Undergraduate Research Opportunities Available | College of Biological Sciences

Angie Gelli, PhD

Professor
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine

Research Interests: Host-Pathogen Interactions

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

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

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

1009 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

Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
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

Nitzan Shabek

Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of signaling pathways and their regulation by proteolytic systems

LSA 1224

Patrick Shih

Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences
Joint BioEnergy Institute

Research Interests: Engineering and investigating the evolution of metabolic pathways using synthetic biology

2251 Life Sciences

Chang-il Hwang

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in Pancreatic Cancer Progression

241B Briggs Hall