First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Paul,Hicks,Professor,,Associate Dean||Professor,School of Medicine||Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n015eca10
Aniruddha,Datta,Professor,"My research focuses on adaptive control, parametric robust control, and genomic signal processing and control.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n01f8748c
Yuxiang,Sun,Professor,"Dr. Sun is an expert on ""hunger hormone"" ghrelin. She generated the first set of ghrelin and ghrelin receptor knockout mice, and discovered novel roles of ghrelin signaling in diabetes, thermogenesis, and inflammation. Her laboratory uses state-of-the-art tools to study ghrelin system in energy sensing, metabolism and immunity, and aging. Her work suggests that ghrelin signal might be a promising drug target for obesity, diabetes, inflammation, and Alzheimer's disease.",Professor,Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0228c22e
Anja,Schulze,Professor,"My research on marine invertebrates spans evolution, ecology, development and physiology. My lab is interested in how invertebrate animals have diversified over time and space. Which morphological and physiological characteristics have led to the evolutionary success of a species? Which environmental factors drive its geographic distribution? To address these questions, we focus on marine annelids, a ubiquitous and diverse taxon with at least 15,000 described species and a wide range of habitats and lifestyles.",Professor,Texas A&M University at Galveston,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n042bccf8
Stephanie,Payne,Professor,,Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n050a8af9
Patricia,Pietrantonio,Professor and Texas AgriLife Research Fellow,"We work with important pests that are critical to Texas and the world focusing on public and animal health and on pests of cotton. We are interested in elucidating the functions of arthropod neuropeptides that signal through G protein-coupled receptors. Many of these neuropeptides are pleiotropic and many of their multiple functions are still unknown. We utilize loss-of-function experiments through RNAi, peptidomimetics, the discovery of antagonists through target-based high-throughput screening of small molecules on recombinant receptors expressed in mammalian cells, immunohistochemistry, and develop physiological in vitro and in vivo assays towards advancing arthropod endocrinology. The laboratory has pioneered the discovery of the first neuropeptide receptor in the Acari and the first insect prostaglandin receptor. The molecular and cell culture laboratories are BL2 and the Insect toxicology laboratory is BL1. We use state-of-the-art technologies and the lab is well equipped to do almost everything in-house.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0555af9d
Jun,Zou,Professor,"My research focuses on micro sensors, micro actuators and microsystems, micromachined devices for advanced optical and acoustic sensing and imaging, and high-speed 3D acoustic tomography",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n05c04d87
Hongwei,Zhao,Professor,,Professor,Epidemiology and Biostatistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0698bd50
William,Murphy,Professor,"Mammalian comparative genomics, phylogeny, biogeography, and molecular evolution, with a specific emphasis on feline evolutionary genomics, including: gene mapping, sex chromosome genetics, speciation and mechanisms of male hybrid sterility.",Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n08093092
Hubert,Amrein,Professor,"My broad research interests are concerned with the sensory perception of the external chemical world. The central questions investigated in our laboratory are concerned with how animals detect and discriminate among the thousands of different chemical signals that ""flood"" the olfactory and taste organs. Our laboratory uses Drosophila as a model to study these problems because the Drosophilachemosensory systems are structurally and functionally very similar to those of mammals, yet they are smaller and somewhat less complex, which makes them excellent models to investigate the molecular and neural basis of olfaction and taste.",Senior Associate Dean of Research||Professor||Professor,Cell Biology and Genetics||School of Medicine||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0839ec95
Byung-Jun,Yoon,Professor,"Dr. Yoon's main theoretical interests include objective-based uncertainty quantification, optimal experimental design (OED), machine learning, and signal processing. Application areas of interest include bioinformatics, computational network biology, and AI-driven drug/materials discovery.",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n08866781
Mark,Westhusin,Professor,My laboratory is interested in developing transgenic animal models of disease and novel platforms for the production of biopharmaceuticals. We are currently exploring methods to produce vaccines in the milk of transgenic animals.,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n088680ea
John,Edwards,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n09bbd732
John,Jifon,Professor,"Dr. Jifon's research is focused on environmental stress physiology of plants -- the physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms and traits that confer tolerance to environmental stresses (especially to drought, radiation/temperature extremes, and nutrient imbalance). A key theme in his research is to use integrated measurements obtained at leaf, whole-plant, and stand levels to study factors that regulate photosynthetic efficiency, water/nutrient use efficiency, assimilate partitioning, yield and quality. The aim is to use the information gained in these studies to develop practical strategies to optimize productivity and quality by improving plant tolerance to environmental stresses.",Professor||Professor,Texas A&M AgriLife Research||Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0aa3912d
Rajesh,Miranda,Professor,"My research is focused on fetal brain development, stem cells, microRNAs, and teratology. Our laboratory is interested in understanding the biological steps that transform uncommitted stem cells into neurons or a glial cells, and identifying key microRNAs that control the transformation of stem cells into neurons. We are also currently investigating what role teratogen-sensitive microRNAs play in fetal brain growth, and the spatial patterning of the emerging forebrain.",Professor,Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0b271ea8
Stjepan,Mestrovic,Professor,,Professor,Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0b579eea
James,Sanders,Professor,"Dr. Sanders teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in animal breeding and conducts research in beef cattle genetics and breeding. His research has included systems analysis of beef cattle production, comparisons of cattle breeds for birth, growth, carcass and cow productivity traits, evaluation of genetic change within cattle breeds, evaluation of hybrid vigor retention in Bos indicus/Bos taurus crossbred cattle, identification of genes with major effects on birth, growth, carcass, disposition, and cow productivity traits in beef cattle, and genetic history of the Brahman breed.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0b98a027
Regan,Bailey,Associate Director Institute,,Associate Director Institute||Professor,Texas A&M AgriLife Research||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0c508036
Jeffrey,Watkins,Professor,"My research is focused on improving patient outcomes in equine orthopedic disease in the clinical setting using spontaneous occurring disease in patients present to the large animal hospital. The majority of my work has centered on the management of end stage degenerative joint disease and long bone fractures. Specific areas of interest include conditions affecting the proximal interphalangeal joint and management of fractures of the humerus and femur using intramedullary, interlocking nail constructs.",Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0c7b8009
Marlene,Dixon,Professor,"My research focuses on relationships between sport and life quality. Since the capacity of sport to deliver socially valued outcomes (e.g., health, well-being, sense of community, economic development) depends on the nature of sport program content and delivery, my work endeavors to identify how sport can be designed, managed, and marketed to promote and enhance the life quality of individuals, families, and communities. Using a human resource management and systems approach, my research has examined the micro (employee, participant), meso (organizational), and macro (delivery system) elements of sport that illumine relationships between the ways that sport programs and systems are designed and implemented, on the one hand, and their consequent outcomes, on the other. Normatively, these findings also bear implications for modification of sport programs and systems. Thus, my work has two goals: (1) to formulate a model that describes and explains relations between the characteristics of sport programs and systems and their consequent effects on the lives of those who provide or who do sport, and (2) to thereby enable formulation, management, and marketing of sport programs that consistently and effectively add value to the lives of individuals, families, the communities in which they live.",Department Head||Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management||Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0cbb0886
Lawrence,Wolinsky,Dean,,Dean||Professor||Faculty Fellow,Periodontics||School of Dentistry||Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0d0247f9
Joyce,Alexander,Professor,My primary research interest is focused on the precursors and longitudinal consequences of early interests in science-related fields.,Dean||Professor,Educational Psychology||School of Education and Human Development,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0d3bf7fc
Francois,Gabbai,Professor,"Our research is concerned with the chemistry of both organic and organometallic polyfunctional Lewis acids. While an important component of our work deals with the synthesis of new examples of such polyfunctional Lewis acids, it is our ultimate intent to harness and utilize the cooperative effects occurring in such systems for the discovery of unusual structures, bonding modes, supramolecules and reactivities. Our research efforts present important ramifications in the domain of molecular recognition, supramolecular materials and catalysis.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0d5d68bb
Bruce,Riley,Professor,"My lab studies inner ear development in zebrafish. A prominent feature of our research is to investigate how cell-cell signaling and downstream gene-interactions control development. One project in the lab focuses on how cell signaling regulates ectodermal patterning during gastrulation to establish the otic placode, the precursor of the inner ear. Our recent work shows that localized Fgf signaling is especially critical for inducing formation of the otic placode, and members of the Pax2/5/8 family of transcription factors are important mediators of Fgf signaling. During later stages of inner ear development, we are exploring how sensory hair cells and neurons are regulated. Our studies address how these cells initially form, how they are genetically maintained, and how they become specialized for hearing vs. balance. We are also investigating how zebrafish can replace dead and damaged hair cells, an ability that mammals have lost. The inability to regenerate hair cells explains why humans show progressive irreversible hearing loss as we age. It is hoped that activating or augmenting human homologs of genes shown to operate in zebrafish might help restore hearing and balance in humans.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0dbb8253
Robert,Brown,Professor,"I am a professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at the Texas A&M University. I have the privilege of working with a lot of bright and talented students. Through our studies we've come to understand the atmospheric environment in new and often surprising ways. We study how elements in the landscape modify the different components of the microclimate, and how the microclimate affects the thermal comfort of people. By integrating these landscape architects can design environments that modify the microclimate to create thermally comfortable outdoor environments. This is particularly important in the context of global climate change and intensification of urban heat islands.",Faculty Fellow||Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0e3856dd
Ira,Greenbaum,Professor,"The research in this laboratory is focused around questions concerning chromosomal rearrangement and it role(s) in vertebrate evolution. Although this usually involves assessments of intraspecific (populational) chromosomal polymorphism, the data are generally applicable to systematic interpretations and considerable attention is paid to the phylogenetic relationships and higher taxonomic patterns of chromosomal evolution. The systematic relationships of the species studied are typically used to establish the experimental design of the hypotheses tested. Our assessments of karyotypic rearrangement and chromosomal homology involve analyses of non-differentially stained and specifically- banded metaphase chromosomes. Although deer mice (Peromyscus) are our primary model, recent projects have also addressed cytogenetic questions in birds and reptiles. The laboratory contains complete facilities for light microscopy and imaging, tissue culturing and allozymic analyses.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0fb98800
Charles,Love,Professor,,Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0fc9f72c
Emily,Wilson,Professor,"The goals of my lab are to understand the role of mechanical forces in vascular growth and remodeling processes. Cells within the blood vessel wall are exposed to numerous mechanical forces including fluid shear stress, circumferential wall stress, and axial stress as part of their normal environment and alterations in these parameters plays important roles in the development and progression of vascular pathologies such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and aneurysms. Our experiments are focused on how understanding how vascular smooth muscle cells sense changes in the mechanical environment and how this leads to changes in gene expression and cellular phenotype.",Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n105bddf7
Wei-Jung,Chen,Professor and Associate Dean,"My research focuses on the effects of substance abuse (alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, etc.) on the developing brain; Polydrug interactions on brain and cognitive developments; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Use of 3-dimensional stereological cell counting techniques, immunohistochemistry, radioimmunoassay, high-performance liquid chromatograph, gas chromatograph and behavioral assessments in animal models such as rodent, ovine and zebrafish.",Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Curriculum Management||Professor,Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics||School of Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n10791258
Amy,Epps Martin,Professor,"Dr. Amy Epps Martin has more than 21 years of experience teaching materials courses and conducting research at Texas A&M University. She actively publishes and presents her research at regional, national, and international conferences and workshops on safe, sustainable asphalt technologies including mixtures with high reclaimed asphalt Pavement (RAP) and recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) contents, warm mix asphalt (WMA), and porous friction course (PFC) and performance-graded chip seal binders.",Professor,Civil Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n10abd21b
Hye Chung,Kum,Professor,"My research focuses on the data science of using massive secondary datasets to address specific questions in social, beharvioural, economic, and health sciences. Some refer to this relatively new field as population informatics.",Associate Professor||Associate Professor||Professor,Health Policy and Management||Industrial and Systems Engineering||Computer Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1198ed05
Eric,Petersen,Professor,"My laboratory specializes in the study of combustion, gas dynamics and propulsion. We conduct experiments and analyses on reacting flows, chemical kinetics, and shock waves for applications ranging from advanced propellants and rockets to optical diagnostics and gas turbine engines.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Director,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||The Turbomachinery Laboratory,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11d4d7de
Michael,Criscitiello,Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies,"My Comparative Immunogenetics Laboratory studies immunology, molecular genetics and evolution. Most of our group's research focuses on the natural history and future application of the vertebrate adaptive immune system, with particular attention given to the genetics of lymphocyte antigen receptors. Particular expertise lies in the evolution of vertebrate immunoglobulin loci, T cell receptor loci and the major histocompatibility complex. Additionally, we are interested in the evolution of diversification mechanisms at work there (e.g., recombination activating genes (RAG), activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), and the high allelic polymorphism maintained by classical MHC genes). Most recently, we have been working on lymphocyte development in shark thymus that suggests plasticity across the B lymphocyte/T lymphocyte divide, immunoglobulin heavy and light chain isotype pairing in an amphibian system, immunogenetics in marine mammals of conservation importance, mucosal humoral immunity in diverse tetrapods and cattle antibodies with an unheralded domain extending for novel antigen binding possibilities.",Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies||Professor,School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences||Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11e21ca8
Roger,Smith,Professor,,Professor,Mathematics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11e5dd7d
Kim,Dooley,Professor,"My research is focused on teaching and learning in both formal and non formal settings. This includes topics related to experiential and service learning in international settings, the use of technology for teaching and learning, community engagement and resiliency, and impact evaluation. I often use participatory action research within the qualitative research paradigm.",Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1262b373
Arnold,Leunes,Professor,"My research focuses on sport and exercise psychology, the teaching of psychology, and criminal personality.",Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n135e3dff
Friedhelm,Schroeder,Professor,Intracellular lipid transfer proteins; lipid metabolism; multiphoton imaging of intracellular lipid transport and targeting in living cells and tissues of gene targeted animals.,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n157063e2
Anthony,Knap,Professor and Director,"Dr. Knap's primary research focuses include oceanography, organic geochemistry, environmental science, atmosphere/ocean interactions, oil pollution and dispersant use, and effects of contaminants on the marine environment. Global climate change is another area of interest, particularly climate instability, business/science interactions, renewable energy, marine derived bio-fuels, ocean genomics, ocean acidification. He was Founder and Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) off Bermuda. He was also the Principal Investigator for 30 years of Hydrostation S, founded in 1954 and the longest continuous time-series in the Ocean, also funded by NSF. He most recently was appointed to the Gulf Research Board of the US National Academy of Sciences.","Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Director, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group||Faculty Fellow",Center for Health Systems and Design||Oceanography||Energy Institute||College of Geosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n15ee86bc
Adam,Barry,Professor,"My expertise is alcohol-induced impairment and intoxication. Barry's research spans a variety of content areas associated with the assessment and measurement alcohol-related behaviors. Content areas include, but are not limited to, impaired driving and intoxication, protective behavioral strategies to minimize intoxication, and measurement of alcohol-related behaviors (i.e., use of single-item scales, visual cues of intoxication). I also specialize in the health of student service members/veterans in higher education.",Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n170bd5b7
Elizabeth,Pierson,Professor,"Dr. Pierson's areas of research include plant-microbe interactions, biological control, and sustainable agriculture. She also conducts research related to zebra chip disease of potato, microbe-insect interactions, and terrestrial plant ecology. She teaches the undergraduate course Garden Science and the graduate course Plant-associated Microorganisms, which is available to students in three different graduate programs. Dr. Pierson is active in graduate education, currently serving as a member of the Horticultural Sciences Graduate Program Committee and the MEPS admissions committee and as the advisor for the Horticulture Graduate Council. She also serves as a chair or member of graduate research committees and provides undergraduate laboratory research experience.",Professor||Adjunct Professor,Plant Pathology and Microbiology||Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1757e534
Erchin,Serpedin,Professor,"My research interests include signal processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, biomedical engineering, cybersecurity, and smart grids.",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n17ba83f2
Gary,Briers,Professor,,Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n188268e9
Robert,Lyons,Professor and Extension Specialist,"Dr. Lyons has responsibility for leadership and coordination of the Extension educational programs in range management in Extension District 10. Responsibilities include providing technical expertise, training and teaching materials for Extension agents, specialists, clientele, and organizations for effective management of the rangeland resource.
