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Anna Abraham

E. Paul Torrance Professor; Director, Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development

Research Interests: Creativity and the human imagination, mental time travel, mental state reasoning, self-referential cognition, social cognition, consciousness, aesthetic engagement

  • anna.abraham@uga.edu
  • Website
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Deborah Barany

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and AU/UGA Medical Partnership

Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of goal-directed movement, functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, neurorehabilitation

  • dbarany@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4132
  • Website
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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

  • bartlett@rx.uga.edu
  • 706-542-5390
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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

  • srhbeach@uga.edu
  • 706-542-1173
  • Website
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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

  • mrbrown@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2317
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Haini N Cai

Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Nuclear and genome organization, chromatin structure and function, gene regulation in Drosophila development

  • hcai@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3329
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Jarrod Call

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology (Exercise Science Programs)

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

  • call@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0636
  • Website
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Paige Carmichael

Professor, Pathology

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

  • kpc@uga.edu
  • 706-542-5837
  • Website
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Brett Clementz

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

Research Interests: Structural, functional & genetic abnormalities in schizophrenia

  • clementz@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2174
  • Website
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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

  • bcondie@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2516
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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

  • briansc@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3792
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Krzysztof Czaja

Associate Professor, Veterinary Biosciences & Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests: See website

  • czajak@uga.edu
  • 706-542-8310
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Julie Coffield

Associate Professor, Toxicology

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

  • coffield@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2498
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Harry Dailey

Emeritus; former Director of Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute

Research Interests: Disease mechanisms, medical biochemistry, infectious disease enzymology, metoalloenzyme chemistry, structural biology, physical biochemistry

  • hdailey@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2690
  • 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

  • sdalton@uga.edu
  • 706-583-0480
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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

  • cdlserre@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4873
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Rodney K. Dishman

Professor, Kinesiology

Research Interests: see website

  • rdishman@uga.edu
  • 706-542-9840
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Gaylen L. Edwards

Department Head, Physiology & Pharmacology; Georgia Athletic Association Professorship in Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Neural processing of abdominal sensory information, control of ingestive behavior and autonomic function

  • gedwards@uga.edu
  • 706-542-5854
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Jonathan Eggenschwiler

Associate Professor, Genetics

Research Interests: Mechanisms controlling tissue patterning during mammalian embryonic development

  • jeggensc@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2813
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Adviye Ergul

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

Research Interests: see website

  • aergul@augusta.edu
  • 706-721-9103
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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

  • sfagan@augusta.edu
  • 706-721-0130
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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

  • filipov@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3014
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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

  • doree@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2174
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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

  • jfrankli@rx.uga.edu
  • 706-542-5399
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Zhen Fu

Professor, Veterinary Pathology; Veterinary Virologist

Research Interests: Neuropathogenesis of rabies, functional genomics and proteomics, development of anti-viral vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and agents, regulation of rabies virus transcription and replication

  • zhenfu@uga.edu
  • Website
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Silvia Giraudo

Associate Professor, Foods and Nutrition

Research Interests: Childhood obesity intervention, nutrition

  • sgiraudo@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4907
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Adam Goodie

Professor, Neuroscience

Research Interests: Judgment and decision making, especially the role of control in decision making, Bayesian updating, and cognitive contributors to problem gambling.

  • goodie@uga.edu
  • 706-542-6624
  • Website
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Tai Guo

Professor, Veterinary Biosciences & Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests: Toxicology of nanobiomaterials and endocrine disruptors, mechanisms of diabetes and asthma, probiotics, microbiome and immunotoxicology

  • tlguo1@uga.edu
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Brian Haas

Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program, Neuroscience Program

Research Interests: Individual differences in social and affective functioning in humans by using a multi-modal approach

  • bhaas@uga.edu
  • Website
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Billy Hammond

Professor, Neuroscience

Research Interests: human visual system

  • bhammond@uga.edu
  • Website
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Robert S. Haltiwanger

Professor; GRA Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Glycosciences
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Research Interests: Role of glycosylation in regulating Notch signaling, assisting protein folding, and development

  • rhalti@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4151
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Phil Holmes

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

Research Interests: Behavioral neuropharmacology, neuropeptides and trophic factors, plasticity, stress, depression, and addiction

  • pvholmes@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3105
  • Website
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Shelley Hooks

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests: G-protein coupled receptors, molecular pharmacology, signal transduction, ovarian cancer, neural stem cells

  • shooks@rx.uga.edu
  • 706-542-2189
  • Website
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Jayani Jayawardhana

Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy

Research Interests: Health economics, health policy, pharmaceutical economics, industrial organization

  • jayaward@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4305
  • Website
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Daichi Kamiyama

Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Identifying principles of neural circuit assembly

  • Website
  • daichi.kamiyama@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3338
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Lohitash Karumbaiah

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

Research Interests: Defects in carbohydrate biosynthesis and alterations in carbohydrate composition, development of new carbohydrate-based biomaterials for spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and neural interfacing applications

  • lohitash@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2017
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Marc Kent

Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery

Research Interests: see website

  • mkent1@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3221
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Williams Kisaalita

Professor, Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests: Tissue engineering, cell-surface interactions, assays for high throughput screening (HTS), renewable energy utilization with emphasis on biogas-powered cooling, global service learning

  • williamk@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0835
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Peter Kner

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Improving imaging at the nanoscale in biomedicine and engineering; optics and biophotonics

  • kner@uga.edu
  • 706-542-8966
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James Lauderdale

Associate Professor, Cellular Biology; Graduate Coordinator, Neuroscience

Research Interests: Cells and disease, cells in development

  • jdlauder@uga.edu
  • 706-542-7433
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Karl F. Lechtreck

Associate Professor, Department of Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Cilia and cilia-related diseases

  • lechtrek@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0167
  • Website
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Robert Lynall

Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology

Research Interests:

  • The association between concussion and musculoskeletal injury
  • Dynamic movement after concussion
  • Head impact biomechanics
  • Clinical concussion management and return-to-play
  • rlynall@uga.edu
  • 706-542-9257
  • Website
Nicole Lazar
Nicole Lazar

Professor, Statistics

Research Interests: Likelihood theory (with an emphasis on empirical likelihood), applications in social and behavioral science, model selection and interpretation, the history of statistics, analysis of functional neuroimaging data, the role of statistics in society

  • nlazar@stat.uga.edu
  • 706-542-0632
  • Website
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Rebecca Marshall 

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education

Research Interests: Aphasia, attention, meditation, cognition, and integrative medicine

  • rshisler@uga.edu
  • 706-583-0737
  • Website
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Jennifer McDowell

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

Research Interests: Schizophrenia, psychosis, cognitive control, plasticity, saccades, ocular motor system, exercise, f/MRI, DTI

  • jemcd@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2174
  • Website
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Richard Meagher

Distinguished Research Professor, Genetics

Research Interests: Molecular genetics and evolution of Arabidopsis gene expression, engineering plants for phytoremediation of ionic- and methyl-mercury

  • meagher@uga.edu
  • Website
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L. Stephen Miller

Professor & Director of Bio-imaging Research Center, Neuroscience

Research Interests: Aspects of working memory, executive function,
and older adult cognition using structural and functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological tools

  • lsmiller@uga.edu
  • 706-542-7048
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Jae-Kyung Lee

Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Determining key molecules and their intrinsic mechanisms in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases

  • jamlee@uga.edu
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Dexi Liu

Panoz Professor of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests: