Faculty

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PROGRAM FACULTY

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Michael Bartlett

Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests: ADME of drugs and environmental toxicants; impact of compounds on memory,
cognition, and neuropathic pain; oligonucleotide therapeutics and biomarkers

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Steven Beach

Distinguished Research Professor, Psychology; Co-Director, Center for Family Research

Research Interests: Epigenetics, marital and family processes, marital discord, depression and anxiety in close relationships, self-processes in relationships

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Mark Brown

Professor, Entomology

Research Interests: Neuro-endocrinology of development, reproduction, and metabolism in insects; evolution of peptide hormone structure and function

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Jarrod Call

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology (Exercise Science Programs)

Research Interests: Skeletal muscle physiology, mitochondrial physiology, regenerative medicine, muscle electrophysiology

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Paige Carmichael

Professor, Pathology

Research Interests: Inherited diseases, general pathology, ophthalmic pathology, digestive pathology, integumentary pathology

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Brett Clementz

Professor, Psychology; Director of the Bio-Imagining Research Center (BIRC)

Research Interests: Structural, functional & genetic abnormalities in schizophrenia

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Julie Coffield

Associate Professor, Toxicology

Research Interests: Toxicology, neurotoxicology, cellular mechanisms of Botulinum neurotoxins

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Brian Condie

Associate Professor, Genetics

Research Interests: Genetic analysis of mouse pharyngeal development and the development of new tools for chromosome engineering

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Brian Cummings

Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences;
Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program

Research Interests: Molecular toxicology, cell signaling, prostate cancer, anti-cancer, kidney

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Krzysztof Czaja

Associate Professor, Veterinary Biosciences & Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests: See website

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Steve Dalton

Professor, Cellular Biology; GRA Eminent Scholar of Molecular Cell Biology

Research Interests: Stem cell biology, development of cell therapies for type 1 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; pluripotent stem cells in early development and induced pluripotent stem cells; cell reprogramming

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Claire de La Serre

Assistant Professor, Foods and Nutrition

Research Interests: Pathways by which diet composition affects energy balance; influence of energy-dense diets on gut microbiota composition, gastrointestinal (GI) functions and inflammation; how changes in microbiota composition can affect gut-brain signaling to promote overeating

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Rodney K. Dishman

Professor, Kinesiology

Research Interests: see website

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Gaylen L. Edwards

Department Head, Physiology & PharmacologyGeorgia Athletic Association Professorship in Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Neural processing of abdominal sensory information. Control of ingestive behavior and autonomic function

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Jonathan Eggenschwiler

Associate Professor, Genetics

Research Interests: Mechanisms controlling tissue patterning during mammalian embryonic development

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Adviye Ergul

Regents’ Professor, Physiology; Co-Director Physiology Graduate Program
Augusta University

Research Interests: see website

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Susan Fagan

Distinguished Research Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy; Assistant Dean, Augusta University Program

Research Interests: Stroke, experimental therapeutics, angiotensin modulation, recovery, angiogenesis, vascular protection

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Nikolay (Nick) M. Filipov

Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Neurotoxicology; neuroimmunology — communication of the nervous and immune systems in health and disease; basal ganglia disorders

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Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy

Professor, Psychology; Director of the Primate Behavior Laboratory

Research Interests: Flexible instrumental behavior (problem-solving), perception, manipulation, and skill learning in primates (capuchin monkeys); the developmental bases of flexible behavior, and the contribution of social learning and social context to the expression of flexible behavior

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James Franklin

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests: Mechanisms underlying neuronal apoptosis with a focus on the basic cellular mechanism by which mitochondria contribute to this type of neuronal death, as well as the role of mitochondria in Alzheimer’s disease; drug discovery for treatment of filaria infections in humans, animals and plants

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Silvia Giraudo

Associate Professor, Foods and Nutrition

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Phil Holmes

Professor, Behavior and Brain Science Program (Psychology); Neuroscience Program Chair; Medical Partnership Faculty

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Shelley Hooks

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

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Daichi Kamiyama

Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology

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Lohitash Karumbaiah

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Regenerative Bioscience Center, Animal and Dairy Science

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Williams Kisaalita

Professor, Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering

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Peter Kner

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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James Lauderdale

Associate Professor, Cellular Biology; Graduate Coordinator, Neuroscience

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Jae-Kyung Lee

Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

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Hongxiang Liu

Assistant Professor, Animal & Dairy Science

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Tianming Liu

Distinguished Research Professor, Computer Science

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Jennifer McDowell

Professor & Chair, Behavior and Brain Science Program (Psychology); BioImaging Research Center