The current focus of his program includes the potential of computer decision support systems in relation to stocking rate decisions and range animal nutrition management as well as brush management and forage residue levels in relation to watershed management.",Professor and Extension Specialist||Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology||Uvalde Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n18c99cbc
Donald,Brightsmith,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on the conservation, ecology, health, and welfare of parrots and their relatives in both the wild and captivity.",Professor||Associate Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology||Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n19a331cf
Stratos,Pistikopoulos,Professor,"The objective of my research programme is to develop fundamental theory and optimization based methodologies and computational tools that enable process engineers to analyze, design and evaluate process manufacturing systems which are economically attractive, energy efficient and environmentally benign, while at the same time exhibit good performance characteristics like flexibility, controllability, robustness, reliability and safety.",Director||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1aaac28f
William,Nagy,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Restorative Sciences||Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1b5d9e51
Melissa,Grunlan,Professor,"Prof. Grunlan's research is focused on the development of polymeric biomaterials for medical devices having resistance to biological adhesion and for implantable scaffolds used in regenerative engineering. The unique properties of these biomaterials afford the opportunity to overcome barriers associated with treating various diseases and medical conditions. Specifically, her research has focused on materials for implanted glucose biosensor membranes [to extend sensor lifetime], hemodialysis catheters [to reduce clotting and infection rates], self-fitting tissue scaffolds [to heal bone defects due to injury, tumor resection or congenital birth defect] and cartilage resurfacing [as an alternative to total joint replacement].",Professor||Professor||Professor,Biomedical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1bfcff20
Peter,Buschang,Regents Professor,,Professor,Orthodontics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1c163407
Jenna,Anding,Professor and Extension Specialist,,Professor||Professor and Extension Specialist,Nutrition||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1d173ea8
Ping,Xiang,Professor,,Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1d2223c8
Charles,Long,Professor,"My laboratory is currently working on a number of projects involving genetic engineering in cattle, goats, sheep and horses. We use CRISPR/Cas gene editing to specifically alter the coding sequence of genes in sheep to produced biomedical models of human disease, specifically hypophosphatasia. My lab is actively working on projects to produce gene edited cattle that are resistant to respiratory disease. We have also successfully used gene editing to correct the glycogen branching enzyme deficiency mutation in horses. We are also interested in altering the carcass characteristics of beef cattle by genetic engineering genes specifically related to meat tenderness in Bos indicus cattle. Other projects in the lab involve the use of mesenchymal stem cell-based therapies for treatment of equine disease and in particular methods for using these cells to over express proteins that can modulate the inflammatory response. We also have interest in using livestock as bioreactors to produce biotherapeutics and vaccine antigens in their milk. I have extensive experience in using genetic engineering in combination with assisted reproductive technologies (including somatic cell nuclear transfer) to produce live animals.",Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1dc326d5
Jorge,Alvarado,Professor,"Dr. Jorge Alvarado is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He holds a joint-appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TAMU. He teaches courses in the areas of thermal sciences, fluid mechanics, and fluid power. Dr. Alvarado's research interests are in the areas of nanotechnology, micro-scale heat transfer, electronic cooling, phase change materials, thermal storage, bio-fuel combustion, and energy conservation and use of renewable energy in buildings. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering (1991) from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag?ez; MS (2000) and PhD (2004) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has worked and collaborated with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, among others. Recent work involves enhanced condensation using hybrid surfaces with hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties, characterization of microencapsulated phase change material slurry and nanoparticles as heat transfer fluids, as well as the study of spray and droplet impingement cooling using nanostructured surfaces. He and his research team have also characterized experimentally the flow behavior and heat transfer performance of a heat exchanger consisting of vortex generators.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1e1547d1
Andres,Viana,Professor,,Professor,Psychiatry Bryan College Station Campus,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1efba9dd
Wei,Yan,Professor,"Dr. Wei Yan, Professor of Architecture and holder of the Mattia Flabiano III AIA/Page Southerland Design Professorship at Texas A&M University, with interests in the fields of Design Computation and Building Science, specifically Building Information Modeling, Parametric Modeling, Performance Simulation, Visualization, and Optimization.",Professor,Architecture,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1f574661
Carl,Gabbard,Professor,,Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1f7b711c
Charles,Ridley,Professor,,Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2011fe4b
Gregory,Johnson,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n22b3a445
James,Burdine,Regents Professor,"Community Health Development is a domain at the intersection of Community Development, Health Promotion, and Public Health. As Founding Director and Co-PI of the Center for Community Health Development my research interests focus on learning how to more effectively increase community problem-solving capacity. Using the Partnership Approach, a socio-ecological framework and social determinants of health perspective, our projects examine factors influencing population health status and intervention strategies to improve health status and access to care. A key component of these activities are community health status assessments both as a data collection tool and community organizing focal point.","Professor||Founding Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Community Health Development",Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n245f9b44
Blanca,Lupiani,Professor,"Research in my laboratory focuses on better understanding the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of Marek's disease virus, a chicken oncogenic alphaherpesvirus. We study gene function using biochemical techniques and by introducing mutations into the viral genome. The knowledge obtained from these studies is used to develop vaccines to control this critical poultry pathogen. In addition, we are investigating the use of Marek's disease vaccines as viral vectors to control other viral diseases of poultry.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n255741f6
Satish,Bukkapatnam,Professor,"Dr. Bukkapatnam's research addresses the harnessing of high-resolution nonlinear dynamic information, particularly from wireless MEMS sensors, to improve the monitoring and prognostics of real-world systems, including ultraprecision and nanomanufacturing processes and machines, and cardiorespiratory processes. His research has led to 185 peer-reviewed publications (115 published/ accepted in journals and 70 in conference proceedings), 1 granted and five pending patents, and has been the basis for 17 Ph.D. dissertations. His research has received support from federal agencies including National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense, and the private sector including General Motors, Ford, National Instruments, and the Central Rural Electric Cooperative.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n277d780c
Christopher,Marshall,Professor,"My research focuses on the functional, ecological, & evolutionary aspects of how vertebrates detect, acquire, ingest and digest food. My program is integrative and comparative in nature. This work falls within the conceptual framework of ecological morphology & physiology and is conducted at the functional organismal level (morphology and physiology), behavioral, and ecological levels. The central concept of this field is that morphology and physiology influences an organism's ecology through constraints of behavioral performance, which is the capacity of an animal to exploit its natural resources, and explore its environment. Although investigations of morphology, physiology, and behavior stand on their own, ultimately the integration of these studies can explain how organisms interact with their environment, the evolution of functional complexes, and the pressure selections involved in driving adaptations.",Professor||Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences||Marine Biology",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n27bd8535
Sanjay,Reddy,Professor,"The long-term goal of my laboratory is to understand the molecular basis of pathogenesis of Marek's disease virus (MDV), a potent oncogenic herpesvirus that causes T-cell tumors in chickens. MDV codes for a protein (Meq), which shares significant resemblance with the Jun/Fos family of transcriptional factors. We have shown that this gene plays a critical role in latency and transformation of T-lymphocytes. Understanding the basic mechanism of viral pathogenesis will aid in the development of improved vaccine. We are also interested in other important poultry disease like avian influenza.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n28054661
David,Russell,Professor,"My research focuses on proteomics, lipidomics, biophysical chemistry and application and development of mass spectrometry, such as ""label-free"" nano-particle based biosensors and novel peptide/protein isolation and purification strategies. We are also investigating the structure(s) of model peptides in an effort to better describe folding/unfolding and structure of membrane and intrinsically disordered (IDP) proteins. Peptides take on very different 2?, 3? and 4? structure, which determine or influence bio-activity. In the presence of lipid vesicles peptides can exist as solution-phase species, ""absorbed"" on lipid bilayers or ""inserted"" (as a monomer or multimer) in lipid bilayers. By what mechanism do peptides interact with lipid membranes to affect these structural changes, how do peptide-lipid interactions promote self-assembly to form intermediates that eventually yield aggregates, i.e., amyloid fibrils, or how does metal ion coordination affect the structure of metalloproteins? Mass spectrometry-based experiments, hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange, chemical 'foot-printing' and gas-phase (ion-molecule and ion-ion reaction chemistry) and solution-phase chemical modifications, have expanded our abilities to address such questions, and new instrumental approaches, esp. ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) combined with enhanced molecular dynamics simulations (MDS), have become standard tools for structural-mass spectrometry studies. Over the past several years we have either acquired or developed novel, next-generation IM-MS instruments that are redefining cutting-edge structural-mass spectrometry research as well as cutting-edge computational tools essential to carry out these studies. Our new laboratories in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) provides exciting opportunities for collaborative, interdisciplinary research with chemical-biologists, biochemists and other chemists.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n280e03e6
Virender,Sharma,Professor,"My research focuses on (1) chemistry and application of ferrates, (2) formation, fate, and toxicity of silver and gold engineered and natural nanoparticles in aquatic environment, (3) applications of ferrites to destroy toxins and pollutants under solar light, and apply carbon-based materials to remediate contaminated water",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Environmental and Occupational Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n28508dfb
Mariappan,Muthuchamy,Professor,"The main goal of our laboratory is to understand the molecular mechanisms of cardiac muscle dynamics in normal and diseased states. Particularly, our interests focus on the relationships between thin filament activation and crossbridge kinetics, and how the mechanotransduction signaling transmits to myofilament activation. We use multiple techniques, molecular, cellular, biochemistry, structural and biophysical, to obtain information on the fundamental regulatory mechanisms of cardiac muscle contraction.
Our lab group is also investigating the role of lymphatics in different tissue beds, including mesentery, skeletal muscle, and brain using various animal models.",Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2877399b
Jamilia,Blake,Professor,,"Professor||Director, Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research",School of Public Health||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n29fa4c31
Allen,Roussel,Professor,,Professor,School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2b3db30b
Joseph,Sorg,Professor,"My lab is focused on the mechanisms of spore germination and bile acid resistance in Clostridium difficile. C. difficile is a Gram-positive, spore forming, anaerobe that causes infections in people who have undergone antibiotic regimens. Previously, we had shown that certain bile acids promote C. difficile spore germination while others inhibit germination. Bile acids are small molecules made by the liver that help the absorption of fat and cholesterol in the GI tract while also serving as a protective barrier against invading pathogens. Because C. difficile spores use the ratios of bile acids as cues for germination, the actively growing bacteria must have adapted means to avoid their toxic properties. We are currently focused on identifying these factors and the mechanisms by which C. difficile spores germinate.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2b4d6c14
Ramona,Paetzold,Professor,"My current research interests are at the micro level, with particular emphasis on attachment theory and its relationship to constructs that affect human behavior in organizations, in legal issues, and more generally.",Professor,Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2b7cc6b0
Jane,Bolin,Professor,"Dr. Jane Bolin, BSN, JD PhD currently serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Nursing, Professor and Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health. Since her promotion to Full Professor in 2013, Dr. Bolin has served
as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on nine (9) grants or contracts, (see CV), and has been solely or jointly responsible for over $10,559,325.00 million dollars in federal, state, and foundation funding to the TAMHSC and the School of Public Health. Dr. Bolin is also lead PI of the national Rural Healthy People 2020 publication which has been disseminated
nationally and has brought substantial recognition to the School of Public Health, such as invited presentations at ASPPH, NRHA, APHA, and multiple state conferences. Over the past 5 years Dr. Bolin has authored or co-authored
25 peer reviewed articles, edited a book, co-authored six (6) book chapters, given 11 invited scientific presentations and participated as author in 22 poster presentations and supported several graduate students. As with most researchers, national and state funding opportunities drive much of my research. My research at A&M is based on two - three core interests, 1) law, ethics, compliance & regulation; 2) chronic disease management, and; 3) rural and underserved populations. When I joined the faculty ranks at Texas A&M, I was invited to join the Southwest Rural Health Research Center on a HRSA-FORHP funded center project ""Chronic Disease Management in Rural Areas"". Since assuming responsibility for the Southwest Rural Health Research Center in 2008 I have worked diligently to maintain funding and also to serve as Chief Editor and publisher of Rural Healthy People 2020.",Professor||Professor||Regents Professor,Health Policy and Management||School of Nursing||School of Nursing,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2baa5804
Michael,Way,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Beaumont Research and Extension Center||Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2d4448ba
Dana,Gaddy,Professor,"My laboratory has been engaged in multiple areas of NIH-funded musculoskeletal research since 1996. We were the first to identify the non-steroidal gonadal inhibin hormones in regulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal-skeletal axis in mice, and the role of changes in inhibins that signal the onset of menopause (reproductive aging) to the onset of increasing bone turnover. We also demonstrated the anabolic effect of continual Inhibin exposure in normal mice and in bone repair. Our cellular focus on Inhibins and the related factor, Activin A revealed that Activin A suppresses local bone resorption through suppression of osteoclast formation, motility and survival. Our ongoing work is in the area of specific inhibin/betaglycan receptor interactions that mediate the effects on bone cells. We are also greatly interested in improving the low bone mass that we were the first to identify in both humans with Down Syndrome (DS) and in mouse models of DS as a low bone turnover disease. Our current NIH-funded research is working to identify the mechanisms of reduced fracture healing and compromised bone regeneration in Down Syndrome. We have demonstrated the efficacy of both PTH and SclAb in DS, and are now actively testing nutriceuticals to increase bone mass in mouse models of Down Syndrome. The limitations of using mouse models to study bone disease led us to our most recent and exciting endeavors in collaboration with TAMU experts in reproduction and embryo transfer technologies to develop a large platform model of bone disease, using sheep. We have generated the first large animal model of hypophosphatasia (HPP) via high efficiency gene editing of a knock-in point mutation in the ALPL gene, whose musculoskeletal and dental phenotypes are consistent with human HPP. We are now using this model to determine the etiology of mineralization deficiencies, muscle weakness and premature tooth loss by analysis of longitudinal biopsies and analysis of muscle, bone and dental specimens using CT, microCT, mechanical testing, immunohistochemistry, histomorphometry and ex vivo bone marrow cultures.",Professor||Adjunct Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences||Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2dc10a1a
Luis,Cisneros-Zevallos,Professor,The mission of our research program at the Plant Bioactives & Bioprocessing Research Laboratory is to generate information that can benefit the agriculture and processing industry by adding value to crops through bioactive compound discovery and the design of appropriate methods to enhance their content in plants as well as extend their post-harvest shelf-life.,Professor,Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2e6bb4c1
Shaodong,Guo,Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow,"The long-term goal of our research is to study the molecular mechanisms of insulin signal transduction, insulin resistance and associated cardiovascular dysfunction, aiming at nutritional and therapeutic intervention for control of metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. My laboratory is focused on the study of cellular signaling and gene transcriptional regulation of metabolic homeostasis that are governed by the PI3K->Akt->FoxO pathway, with the hope of understanding how dysregulation of this pathway in insulin/IGF-1 action causes liver damage, cardiovascular dysfunction, and pancreatic beta cell failure, resulting in diabetes, obesity, and organ failure.",Professor,Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2ef8f395
Karen,Kubena,Professor,"Dr. Kubena's current research involves investigation of the relationship between food choice, dietary behaviors, family, and other factors with the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents.",Professor,Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2f29b26e
Barbara,Gastel,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences||Humanities in Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2f554fb7
Suresh,Pillai,Professor,"Dr. Pillai's research focuses on bacterial cell-to-cell signaling, the molecular ecology of pathogens in natural and man-made ecosystems and the use of novel technologies to concentrate, detect, and decontaminate pathogens. His research on molecular microbial ecology and cell-cell signaling is targeted at understanding the complex and hitherto poorly understood relationship between microbial communities and human behavior. His research is aimed at understanding the role that the GI tract-associated microbiome has on human behavior.",Professor,Poultry Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3009b050
Mary,Capraro,Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Member||Professor||Co-Project Director,"Engineering Education Research Taskforce||Teaching, Learning and Culture||Aggie STEM||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3023b30a
Edward,Vargo,Professor,"We use molecular genetic tools, primarily microsatellite markers and mtDNA sequence data, to conduct basic and applied studies of termites and other insect pests of human structures. Our work on termites encompasses the breeding structure of colonies, colony and population genetic structure, invasion biology, foraging areas, colony densities and population dynamics. Research on other structural pests, mainly ants, cockroaches and bedbugs, focuses on population genetic structure, invasion biology, and dispersal.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3165cf9e
Kelly,Wilson,Professor and Associate Dean for Research,"I have a broad background in health education, with specific training and expertise in school and adolescent health issues and a focus in workforce training, professional development, and continuing education. My research includes program implementation effects, including the impacts on youth and adolescents as well as the workforce delivering the programs. As PI or Co-Investigator on several externally funded grants, I have laid the ground work to better understand health education post-secondary training relevant to the school-based educators and administrators, and by establishing strong ties with school entities (schools and districts) that will make it possible to recruit and track participants over time as documented in the following publications. I've successfully administered projects (e.g. staffing, research protections, budget), collaborated with others and produced several peer-reviewed publications related to school health and professional development. As a result of these previous experiences, I am aware of the importance of frequent communication among project members and of constructing a realistic research plan, timeline, and budget.",Professor,School of Nursing,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n31bd0a7a
Pingwei,Li,Professor,"The research in my lab focuses on elucidating the structural basis of innate immune responses towards microbial nucleic acids. The cGAS/STING pathway plays a central role in innate immunity toward bacterial and viral DNA. cGAS is activated by dsDNA and catalyzes the synthesis of a cyclic dinucleotide cGAMP, which binds to the adaptor STING that mediates the recruitment and activation of protein kinase TBK1 and transcription factor IRF-3. Activated IRF-3 translocates to the nucleus and induces the expression of type I interferons (IFN), an important family of antiviral cytokine. To elucidate the mechanism of cGAS activation, we determined the structures of cGAS in isolation and in complex with DNA. The cGAS/DNA complex structure reveals that cGAS interacts with DNA through two binding sites. Enzyme assays and IFN-? reporter assays of cGAS mutants demonstrate that interactions at both DNA binding sites are essential for cGAS activation. To investigate how cGAMP activates STING, we determined the structures of STING in isolation and in complex with cGAMP. These structures reveal that STING forms a V-shaped dimer and binds cGAMP at the dimer interface. We have also determined the structures of TBK1 in complex with two inhibitors, which show that TBK1 exhibits an I?B kinase fold with distinct domain arrangement. To elucidate the mechanism of IRF-3 recruitment by STING, we determined the structure of a phosphorylated STING peptide bound to IRF-3. To understand how phosphorylation activates IRF-3, we solved the structure of an IRF-3 phosphomimetic mutant bound to CBP, which reveals how phosphorylation induces the dimerization and activation of IRF-3.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n31ebad17
Ibrahim,Hassan,Professor,"Professor Hassan's research interests include Heat Transfer, Multiphase Flow, Design of District Cooling Networks, and Urban Building Energy Modeling. His research work involves complex physics, rigorous measurements and modern simulation methods.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n31f1f99e
Thomas,Taylor,Professor,"Dr. Taylor's primary research interests are in the utilization and mechanisms of food antimicrobials to inhibit bacterial foodborne pathogens. Natural food antimicrobials are diverse in their chemistry, spectrum of activity, sources, and applications within foods. Specifically, research is conducted to investigate and determine the manner by which food antimicrobials inhibit microbial pathogens. Additionally, research is conducted that seeks to overcome obstacles to the use of food antimicrobials in some product by the encapsulation of food antimicrobials. Dr. Taylor regularly interacts with faculty in the Departments of Horticultural Sciences, Nutrition and Food Science, Poultry Science, and even Chemical Engineering in the development and completion of research programming.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n324ce79b
Brent,Auvermann,AgriLife Center Director,"Emission rate, ambient concentrations, fate, and transport of antimicrobial resistance elements associated with fugitive dust from livestock facilities; use of unmanned aerial vehicles for agricultural remote sensing.",Professor||Center Director,Biological and Agricultural Engineering||Amarillo Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n32b32697
Ping,He,Professor,"Our laboratory is interested in elucidating novel plant immune signaling pathways as well as studying the myriad actions of pathogen virulence factors that intercept host immune responses. In order to provide a complete view of host-microbe interactions, we are using cellular, functional genomic, genetic, biochemical and bioinformatic approaches. In addition, plant immunity is inextricably linked with plant development and environmental stresses. We are also interested in understanding the signaling crosstalk that orchestrates plant responses to different extrinsic and intrinsic signals. Ultimately, knowledge gained from studying model plants, such as Arabidopsis, will be applied to improve crop plants for resistance against different biotic and abiotic stresses.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n330081c7
Vladislav,Panin,Professor,"It has been long recognized that glycans play a wide spectrum of essential roles in metazoan organisms, while defects in glycosylation are involved in numerous human diseases and abnormalities, from cancer to brain malformation and defects of immune system. However, the complexity of glycosylation pathways and limitations of genetic and in vivo approaches available for studying glycosylation in higher animals significantly impede the research in mammals. We are using the advantages of Drosophila model system, including its decreased genetic redundancy, powerful arsenal of molecular genetic approaches, and comprehensively characterized development, to elucidate mechanisms underlying the function of glycosylation in development and physiology. We employ a multidisciplinary approach to study the roles of several novel glycosyltransferase genes at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. Currently, our laboratory is involved in two main projects: one project focuses on studying the function of sialylation in the central nervous system, while another project is aimed at elucidation of molecular mechanisms of protein O-mannosylation.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n337aaa32
Daniel,Howard,Professor,Dr. Howard's research interests include the examination of epidemiologic patterns of health outcomes that disproportionately affect African Americans; minority health and health disparities; health policy and health services.,Affiliated Professor||Faculty Fellow||Professor||PPRI Professor and Fellow||Affiliated Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Public Policy Research Institute||Sociology||Africana Studies,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n338db2d5
Andy,Herring,Professor,"Dr. Herring has teaching and research responsibilities within the department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level classes in beef cattle production and management (ANSC 406 and 605). His research interests focus on areas to increase production efficiency for cow-calf producers through coordination of breeding systems, environmental resources and marketing strategies. He has researched genetic and environmental influences on milk production in beef cows, breed differences for feedlot and carcass characteristics, and genetic influences on beef cow reproduction and productivity, cattle temperament and immune responses. He also remains active in state and national beef cattle industry groups.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n33a6bd5e
John,Criscione,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n33d294c3
Amanda,Stronza,Professor,"Dr. Amanda Stronza is an environmental anthropologist and professional photographer with 30 years of research and conservation work in the Amazon, southern Africa, and other parts of the tropics. She is a Professor in the Departments of Ecology and Conservation Biology, and Rangeland, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management, and she co-directs the Applied Biodiversity Science Program at Texas A&M University. She co-founded Ecoexist, a non-profit organization in Botswana, aimed at fostering coexistence between people and elephants. Her long-term work in the Amazon has focused on community-based conservation, understanding and documenting local incentives for stewarding wildlife and forests.",Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n34650fb3
Henry,Fadamiro,Professor & Associate Dean for Research,,Professor||Associate Director and Chief Scientific Officer||Associate Dean for Research,College of Agriculture and Life Sciences||Entomology||Texas A&M AgriLife Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n355a075f
Sheela,Athreya,Associate Professor,"I have research interests in Hominin Evolution and Systematics, Asia, Human Variation, Quantitative Methods, Craniofacial Biology, and History of Physical Anthropology.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n35699060
Jim,Ji,Professor,"Technological advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) provide unprecedented opportunities for revealing the anatomical, pathological, and functional information of biological systems and improving our understanding of the biological processes. During the last two decades, MR hardware and sequence design have been significantly improved, which make MRI and MRSI faster and finer than they have ever been. However, dynamic imaging of 3D objects, a beating heart or a working brain, for examples, is still a big challenge.
