Prabha S. Awale, Ph.D.
Summary: My lab is interested in understanding the neurobiology of development disorders particularly autism. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is mainly diagnosed based on behavioral [...]
Melanie C. Wright, Ph.D.
Summary: Dr. Wright’s “Human-centered design for health” research lab conducts research toward the design of technology, tools, processes, and education to improve patient [...]
Gustavo Gonzalez-Cuevas, Ph.D.
Summary: My current research interests are focused on developing a wide variety of neurobehavioral assays that can assess cognitive and emotional functioning in both larval and adult zebrafish. [...]
Heather Ray, Ph.D.
Summary: Embryonic development is a highly intricate and complex process that allows a fertilized egg to generate all of the cells and tissues of a living multicellular organism. These cellular [...]
Devaleena Pradhan, Ph.D.
Summary: My research goal is to understand the physiological mechanisms of behavioral plasticity in organisms. I study a sexually plastic marine fish, the bluebanded goby, that displays adult sex [...]
Kavita Sharma, Ph.D.
Summary: Our research program is primarily focused on extraction, isolation, purification and identification of bioactive compounds from different natural resources such as plants. The technique [...]
Kinta M. Serve, D.A.
Summary: Our lab is interested in how exposure to environmental contaminants affects the immune system. Specifically, we use asbestos exposure as a model of environment-induced autoimmunity. [...]
Yaqi You, Ph.D.
Summary: We are interested in understanding responses of microbial communities to emerging contaminants, including pharmaceutics and personal care products (PPCPs), in both natural and engineered [...]
Danny Xu, Ph.D.
Summary: Hearing loss is a significant public health issue, affecting 38 million Americans and 500 million people worldwide. Dr. Xu’s lab is working to identify novel therapeutics for hearing [...]
Courtney Jenkins, Ph.D.
Summary: The Jenkins group focuses on creating sulfur-based polymers through a process called inverse vulcanization. Elemental sulfur is a waste product generated during the purification of [...]
