Undergraduate Research Opportunities Available | College of Biological Sciences

Angie Gelli

Professor
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions in CNS infection and BBB function during pathological conditions.

3503 Dept. of Pharmacology, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF), Office 3517

Rishidev Chaudhuri

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
Department of Mathematics, College of Letters and Science

Research Interests: Developing theoretical frameworks and models to understand neural computation; analyzing neural population activity data.

Kate Laskowski

Assistant Professor
Department of Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Developmental evolution, behavioral diversity and plasticity

Office: 2206 Storer Hall; Lab: 2350 Storer Hall

Seth Frey

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, College of Letters and Science

Research Interests: Social reasoning and collective behavior in complex environments

Kerr 376

James A. Letts

Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Membrane protein electron transport complexes in bioenergetics and immunity

Briggs Hall 25A

Rachael Bay

Assistant Professor
Department of Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Evolutionary response to human-induced environmental changes

4328 Storer

Wilsaan M. Joiner, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration in visual perception, motor learning, motor adaptation and rehabilitation

1163 Life Science Building

Every Plant Has a Story: Ellen Dean and the Center for Plant Diversity

For more than 20 years, curator Ellen Dean has made the Center for Plant Diversity a passion project. The center holds around 350,000 dried specimens, which tell tales from times long past.

Food, Agriculture and Plant Biology

Lucas R. Smith

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Extracellular matrix in skeletal muscle physiology

189 Briggs Hall

Jim Trimmer

Distinguished Professor
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Cell signaling in mammalian neurons, neuronal cell biology, membrane protein trafficking and function, renewable affinity reagent development and validation