The research in our group is to develop 3-D, real-time imaging capability to visualize biological events as they are happening, and advanced analysis techniques to extract the desired information from biological images automatically, accurately and consistently.",Professor||Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering (Qatar)||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n35d3773d
Dalun,Zhang,Professor,,Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n364e0ce7
Everett,Bailey,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3659b74a
Kevin,Washburn,Professor,Some of the studies I have done in the past were pharmacokinetic studies investigating oral chlortetracycline administration to sheep.,Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n36e17868
Sara,Lawhon,Professor,"My research group studies zoonotic bacterial pathogens and focuses primarily on salmonellosis and staphylococcal infections with emphasis on molecular host-pathogen interactions and antimicrobial resistance. We are particularly interested in how bacteria sense environmental signals, communicate with each other (quorum sensing), cause disease, and resist antimicrobial therapy. These fundamental processes are common to the organisms in which we work. We use basic, applied, and clinical science approaches in our studies. Salmonella, Staphylococcus, and Campylobacter infect a broad range of animal host species as well as humans thus making our work relevant to both human and animal health. In addition to this work, we conduct clinical research projects to support the mission of our veterinary teaching hospital and we provide support to other researchers who need microbiology expertise or access resources for their work. Our work has been funded by the FDA, CDC, and several foundations focused on diseases in veterinary species.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n370f31f1
Gary,Williams,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Corpus Christi Research and Extension Center||Texas A&M AgriLife Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n374df82e
Luis,Tedeschi,Professor,"Dr. Tedeschi conducts research on energy and nutrient requirements of grazing and feedlot animals, growth biology and bioenergetics, chemical composition and kinetics of fermentation of feeds, modeling and simulation of decision support systems, and evaluation of models (http://nutritionmodels.tamu.edu). He has collaborated with several researchers overseas to develop models for small ruminants (sheep and goats). He utilizes System Dynamics concepts applied to nutrition.",Associate Professor||Professor,Animal Science||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n387904d6
Paul,Samollow,Professor,"Comparative functional genomics and genome evolution in vertebrates; structural organization of genetic material and its relationship to patterns of gene regulation and expression within and among species. Epigenetics of meiotic recombination; patterns and epigenetic determinants of sexual dimorphism in meiotic recombination rates and chromosomal distributions. Population genomics: genetic and ecological processes that influence the distribution of genetic diversity within and among populations in nature; population structure, isolation, and speciation. QTL mapping: linkage mapping to detect genes that influence physiologic and health-related traits. Research in my laboratory focuses primarily on the genome of the gray, short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, the world's primary laboratory marsupial model for genomic, biomedical, and evolutionary research. We also study isolated desert populations of pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon in west Texas.nature, and their roles in promoting population structuring, isolation, and speciation. QTL mapping: linkage mapping to detect genes that influence physiologic and health-related traits. Research in my laboratory focuses primarily on the genome of the gray, short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, the world's primary laboratory marsupial model for genomic, biomedical, and evolutionary research. We also study isolated desert populations of pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon in west Texas.",Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n38c16b10
Sharon,Gursky,Professor,"My research focuses on Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavior, Primate Ecology, and Conservation.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n39923b01
Douglass,Shaw,Professor,"Dr. Shaw's current research emphasis is on the economics of risk and uncertainty. In particular, he works on valuing environmental amenities and changes in objective and perceived risks associated with contamination of resources or those risks that affect human health. He has recently written about the effects of ozone pollution on asthma patients, the risks from consuming contaminated fish, the perceived risks of nuclear waste transport, risks associated with natural hazards (earthquakes and hurricanes), and responses to the perceived risks of drinking water contaminated with arsenic.",Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3ca2bb39
Patricia,Thornton,Professor,,Professor,Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3d5d1283
Luc,Berghman,Professor,"The hallmark of my research career is the development of novel antibodies and applying them toward the development of new immuno-biotechnological tools. My lab has developed an antibody discovery platform in chickens that goes from in silico sequence to epitope-specific chicken IgG (IgY) in less than 3 weeks based on in vivo CD40-targeted immunogen delivery.
Research projects include the study of the immune response in the chicken, especially the function of CD40-positive antigen presenting cells (such as the dendritic cells) in activating the humoral immune response and the development of chicken egg yolk antibodies, monoclonal antibodies and recombinant antibodies for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic purposes. a Dr. Berghman was the recipient of the 2016 Zoetis Fundamental Science Award.",Professor||Professor,Poultry Science||Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3e016f20
Kuang-An,Chang,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Civil Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3e61b6f1
Debra,Zoran,Professor,,Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3e6729d4
Charles,Rush,Professor,"The TAES plant pathology program in Amarillo/Bushland, lead by Dr. Charlie Rush, was initiated in 1986 to conduct research on economically damaging diseases of crops produced in the Texas Panhandle. Currently the lab is composed of three post docs, three technicians, and several graduate students and student workers from West Texas A&M University. Major research projects, all funded by external competitive grants, include ecology and epidemiology of karnal bunt, remote sensing to differentiate between biotic and abiotic stresses, management of sorghum ergot, and genomic variability among Benyviruses. Although Dr. Rush has no official extension responsibilities, his lab has provided plant disease diagnostic services since the lab's inception, and recently they have established a satellite diagnostic laboratory to the Great Plains Regional Diagnostic Laboratory at Kansas State University, part of the Homeland Security Plant Disease Diagnostic Network. Dr. Rush's lab is the only USDA-APHIS approved Karnal Bunt Quarantine Research Lab in the Southern Great Plains, and as such, provides a phytosanitary seed certification service that allows Texas producers to sale seed wheat outside of the state.","Director, Plant Pathology Research Program||Professor",Amarillo Research and Extension Center||Plant Pathology and Microbiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3e78975e
Jianrong,Li,"Professor, Neurobiology and Neuroimmunology, Veterinary Integrative Biosciences","The central goal of our research is to understand how oligodendroglial development and function in the mammalian central nervous system is regulated in health and disease. Specifically, we are interested in molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in oligodendrocyte damage/dysfunction in white matter injuries such as multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy and in aging-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Because in most CNS diseases, multiple cell types including neurons, glial cells and vascular cells are involved via complex interactions, we investigate, at the cellular and molecular level, the role of microglia and astrocytes in the process of oligodendrocyte development, differentiation and damage. We use a variety of methods including primary cell cultures and transgenic and knockout animals to elucidate cellular pathways mediating oligodendrocyte injury.
The second focus of our laboratory is to elucidate the signals that promote oligodendrocyte survival and regeneration/remyelination after injury, and to study cell-cell interactions that regulate remyelination. These studies should contribute significantly to our understanding of mechanisms of oligodendrocyte development and injury, and provide new clues for potential prevention and treatment of human white matter diseases.",Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3ef91dcf
Michael,Waters,Professor,My research focuses on the following topics: Peopling of the Americas; Geoarchaeology; Late Quaternary history; and Americas and Northeast Asia.,Professor||Professor,Anthropology||Geography,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3f6d9098
Robert,Chapkin,Distinguished Professor,"Research in the Chapkin lab focuses on dietary/microbial modulators related to the prevention of cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases.
Our central goal is to (1) understand cancer chemoprevention at a fundamental level, and (2) to test pharmaceutical agents in combination with dietary/microbial (countermeasures to the Western diet) to more effectively improve gut health and reduce systemic chronic inflammation. Since diet influences gut microbiota composition and metabolite production, to unravel the interrelationships among gut health and the structure of the gut microbial ecosystem, we are in the process of evaluating (using transgenic mouse, Drosophila models and humans) how the gut microbiome modulates intestinal cells, innate immune cells and tumors. As part of this endeavor, we are modeling at the molecular level the dynamic relationship between diet and gut microbe-derived metabolites which modulate chronic inflammation and the hierarchical cellular organization of the intestine, e.g., stem cell niche.",Distinguished Professor||Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3fbb59f8
Ronald,Lacey,Professor,,Professor,Biological and Agricultural Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n40609d06
Thomas,Mcdonald,Professor,"My research focuses on environmental chemistry, petroleum geochemistry, and general organic chemistry.",Professor,Environmental and Occupational Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n407d0459
Qinglei,Li,Professor,"My long-term research goal is to identify the cellular and molecular basis of pregnancy failure and uterine dysfunction, thereby contributing to a framework for developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to improve reproductive potential. To benefit human and animal health, research in my lab focuses on defining the mechanism underlying uterine development and the pathogenesis of gynecologic cancers. My laboratory has created mouse models that harbor genetic modifications of critical transforming growth factor ? (TGF?) signaling components using conditional loss-of-function and gain-of-function approaches in the uterus. These models have yielded new insights into the fundamental roles of TGF? signaling in reproductive tract development and function. We have also developed pre-clinical mouse models for ovarian granulosa cell tumor and endometrial cancer. These disease models may be harnessed to uncover new opportunities for cancer treatment.",Professor||Professor,The Texas A&M University System||Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n408645cd
Micky,Eubanks,Professor,,Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n40f09614
Thomas,Meek,Professor,"Marketed drugs have been developed for representatives of all six classes of enzymes, and comprise essential therapies for the treatment of cancers, HIV/AIDS, hypercholesterolemia, and bacterial infections. The availability of known point mutations that are causative of human cancers , as well as the full genomic descriptions of many pathogens, such as parasitic protozoa and infectious bacteria, provides an emerging means to identify new or known enzymes that would constitute potential drug targets. Likewise, the availability of crystal structures of many of these enzymes or their analogues, provides a means to rationally design new inhibitors of enzyme drug targets via the use of molecular modelling and a full understanding of the chemical mechanism of the target enzymes, as an important adjuvant to inhibitor discovery via high-throughput screening.
Our laboratory will initially focus on the detailed study of the mechanisms of cysteine proteases such as cathepsin C, the isocitrate lyase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and human ATP-citrate lyase, by the use of pre-steady-state and steady-state kinetics, as well as by use of existing crystal structures of these enzymes, to inform the design of both covalent and other mechanism-based modes for the inactivation of these enzymes. We will design and synthesize candidate inhibitors, and test them against these and other enzyme targets, and determine their suitability as potential drug candidates.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n41081941
Binayak,Mohanty,Professor,"Dr. Mohanty's research includes water, heat, and chemical transport measurement and modeling in variably-saturated porous media ranging from core-scale to regional-scale; measurement and modeling of hydraulic properties; and preferential water flow and chemical transport through macroporous media.",Professor||Professor,Biological and Agricultural Engineering||Ecology and Conservation Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4131c16a
James,Batteas,Professor,"The research in our group is organized around three main projects: nanoscale materials and devices, biological surfaces and interfaces and nanotribology,
with the overarching goal of developing custom engineered surfaces and interfaces. This requires obtaining a fundamental (molecular level) understanding of the underlying chemistry and physics of the systems in question to afford rational approaches to test and develop new technologies. In much of our research we employ a range of scanned probe microscopies such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to probe structure and to manipulate materials at the nanoscale.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Faculty Fellow||D. Wayne Goodman Professor of Chemistry,Center for Health Systems and Design||Energy Institute||Chemistry||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n413d1dff
Charles,Criscione,Professor,"I examine fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions in parasite systems and consider my research to be at the interface of ecology, evolution, and genetics. Parasitology provides a rich subject area for studies of ecology and evolutionary biology. Numerous topics such as ecosystem dynamics, mating systems, or coevolution can be addressed because parasites are extremely diverse. By diversity, I include not only the myriad of taxa that have independently evolved a parasitic lifestyle, but also the diversity in life cycles, modes of reproduction, host species, and ecosystems utilized by parasites. This diversity also allows for comparative studies to address theories or unifying principles that span ecosystems or taxonomic groups. Furthermore, there are many practical applications such as studying the evolution of drug resistance, or using parasite community structure to assess ""ecosystem health"". My research interests address both basic and applied questions, and span three overlapping subject areas: 1) Evolution: Population Genetics, Mating Systems, and Molecular Epidemiology, 2) Ecology: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Natural History, and 3) Genetics and Ecological Genomics.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n41a8b584
Mitchell,Rice,Professor,,Professor,Political Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n41cc86e9
Shannon,Glaser,Professor,"The long-term goal of my research program is to understand how activated (proliferating) cholangiocytes participate in the progression of cholestatic liver diseases and eventual development of cholangiocarcinoma. My research is focused on elucidating the factors (such as, mechanical stress) and intracellular signaling mechanisms that regulate cholangiocyte proliferation and biliary fibrosis during extrahepatic cholestasis.",Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n424a02f1
Mohsen,Pourahmadi,Professor,"Time Series Analysis and Prediction Theory, Multivariate Statistics and Longitudinal Data Analysis, High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Financial Data and Stochastic Volatility Models.",Professor,Statistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n427a2e32
Loren,Skow,Professor,Comparative genomics of mammals with emphasis on organization and evolution of the mammalian genome; molecular analysis of the major histocompatibility complex of hoofed animals; genetic mechanisms of inherent resistance to infectious diseases.,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4326eaa3
Travis,Hein,Professor,"My laboratory studies the regulation of microvascular function at the level of arterioles in the retinal and coronary circulations. Sufficient blood flow supply of oxygen and nutrients to tissues to maintain normal function is controlled in large part by changes in the diameter of arterioles. Vasoconstriction or vasodilation of these small arteries will decrease or increase blood flow and nutrient delivery to the tissue, respectively. Two key chemical factors that are produced within the endothelial cells of blood vessels to control their diameter are nitric oxide (NO), a vasodilator, and endothelin-1, a vasoconstrictor. An imbalance in the production and/or release of these vasoactive factors has been implicated in the early stages of several cardiovascular diseases, but the underlying mechanisms contributing to these pathophysiological changes remain unclear. To address this knowledge gap, our research focuses on identifying cellular and molecular mechanisms that contribute to the vasomotor responses of arterioles to NO and endothelin-1 under conditions of health and disease. Current approaches that we use to investigate these mechanisms in the microcirculation include isolated and perfused arterioles, cultured vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells, biochemical and molecular techniques (for detection of NO, superoxide anion, protein, and mRNA in arterioles), pharmacological and silencing RNA (siRNA) treatments, and blood flow velocity assessment via Doppler ultrasound.",Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n45051e1b
John,Carey,Professor,"Research areas include layer management, egg production and environmental stewardship. Past efforts have focused on methionine sources and broiler excreta odor, fate of nitrogen in broiler production and nutrient buildup in broiler litter and the role of dietary threonine on egg component yield, composition and functional qualities.",Professor,Poultry Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n456cf290
Sakhila,Banu,Professor,"My long-term goals are two-fold: 1) to understand the molecular mechanism of prenatal CrVI exposure on placental and fetal development, ovarian and uterine function, and pregnancy outcome, and; 2) to understand the protective effects of various natural and synthetic antioxidants (such as edaravone, glutathione, vitamin C and resveratrol) against the deleterious effects of heavy-metals, CrVI in particular. Current research in my lab is focused on the study of reproductive and developmental toxicity of CrVI. Drinking water contamination with CrVI in the United States is a growing problem due to increased usage of CrVI and improper disposal of Cr waste into the environment. Significant contamination with CrVI has been found in the drinking water sources of all the states in the U.S. Effects of Cr on reproductive health in women and development in children have received less attention. Epidemiological data document that women exposed to Cr in environmental or occupational settings suffer from infertility, gynecological problems, congenital malformation of fetuses, neonatal mortality, and premature abortions with increased levels of Cr in their blood, urine and placenta. Cr can bind directly to DNA and nuclear proteins, cause DNA strand breaks and mutations, alter the balance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidants, and activate several cell signaling pathways. Therefore, my current research objective is to determine molecular pathways and identify target genes/proteins by which Cr alters prenatal development and organogenesis of female reproductive system in the offspring.",Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4783d1f1
Noni,Gaylord Harden,Professor,,Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n47fe5fa9
Van,Wilson,Professor,"My area of specialization is the molecular biology of papovaviruses, with a primary focus on how viral proteins modify the host cell environment. Recently, we determined that the viral replication proteins, E1 and E2, are post-translationally modified by addition of 1 or more SUMO moieties. Sumoylation is a widespread modification whose biological functions are only recently becoming understood. Studies are in progress to 1) determine the role of sumoylation in the viral life cycle, 2) evaluate the effect of sumoylation on the structure and activity of the E1 helicase, 3) understand the mechanism by which sumoylation influences E2 stability and transcriptional activity, and 4) determine how sumoylation is modulated by the viral E6 oncoprotein. In addition to the role of sumoylation in the viral life cycle, we are also exploring how sumoylation participates in normal keratinocyte differentiation. We have developed a keratinocyte cell line inducibly expressing a tagged SUMO moiety to facilitate proteomics studies of sumoylation changes and regulation during controlled differentiation.",Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4837bbf9
Xuemei,Zhu,Professor,,Associate Professor||Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||The Texas A&M University System||Architecture,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n48affe9a
Mary,Wicksten,Professor,"I am studying the Thoridae, a family of small-sized marine shrimp that are remarkably diverse in the cold waters of the North Pacific. Evidence suggests that these shrimp may be losing range due to global warming. They may be replaced by members of a different family, the Palaemonidae, a group of more aggressive predatory shrimp. But to study such a replacement, one must identify the shrimp. The last major study was in 1906. All previous work has been morphological. Evidence from my own work and that of Greg Jensen, University of Washington, suggests that not only have species been confused (one species is actually two, three species actually are only one) but the generic designation may depend on temperature-dependent features. With a small start-up grant from the Arctic Biodiversity Study, I am collaborating with Luis Hurtado,, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, to obtain some molecular data on genetic affinities within the Thoridae and potentially allied shrimp taxa. These data may at least indicate which of the supposed genera are distinct or even if the Thoridae is indeed a natural group. Examination of the 150 or more presumed species will begin following an assessment of the genera.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n48bee4d6
Hong,Liang,Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Affiliated faculty,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4923e41d
Richard,Street,Professor,,Faculty Fellow||Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4a965e69
Thomas,Kent,Professor,"Neurologist and clinician scientist with a basic, translational and clinical research program, focused mostly on stroke and other brain injuries. The laboratory utilizes a variety of cell free, tissue culture and in-vivo techniques to design and characterize a series of carbon nanomaterials that possess the ability to act as catalytic antioxidants as well as support key mitochondrial functions. This NIH-supported research is in collaboration with synthetic nano-chemists at Rice University (Tour Lab) and biochemists at University of Texas Health Science Center Houston (Tsai Lab). The group is testing a variety of engineered modifications of these versatile, non-toxic materials to address specific cell injury and death mechanisms including ferroptosis and interruption in electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation.
