First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Debra,Shafer,Lecturer,,Lecturer,"Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n035c8f59
Dorothy,Shippen,Professor,"We are taking biochemical, molecular genetic and cytological approaches to study the structure, function and maintenance of telomeres. Telomeres are higher order nucleoprotein complexes that cap the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and play essential roles in conferring genome stability and cell proliferation capacity. The protective cap of the telomere is comprised of specific telomere binding proteins that regulate the length of telomeric DNA tract and allow the cell distinguish the chromosome terminus from a double-strand break. Telomeric DNA is synthesized by the action of telomerase, an unusual reverse transcriptase that replenishes telomeric DNA lost as a consequence of replication by conventional DNA polymerases. We have developed the genetically tractable flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for studying telomeres in higher eukaryotes. With its sequenced genome, abundant genetic and transgenic tools, and extraordinarily high tolerance to genome instability, Arabidopsis has proven to be an excellent model for investigating fundamental processes in telomere biology. Current studies focus on defining the function and molecular evolution of telomere capping proteins and components of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein complex.",Professor,Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n07e86cac
David,Schakel,Instructional Assistant Professor,,Instructional Assistant Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n162d6eba
Dawna,Schuld,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on the intersections between art, technology, and the sciences, with an emphasis on how the phenomena of perception are implemented as artistic media.","Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art History",Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2f2205de
Dallas,Shipp,Assistant Lecturer,,Assistant Lecturer,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3657cc11
Donna,Sullins,Instructional Assistant Professor,,Instructional Assistant Professor,"Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3ab7b53d
Dinakar,Sagapuram,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Sagapuram focuses his teaching and research in advanced structural materials, materials processing, manufacturing and tribology. Specific topics of interest include mechanics of large-strain plasticity, plastic flow instabilities, localization and failure mechanisms with application to cutting and metal deformation processes; and process mechanics-structure-property relationships in lightweight alloy systems. His group integrates analytical and computational models with high-speed imaging, image analysis and other in-situ experimental tools to understand physical mechanisms that govern material deformation and process mechanics at micro to macro length-scales.",Assistant Professor,Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3b372c89
Debalina,Sengupta,Associate Director Center,"Dr. Sengupta's research focuses on sustainability in the context of process systems engineering. She has worked on Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Supply Chain Design of Biofuels, Natural Gas, and Consumer Products, and decision-making in Sustainability using metrics and indicators. She has also been actively involved in the development of educational modules for sustainable manufacturing.","Lecturer||Associate Director, Gas and Fuels Research Center||Faculty Affiliate",Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)||Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3c756427
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
Dean,Schneider,"Director of Operations, SecureAmerica Institute","Dr. Schneider is a retired U.S. Air Force research and development engineer with over 30 years of experience in technology program management and development. He is responsible for developing industrial projects by evaluating customer needs, matching them with The Texas A&M University System capabilities, and bringing projects to a successful conclusion. The technologies represented include energy and water efficiencies for manufacturing processes, manufacturing technology insertion/replacement, process efficiency analysis, process waste reduction/reutilization, facility analysis and layout, process analysis and value stream mapping, Expansion planning, human factors and ergonomics.",Director||Fellow||Regents Fellow||Adjunct Professor of Practice,Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)||Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)||Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)||Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3e2d13bc
Daniel,Schwartz,Associate Professor,"Schwartz is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research. He is also the Director of Syriaca.org and General Editor of Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations, a prosopographical project producing a linked-open database encoded in TEI, an XML markup language. The forthcoming digital publication will provide new data about people in Syriac texts: their names, dates, important events, possessions, ethnic identity, language, education, people to whom they wrote letters, religion, vocation, etc.",Associate Professor,History,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n598de781
David,Sparks,Professor,"My research focuses on mathematical and numerical modeling of dynamic geophysical and geochemical systems, including: Grain-scale dynamics of unconsolidated sediment and fault gouge; Discrete element method for modeling granular materials; Pressure solution; Fluid flow through porous media; Mantle convection and crustal generation beneath spreading centers, subduction zones, intraplate volcanoes; Physics and chemistry of mantle partial melting and melt migration; and Thermal and differentiation history of icy solar system bodies.",Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5cb13616
David,Scott,Professor,,,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6fe482a6
Daniel,Spalink,Assistant Professor,"Projects in my lab range from studying the dynamics of genetic diversity within species to the evolution of entire plant orders, and from regional patterns of community assembly to the global structure of phylogenetic and functional diversity. As climate changes, habitats fragment, and extinction rates rise, we use this evolutionary perspective to understand the processes through which species have evolved and assembled so that we are better equipped to protect them.",Assistant Professor,Ecology and Conservation Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n72b28bdc
David,Staack,Associate Professor,"Our research is focused on the experimental study of microscale and low temperature plasmas and devices which use plasmas and energetic electrons. The results and discoveries of this research have far reaching consequences in fields ranging from medicine and health, to integrated circuit manufacturing, to fossil fuel reforming, to spacecraft propulsion and the energy sector.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86abc433
Donald,Smith,Senior Associate Professor,,Senior Associate Professor,Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n87d7f9fe
David,Seets,Professor of the Practice,,Professor of the Practice,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n92a75eb9
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
