data analysis; auditory neurophysiology; computational neuroscience.
• Sintim, Herman O. (Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry) Use of small molecules to dissect biological processes, including RNA damage and repair, and the development of synthetic methodologies and total synthesis of pharmacophores. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Sita, Lawrence (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Synthetic, structural and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry; molecular and mesoscopic self-assembly processes; chemically modified surface and interfaces.
• Small, Eugene B. (Associate Professor, Biology) Ultrastructural morphology and comparative morphogenesis within the Ciliophora; ciliate ecology and life history.
• Smith, Ann C. (Instructor, General Microbiology and Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies) Analysis of pedagogy for science education. Projects include the use of case studies as a method to motivate learning, and the use of technology in large multi section courses.
• Soares, Daphne (Assistant Professor, Biology) Evolution of the nervous system and behavior of a model fish, Astyanax fasciatus, using molecular, cellular and genetic approaches. (Start date: Fall 2006)
• Song, Wenxia (Associate Professor, CBMG) Immunology; processing and presentation of antigens by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II in B cells.
• St. Leger, Raymond (Professor, Entomology) Insect pathogens; molecular biology of fungal insect interactions; molecular systematics; insect immunity. The Entomopathogen Genome Resource.
• Steffek, Daniel (Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Stein, Daniel C. (Professor, CBMG) Molecular genetics; virulence mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria; characterization of DNA restriction and modification systems.
• Steven, Alasdair C. (Adjunct Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• Stewart, Richard (Associate Professor, CBMG) Microbial physiology; molecular biology of bacterial motility; sensory systems in microorganisms.
• Stewart, James (Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
• Straney, David (Associate Professor, CBMG and Director of Undergraduate Studies) Fungal molecular biology; fungal plant pathogenicity; mechanisms of gene regulation.
• Sukharev, Sergei (Associate Professor, Biology; Affiliate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation; mechano-activated ion channels, their structure and mechanisms of gating by membrane stretch.
• Sze, Heven (Professor, CBMG) Biochemistry and physiology; membrane structure, function and biogenesis; mechanism and regulation of solute transport; bioenergetics; proton-and calcium-pumping ATPases.

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• Thirumalai, Devarajan (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; protein folding.
• Thorne, Barbara (Professor, Entomology) Social insect biology, evolution and genetics; urban entomology.
• Tishkoff, Sarah A. (Associate Professor, Biology) Human evolutionary genetics; the genetic basis of human disease.
• Tossell, John A. (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Electronic and geometric structure of minerals; x-ray absorption and electron scattering in molecules and solids; nuclear magnetic resonance of solids; speciation of metals in solution.
• Tugarinov, Vitali (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Development and application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methods for the studies of structure and dynamics of high-molecular-weight proteins in solution; selective isotope labeling of large proteins and macromolecular complexes for solution NMR; allostery in mono- and oligomeric protein structures
  

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• Vakharia, Vikram (Adjunct Associate Professor, CBMG; Associate Professor, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology) Molecular biology of important viruses of fish and poultry; development of strategies for diagnosis and control of Infectious bursal disease virus and Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus.
• Vedernikov, Andrei N. (Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Experimental and computational organotransition metal chemistry; homogeneous catalysis.
• Via, Sara (Professor, Biology & Entomology) Evolutionary biology; evolutionary and ecological genetics; coevolution; population biology; insect-plant and insect parasitoid interactions.

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• Walker, Robert (Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Solvation at solid-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces; nonlinear optical spectroscopy; mechanisms of solvent extraction; creating and using molecular rulers to measure interfacial widths.
• Walters, William (Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Production mechanism and decay of short-lived radioactive isotopes; on-line isotope separations and nuclear orientation; analytical neutron-capture gamma-ray spectroscopy; nucleosynthesis.
• Wang, Jian (Assistant Professor, Entomology) Molecular mechanisms of neuronal morphogenesis and plasticity in Drosophila.
• Weeks, John (Distinguished University Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry) Statistical mechanics of interfaces; theory of crystal growth; theory of nonuniform liquids; dynamics of steps on crystal surfaces.
• Weiner, Ronald M. (Professor Emeritus, CBMG) Marine bacteriology; molecular biology and morphogenesis of thermal vent budding bacteria; establishment of submerged marine surface communities.
• White, Owen (Adjunct Professor, CBMG; Director of Bioinformatics/Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research) Genomics.
• Wickner, Reed B. (Adjunct Professor, CBMG; Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institutes of Health) Genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry of prions, dsRNA viruses and naked ssRNA replicons of yeast.
• Wilkinson, Gerald S. (Professor, Biology) Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and morphological evolution in stalk-eyed flies.
• Wolniak, Stephen (Interim Chair and Professor, CBMG) Cell biology; cell motility; developmental control during spermiogenesis in Marsilea; mechanisms of chromosome movement during mitosis; signal transduction in the regulation of mitotic progression.
• Wu, Louisa (Adjunct Assistant Professor, CBMG and Entomology; Assistant Professor, Center for Biosystems Research) Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell-cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects.

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• Yager, David D. (Affiliate Associate Professor, Biology; Associate Professor, Psychology) Neuroethology and sensory biology; evolution of sensory systems; hearing in insects; central nervous system processing of auditory information.
• Yuan, Robert T. (Emeritus Professor, CBMG) Protein recognition of specific DNA sequences; reaction mechanism of restriction and modification enzymes; DNA methylation in mammalian cells.

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• Zachariah, Michael R. (Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry) Aerosol nanoparticle physics and chemistry; nanostructured materials; development of chemical and physical characterization for aerosols.
• Zimmer, Elizabeth (Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology; Research Botanist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal DNA and angiosperm systematics.