A major interest of ours is the role of diabetes in worsening outcome from stroke, a condition that affects minority and rural Texans disproportionally. With a range of research from molecular interactions to whole animal and clinical studies, the work in this lab is deeply translational, leveraging the group's clinical training and experience to insure that conclusions have direct relevance to the disease state, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the identification of new therapies for these major contributors to disability and mortality.",Professor,Institute of Biosciences and Technology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4acd1da6
Harry,Hogan,Professor,,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4c1aaeda
Tanmay,Lele,Professor,"Dr. Tanmay Lele's research is in the area of mechanobiology with a focus on cancer mechanobiology. His lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms by which cell generated mechanical forces and associated signaling pathways enable cell and tissue functions, and how these relationships become altered in cancer. Current research projects in the laboratory include quantitative measurements of nuclear forces, the effect of mechanical stresses on nuclear functions and gene expression, cellular adaptation to mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix, and the mechanics of cancer tissue development.
Lele is a scholar in cancer research at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.",Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4c5b9ade
Joe,Feagin,Distinguished Professor,,Professor,Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4c946da6
Luis,Garcia,Professor,"I am interested in understanding how behavioral states are regulated at the molecular and genetic level. My lab addresses this complex question in the well-studied nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Several physical aspects of this worm make it convenient for integrating whole organism system biology studies with genetic/molecular analysis of neurobiology and behavior. C. elegans is an anatomically simple organism; it is 1mm in size, and it contains ~ 1000 somatic cells, a third of which are neurons. The worm is also transparent, and thus every cell can be visualized by light microscopy. Behavioral mutants can be efficiently generated through standard chemical mutagenesis. In addition, gene functions involved in motivational and behavioral regulation can be determined by transgenic techniques.
My lab investigates the interplay between feeding and sex-specific mating behavior to understand how chemo/mechano-sensory and motor outputs are controlled under various physiological conditions. We study male mating by using genetics to de-construct this behavior into its fundamental sensory-motor components. We then use a combination of transgenics, pharmacology, classical genetics and laser microsurgery to understand how individual motor sub-behaviors are coordinated to produce gross behaviors during periods when the animal is food deprived, and when it is food satiated.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4cd2f794
Lu,Tang,Professor,"My research broadly examines how people understand and communicate about health and illnesses and how such understanding and communication are enabled and constrained by social, political, cultural, and technological factors. My research is informed by the new paradigm of ""big data"" research, which marries the traditional interpretive and postpositive epistemologies to discover patterns of meanings and relationships in texts, videos, narratives, and social networks (interpretive epistemology) using scientific data processing methods developed in computer science and data science.",Professor,College of Arts and Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4d8e2018
Zhenyu,Li,Professor,My research focuses on the mechanism of platelet activation and arterial thrombotic diseases such as heart attack and stroke. We are also interested in the crosstalk between thrombosis and inflammation in sepsis.,Professor,Pharmaceutical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4e244e5e
Wen,Luo,Professor,"My research focuses on the development, evaluation, and application of quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences. Specifically, I am interested in multilevel modeling for analyzing educational data with complex multilevel structures, clustered randomized trials, and longitudinal data from single-case experimental designs.",Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4ff4b64c
Patricia,Goodson,Professor,,Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n50133914
Oi-Man,Kwok,Professor,"My research interests include examining the methodological issues of both multilevel models and structural equation models, and the applications of these models in different educational and psychological research.",Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n522bef90
Anka,Vujanovic,Professor,"My research program is focused on understanding the complexity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and some of its most prevalent and high-risk correlates, including substance use disorders (SUD) and suicide risk, through the study of underlying psychological mechanisms relevant to treatment development. My work is comprised of interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) investigation of psychological and behavioral processes relevant to the etiology and maintenance of (a) PTSD symptoms and (b) PTSD/SUD; (2) examination of suicide risk among trauma-exposed populations; and (3) development of theoretically and empirically driven, novel interventions for PTSD and co-occurring conditions that target the psychological mechanisms isolated in more basic research. I have utilized various methodological approaches, including clinical trials, longitudinal methods, ecological momentary assessment, and experimental laboratory paradigms. My team's studies have been conducted in academic clinical research centers, first responder departments, medical and mental health clinics, and acute-care psychiatric inpatient hospitals. My work encompasses populations exposed to diverse types of trauma, including sexual trauma survivors, military veterans, first responders, and human trafficking survivors.",Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n52936a5b
Cynthia,Meininger,Professor,"My research focuses primarily on the vascular complications of diabetes. Using animal models of human diabetes, we have demonstrated that an inability of endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide may be partly responsible for these vascular complications. We are developing a gene/drug therapy approach for treating cardiovascular disease associated with diabetes. Targeted nanoparticles will deliver either the gene for GTPCH or BH4 itself into endothelial cells oxidatively damaged by diabetes to correct endothelial GTPCH deficiency, increase tetrahydrobiopterin levels, restore nitric oxide production and reverse the vascular dysfunction seen in diabetes. Our endothelium-targeting nanoparticle approach will not only reverse the damage caused by disease but will increase antioxidant levels to protect the endothelial cells from future damage and/or dysfunction.",Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n531a623d
D. Kirk,Hamilton,Professor,Evidence-based design for health facilities
Design for critical care
Relationship of design to measurable organization performance
Area calculation in health facilities,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Architecture,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5383931e
Walter,Peacock,Professor,"Walter Gillis Peacock is professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2002. From August 2019 to August 2021 he served as the Program Director of the Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) in the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Until the summer of 2019 he was Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He is internationally known for his research on disaster recovery, community resiliency, and social vulnerability. In 2009 he was awarded the Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory, acknowledging significant theoretical work in disaster and hazards research. Between 2008 and 2012 he was the holder of the Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professorship in Housing and the Homeless and in 2012 he was awarded the Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair at Texas A&M. In 2014 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M, an award sponsored by the Association of Former Students. He has conducted research in Florida, Texas, California, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Turkey, and India. He has been PI or Co-PI on approximately 7 million dollars in external funding since joining TAMU with the majority of that funding coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). He has authored or co-authored 3 books and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, research monographs, and professional papers. He has given briefings regarding household, housing, and community recovery following major natural disasters to local, state, and federal officials.",Senior Research Fellow||The Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair||Professor,School of Architecture||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning||Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5498b51c
Winfred,Arthur,Professor,,Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5516b1d0
Jorge,Seminario,Professor,"Dr. Seminario's research covers several aspects of nanotechnology such as the analysis, design, and simulation of systems and materials of nanometer dimensions--especially those needed for development and systems for energy, nanosensors and nanoelectronics. Among his recent goals is the design of smaller, cleaner, more efficient and faster devices for energy production and storage as well as for detection of chemical, biological and nuclear agents. He has developed new scenarios for nanodevice architectures using a multiscale and multidisciplinary approach that progresses from the atomistic level to the final product, guided by first principles calculations.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n563c3880
Peregrine,Barboza,Professor,"The principal focus of our research is the consequences of life history and environmental change on nutrition. Our current projects are focused on ungulates (e.g., reindeer, caribou, moose, muskoxen, white-tailed deer) but we also study waterfowl (e.g. ducks and geese) as well as non-game species (e.g. porcupines and bats) in both wild and captive populations. We attempt to provide information that will expand policy options for managing wildlife populations and their habitats.",Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n57f7ebef
Jean-Philippe,Pellois,Professor,"Our goal is to determine how proteins function in space and time in the context of complex cellular networks. We focus on chemistry-driven approaches to manipulate protein structure beyond what is feasible with standard genetics. In particular, we use semi-synthetic light-activatable proteins as biophysical probes to investigate protein mechanisms inside living cells. Areas of interest include the important but poorly understood process of protein S-acylation, signal transduction, and protein trafficking.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5815f42d
Glen,Laine,Regents Professor,,"Director , Michael E BeBakey Institute||Professor",Michael E. DeBakey Institute||Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n58440639
Sonya,Gordon,Professor,,Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5ac1c075
Joanna,Lahey,Professor,Dr. Joanna N. Lahey received her PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lahey is an expert on age discrimination and the relationship between age and labor market outcomes. Her work also covers the effects of fertility control access. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and affiliated with J-PAL..,Professor,Bush School of Government and Public Service,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5b32afe1
Jaime,Alvarado-Bremer,Professor,,Associate Professor||Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences||Marine Biology",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5b437859
Jessica,Howell,Professor,My research interests include Victorian literature and culture; Transatlantic travel writing; Literature and medicine; Gender and empire; Postcolonial health humanities,Professor||Associate Director||Associate Professor,Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research||English||English,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5b90880b
Jianxun,Song,Professor,T cell biology
T cell-based immunotherapy
Cell metabolism,Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5b9879a8
Michael,Smotherman,Professor,"Evolution and Neurobiology of Communication
Communication is an essential part of sociality, and an animal's vocal communications provide a window into their cognitive capabilities, motivations, and behavioral ecology. Communication is also a important model of sensorimotor neurobiology because vocalizations are the motor output of a sophisticated suite of brain pathways that integrate across multiple sensory modalities and time scales. Vocal communication systems are highly diverse because they have been shaped by intense natural and sexual selection. Studying the evolution of communication networks in the brain provides important insight into how environment and ecology molded the social brain.
Our lab studies bats because of their biosonar capabilities and their unusually broad repertoire of communication calls and songs.
Echolocation provides an exciting model system for exploring how multiple brain pathways interact to control behavior on a millisecond time scale. Our neural studies investigate the neurocircuits that guide delicate changes in sonar pulse acoustics. Our behavioral studies of bats echolocating in groups has shed light on how they coordinate their sonar systems to minimize interference with one another. This research has direct relevance to man-made sonar and wireless communications systems.
Singing by bats offers exiting new opportunities to young investigators to explore how mammals and birds converged upon a similar behavior via different neural mechanisms. Identifying and characterizing the functional neurocircuitry of the bat's song production network is a major component of our research.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5bebea24
Darryl,de Ruiter,Professor,"I am a paleoanthropologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of the early hominins of Africa. My research centers on the origin of the genus Homo, and on early representatives of that genus. In 2010, my research team and I announced the discovery of a new hominin species - Australopithecus sediba - from the site of Malapa in South Africa. Australopithecus sediba represents a curious mixture of both australopith-like and Homo-like morphologies, and based on this mosaic of characters, we hypothesized that it represents the australopith ancestor of the genus Homo. In 2015 my research team and I announced the discovery of another new hominin species - Homo naledi - from the site of Rising Star, also in South Africa. This species is especially fascinating in that it was likely contemporaneous with the earliest representatives of Homo sapiens, and, perhaps even more remarkable, that they appear to have deliberately disposed of their dead. I am also involved in a series of studies investigating the isotope ecology of modern South Africa in order to better contextualize the isotope ecology of the extinct hominins of South Africa.
I originally arrived at Texas A&M University in 2003, after receiving my PhD in Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2001. In 2009 I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, and was appointed to a Ray A. Rothrock '77 Fellowship for my efforts in research, teaching, and service leading up to tenure. In 2013 I was promoted to Full Professor, and in 2014 I was appointed to a Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts. In 2016 I was honored to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M. I have been serving as the Department Head of Anthropology since July of 2019.",Professor||Department Head,Anthropology||Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5ce75bd8
Kirk,Winemiller,Professor,"The Winemiller Aquatic Ecology Lab investigates fish ecology and evolution, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology in aquatic habitats. Our research is strongly field oriented, with studies conducted at sites throughout Texas, Latin America, Africa, and, more recently, Southeast Asia. Our field research is conducted mostly in fluvial ecosystems (streams, rivers, estuaries) and adopts descriptive, comparative and experimental approaches. The research is strongly oriented towards advancement of both basic scientific understanding as well as options for better conservation of biodiversity and the ecosystems that support it.",Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5d80ec88
Wenshe,Liu,Bovay Chair and Professor in Chemistry,"Our research interest is to design methods for the genetic incorporation of noncanonical amino acids into proteins in living cells and apply these methods in three major directions: deciphering functions of protein posttranslational modifications, small molecule sensing, and expanding chemical diversities of phage display libraries. To study protein posttranslational modifications, we have constructed methods for the site-specific installation of lysine acetylation and methylation in proteins and will apply them to study functional roles of these two modifications on p53, a tumor suppressor protein. We have also developed a strategy to site-specifically install two noncanonical amino acids into one protein in E. coli and are applying this approach to construct biosensors for small organic molecules and metal ions. Phage display is an efficient method to identify peptides for therapeutic interventions. However, a phage display peptide library has limited structure motifs and functional groups because only 20 natural amino acids can be used to generate a library. We plan to expand the chemical diversity of a phage display library by incorporating multiple noncanonical amino acids and chemically modifying them to extend functional diversities. Screening this unnatural phage display library against therapeutic targets such as c-Abl tyrosine kinase is expected to identify highly potent inhibitors.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5d9506ea
Robert,Ohsfeldt,Professor,,Professor,Health Policy and Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5e5370a7
Gladys,Ko,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5e930c1f
Charles,Culp,Professor,"Dr. Culp's interests are technology education, improving the comfort/energy efficiency of buildings, involving students in research, combining architecture with technology to achieve high performance buildings, measurement and verification, air flow technology and human comfort in building spaces.",Faculty Affiliate||Faculty Fellow||Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Architecture||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6036ada4
Cynthia,Riccio,Professor,"My primary research interests include Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Neuropsychology, and Individual Assessment.",Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n60582e9d
Stephen,Maren,University Distinguished Professor,"My research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying emotional learning and memory in animals and the relevance of these mechanisms to clinical disorders of fear and anxiety, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).",Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n606b4fd1
Mark,Lawley,Professor and Head,"Mark Lawley is TEES Research Professor, and he holds appointments in the Departments Biomedical Engineering and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Texas A&M University. He serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, which focuses on developing breakthrough health care devices, technologies, and systems for disease prevention, diagnosis, and management in the global health setting.",Deputy Director||Professor||Department Head and Professor||Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Research Professor,Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)||Epidemiology and Biostatistics||Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems||Biomedical Engineering||Industrial and Systems Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n60eae9fb
David,Earnest,Professor,"Research in my laboratory employs multidisciplinary approaches to study the cellular and molecular neurobiology of cell-autonomous circadian clocks and the signal transduction pathway responsible for circadian photoentrainment. The aims of current projects are to study: 1) the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) and other signaling molecules in the local temporal coordination of cell- and tissue-specific circadian clocks; 2) mutual interactions between the circadian clock mechanism, inflammatory signaling and metabolism; and 3) the mechanisms linking circadian rhythm disruption with metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes, and with pathological changes in neuroprotective responses to stroke.",Professor,Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n640c528f
Michael,Kolomiets,Professor,The focus of research interests of my laboratory is to investigate genes and metabolites of lipid-based biochemical and signal transduction pathways and the role they play in plant development and survival in response to pathogens.,Professor,Plant Pathology and Microbiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n64753966
Tiffany,Radcliff,Professor,,Professor||Associate Dean for Research,Health Policy and Management||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n657927d1
Forrest,Mitchell,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Entomology||Stephenville Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n65a0a45d
Helene,Andrews-Polymenis,Professor,"Salmonella is a leading cause of food borne illness, causing an estimated 1.4 million cases per year in the United States. Serovar Typhimurium is responsible for about 26% of these cases (CDC, 1998). The vast majority of Salmonella infections in mammals and birds are the result of infection with S. enterica subspecies I serovars, yet very few genetic factors that are necessary for intestinal persistence in these reservoirs have been described. Intestinal persistence is critical for shedding and transmission of serovar Typhimurium in mammals and birds, yet this phenomenon and interaction of the organism with the host immune system during persistent infection is poorly understood. The long-term goal of our work is to understand the genetic basis of persistence and host range restriction of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in its mammalian hosts.",Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n663cc5f1
Paul,Wellman,Professor,I maintain several research areas within behavioral pharmacology. My current research focus is on the interactions between feeding control systems (i.e. ghrelin) and the reinforcing actions of drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine. My research has been funded by NIDA and by corporate sponsors such as Thompson Medical Company and Knoll Pharmaceutical.,Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n67571474
Jane,Dever,Professor,"Research focus includes developing new and differentiated germplasm with enabling technology, and screening exotic germplasm collections for native traits to be used in breeding cotton. Breeding targets include improved fiber quality, drought tolerance, nematode resistance, disease tolerance to Verticillium dahliae, Theilaviopsis basicola, and Xanthamonas (bacterial blight) and yield component stability in high fiber quality lines. Fiber quality research includes not only improvement of heritable physical fiber properties, but also enhanced utilization facilitated by positive genetic/agronomic/processing interactions. Incorporating native traits into cultivars through classical breeding for organic production and preserving genetic resources in a recombinant DNA environment is a primary goal of the breeding program.",Professor||Professor,Soil and Crop Sciences||Lubbock Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n68ed4a06
John,Lawler,Professor,,Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n69cbc828
Ergun,Akleman,Professor,"My research work is interdisciplinary, usually motivated by aesthetic concerns. I have published extensively in the areas of shape modeling, image synthesis, artistic depiction, image based lighting, texture and tiles, computer aided caricature, electrical engineering and computer aided architecture.",Professor,Visualization,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6b6563cc
Ann,Kier,Professor Emerita,,Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6c0ad160
Sherry,Holladay,Professor,,Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6c5657f5
William,Grant,Professor,,Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d094941
Jason,Lindo,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d0a2f7d
Zixiang,Xiong,Professor,"My research interest include distributed source coding for sensor networks, data hiding, and network information theory Joint source-channel coding, networked multimedia and data compression Genomic signal processing Network traffic smoothing and modeling.",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d2fe7ec
Chanam,Lee,Professor,"Dr. Lee's research focuses on linking the built environment with public health outcomes. Her expertise is in 'active living research,' a transdisciplinary area of research that deals with environmental and policy approaches toward promoting physical activity.