David,Schmitz,Visiting Associate Professor,,Visiting Associate Professor,Large Animal Clinical Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9e3a6474
Daniel,Springer,Visiting Assistant Professor,,Visiting Assistant Professor,Kinesiology and Sport Management,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9f20227e
Daniel,Singleton,Professor,"The central focus of the Singleton research group is the study of organic, organometallic, and bioorganic reaction mechanisms, and the key tool that we use in these studies is the determination o kinetic isotope effects (KIEs). In the mid-1990's, we developed a method for the high precision combinatorial determination of small KIEs at natural abundance by NMR. Its direct applicability to complex unlabeled reactants makes this methodology 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than studies requiring labeling. At the same time, it is much more versatile - our technique can look at a great number of reactions that would have been impractical or impossible to study by labeling or mass spectral methods, and the choice of reactants can be readily changed in response to each new experimental result. The simultaneous determination of a complete set of 13C, 2H, and 17O isotope effects possible with our methodology provides a much greater level of information than available from conventional methods. In addition, substantial evidence has accumulated supporting the reliable accuracy of our results.",Professor,Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na0239851
David,Schrank,TTI Research Scientist,,TTI Research Scientist,Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na4d1a544
Wei Dong,Shi,Senior Lecturer,,Senior Lecturer,International Studies,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na609eb41
Dezhen,Song,Professor - Term Appointment,,Professor - Term Appointment,Computer Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb4ad82ed
Danila,Serra,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor,Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb84c6db9
Chiara,Silvestri Dobrovolny,TTI Associate Research Scientist,,TTI Associate Research Scientist,Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nba84874e
Dong,Son,Professor,"The main focus area of the research in our laboratory is (i) chemical synthesis of nanoscale hetero-structures of semiconducting and magnetic materials and (ii) real-time laser spectroscopic investigation of the dynamic electronic and magnetic properties of the nanostructures prepared from (i). Ultimately, we would like to obtain fundamental understanding of how the dynamic optical, electronic and magnetic properties in structurally complex nanoscale materials can be controlled by tuning their chemical and structural parameters. The knowledge obtained from these researches lays fundamental background essential in many practical applications, such as designing nanoscale electronic devices and light energy-harvesting materials.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Energy Institute||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbddedc3d
David,Salgado Manzano,TTI Assistant Research Scientist,,TTI Assistant Research Scientist,Research & Implementation - El Paso,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc0d8e36f
Dylan,Shell,Associate Professor - Term Appoint,"My research aims to synthesize and analyze complex, intelligent behavior in distributed systems that exploit their physical embedding to interact with the physical world.",Associate Professor - Term Appoint,Computer Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc3838cfa
Daniel,Selva Valero,Assistant Professor,"Dani Selva's research interests are somewhere between the intersection and the union of space systems, artificial intelligence, and engineering system design. Ultimately, Dani is most inspired by two things: everything space, and the Systems scientists of the 1970's such as Herbert Simon who conducted multi-disciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, economics, statistics, and decision analysis.",Assistant Professor,Aerospace Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nded98762
Deborah,Siegele,Associate Professor,"Phenotypes are observable characteristics of an organism that result from the expression of a particular genotype in a particular environment. Examples of phenotypic traits in microbes are motility, sporulation, ability to perform anaerobic respiration, and resistance/sensitivity to an antibiotic.
Until recently, phenotypic information has been captured as free text descriptions in research papers. Ambiguities in natural language confound attempts to retrieve information across sources. For example, ""serotype"" and ""serovar"" both refer to the same phenotype, but a simple text-based query with either word alone would miss the other. Or a single term, such as ""sporulation"" is used to refer to multiple, distinct processes in different organisms. Issues such as these hamper the ability to integrate different phenotypic data sets for the same organism or to use phenotypic information in one organism to predict possible phenotypes in another organism. Ideally, phenotype information should be stored in a consistent, computable format for ease of data integration and mining.
Controlled vocabularies are used to provide both consistent terminology and a structured data format for the capture of biological information. Ontologies are controlled vocabularies of defined terms with unique identifiers and precise relationships to each other. There are phenotype ontologies available for many eukaryotic organisms, including fungi. However, when the OMP project was initiated, none of the existing ontologies was appropriate to comprehensively capture phenotypes for Bacteria or Archaea or to enable comparisons across microbial taxa.
The Siegele lab and our collaborators at TAMU and the Univ. of Maryland (IGS) are developing a formal Ontology of Microbial Phenotypes (OMP). Our lab is focused on term development and annotating microbial phenotypes. OMP can be accessed at microbialphenotypes.org. Releases of OMP are available at github.com/microbialphenotypes.",Associate Professor,Biology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne333d587
Donggil,Song,Associate Professor,"- AI engineering for human performance/learning
- Extended-reality (AR, VR, MR) AI systems
- STEM and computing education",Affiliated Faculty||Associate Professor,Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution||Multidisciplinary Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf29731f9
David,Stelly,Professor,"My scientific research, graduate and post-graduate programs employs multi-disciplinary approaches to conduct and study use of naturally occurring germplasm for crop improvement. Elements of the research include wild-species germplasm introgression, chromosome substitution, reproductive and ploidy manipulations, conventional cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization, genetic analysis, DNA marker and assay (SNP) development, marker assisted selection, reproductive cytology and genetics, and various types of genome mapping, sequencing, and their integration for genome sequencing and assembly. Most of my research aims to enhance the germplasm, knowledge, science and technologies for genetic improvement Upland cotton, e.g., economic yield and sustainability; some, however, is devoted to sorghum and peanut, especially wide hybridization and germplasm utilization.",Professor||Chair,Soil and Crop Sciences||Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfec36db0