Biomedical Sciences Department
Faculty
Department Chair/Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Chair
Specialties: Neuroimmune interactions during aging and Alzheimer's Disease
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W316
Associate Professor
Specialties: Natural and inducible immune responses to viruses and bacteria and to cancers
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W321
Professor
Specialties: Bacterial pathogenesis, host pathogen interactions, Lyme disease, relapsing fever,
spirochetes
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Neuroscience Building, Room 118A
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor; Assistant Dean for Gender Equity
Specialties: Contributions of the endocrine system and metabolism to mechanisms of biological aging,
and age-related diseases
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Neuroscience Building, Room 140
Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Medical Curriculum
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room E461
Associate Professor
Specialties: Role of endolyosome in the pathogensis of neurological disorders including Alzheimer's
disease. HIV associated neurocognitive disorders, and COVID-associated neuroclogical
complications
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Neuroscience Building, Room 112
Associate Professor
Specialties: Chromatin, Epigenetics, Molecular biology, Breast cancer, Genomics
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Columbia Hall, Room W1733a
Associate Professor
Specialties: Adrenergic moduation of behavior, Aging brain, Epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease
Associate Professor
Specialties: Medical education, Cellular & molecular biology, Extracellular matrix, Cell adhesion,
cytoskeleton
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W430
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Epigentic mechanisms underrlying the maintenance of skeletal muscle stems cells in
disease and aging
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W325
Associate Professor
Specialties: Regulation of the dopamine transporter via the post translational modifications, palmitoylation
and phosphorylation and their role in health and disease
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W217
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Mechanisms underlying the pathogensis of neurodegenerative modifications, palmitolation
and phosporylation and their role in health and disease
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Neuroscience Building, Room 110A
Professor
Specialties: Stroke research, Brain ischemia, Hypoxia, Angiogenesis, Neurochemistry, Lipid and
purine metabolism, Mass spectrometry
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W226
Associate Professor
Specialties: Vascular biology, Angiogenesis, Cellular signaling, A-kinase anchoring proteins, Microscopic
imaging
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W230
Assistant Professor
Specialties: A&P Coordinator, Diversity & equity in STEM, Cell migration & adhesion, Cancer metastasis
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, W228
Associate Professor/Director of Graduate Admissions
Specialties: Molecular, pharmacological, epigenetic, and computational analysis of the serotonin
and dopamine transporters and their role in human disease
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W218
Associate Professor
Specialties: Bioinformatics, Systems, pharmacology, Epigenomics, Diabetic peripheral neuropathy,
literature mining
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W130
Professor
Specialties: Neurotransmitters, Neuropeptides, Synaptic transmission and plasticity, Ion channels,
Learning and memory, Epilepsy, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism,
Hippocampus, Entorhinal Cortex, Interneuron, Patch-clamp, Electrophysiology
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Neuroscience Building, Room 148
Associate Professor
Specialties: A virologist developing therapeutic vaccines for respirtory viruses
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, W219
Professor
Specialties: Epingentic mechanisms controlling the Simian Virus 40 life cycle
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Twamley Hall Room, Room 100
Associate Professor
Specialties: Lipids biochemistry, Fatty acid binding proteins, N-3 fatty acids, Brain lipid metabolism,
Higher education, Faculty governance
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W224
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Itegrative systems physiology; Systems thinking and modeling in physiology education
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Effect of peripheral inflammation on brain function and behavior, Neuroinflammation
via gut-immune brain communications, Allergy and behavioral disorders
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences Room W419
Associate Professor
Specialties: Gene regulation, Epigenetics, Transcription, Genomics
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room 1733c
Associate Professor
Specialties: Interaction of the plaque bacillus with the4 innate immune system and protein interactions
that control the type III secretion system in Yersinia pestis
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W322
Teaching Instructor
Specialties: Undergraduate Microbiology courses and Medical Microbiology Labratory
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W128
Assistant Professor
Specialties: HLA-Class II mediated immune responses to infections
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W223
Associate Professor
Specialties: Pharmacology, Sympathetic nervous system, Innate immunity, G-protein coupled, Peptide
and toll-like receptors, Receptor cross-talk, signal transduction, Molecular mechanisms
of pharmacological action, Arrestins, G-protein coupled receptor kinases, Gq-G11 GTP-binding
proteins, MAP kinase signaling
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W220
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescernce, epigentic regulation of G0 state I
metabolism, yeast genetics
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W323
Associate Professor
Specialties: Alzheimers disease, Multiple sclerosis, Spinal cord injury, Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation,
Lipid metabolism, Brain energy metabolism, Lipid-mediated signal transduction, Acyl-CoA,
Arachidonic acid, Eicosanoids, Ether phospholipid, Plasmalogen, Phospholipases, Analytical
lipid techniques
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Neuroscience Building, Room 122
Associate Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Education Medical Accreditation and
Faculty Affairs
Specialties: Establishment of academia performance standarfds and implementation of valid and reliable
method of which student learning is assessed
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room E463
Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Professor
Specialties: Proteomics, Bio-markers, Discipline-based education research
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W229
Sarah Sletten, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Director of Learner Research
Specialties: Scholorship of Teaching and Learining
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W330
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Immunology, Mucosal immunology, Gut immunology, Mucosal inflammation microbiome, Infectious
diseases, Parasitology host-pathogen interaction, Vaccine development
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Rm W220
Associate Professor
Specialties: Epigenetics and chromatin regulation in cancer, Breast cancer reprogramming, Biochemistry,
Cell biology, Genomics, Genome editing, cell free DNA
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Columbia Hall, RM 1744
Associate Professor
Specialties: Human anatomical variation: a cadaver dissection-based study of human structure
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W125
Professor
Specialties: Epigenetics in normal development and pathogenesis, Chromatin regulation, Role of
poly (ADP-ribose) metabolism in transcription regulation and oncogenesis, PARP-1 inhibitors
in oncology, Drosophila and mammalian model organisms
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Columbia Hall, Room 1733B
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Dopamine transporter structure and function, Molecular mechanisms of cocaine and amphetamine,
Protein post-translational modifications, Dopaminergic disorders
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School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W216
Associate Professor
Specialties: Neural regeneration, Neuron-glia interactions, Neuroinflammation, CNS response to
injury
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Neuroscience Building, Room 124
Research Assistant Professors
Research Assistant Professor
Specialties: Understanding how cells interpret and respond to their environment as they move throgh
the complexities of the human body. Teaching as a pathway to science for everyone
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Bijayani Sahu, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
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Research Assistant Professor
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Joint/Adjunct Faculty
Research Assistant Professor, Dean's Office Med; Department of Biomedical Sciences
Bo Liang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science, University of North Dakota
David S. Terman, MD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at University of Alabama School of
Medicine