Dr. Lee's contributions to this relatively new area of scholarship is significant in: (a) developing methodological and theoretical foundations, (b) bringing attention to high-risk populations, and (c) translating research into tools/guides to facilitate evidence-based policy/design interventions.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d51b108
Guan,Zhu,Professor,"Our laboratory conducts translational research with an ultimate goal to discover new anti-parasitic therapeutics by targeting metabolic enzymes and other molecules critical or essential to the parasite infection, survival and development, such as those involved in the lipid and energy metabolisms and interacting with host cells in Cryptosporidium and other protozoan parasites. Other research areas include functional genomics and molecular evolution of apicomplexan parasites, and parasitic diseases important to the conservation of wild animals.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d62f33b
Charles,Berry,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6dccb20f
Valerie,Hudson,Professor,"--foreign policy analysis
--culture and foreign policy
--women and national security
--Women, Peace, and Security
--methodology
--international relations",Professor,International Affairs,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6df5848e
Weihsueh,Chiu,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6e29f354
Robert,Burghardt,Professor,"Research in the laboratory is focused on investigating mechanisms by which a variety of biological response modifiers ranging from mechanical signals, hormones and growth factors to environmental chemicals alter cellular signaling pathways and cellular homeostasis.","Professor||Director, Image Analysis Laboratory",School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences||Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n70a3d026
Keyan,Zhu Salzman,Professor,"Over millions of years of co-evolution with insects, plants have developed various defense machineries that can be activated in response to insect herbivory. Insects, in turn, have developed a variety of strategies to evade these plant defense mechanisms. An improved understanding of this complex plant defense and insect counter-defense relationship will facilitate development of better strategies to improve host plant defense. Currently, we are using Arabidopsis to study plant defense signal transduction pathways against insect pests. Meanwhile, since effectiveness of plant defense is also determined by the insect response, my laboratory is also investigating how insects adapt to the challenge of plant defense molecules, as well as to human imposed management strategies, and is working to identify new insect vulnerable systems.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n716ece47
Larry,Johnson,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n72de4d00
Frances,Ligler,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n74321a1f
Mike,Morrison,Professor,,Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7568c6ec
John,August,Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost,"My professional interests include feline internal medicine, distance education, and the effective use of educational technology in the classroom to promote learning.",Professor||Dean||Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost,Small Animal Clinical Sciences||Office of the Dean of Faculties||Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n75e0be9c
Patricia,Campbell,Professor and Director,,Professor||Executive Director||dental hygiene,Dental Hygiene||Dental Hygiene||Dental Hygiene,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n76e03833
William,Pinchak,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology||Vernon Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n76e6ff4b
Duncan,Maitland,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n77b950c0
Wendy,Boswell,Professor and Head,"My research is focused on employee turnover and retention, job search behavior, and the work-nonwork interface.",Jerry and Kay Cox Endowed Chair in Business||Professor,Management||Mays Business School,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n78d0d612
Terry,Thomas,Professor,"My interests are evolutionarily broad and include animals, plants and fungi. A major focus of the lab is the genomic analysis of gene expression programs during plant gene expression programs, particularly during embryogenesis and seed development, and the underlying regulatory mechanisms required for the initiation and maintenance of these programs. This work has illustrated the combinatorial interactions of cis and trans -acting factors that result in specific gene regulatory events. We are also using genomics tools to study the interaction of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea , with plant hosts; the circadian control of gene expression; and the development of the vertebrate retina. An additional focal area is the utilization of molecular and cellular approaches for crop improvement. As part of these research activities, we have developed or adapted high throughput genomics approaches to accelerate the gene discovery process and subsequent analysis of gene expression and function.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n79201ac5
Jyotsna,Vaid,Professor,"I have three lines of research: 1) cognitive and brain bases of knowing multiple languages, 2) the processing of creative language, e.g., jokes, proverbs, metaphors, idioms, and 3) gender and race in relation to indicators of professional recognition and visibility in academia.",Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7b74aa66
Gerard,Cote,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7bbfddf5
Jonathan,Meer,Professor,,Professor,Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7bfe3118
Ulisses,Braga Neto,Professor,"My research interests focus on statistical signal processing and control, and pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications in bioinformatics, materials informatics, and epidemiological models.",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7cac0956
Gregory,Colwell,Professor,"My research focuses on adolescent smoking cessation, school health education, youth smoking prevention, and adolescent mental health and substance abuse.",Professor,Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7cd01a7d
Arul,Jayaraman,Professor,,Professor,Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7deb8230
Stephen,Crouse,Professor,"My research focus is in the general area of Exercise as Medicine. My specific health-related research aims have been targeted toward the study of the effects of exercise on blood lipid metabolism, and on other accepted heart and cardiovascular disease risk factors in men and women, young and old. Current research in exercise physiology is focused on the adaptive response of the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system to exercise, nutrition, and physical training using aquatic, endurance, and resistance modalities of exercise. In progress are research projects in sports physiology to profile elite athletes and study factors that contribute to the health of athletes, including nutritional supplements.",Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7e212aee
J Timothy,Lightfoot,Professor,"My research focuses on on the genetics of daily physical activity and exercise endurance, as well as the physiological response to high-G exposure and hemorrhage, and the genetics of physical activity. My lab also has a unique interest in the physiological responses of athletes in a variety of non-traditional venues such as auto racing and in musicians.",Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7ec5bc99
Paula,Shireman,Professor,"Dr. Shireman is a Professor in the TAMU School of Medicine. She is board certified in vascular surgery, general surgery, wound care and clinical informatics. She is the PI of a pilot clinical trial with the College of Engineering on establishing artificial intelligence algorithms to monitor activities of daily living (ADL) in elderly subjects. Potential applications include aging in place, improved monitoring in healthcare/assisted living institutions and remote monitoring.
She is the PI of an NIH multicenter U01 grant developing predictive models for surgical outcomes including frailty and social risk factors. The goal is to use data to transform health care, influence federal policy and design financially sustainable care pathways improving outcomes for frail and low socioeconomic status patients. Her interests include predictive modeling, machine learning and simulation. She was a member of the MACRA Episode-Based Cost Measure Clinical Subcommittee to develop measures for Peripheral Vascular Disease Management and Chair of the Clinical Subcommittee Workgroup for Hemodialysis Access Creation.","Professor||Professor, Primary Care & Rural Medicine",Medical Physiology||School of Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7fcb580a
Raul,Medina,Professor,Dr. Medina's research centers around the role that ecological factors play in the population genetics of arthropods. He is particularly interested in the incorporation of evolutionary ecology considerations into pest control practices. His laboratory is currently assessing how species interactions at macroscopic (host-parasite interactions) and microscopic (arthropod microbiomes) levels interact with genetic variation of agricultural pests and arthropod vectors of human disease. His research team is exploring if the same principles governing insect herbivores' adaptation to their hosts translate into arthropod parasites of animals. He is also interested in understanding the factors that make some biotechnology innovations in agriculture controversial in the public sphere.,Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n807b8d90
Arum,Han,Professor,"His research interests are in solving grand challenge problems in the broad areas of health and energy through the use of micro/nano systems technologies. His work in these areas has focused on the development of in vivo like in vitro systems through microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies (e.g., organ-on-a-chip & microphysiological systems, developmental neurobiology models of the central nervous system, blood-brain-barrier-on-a-chip, gastrointestinal tract-on-a-chip, high throughput live cell arrays), development of high throughput single-cell physio-chemical analysis platforms, and development of microbial systems as biorefineries for bioelectricity and biofuel production while simultaneously utilizing wastewater.
He has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF), and several other international sponsors and private companies. He currently serves as the editorial board member of the journal PLoS ONE and as an associate editor for the journal Biomedical Microdevices.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8289e950
Francis,Rouquette,Professor,"Primary aspects of this plant-animal interface research program includes simultaneous quantifying of forage persistence and sustainability with animal responses to stocking strategies and grazing intensities. Component research areas include forage germplasm evaluations for team-released varieties; assessment of soil nutrient status under long-term nutrient cycling with fertilizer-stocking regimens; cow-calf and stocker performance on bermudagrass, small grains, ryegrass, and clover; and lifetime animal performance attributes from birth-to-pasture-to-feedlot-carcass with database archival on BeefSys.",Professor||Professor,Soil and Crop Sciences||Overton Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n82f8d1bd
Gordon,Carstens,Professor,"In addition to teaching animal nutrition courses, Dr. Carstens conducts research on energy metabolism and growth and development in ruminants. Specific research areas include the regulation of growth and composition of carcass and mammary tissues by nutritional control and the use of externally administered (exogenous) growth regulators. Recent research has focused on methods to increase the ability of newborn calves to produce heat and fight off cold stress and the influence of genetic and nutritional components on this ability.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n839e23fe
Gary,Acuff,Professor,,Professor,Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8447eb1d
Harvey,Scott,Professor,"Dr. H. Morgan Scott is a graduate veterinarian holding a PhD in epidemiology and post-doctoral training in public health. In addition to private veterinary practice, he has worked in both government (food safety surveillance) and academic settings. He is currently professor of epidemiology in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at Texas A&M University. He was recruited to Texas A&M University in 2014 as part of the Texas A&M University System Chancellor's Research Initiative and the University President's Initiative on One Health and Infectious Diseases. He relocated from Kansas State University, where he previously held the E.J. Frick Professorship in Veterinary Medicine. Much of his research emphasis has been on studying factors impacting antimicrobial resistance among commensal and pathogenic enteric bacteria in food animal production systems, with a program spanning the realm from the molecular to the sociological. In particular, he is interested in applying both epidemiological and ecological approaches to quantify the emergence, propagation, dissemination, and persistence of resistant enteric bacterial strains in integrated populations of animals, their food products, and humans. Using this knowledge, he hopes to identify opportunities to prevent and intervene against resistance among enteric pathogens in animal agriculture; preferably, by developing readily adoptable and cost-effective management practices suited to modern animal and food production systems.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8499539d
Allison,Rice-Ficht,Senior Associate Vice President for Research,"Studies in the our lab are currently focused on the use of unique biomaterials for controlled release of live and subunit vaccines. Our focus is currently directed to the production of vaccines against human Brucellosisand Q fever, but will be applied to the storage and delivery of other vaccines. A study of specific immune mechanisms and potentiation through controlled releases is underway. Another focus is the study of alpha crystalline structure and function. These unique proteins protect against thermal insult and modulate folding and activity of other proteins",Professor||Senior Associate Vice President for Research,Cell Biology and Genetics||Division of Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n84a56c5b
Rosemary,Walzem,Professor,"Dr. Walzem's core research focus within the laboratory is directed towards understanding how the structure of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins influences their ability to carry out specific nutrient delivery tasks. Her studies include identification of mechanisms and regulatory processes that control the assembly of trigylceride-rich lipoproteins in issues, structural studies of lipoproteins themselves and physiological studies to determine substrate properties and metabolic fates of different types of lipoproteins. Diet can significantly alter lipoprotein physiology through multiple mechanisms, and studies of diet effects provides a significant sub-theme to the research program. A variety of species are used to address specific questions, however, avian and human lipoprotein metabolism as it relates to egg production and atherogenesis, respectively, are emphasized.",Professor,Poultry Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n85cd191f
Prabhakar,Pagilla,Professor,"My research focuses on Modeling and control of roll-to-roll manufacturing systems, robotics/mechatronics, autonomous vehicles, and large-scale nonlinear dynamic systems.",Associate Department Head||James J. Cain Professor II||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86b54519
George,Mann,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Architecture,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86d08cee
John,Edens,Professor,"My research centers on psychology and the legal system; psychopathic personality, related disorders, and antisocial behavior; psychological assessment and testing",Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n89499925
Hongbin,Zhang,Professor,"My research is focused on genomics and systems biology in crop plants, particularly development of genomic and systems biological knowledge and new or advanced technologies for enhanced crop research and breeding. These include re-establishing of the molecular basis and mechanisms of genetics and biology; cloning and characterization of genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling traits of agronomic importance; deciphering of the molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena or traits of importance such as quantitative genetics, epigenetics, crop yield, crop quality, heterosis and plant polyploidization; and development of molecular toolkits and associated pipelines for next-generation enhanced crop breeding such as gene-based breeding and crop production such as molecular precision agriculture.",Professor,Soil and Crop Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8ad1df35
Mark,Packard,Professor,,Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8c1e0820
Linda,Castillo,Professor,"Dr. Linda G. Castillo is a professor in the counseling psychology doctoral and school counseling master's degree programs. She is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in women's mental health, Relational Cultural Therapy, and Solution Focused Counseling. She was bestowed Fellow status by the American Psychological Association for her research in college student mental health and Latine educational persistence. Awarded over $10 million in federal funds across her career, Dr. Castillo's grant projects focus on college and career readiness of low-income and at-risk youth.
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Latine educational persistence and mental health
Scale development and validity of cultural constructs",Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8ca46988
Steven,Smith,Professor,"I have broad interests in the study of memory, metacognition and creative cognition.
I have studied the retrieval blocking & recovery, context-dependent memory, reminiscence & hypermnesia, eyewitness memory, false & recovered memories. I also have research focus in Tip-Of-the-Tongue states, metamemory, fixation & mental blocks, incubation, insight, and creative idea generation.",Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8d1ad3b4
James,Cai,Professor,"Dr. Cai's research lies at the interface of single-cell biology, computational statistics, and data science. Current research focuses on using machine learning, network science and quantum computing to better understand the diverse behaviors of cells. Dr. Cai's group develops novel algorithms and analytical frameworks to study single-cell omics data from various types of cells, and the genetic basis of phenotypic variability to identify genetic variants that modulate complex phenotypic traits and susceptibility of genetic disorders.",Professor||Professor||Faculty,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences||Center for Statistical Bioinformatics||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8d287cea
David,Threadgill,Professor,"Our laboratory uses the mouse as an experimental genetic model to investigate factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in health and disease. Ourcurrent research activities include the identification and functional characterization of alleles contributing to cancer susceptibility, the function of theErbbgenefamily in development and disease, and the role of genetic variation in response to environmental stimuli. To support these investigations, we also aredeveloping new genetic tools to support mammalian systems genetic approaches to phenotypes with complex genetic and environmental etiologies.",Director||Professor||Professor||Professor,Cell Biology and Genetics||Institute of Genome Sciences and Society||Biochemistry and Biophysics||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8ee0b54f
Mary,Meagher,Professor,,"Professor||Faculty Fellow||Claude H. Everett, Jr. ’47 Chair of Liberal Arts||Professor",Center for Health Systems and Design||Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8fa87422
James,Sacchettini,Professor,"My lab uses X-ray crystallography to better understand the relationship between proteins and ligands. Tiny differences in the structure of a molecule can radically change the interaction between a protein and ligand and we are only begining to understand how many factors play a role in this interaction. By manipulating the individual components of a compound it is possible to create a chemical that binds to the protein better than the natural substrate, and prevent the natural reaction from occurring. This is the basis for rational drug design. Our efforts have lead us to collaborations with other labs and scientists in many disciplines as our approach to directed compound design has applications not only in basic research but also in pesticide development, health research and clinical research.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n90385563
Marielle,Engelen,Professor,"My research focuses on the metabolic alterations underlying involuntary weight loss and muscle wasting in chronic inflammatory diseases, involving the use of stable isotope methodologies, and the effects of dietary modulation and exercise intervention to restore metabolism and physical performance in these patients.",Professor||Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management||Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n90a05e0d
Weston,Porter,Professor,y laboratory is interested in determining the role of factors in normal development and how disruption of these pathways results in associated pathologies.,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n90e6f6c0
Russell,Feagin,Professor,"Dr. Feagin's research focuses on sand dunes, salt marshes, beaches, and other coastal ecosystems with particular emphasis on the effects of global climate change and urbanization upon coastal plant community distribution using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its related technologies. The central question of study is how coastal vegetation responds to and modifies its sedimentary environment, particularly in the context of long-term sea level rise versus short-term extreme disturbances. Dr. Feagin's interests range from basic to applied science, and include community ecology, restoration ecology, coastal geomorphology, ecological complexity, and spatial analysis. He typically integrates field-based manipulative experiments with lab-based spatial analysis/modeling.",Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n91007e74
Ken,Muneoka,Professor,My lab is focused on understanding epimorphic and tissue regeneration in mammals.,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9156816d
Tryon,Wickersham,Professor,,Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n91a83cd7
Hisashi,Koiwa,Professor,,Professor,Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n931bc4cc
Julio,Bernal,Professor,"My research program focuses on contributing to the theory and practice of biological control of arthropod pests in managed ecosystems. Specifically, research has focused on ecology and behavior of natural enemies and pests via field and laboratory studies.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n939f7165
Xudong,Zhang,Professor,"My research centers on modeling, analysis, and simulation of the human musculoskeletal system and its multi-scale structures and components during functional, particularly dynamic activities. The overarching goal is to advance the musculoskeletal biomechanical science bases and applications in healthcare and human-machine systems engineering.",Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n93a0024f
Thomas,Lacher,Professor,"Our lab interests include conservation biology, tropical ecology, the IUCN Global Assessments, conservation planning, and the assessment and monitoring of patterns and trends in biodiversity. Under this broad umbrella, the interests of past and current students is diverse. We have conducted research focused on mammals, birds, amphibians, and people, with an underlying emphasis on conservation, in all of its diversity and complexity.",Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n93f9f7b8
Nova,Silvy,Regents Professor,,Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9474c27a
Robin,Young,Professor,"The Fuchs-Young laboratory studies the basic mechanisms of breast carcinogenesis, including the interaction (cross-talk) between the estrogen receptor alpha (ERa), IGF-1 and p53 signaling cascades. Our research utilizes a variety of unique in vivo and in vitro models, including transgenic and humanized mice. An underlying theme of our research is the discovery of bio-physiological determinants of disparities in breast cancer incidence and outcome. Another project focuses on the interdependent regulation of ER and p53, and the role of racially disproportionate p53 polymorphisms in mediating breast cancer development and progression. A new project in the laboratory project is focused on investigating the impact of exposure to metabolic syndrome during different stages of development on metabolic function and mammary cancer risk. This line of research was initiated, in part, due to the obesity epidemic in the US, and the increasing prevalence of obesity in younger children. Initial results show that manipulation of gestational, lactational and post-weaning diet can have very significant effects on susceptibility to mammary carcinogenesis.",Professor||Professor,Cell Biology and Genetics||Institute of Biosciences and Technology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n948adb5d
Timothy,Phillips,Professor,food safety; molecular toxicology; elucidation of fundamental chemical mechanisms of toxic action/interaction of food-borne carcinogens; mutagens; and developmental toxicants; and development of methods to detect and detoxify foodborne and environmental toxins.,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n94eef946
Shankararaman,Chellam,Professor,"Our research covers a wide spectrum of topics related to the transport, characterization, and removal of environmental colloids. We collaborate synergistically with microbiologists, chemical engineers, mathematicians, medical doctors, geologists, and other environmental engineers and scientists. In particular, we investigate two seemingly disparate topics; water purification (treatment of drinking water, industrial and municipal wastewater including hydraulic fracturing water, etc.) and tropospheric aerosols.",Professor,Civil Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n94ff0cee
John,Walker,Agrilife Center Director,,Agrilife Center Director||Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology||San Angelo Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n966313c9
Ahmed,Abdel-Wahab,Professor,"Dr. Abdel-Wahab's primary focus is on chemical, electrochemical, and physical processes associated with treatment of water and wastewater, carbon dioxide conversion, and green hydrogen production from water splitting. This research has attracted significant external funding totaling more than $12M as the lead principal investigator and more than $6M as co-investigator. Abdel-Wahab's research has led to publication of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in leading research journals, 9 book chapters, and more than 80 refereed conference publications/presentations. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Water Process Engineering (Elsevier) and an associate editor of Emergent Materials Journal (Springer).","Technical Director, QWE||Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Professor",Civil Engineering||Texas A&M University at Qatar||Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n96a2a261
Elizabeth,Racine,Center Director,,"Professor||Associate Department Head for Nutrition, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension||AgriLife Research Center at El Paso Director",Texas A&M AgriLife Research||Nutrition||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9707e148
Terje,Raudsepp,Professor,"Comparative genomics and molecular cytogenetics of animals, birds and other vertebrates organization, function and evolution of sex chromosomes; equine genomics - genomics of genetic diseases and disorders of sexual development and reproduction; alpaca and camelid genomics.",Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n970d3a82
Raytcho,Lazarov,Professor,,Professor,Mathematics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n97e03498
Nicholas,Jeffery,Professor,,Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n989eab0c
Nancy,Ing,Professor,"Dr. Ing's research interests focus on understanding how hormones regulate gene expression in animal tissues. Current research projects investigate the earliest days of pregnancy in the sheep uterus and the regulation of estrogen receptor gene expression, as well as stress hormone effects on gene expression in the stallion testes. Most recently, we have been studying the RNAs in sperm from stallions and honey bees in order to find a pattern consistent with high fertility.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n98a4a111
James,Grau,Professor,,Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n99939828
Bhimanagouda,Patil,"Leonard Pike Inagural University Professor and Interim Head, Food Science and Technology","Dr. Bhimu Patil is internationally recognized for his expertise and research on 'foods for health' and his related educational programs. His systems-wide farm-to-table approaches include examining pre- and postharvest effects on bioactive compounds, isolating and characterizing these compounds from different fruits and vegetables, and understanding their roles in human health. Moreover, he has a strong working relationship with produce industry stakeholders. Dr. Patil has a distinguished record of achievements in education, including leading the development of three unique courses linking agriculture, human health, and sustainability. Texas A&M University has been a leader in this area, due in part to Dr. Patil's seminal contributions in these first-of-their-kind multidisciplinary courses. Dr. Patil's contributions to education are no less distinguished. He developed and taught three unique, innovative multi-state and multi-disciplinary courses, ""Phytochemicals in Fruits and Vegetables to Improve Human Health"", ""Science of Foods for Health"" and ""The Nexus of Food & Nutritional Security, Hunger, and Sustainability"".",Professor||Professor,Nutrition||Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9a0e203e
Douglas,Snyder,Professor,"Dr. Snyder has been recognized internationally for his research on couple relationships and for his outcome research on couple therapy. He is the author of the widely-used Marital Satisfaction Inventory. He published one of the few controlled studies comparing behavioral with nonbehavioral approaches to couple therapy. A four-year follow-up study of his couples treatment research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health was recognized by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy as the Outstanding Research Contribution in 1991. Dr. Snyder is coeditor of two texts on Treating Difficult Couples and Couple-Based Interventions for Military and Veteran Families published by Guilford Press, and is coeditor of a text on Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families published by the American Psychological Association. He has two additional books with Guilford Press that address working with couples recovering from an affair, including Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On, and Helping Couples Get Past the Affair: A Clinician's Guide. Dr. Snyder recently coedited the 6th edition of the Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, also published by Guilford Press.
