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Faculty
Assistant Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Autophagy, Oxidative Stress, Aging
Loomis Professor of Plant Physiology
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Plant Cell Biology
Professor and Department Chair
Department: Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Nematology, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Professor
Department: Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Plant Bacteriology; Microbial Ecology, Ecophysiology and Genetics; Systems Biology, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Distinguished Professor
Department: Entomology
Identification and study of mechanisms for cancer prevention
Affiliate Professor
Department: Entomology
Insect Pathology, Insect physiology, Biotechnology and Arthropod Management Technologies
Assistant Professor
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Materials Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Biological Environments by design
Collaborator Associate Professor
Department: Agronomy
Plant genome and gene family evolution, comparative genomics, bioinformatic methods for gene and genome sequence analysis.
Professor
Department: Biomedical Sciences
virus-host interactions, molecular mechanisms of virus entry, B-cell immunity
Associate Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Regulatory networks surrounding cell migration and programmed cell death
Professor
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Neuromuscular systems of parasitic worms and the identification of molecular targets for new drugs. In particular, research focuses on the structure and function of receptors and ion channels.
University Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Understanding how proteins and nucleic acids achieve their functional three-dimensional structures
Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Vascular Morphogenesis, Gene Editing, Zebrafish Developmental Genetics
Professor
Department: Horticulture
Use genetics and molecular tools to study mechanisms that control the development of key agronomic traits
Associate Professor
Department: Veterinary Microbiology & Preventive Medicine
Bioinformatics, genome evolution, Gene function prediction
University Professor
Department: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Developmental and molecular genetics of Drosophila pattern formation, Genetic regulation of cell determination
Assistant Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Microtubule dynamics and function, kinesin motor proteins
Associate Professor
Department: Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Microbial Physiology, Microbial Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Assistant Professor
Department: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Statistical Phylogenetics, Macroevolution, Molecular Evolution
Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Stress Tolerance in Plants
Assistant Professor
Department: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Evolutionary Genomics, Population Genetics
Professor
Department: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
evolutionary quantitative genetics, molecular ecology
Roy J. Carver Chair and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Department: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Regulation of nuclear organization and function
Clarence Hartley Covault Distinguished Professor Lloyd Endowed Chair and Eminent Scholar in Veterinary Medicine Biomedical Sciences Chair
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Parkinson’s disease • Prion and Alzheimer's diseases, Molecular Neurotoxicology • Neuroinflammation, Cell Signaling • Translational research
Assistant Professor (Adjunct Faculty)
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Using systems integration of large-scale omics approaches to explore how auxin signaling modules control diverse developmental processes in Arabidopsis
Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Animal Science
Department: Animal Science
Animal Breeding and Genetics
USDA-ARS Research Geneticist, ISU Faculty Affiliate
Department: Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Maize Genomics; Crop Improvement, Plant Defenses, Plant responses to environmental stress
Associate Professor
Department: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Molecular Phylogenetics, Evolutionary Genomics, Invertebrate Biology
Associate Professor
Department: Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Maize Genomics and Phenotype Prediction, Crop Improvement
Associate Professor
Department: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