Dr. Snyder received the 2005 Award from the American Psychological Association for Distinguished Contributions to Family Psychology, and the 2015 Distinguished Psychologist Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology and Psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions of Couple and Family Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Military Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Snyder has served as Editor of the Clinician's Research Digest and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and for the Journal of Family Psychology. He also serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals in clinical psychology and family therapy.",Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9ab4bc03
Xiaohua,Liu,Professor,"As a bioengineer, I have a broad background in biomedical science and engineering, with specific training and expertise in novel biomaterials design/fabrication, controlled protein release, and the use of stem cells for bone, dental and other tissues repair and regeneration. Some of the our current research projects include:
1. Development of novel biomimetic materials/scaffolds for dental and craniofacial tissue regeneration.
2. Development of controlled drug/growth factor delivery system
3. Development of bio-inspired platform to explore cell-material interactions in three-dimension (3D).",Associate Professor||Professor,School of Dentistry||Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9cd6704b
John,Stallone,Professor,"Research in my lab focuses on male-female differences in normal cardiovascular function, and in the development of various diseases, including hypertension, coronary artery disease, and stroke, and the roles of the sex hormones in these male-female differences in cardiovascular disease. A major topic of study in my lab is the so-called ""estrogen paradox"" which reveals protective effects of this female sex hormone in younger women and animals, but deleterious effects in older females.",Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9dab7ff2
Laura,Stough,Professor,My current research investigates the psychological and social effects of disaster on individuals with disabilities.,Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9df41715
Sherecce,Fields,Professor,"My research focuses on the trans-disease processes of cognitive and emotional dysregulation and how these factors affect health-risk behaviors in adolescents. Identifying trans-disease processes that contribute to the development or maintenance of multiple diagnostic categories -- that underlie both substance use and obesity -- can enhance the development of interventions that target the underlying process rather than specific symptoms of a single disorder. This not only provides a more efficient approach to treatment, it is particularly relevant to health disparities. I am especially interested in how these trans-disease processes interact with family, social, and psychological factors to increase engagement in health-related risk behaviors, and the development of appropriate prevention and intervention tools that can be used to improve health outcomes in youth. I conceptualize these processes in the context of physical and mental health disparities as they relate to stress, minority status (race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender) and socioeconomic factors (food insecurity).",Faculty Fellow||Professor||Associate Department Head||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9f216306
Leslie,Morey,Professor,,Professor,Psychological and Brain Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9ffa6acc
Daniel,Brossart,Professor,"My research focuses on psychological interventions, psychological treatment process & outcomes, and statistical methods for studying change. I'm also interested in the interface between psychology, business, and consulting.",Professor,School of Education and Human Development,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na00e1d60
Joshua,Hicks,Professor,"My research aims to understand how people answer the ""big"" questions in life and how people's answers to those questions influence their attitudes and behavior. Our lab formulates and tests a wide range of hypotheses related to many types of existential concerns focusing on the antecedents and consequences of the experience of meaning in life, authenticity, self-alienation, perceptions of free-will, and mortality awareness.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na0f1fa85
Nancy,Dickey,Professor,"I currently serve as executive director of the Rural and Community Health Institute which serves in a consultative role with hospitals and communities across the state of Texas to facilitate best practices in patient safety, enhanced quality of care, and physician excellence. The Institute was created during her time of leadership at the Health Science Center and exemplifies the importance of translating sound policy into practice not only in traditional academic health centers but across the spectrum of practice sites and care delivery.",Executive Director||Professor||Faculty Fellow,A&M Rural and Community Health Institute||Center for Health Systems and Design||Humanities in Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na188f0a0
Chaodong,Wu,Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow,"The long-term goal of Dr. Wu's research program is to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of obesity and overnutrition-associated metabolic diseases including insulin resistance, diabetes, and fatty liver disease so that novel dietary and/or pharmacological approaches can be developed for preventing and/or treating metabolic diseases. Using molecular, cellular, and integrative approaches, the Wu lab is focused on investigating the interaction between metabolism and inflammation.",Professor||Professor,Texas A&M AgriLife Research||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na24a9d43
Patrick,Stover,Vice Chancellor and Dean,,Professor||Vice Chancellor and Dean,College of Agriculture and Life Sciences||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na2e4838e
Audrey,Cook,Professor,,Professor,School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na4e01789
Lori,Wright,Professor,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na5354f30
Thomas,Ficht,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na5c7cf3b
David,Byrne,Professor,,Professor,Horticultural Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na77739a4
Arnold,Vedlitz,Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Director and Distinguished Research Scholar||Faculty Affiliate||Professor,"Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy||Public Service and Administration||Energy Institute||Albritton Center for Grand Strategy",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na89c219a
Samba,Reddy,Professor,"My major research goals are to understand the molecular pathophysiology and develop novel therapeutic strategies for epilepsy, with an emphasis on neurosteroids and GABA inhibition in the brain. Neurosteroids are steroids synthesized locally within the brain that rapidly change neural excitability by non-genomic mechanisms, principally via postsynaptic GABAA receptors that play critical role in epilepsy. Current work in his lab is focused on uncovering molecular mechanisms of neurosteroids in epilepsy and brain disorders, and testing the efficacy of mechanism-based, rationale therapeutic strategies for epilepsy and epileptogenesis. Reddy lab is utilizing multidisciplinary approaches such as pharmacological, molecular, electrophysiological (patch-clamp), mass spectrometry, and transgenic mouse models in research projects.",Professor,Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na96b32aa
Xiaohui,Xu,Professor,"Dr. Xu is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on studying the health impacts of global or emerging environmental exposures such as air pollution, climate change, and hydraulic fracture. He is interested in conducting community-engaged research to understand the impacts of physical, chemical, and biological environmental factors on public health and aims to promote a healthy and safe environment through interventions and education.",Professor,Epidemiology and Biostatistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na9c51203
Holly,Foster,Professor & Chancellor EDGES Fellow,,Professor,Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/naa4e14ec
Robert,Goidel,Professor,,Professor,Political Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nac5110ad
Aaron,Tarone,Professor,"The Tarone laboratory is interested in factors that lead to local adaptations of fly development times and body sizes. These traits are influenced by numerous genetic and environmental factors. They are also ecologically important life history traits for any organism and are frequently found to be under differential selection across populations of numerous fly species. Accordingly, there are many applied and theoretical reasons for dissecting the causes of variation in these phenotypes in flies that influence human activities.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nae6767b7
Wendy,Jepson,Professor,"Environmental governance; water, land and energy systems; human-environment interaction; political ecology; environmental justice; regional geography (Brazil; US-Mexico Borderlands)",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Geography,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/naf4838ac
Srinath,Palakurthi,Professor,,Professor,Pharmacy Practice,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nafb53cb2
Jeffrey,Liew,Professor,"Jeffrey Liew is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. He is a developmental and learning scientist, and has been nationally and internationally recognized for his expertise on social-emotional development and emotional self-regulation processes in early childhood to early adulthood. A major strand of Liew's research focuses on individuals' resilience, thriving, and flourishing, including the risk and protective or promotive factors that are linked to developmental and academic or learning outcomes. Liew has been invited for keynote presentations internationally. He has also been invited for his expertise and served as a grant reviewer or as panel member for the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ministry of Education of Singapore, and the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. Dr. Liew was elected as an American Psychological Association (APA) Fellow for outstanding contributions and national impact in the field of psychology, and he has authored more than 100 scholarly publications with much of his work funded by state, federal, or foundation grants, including the NIH and the NSF. Liew has served in multiple leadership positions, including the Associate Dean for Research in his School and Interim Head for his Department. He is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Early Education and Development and Co-Editor of the Section on Social Emotional Learning in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education.",Professor,Educational Psychology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nafb9f9ab
Christopher,Bailey,Professor,"Research areas include actively seeking to reduce the environmental impact of poultry production primarily by seeking improvements in nutrient utilization. Strategies include seeking improvements in ingredient processing and feed manufacture, evaluation of alternate rearing/feeding strategies such a continuous multiphase feeding, dietary incorporation of exogenous enzymes, use of prebiotic materials such as mannan oligosaccharides (MOS), and use of antibiotic like growth promoters.",Professor,Poultry Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb0813ee5
Brandon,Schmeichel,Professor,"I have broad interests in social and personality psychology, particularly the human capacity for self-control. My research examines willpower, choice, memory, motivation, emotion, and emotion regulation.",Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb08afaf3
Kerri,Gehring,Professor,,Presidential Impact Fellow||Professor,Animal Science||Texas A&M AgriLife Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb2af52ee
Norman,Dronen,Professor,"Our research has historically emphasized parasite ecology and systematics of all classes of vertebrate hosts as well as invertebrate groups. Areas of general interest have been host/parasite population dynamics, utilization of trophic structures by helminthic parasites, biodiversity, systematics, comparative morphology, experimental life cycle determinations and descriptions, epidemiology and genetics. My laboratory has provided opportunities for many students to use multidisciplinary approaches to answer critical questions in parasite systems.",Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb359a10c
Yunlong,Zhang,Professor,,Professor,Civil Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb61524dd
Joseph,Awika,Professor,"Dr. Awika's broad interest is in developing technologies that maximize the ability of food to protect humans against chronic disease. His research focuses on the chemistry behind the behavior and properties of specific micro (polyphenols) and macro (starch and proteins) food constituents derived from grains. The interactions of the starch and proteins with the polyphenols, and how these interactions affect the rheological and biologically relevant properties of the molecules are of interest. How the structure of the polyphenols can be used to predict and manipulate their chemical behavior and function in food systems, as well as predict their interactions relevant inflammatory response in biological models is a major area of focus.
Dr. Awika's research involves multidisciplinary and international collaborations with geneticists, nutritional biochemists, agronomists, plant breeders, among others, from around the world.",Professor||Professor,Soil and Crop Sciences||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb760602b
Bonnie,Beaver,Professor,"Professionally I have three great passions - veterinary students; promoting the best health, behavior, and welfare for animals; and making the veterinary profession the best that it can be. These converge in teaching and research focusing on emerging issues within the profession, particularly within the disciplines of animal behavior and animal welfare.",Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb90af1a0
Rhonda,Miller,Professor,,Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb97c5e3d
Marco,Palma,Professor,"Dr. Marco A Palma is Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. His areas of interest are consumer economics, food choices, experimental and behavioral economics and neuroeconomics. Dr Palma is the director of the Human Behavior Laboratory (http://hbl.tamu.edu), a transdisciplinary facility that integrates state of the art technology to measure biometric and neurophysiological responses of human decision making. The HBL aims to facilitate the integration of neurophysiological responses to traditional methods of studying human behavior in the social sciences. Specifically, it provides access to state of the art equipment to simultaneously collect psychophysiological data, including eye tracking, facial expression analysis to assess human emotions, neural signals (electroencephalography), galvanic skin response (GSR) heart and respiration rates through integrated stimulus presentation platforms.",Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nba337537
Ashok,Shetty,Professor and Associate Director,"Dr. Ashok K. Shetty's laboratory is interested in developing clinically applicable strategies efficacious for enhancing brain function after injury, disease, or aging. The central areas of investigation are focused on:
o Mechanisms by which intranasally administered stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) promote neuroprotection, neuroregeneration, neural plasticity, and alleviate neuroinflammation. The sources of EVs include human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), and human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hiPSC-NSCs), astrocytes, and microglia. The model systems include traumatic brain injury (TBI), closed head injury (CHI), Aging, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
o Mechanisms by which transplanted human neural stem cells or human GABA-ergic precursor cells derived from hiPSCs promote brain repair, and alleviate spontaneous seizures, and cognitive and mood impairments in prototypes of SE, TLE, and TBI.
o Elucidating mechanisms of brain dysfunction and chronic neuroinflammation in prototypes of Gulf War Illness. Developing therapeutic strategies to alleviate neuroinflammation, systemic inflammation, and cognitive and mood impairments in models of GWI.
o Developing clinically feasible strategies for improving brain function in aging and AD models via stimulation of endogenous neural stem cells using drugs and biologics.
Dr. Shetty has received continuous extramural research funding as PI for >25 years from sources such as the NIH, DOD, Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA), and industry. These include seven R01 grant awards and an R21 grant award from the NIH; seven CDMRP grant awards from the DOD; five Merit Grant awards and two Research Career Scientist Awards from the VA; and two industry grants. He has also served as Co-I of 8 other DOD grants. Grants from the NIH, DOD, and industry fund Dr. Shetty's current research. Dr. Shetty has authored 181 peer-reviewed publications (147 as senior/first author) and edited a book on Neural Stem Cells in Health and Disease. His work has appeared in many prestigious and high-impact journals. Dr. Shetty has received >17,000 citations for his publications with an h-index of 64. Dr. Shetty has the distinction of serving on two NIH Study Sections and one VA study section as a Chartered Member. Besides, he has served as a member of many other study section panels of the NIH, DOD, VA, and Maryland State Stem Cell Research Fund. Dr. Shetty is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Aging & Disease and Associate Editor of 6 Neuroscience journals. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of many prestigious journals, including The Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Aging Cell, and Stem Cells. Dr. Shetty is a Fellow of the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair. Dr. Shetty received the Senior Research Excellence Award in 2021 from the TAMU College of Medicine and is among the ""World's Top 2% Scientists"" across all scientific fields.","Associate Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine||Professor",Cell Biology and Genetics||Cell Biology and Genetics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nba613a86
Rebecca,Seguin-Fowler,"Co-Director, Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture",,Professor||Co-Director,Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbaf6960f
Christabel Jane,Welsh,Professor,Mechanisms of disease pathogenesis of neurotropic viruses. Immunological therapies for multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. Neuroimmunological changes in the injured CNS,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbb081247
Heather,Wilkinson,Professor,"We apply evolutionary and ecological genetics approaches and questions to a variety of microbial systems. At the most basic level our overarching goal in my program is to elucidate the genetic basis for adaptation and/or how the patterns of associated phenotypes are distributed in nature or across environmental conditions. My strategy in research is not only to directly test hypotheses central to a specific project, but also, to concomitantly build tools and resources necessary to expand and/or redirect the scope of the project as needed due to opportunity, curiosity or both. Such tools include items like databases, well-characterized libraries of biological materials, and experimental skill-sets among personnel.",Associate Dean of Faculties||Professor,Plant Pathology and Microbiology||Office of the Dean of Faculties,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbc585f10
Richard,Kreider,Professor,"Director of the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab.
We study the role of exercise and nutrition on health, performance, disease and rehabilitation.","Faculty Fellow||Professor and Head||Director||DIrector, Human Clinical Core||Professor",Center for Health Systems and Design||Kinesiology and Sport Management||School of Education and Human Development||The Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbc81b4e0
Ellisa Lisako,McKyer,Professor & Chancellor's EDGES Fellow,"Dr. McKyer is an expert in 1) community-based participatory approaches, 2) social and structural determinants of health disparities & inequities - especially for racial/ethnic minorities, and 3) professional and organizational preparation for climate and diversity among health professions.",Professor||Senior Associate Dean||Professor (Joint),Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences||School of Public Health||Humanities in Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbca92840
Gary,Mccord,Professor,"I am primarily a teaching faculty member and also a board certified radiologist. In the past I have spent some time researching the use of computerized applications for detection of calcifications on mammograms, but I am currently devoting all of my time in the neuroscience department to teaching. I am a full time participant and senior faculty member in the medical gross anatomy and neuroscience courses. I also maintain some private practice time in radiology and work in the Office of Student Affairs at the medical school. My current research interests are in the domain of medical education, especially looking at determinants of licensure exam performance.",Professor||Associate Dean,Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics||School of Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbccd1f64
Amanda,Macfarlane,Director Food and Nutrition Evidence Center,,Director Food and Nutrition Evidence Center||Professor,Texas A&M AgriLife Research||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd1502ad
Nicolaas,Deutz,Professor,"My research background and expertise focus on nutrition, metabolism, and physiology studies involving the use of stable isotope methodologies, both in humans and animals. I also have extensive experience with isotopic calculations, validation and data interpretation.",Professor,Primary Care and Rural Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd596655
David,Huston,Professor,The overall goal of my laboratory is to understand mechanisms regulating inflammation and thereby develop strategies for modulating immune responses. One project focuses on the role of the cytokine thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) as the master switch in the pathobiology of allergic inflammation and asthma. The role of allergens and respiratory viruses on the induction of TSLP transcription by mast cells and epithelial cells is being studied in vitro and in human subjects.,Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd68089f
Mary,Campbell,Professor,,Director||Professor,Texas Census Research Data Center||Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbeafb5ab
William,Mcintosh,Professor,Current research of the choices row farmers make regarding soil erosion; the willingness of feedlot operators and dairies to reduced antibiotic use earlier before cattle goes to slaughter; how parents' and children's affects one anothers use of time.,Profesor||Professor||Faculty Fellow||Professor,"Center for Health Systems and Design||Sociology||Nutrition||Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc0988f9a
Robert,Capraro,Professor,"Robert M. Capraro, is Co-Director of Aggie STEM, and Professor Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University. Dr. Capraro's expertise is applied research in school settings, program evaluation, the teacher as change agent for STEM school improvement, and STEM student achievement. He recently received the best paper award from the International Conference on Engineering Education where he and two colleagues presented their work related to Aggie STEM. He is currently involved in research in four school districts with more than 350,000 students and 150 teachers. His editorial work includes Associate Editor of the American Educational Research Journal, School Science and Mathematics, and Middle Grades Research Journal and the Research Advisory Committee for the Association of Middle Level Education, editorial board for the Journal for Research Mathematics Education and he is the current editor of the Journal for Urban Mathematics Education. He was selected as a minority scholar for 2007 by the Educational Testing Service and served as president of the Southwest Educational Research Association. He is the author or co-author of six books, several book chapters and more than 130 research articles. Along with 5 colleagues he was recently awarded a 12-million-dollar grant from Institute of Education Sciences bringing his total external funding to ~30 million. He has worked extensively and been funded to investigate pre-college readiness, high school STEM success, and college mathematics readiness and been external evaluator on ~14 million dollars dealing with teacher readiness to teach mathematics, college readiness of language minority students, and community college student STEM success. He has been a member of AERA for 21 years including three years as a doctoral student and held several leadership positions.",Member||Co-Project Director||Faculty Affiliate||Professor,"Engineering Education Research Taskforce||Teaching, Learning and Culture||Aggie STEM||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc0f341af
Raghavan,Srinivasan,Professor,"R. Srinivasan, Ph.D. is a professor at Texas A&M University and director of the Spatial Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M. He has become known and respected throughout the world for his developmental work with spatial sciences and computer-based modeling, especially the Soil and Water Assessment Tool or SWAT model. His research and its applications have contributed to long-lasting changes in natural resource assessments and development of management system options, currently being used in more than 90 countries.",Resident Director||Professor||Professor||Professor,Biological and Agricultural Engineering||Ecology and Conservation Biology||Temple Research and Extension Center||Temple Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc1342d14
Catherine,Eckel,Professor,"Catherine Eckel is Sara and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. She has held faculty positions at the University of British Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she was founder and director of the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1983.
As an experimental economist, she has made important contributions on topics that are both policy-relevant and of interest to the academic community. Examples include studies of: financial decision making; financial markets; altruism and charitable fundraising; preferences and behavior in poor, urban settings; the coordination of counter-terrorism policy; gender differences in preferences and behavior, including risk-taking and cooperation; and discrimination by race and gender in games of trust; racial/ethnic identity and undergraduate academic success. She is or has been a PI or Co-PI on twenty-four grants from the National Science Foundation totaling over $4.4 million. Her research has been funded by private foundations including the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aspen Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Dr. Eckel is Past President of the Economic Science Association (the professional organization of experimental economists), and was President of the Southern Economic Association (the largest regional association in Economics). She served for two years as an NSF program director for the economics program and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of NSF's Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences. She was co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2005-2012), and has served as associate editor or on the editorial boards of twelve journals.
Eckel is an award-winning teacher, and enjoys engaging undergraduate students in original research projects. She has advised 15 PhD dissertations, and her students hold faculty positions in the US and around the world. In January 2013, Dr. Eckel was awarded the prestigious Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, given annually by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, for her work developing and participating in mentoring programs for women assistant professors.",Professor,Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc1aeb0f6
Vernon,Tesh,Professor,,Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc2165f28
Susan,Bloomfield,Professor,"My research interests focus on the integrative physiology of bone, with specific reference to adaptations to disuse, microgravity, and caloric deficiency.",Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc2a60db1
Linda,Logan,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc464b36f
Kevin,Burgess,Professor,"We use novel strategies Exploring Key Orientations (EKO) that feature datamining to compare simulated preferred conformers of chemotypes we design with key features at protein-protein interfaces. Many chemotype candidates can be screened against one PPI, or one chemotype can be screened against all the PPI interfaces in the PDB. Virtual hit chemotypes are prepared in my lab, then tested against protein-protein interactions of biomedicinal interest using an array of biophysical and cellular assays.
We also design small molecules to target cell surface receptors that are selectively overexpressed in cancer cells. Much or our work has been focused on the TrkC receptor that is particularly important to metastatic breast cancer and melanoma. Going forwards we are interested in expanding the targets to include cell surface receptors that are overexpressed when cancer cells undergo aberrant epithelial to mesenchymal transitions (EMT) to produce circulating tumor cells and cancer stem cells. Much of this work involves design and synthesis of the small molecules for this targeting.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc4a5cad4
Roderic,Pettigrew,Dean,,Professor||Dean,School of Engineering Medicine||School of Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc4d62617
James,Fluckey,Professor,"My research focuses on mechanisms associated with protein turnover and glucoregulatory function in muscle and how these mechanisms may be altered by exercise, aging, obesity, diabetes or periods of microgravity. More currently, we are interested in small molecules arising from contracting skeletal muscle that impact other cells/tissues in the body, including cancer.",Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc58f05ea
Gary,Voelker,Professor,"I am an ornithologist/evolutionary biologist, and my lab focuses primarily on developing molecular phylogenies of avian lineages (and now a few mammals), and using these phylogenies to address questions posed by relationships within those lineages. To date, this research has focused on genera that are distributed on two or more continents (Anthus (pipits), Motacilla (wagtails), Cinclus (dippers) and Turdus (thrushes)). In addition to resolving species relationships and revising taxonomy, work in my lab has has dealt with reconstructing historical biogeography and examining the relative roles that dispersal and vicariance (e.g., mountain uplift) may have played in the development of modern day species distributions and assemblages.",Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc63d7bcc
Mindy,Bergman,Professor,"My research focuses on occupational health psychology, emphasizing the role of organizational climate as a cause of stressful workplace experiences and their effect on organizational and individual well-being; mistreatment of workers who are marginalized, less powerful, and/or underrepresented in organizations; the underrepresentation of marginalized workers in the IO psychology literature; organizational commitment and its development; measurement of workplace-critical psychological constructs.",Professor||Professor,Women & Gender Studies,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc81ef444
Paul,Lindahl,Professor,"One of our two current research areas involves iron metabolism in mitochondria. The iron imported into these organelles is assembled into iron-sulfur clusters and heme prosthetic groups. Some of these centers are exported into the cytosol, while others are installed into mitochondrial apo-proteins. All of these processes are regulated in healthy cells, but various genetic mutations giving rise to diseases can cause iron to accumulate (e.g. Friedreich's ataxia) or become depleted (e.g. Sideroblastic anemia). We have developed a biophysical approach involving Mossbauer, electron paramagnetic resonance, and electronic absorption spectroscopy, to study the entire iron content of intact mitochondria in healthy and genetically altered cells. This Systems Biology approach allows us to characterize the ""iron-ome"" of mitochondria at an unprecedented level of detail. We are also using analytical tools (e.g. liquid chromatography) to identify complexes that are involved in ""trafficking"" iron into and out of the organelle.
Our other research area involves mathematical modeling of cellular self-replication on the mechanistic biochemical level. We collaborate on this multidisciplinary NSF-sponsored project with a mathematician at the University of Houston (Professor Jeffrey Morgan). We have developed a modeling framework that facilitates such modeling efforts, and have designed a number of very simple and symbolic in silico cells that exhibit self-replicative behavior. Our minimal in silico cell model includes just 5 components and 5 reactions. A second generation model includes a more realistic mechanism of mitotic regulation. One novel aspect of our approach is that cellular concentration dynamics impact (and are impacted by) cellular geometry. By minimizing membrane bending energies, we are now calculating cell geometry during growth and division. Our results suggest that the ""pinching"" observed in real cells is enforced by cytoskeletal structures.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc9ce621b
Yong-Rak,Kim,Professor,"In our group, material fundamentals meet sustainable structures. We create the world-best knowledge and the state-of-the-art technologies to advance materials for safer, durable, more sustainable, energy-efficient, and environment-friendly performance of various structural systems. To meet the goal, we use multidisciplinary knowledge and integrate it with experimental efforts and computational modeling approaches. We work on understanding and modeling of complex multiphysical (thermo-, hygro-, chemical, and mechanical with damage) and multiscale (nano-micro-meso-macro) behavior of various complex (multiphase, heterogeneous) solids and structures for their better performance, design, and societal benefits.",Professor,Civil Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncb534c9e
Reza,Tafreshi,Professor,,Professor,Mechanical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncbaa347d
John,Hettema,Professor,"I am Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center and affiliate faculty member at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (VIPBG) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). As a clinician-scientist, I have participate in patient care, clinical teaching, and research activities. Before coming to TAMU in 2019, I directed the VCU Anxiety Disorders Specialty Clinic for 19 years, providing residency training and patient care via the assessment and treatment of all the major anxiety and related disorders. My research efforts focus on the epidemiology, genetics, and biology of the anxiety and related internalizing disorders. I have extensive experience applying advanced statistical genetic methodology to these questions via analyses conducted in twin, family, and population-based samples. My recent projects include conducting meta-analyses of genomewide association data on anxiety spectrum disorders (ANGST GWAS project, R01MH087646 and PGC-ANX project, R01MH113665), examining the effects of novel candidate genes derived from GWAS on internalizing psychopathology (R01MH039096), and collecting and analyzing endophenotypic measures underlying the development of internalizing disorders in a juvenile twin sample (R01MH098055). My research has been funded by NIH and private foundation grants. I am founding co-chair of the PGC-ANX Working Group which provides active collaborations with anxiety and depression researchers around the world.",Professor,Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncd3506c7
Ronald,Randel,Professor,,Professor,Overton Research and Extension Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncd58ce47
Hui,Liang,Professor,,Professor,Diagnostic Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncdeeda04
Timothy,Murphy,Professor,,Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nce344dfa
William,Rholes,Professor,,Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nce4ecc53
James,Thompson,Professor,,Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nce617c73
David,Wright,Professor,"Recent research in my lab has focused on the how practice context mediates efficient planning of movement timing. The contribution of a variety of practice factors (e.g., schedule, composition, and environmental characteristics) for effective organization of both the structural and scaling properties of movement timing have been investigated.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nce97a826
Xin,Li,Professor,AI-assisted visual data processing and analysis;
Computer graphics;
Computer vision;
3D scene reconstruction;
Computer-aided design and engineering;
Computational Forensics;
Medical Image Analysis and Motion Modeling;
Robotic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM);
Text-to-Image Synthesis with Deep Learning;
Cross-modality data fusion;
Real-time scene reconstruction and analysis for disaster warning and monitoring.,Professor,Visualization,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncecb7a52
Gregory,Sword,Professor,"I've been very fortunate to have studied many things in many places with many people. Much of my research to date has focused on the biology and ecology of grasshoppers, locusts and Mormon crickets. More recently, I've been given the chance to expand my research program to problems in cotton entomology. It's a pretty unique opportunity, and I am happy to say that the lab is up and running on multiple fronts. Although the emphasis has shifted to cotton research, locust biology and anything else that strikes an interest continues to be fair game in the lab.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncf7fa344
Vytas,Bankaitis,Professor,"My laboratory is interested in the regulatory interfaces between novel lipid-mediated signal transduction pathways and important cellular functions. The focus of our work is the phosphatidylinositol/ phosphatidylcholine transfer proteins (PITPs), a ubiquitous but enigmatic class of proteins. Ongoing projects in the laboratory derive from a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses biochemical characterization of novel members of the metazoan PITP family, and the application of genetic, molecular and biophysical approaches to detailed structural and functional analyses of PITPs.",E.L. Wehner-Welch Foundation Chair||Professor||Professor,Cell Biology and Genetics||Biochemistry and Biophysics||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncff8dc21
Sharon,Dormire,Professor,"The overall focus of my program of research is reproductive health promotion for women. Specifically, my work explores menopausal hot flashes as a result of estrogen related changes in brain glucose metabolism. Although menopausal hot flashes (HF) have long been assumed to be benign, albeit uncomfortable, emerging evidence links higher rates of HF with both cognitive decline and cardiac disease. Understanding these associations is challenging because the physiology of the HF, is not well described. It is commonly believed that either endocrine or thermoregulatory events in the hypothalamus are the trigger. However, emerging evidence indicates that HF are complex and multi-causal reflecting a combination of endocrine, genetic, cultural, dietary, physical and individual factors. Building on studies of the neuroprotective effects of estrogen, we propose impaired glucose deliver hypothesis. Mediated by estradiol, neuronal activation stimulates neurobarrier coupling increasing production of glucose transporter 1 and causing vasodilation. These changes are examined as the basis of the HF ultimately leading to cognitive change at menopause. Next steps in this work are to identify reliable methods to induce HF in symptomatic women and image using PET technology the bioenergetics of glucose transport and metabolism both during the HF and without it.",Associate Dean for Undergraduate Nursing Education||Professor,School of Nursing||School of Nursing,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd08ea40b
James,Smith,Professor,"The discovery of novel antibiotics which have unique targets to inhibit the growth of microorganisms will minimize the suffering of those who are desperately in need of alternatives to currently available antibiotics. The competition for resources by microorganisms has led to their ability to make a wide variety of natural products that can inhibit the growth of their competitors. These antimicrobial compounds provide the best opportunity to alleviate the pain and suffering caused by infectious diseases. My research program encompasses the isolation, identification, and the development of novel antimicrobials as therapeutics. A biotechnology company named Sano Chemicals was established to promote the commercialization of technology generated from my research laboratory at Texas A&M University.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd26c75ce
Akhilesh,Gaharwar,Professor,"Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University in 2011 and completed his postdoctoral training from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. The goal of his lab is to understand the cell-nanomaterials interactions and to develop nanoengineered strategies for modulating stem cell behavior for repair and regeneration of damaged tissue. In particular, his lab is leveraging principles from materials science, stem cell biology, additive biomanufacturing and high throughput genomics to design nanoengineered biomaterials, with wide-ranging applications in the field of regenerative medicine. His lab has developed approaches to direct stem cells differentiation by modulating the biophysical and biochemical characteristics of nanoengineered biomaterials.",Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd2c66835
Mark,Holtzapple,Professor,"Our group is dedicated to the research and development of the sustainable and renewable technologies which, when implemented on a commercial scale, will impact future fuel, chemical, food, and water production.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd303ef41
Urs,Kreuter,Professor,"Dr. Kreuter directs a research program focusing on the Human Dimensions of Rangeland Ecosystem Management. His research is driven by his multidisciplinary interests in ecological economics, rural sociology and environmental psychology and aims to develop theory regarding integrated ecosystem management. Research projects that he directs are conducted at individual property, community and ecosystem scales. Some issues that Dr. Kreuter's research program have addressed include the effects of shifting social values and human demographics on rangeland management; the effectiveness of incentive programs aimed at improving rangeland health, wildlife habitat and water quality on private lands; the effects of landowner perceptions regarding property rights on ecosystem management; and factors influencing the use of fire as a rangeland management tool. Dr Kreuter's research aims to inform policy aimed at creating positive incentives for the sustainable use and management of terrestrial ecosystems under a broad range of land tenure systems.",Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd413cbcd
Steven,Wright,Professor,"My research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging, particularly instrumentation and methodology. I also have research interests in antenna theory - numerical methods, and phased arrays electromagnetics.",Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd4e8f968
Susan,Geller,Professor,,Professor,Mathematics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd5ab63ad
Fen,Wang,Professor,"The laboratory focuses on understanding the molecular basis of cell signaling, and how aberrant cell signaling leads to birth defects and causes cancers. Using in vitro cell culture systems and in vivo mouse models, we study how the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) activates its receptor (FF) tyrosine kinase, and how the activated FF transmits the signals to downstream targets and regulates proliferation, differentiation, homeostasis, and function of the cells, as well as in organogenesis and development, including prostate and cardiovascular system development. The laboratory also employs molecular biology, cell biology, and mouse genetic technologies to study how aberrant FGF signals promote tumor initiation, progression, and metastasis. In addition, how environmental factors contribute to tumorigenesis and congenital birth defects by modulating FGF signal intensity and specificity is also under the scope of our research interests.",Professor,Institute of Biosciences and Technology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd5ef47ba
Mehrdad,Ehsani,Professor,"I conduct research in the areas of sustainable power and energy systems, power electronics, motor drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, Superconductive Magnetic Storage (SMES), aerospace power systems, specialized power systems, control systems, energy storage systems, High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Power Transmission, applications of microcomputers to power control, pulsed power systems, and high voltage engineering and electrical failures and hazards.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd6df91de
Dominique,Lord,Professor,,Professor,Civil Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd700dc1b
Megha,Parajulee,"Professor, Faculty Fellow, and Regents Fellow",,Professor||Professor,Lubbock Research and Extension Center||Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd76fa3c8
Theresa,Morris,Professor of Sociology,,Professor,The Texas A&M University System,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd7c98ad5
Katrin,Hinrichs,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd851437e
Sarah,Hamer,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndc2c4e3e
Louis,Tassinary,Professor,"Dr. Tassinary is interested in person perception, environmental psychophysiology, neuroscience, non-invasive physiological recording techniques and historic preservation law.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Visualization,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndc4f344f
Ali,Bolouri,Professor,,Professor,Restorative Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndd749db0
Valen,Johnson,Professor,,Professor,Statistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndd7ffe32
Qi,Zheng,Professor,,Professor,Epidemiology and Biostatistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndebdc652
Hersh,Waxman,Professor,,Professor,"Teaching, Learning and Culture",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndecf98d9
Dudley,Poston,George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts,,Professor,Sociology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndf73339c
Gary,Ellis,Professor,,Professor||Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications||Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndf801a5e
Lisa,Howe,Professor,,Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndffcebb7
John,Buchanan,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne059b760
Joel,Koopman,Professor and Phd Coordinator,,Professor,Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne0623c33
Brett,Mitchell,Professor,Our research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which immune system activation causes organ dysfunction and various forms of hypertension.,Professor,Medical Physiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne0d93385
Julian,Leibowitz,Professor,We have two projects in my lab. The first project is focused on identifying evolutionarily conserved RNA secondary structures in the coronavirus RNA genome and functionally examining their role in viral replication through reverse genetic and biochemical approaches. We have previously done this for a number of RNA secondary structures contained within the 5? and 3? regions of the genome and shown that they function as cis-acting elements in replication. Studies in my laboratory have identified a structurally dynamic region of the 5'UTR that interacts with the 3'UTR to facilitate transcription.
A second project in my laboratory has been to develop a reverse genetic system for MHV-1. In collaboration with investigators in Toronto and Pennsylvania my laboratory has demonstrated that MHV-1 infection of susceptible mice provides a safe and convenient rodent model for severe coronavirus infections such as SARS and MERS. The development of a reverse genetic system will allow us to investigate the contributions of individual viral genes to the pathogenesis of the severe pulmonary disease caused by this virus.,Professor||Professor,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology||Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne2185aa0
John,Oswald,Professor,,Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne237b543
Dickson,Varner,Professor,"Dr. Dickson Varner is a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists. His special interests include equine theriogenology, fertility probes for stallions, in-vitro preservation of equine spermatozoa, capacitation of equine spermatozoa, assisted reproductive techniques, and subfertility in stallions.",Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne3339085
Roozbeh,Jafari,Professor,My research interest lies in the area of wearable computer design and signal processing.,Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Associate Professor,Biomedical Engineering||Electrical and Computer Engineering||Computer Science and Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne3f10fe3
Susanne,Talcott,Professor,"Dr. Susanne Talcott's research revolves around botanical compounds (polyphenols, terpenoids and alkaloids) and the impact of their metabolites on inflammation, cognitive function, and intestinal health. She primarily focuses on conducting human clinical studies to understand the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of these compounds.
Recently, the impact of bioactive metabolites produced by the gut microbiota on intestinal and cognitive health through the gut-brain axis has been of great interest.
Dr. Susanne Talcott is working on federally funded projects (USDA, NIH) and collaborates with the dietary supplement and functional food industry on health-related product claims that are supported by unbiased scientific evidence and comply with FDA- and FTC-regulations.",Professor||Professor,Food Science and Technology||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne4324c37
H Russell,Cross,Professor,,Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne46d81c7
Thomas,Wehrly,Professor,,Professor,Statistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne46ff04f
Feng,Tao,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne510bbd3
R. Malatesha,Joshi,Professor,,Professor,"Teaching, Learning and Culture",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne6b806f0
Cecilia,Tamborindeguy,Professor,"Our laboratory studies transmission of plant pathogens by insects. Research is aimed at understanding ecological and molecular aspects of plant-insect-pathogen interactions. We use Zebra Chip (ZC),an emergent disease affecting solanaceous plants, as model system. The causative agent, ""Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum"", is an alpha-proteobacterium vectored y the potato/tomato psyllid Bactericera cockerelli. We currently use genetic and biochemical approaches to investigate different aspects of pathogen transmission and the biology of the vector insect.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne6e645ee
Kevin,Heinz,Professor,,Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne7bef20e
Michael,McShane,Professor and Department Head,,Professor,Biomedical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne7c17cfc
Tracy,Hammond,Professor,"Dr. Hammond is an international leader in activity recognition, data science, artificial intelligence, haptics, engineering education, and computer-human interaction research.","Director||Professor||Professor (Affiliate)||Chair, Engineering Education Faculty||Research Affiliate||Faculty Affiliate||Professor (Affiliate)||Professor (Affiliate)",Center for Population Health and Aging||Engineering Education Research Taskforce||Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems||Multidisciplinary Engineering||Computer Science and Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation||Texas A&M Institute of Data Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne852c439
Joe,Arosh,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne8898820
Emet,Schneiderman,Professor,,Professor,Biomedical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne88e9608
Leif,Andersson,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne8ae2a28
Jeffrey,Cirillo,Professor,"Our laboratory is interested in the pathogenesis of bacterial lung infections particularly tuberculosis and Legionnaires' disease. We are examining the virulence mechanisms of bacteria using cellular, molecular and genetic techniques. Our primary research goal is to obtain a better understanding of the roles of the pathogen and host in disease. These studies should contribute to our understanding of host-pathogen interactions at the molecular and cellular level that can be used for prevention, treatment and diagnosis. We hope that through a better understanding of the mechanisms by which these organisms cause disease we can prevent some, if not all, of these infections in the future.",Professor||Director,Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology||Center for Airborne Pathogen Research and Tuberculosis Imaging,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne8bc1122
Roel,Lopez,Director Institute,"As director for the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Dr. Roel Lopez provides leadership in the field of wildlife ecology and natural resource management. Roel works with internal and external stakeholders in developing institute priorities for research and extension programs and develops and leads interdisciplinary teams to address these natural resource challenges. His research focuses on endangered and fragmented wildlife populations, sustainability of military lands, and rural land trends and demographics. He is based out of NRI's San Antonio office.",Director of Natural Resources Institute||Professor,"Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences||Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne8d603d7
Michael,Hall,Professor,"Our group applies ""state-of-the-art"" theoretical techniques to chemical problems of current interest to practicing inorganic, organometallic, and biological chemists. We also develop new algorithms that are especially suited to electronic structure problems in large transition metal molecules.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne91c0625
Joseph,Sharkey,Professor,"o Improving nutritional, physical, and emotional health across the life span among underserved and rural populations
o Community empowerment and engagement for improving population health
o Systems approach to improving population health in rural and underserved areas
o Developing, implementing, and evaluating culturally-responsive approaches to establish and maintain healthy lifestyles
o Mixed research methods, including qualitative (e.g., focus groups, in-depth interviews) and quantitative (e.g., survey design and web-based application) methods, study design, and analytical approaches.
o Community-based participatory research, education, and outreach
o Reducing the risk for food insecurity and hunger among children, adults, and seniors
o Improving the response of food systems in rural areas",Professor,Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne974198d
David,Forrest,Professor,Dr. Forrest teaches undergraduate courses in reproductive physiology and coordinates the curriculum and graduate studies for the department. He also conducts research to determine the hormonal mechanisms that control gonadal function and mating behavior through his appointment with Texas AgriLife Research.,Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne989463d
David,Caldwell,Professor and Head,,Professor||Professor and Head,"Poultry Science||Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management||Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nea632206
Ryland,Young,Professor,"Most bacterial viruses (phages) cause lysis of their host cell to release the progeny virions. Large phages elaborate an enzyme (""endolysin"") to degrade the cell wall and also a small membrane protein (""holin""). The holin accumulates in the membrane and then, at a precisely scheduled time, suddenly forms a hole to allow release of endolysin through the cytoplasmic membrane to gain access to the wall. We use molecular genetics and biochemistry to study how this small protein is able to act as a molecular ""clock"" and punch holes in membranes. Small phages make single proteins which cause host lysis in a different way. This strategy is to target the host cell wall synthesis machinery; that is, the virus makes a ""protein antibiotic"" that causes lysis in the same way as antibiotics like penicillin by inhibiting an enzyme in the multi-step pathway of murein biosynthesis. Thus, when the infected cell tries to divide, it blows up, or lyses, because it can't make the new cell wall between the daughter cells. Remarkably, each of three different, small phages blocks a different step in the pathway. These small lysis proteins are models for a completely new class of antibacterial antibiotics. Also, the E. coli SlyD protein is required for this mode of lysis in one case. SlyD is a member of an ubiquitous family of proteins related to human ""immunophilins,"" the targets of immune-suppression drugs. We study SlyD to learn about the role of this class of proteins in biology.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nea775348
Thomas,Welsh,Professor,"Areas of research for Dr. Welsh include developing endocrine-based biotechnologies to selectively and precisely regulate growth and reproduction in livestock; in vitro and in vivo methodologies used to identify mechanisms whereby specific hormones regulate the biosynthesis of pituitary, adrenal, gonadal and hypothalamic hormones; and correlative in vivo and in vitro studies conducted using bovine, equine, porcine and ovine animal models.",Professor||Professor,Animal Science||Texas A&M AgriLife Research,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/neae2cac6
Gang,Han,Professor,"My research efforts have been in Statistics, Computer Science, and their applications to Biomedical Research and Bioinformatics. I have been working on the design and analysis of complex computer models since 2004. I developed statistical approaches for modeling the output from complex computer codes having quantitative and qualitative inputs, as well as the calibration and tuning for computer models. My recent research includes modeling cancer survivorship data, modeling epidemiological data, and applying statistical learning tools to the early detection of ovarian cancer.",Professor,Epidemiology and Biostatistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/neb4e64eb
Christopher,Quick,Professor,My cardiovascular research focuses on interstitial fluid balance; pulsatile hemodynamics; coordination of adaptation in vascular networks. Since 2016 I have focused on developing research education programs based on the Research-Intensive Community model developed with Dr. Sarah Gatson and students.,Professor,Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/neb80aca8
James,Derr,Professor,"Dr. Derr has directed worldwide research projects in wildlife and livestock conservation genetics for over 25 years. This body of work has produced more than 75 scientific publications reporting original research on many different species. For example, Dr. Derr has authored articles on bison, dolphins, domestic and wild cats, elk, pronghorn antelope, sheep, quail, white-tailed and mule deer, whales, domestic livestock and multiple fish species. All of this conservation genetics research has been funded through international, federal, state, NGO and private funding sources including the DSC and DSC Foundation. In addition, Dr. Derr is an impactful educator through his teaching efforts in undergraduate genetic courses to students interested in medicine (human and veterinary) and he has mentored over 100 graduate students in the fields of conservation / population genetics and animal health. One of Dr. Derr's most popular courses is ""Wildlife Conservation Medicine"". This course is designed for first- and second-year veterinary students to travel to South Africa and Botswana to learn how to chemically immobilize, treat and transport everything from African plains game to dangerous game. His efforts with these young veterinarians ensure they graduate with specialized knowledge and skills to handle health care and conservation issues with the tremendous number of exotic wildlife species here in the State of Texas on private ranches and preserves.",Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nebe46b3d
Thomas,Iliffe,Professor,"For the past 40 years, Iliffe has conducted studies of biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation of animals inhabiting saltwater caves. In addition to his extensive cave investigations in Bermuda, he has led biospeleological research expeditions to the Bahamas, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Canary Islands, Iceland, Mallorca, Romania, former Czechoslovakia, Gal?pagos, Hawaii, and numerous locations in the Indo-Pacific. This research has resulted in the discovery of more than 300 new species of marine animals, mostly crustaceans, inhabiting caves in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Indo-Pacific. Iliffe's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Geographic Society, among others. He has published 250 papers, including 30 invited book chapters. TV documentaries featuring his cave diving research expeditions can be seen on the National Geographic Channel, BBC, PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and others.",Professor,Marine Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ned849b62
Gerianne,Alexander,Professor,My research focuses on the development of human sex differences in social and cognitive behavior; Hormonal influences on typical and atypical behavior across the lifespan; Reproductive endocrinology and behavior.,Faculty Fellow||Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nedf89e33
Stephen,Smith,Professor,"Dr. Smith teaches meat science, nutrition and physiological nutrition courses. He also conducts research on the growth and development of adipose tissue, particularly in the bovine species. He has investigated the limitation of cattle to marble and has used his background in molecular biology to investigate lipid metabolism in the bovine muscle.",Professor||Professor,Animal Science||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nee8e5966
Roger,Smith,Professor,Application of flow cytometry to study of animal disease and clinical veterinary medicine; core flow cytometry laboratory.,Professor,Veterinary Pathobiology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nefd6ee54
Gerardo,Gold Bouchot,Professor,,Professor,Oceanography,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nefdcdfb5
Clare,Gill,Professor,"Dr. Gill teaches an undergraduate senior seminar course and a graduate course in applied animal genomics. Her primary research interest is in development and application of efficient molecular tools for comparative genomics. She is also the principal investigator of the McGregor Genomics Project, which is a collaborative effort to map genes for production efficiency in cattle.",Professor||Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Research,College of Agriculture and Life Sciences||Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf0375f36
David,Riley,Professor,"Dr. Riley teaches these 3 graduate courses: Quantitative Genetics, Genetic Prediction, and Advanced Quantitative Genetics. Research efforts include the association of genes, gene combinations, and other molecular variants with beef cattle production traits, especially those traits related to reproduction and efficiency. Research interests include the incorporation of genomic information in traditional animal breeding strategies and prediction of breeding values using such information. Other research efforts include the assessment and quantification of the epigenetic variation in livestock traits, and the expression of heterosis by crossbred animals for important traits.",Professor,Animal Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf0ce11af
Jan,Suchodolski,Professor,"Our research is focused on gastrointestinal function testing, gastrointestinal pathogens, and intestinal microbial ecology with an emphasis on probiotics and prebiotics and how intestinal pathogens lead to disturbances in the intestinal microbiome of companion animals.",Associate Director of GI Lab||Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences||Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf0f36949
George,Pharr,Professor,,Professor,Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf0ffc94e
Suojin,Wang,Professor,,Professor,Statistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf29d0adf
Jay,Maddock,Professor,My research focuses on social ecological approaches to increasing physical activity and the effect of spending time in nature on human health.,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Environmental and Occupational Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf33a34f7
Shelley,Wachsmann,Professor,"I am fascinated by ships and the sea and how cultures interacted through them. My regional focus is mainly, although not solely, the eastern Mediterranean during its earlier formative period. The cultic use of ships--or their facsimiles--many of which never saw water beneath their hulls, intrigues me. Due to the paucity of actual shipwrecks from the times that most interest me, I have focused on the interpretation of ancient ship iconography. Around the turn of the millennium I became interested in the potential of deep-submergence archaeology.
My recent field projects reflect these interests. In 2002 I directed a paleo-environmental study of three possible Phoenician anchorages in Portugal. In 2003-2006, I directed the Canadian team of a joint Canadian-Greek expedition in search of fleets lost during the Persian War in the early fifth century B.C. and in 2007-2009 I led the Danaos Project, a deep-water survey studying the Crete-to-Egypt trade route in antiquity. Following a long fascination with the culture of Easter Island, in March 2012 I organized the first maritime remote-sensing survey of the crater lake of Rano Raraku and a survey of maritime aspects of the Rapanui Culture, in collaboration with Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg's Easter Island Statue Project. Most recently, under the aegis of the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project and with the goal of better understanding the maritime dimensions of the port of Jaffa, Israel, I directed The 2014 Ioppa Maritima Project, which combined a geoarchaeological/geophysical land survey together with a deep-water Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) examination of multibeam survey anomalies at depths of 50-250 meters.
My fifth book (2013) deals with a wooden ship-cart model discovered in 1920 by W.M.F. Petrie at Gurob, in middle Egypt. The prototype of the Gurob model was clearly an Aegean-style galley--probably a pentakonter of a type used by both the Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. This model is the most detailed known representation of this galley type, for which no actual ships have been discovered. Put simply, if Helen's face launched a thousand ships, this is the most detailed existent example of that ship type.
My sixth and most recent (2015) book is a short guide to seafaring on the Sea of Galilee in antiquity.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf3fe0161
Kate,Creevy,Professor,"Dr. Creevy is a board-certified small animal veterinary internist, with a primary research interest in longevity, healthspan, morbidity and mortality within and among dog breeds as well as secondary research interests in infectious disease, and pedagogical theory in science education. In 2007, she established a productive collaboration with Dr. Daniel Promislow, combining her expertise in veterinary research and clinical practice with his expertise in genetics, aging and statistical analysis. Initially, their work was focused on the analysis of existing veterinary medical datasets. With the addition of Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, in 2014, the trio founded the Dog Aging Project and began to create a community of dog owners interested in becoming involved in this citizen-science project. The Dog Aging Project's current longitudinal study ambitious undertaking is the largest prospective study of companion dogs ever performed, enrolling 10,000 dogs across the nation who will be followed for ten years.",Professor,Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf40f2eea
Tamika,Gilreath,Professor,,Associate Director||Professor||Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research||School of Public Health||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf486de0f
Spencer,Behmer,Professor,,Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf4d10236
Joerg,Steiner,Professor,"My veterinary career has mainly focused on two aspects, patient care and clinically-relevant research. As a veterinary clinician and clinical teacher I am exposed to a wide variety of canine and feline patients with complex medical conditions. These patients serve as a constant source of new clinical problems that beckon to be studied further. Sometimes these studies are merely clinical, relating to characterization of an uncommon condition, diagnosis of a difficult-to-diagnose condition, or a novel therapeutic approach to a well-described condition. In other instances studies that are spurred by clinical cases are more basic-science based, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies to further evaluate the etiology or pathogenesis of a disease. In some instances, studies may provide comparative aspects related to experimental animals, such as rodents or primates, or even to human patients with similar conditions. I believe that my role as a mentor can be unique in that I can help graduate students bridge the gap between science and clinical aspects and between veterinary and human medical interests - giving us further opportunities to advance the concept of one-health.","Professor||Director, Gastrointestinal Laboratory",School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences||Small Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf4de66a0
Louise,Abbott,Professor,,Professor,Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf56a7148
Samiran,Sinha,Professor,"My research is focused on statistical methods for epidemiological studies which deal with
studying factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundat-
ion and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.
The research is geared to develop novel statistical techniques for handling measurement
error in the major variable of interest, and to handle subjects with partially missing infor-
mation. The developed statistical techniques rely on parametric, semiparametric, and nonparametric
approaches for flexible and robust modeling.",Professor,Statistics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf7f32f6f
Jiang,Chang,Professor,"Heart failure (impaired ventricular pump function) is an eventual outcome for diverse cardiovascular disorders and the leading cause of combined morbidity and mortality in the United States and other developed industrial nations. The focus of my lab is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms that initiate and mediate the pathogenesis of maladaptive cardiac remodeling, such as cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis as result of various pathological scenarios such as myocardial infarction, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, aging and post-traumatic stress disorder. The overall approach consists of generation and analysis of clinically-relevant genetic mouse models including a tool mouse enabling tracking endogenous cardiac exosomes, and conduct mechanistic studies using cutting-edge technology. The ultimate goal of our efforts is to provide clinical translation for the prevention and treatment of pathological cardiac remodeling from our mechanistic studies.",Professor,Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf80a9dad
Steven,Boivie,Professor,"I am primarily interested in how behavioral and social forces affect human actors at the top of the organization. I conduct research in the areas of corporate governance, top executives and directors, and technology and new industry formation.",Professor,Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfa5325ad
Linda,Katehi,Professor,,Professor,Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfc1740f1
J,Johnston,Professor,"I estimate genome size for sequencing projects for a very wide range of vertebrates, invertebrates and plants..
I work on genome size evolution, & genomics.
My other areas of research include cytological, ecological and population genetics of arthropods.",Professor,Entomology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfc3f68fb
Darwin,Prockop,Professor,,Professor,Cell Biology and Genetics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfcfd0990
Kausalai,Wijekumar,Professor,"Dr. Wijekumar designs, develops, and tests intelligent tutoring systems to improve literacy practices with students and teachers. She focuses on reading comprehension, writing, and teacher professional development. The web-based tutoring systems and all the supporting materials are available in English and Spanish. Dr. Wijekumar's work has received accolades from the What Works Clearinghouse and U.S. News and World Report. She has received over 60 million dollars in grant funding from many Federal agencies. Currently she serves as Principal Investigator on five US Department of Education grants totaling 17 million dollars in funding.","Director, Center for Urban School Partnerships||Professor||Houston Endowed Professor","Teaching, Learning and Culture||Teaching, Learning and Culture||Teaching, Learning and Culture",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfd8608ea
Matthew,Sachs,Professor,"Understanding the mechanisms by which upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in mRNA transcripts control gene expression is currently the major focus of my laboratory. A substantial component of this work is focused on the uORF-encoded fungal arginine attenuator peptide (AAP). The major goal of this work is to understand the mechanism by which a nascent peptide encoded by this uORF controls the movement of ribosomes on mRNA and regulates gene expression. Control mechanisms mediated by uORFs and nascent peptides exist in mammals, fungi, plants, viruses, and bacteria, but relatively little is known of the molecular details of such control. The AAP is encoded by a uORF in the 5?-leader regions of mRNAs specifying the first enzyme in fungal arginine (Arg) biosynthesis. Synthesis of the AAP rapidly reduces gene expression in response to Arg. AAP-mediated regulation is observed in vivo in both Neurospora crassa and Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in vitro, using fungal, plant and animal extracts. The nascent AAP causes the ribosome to stall when the concentration of Arg is high.",Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfe74574c
Alta,Ross,Professor,,Professor,Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nff700a50
Debbie,Thomas,Professor and Interim Dean,,Professor||Chief Academic Officer||Faculty Fellow,Texas A&M University at Galveston||Center for Health Systems and Design||Oceanography,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nffed8fba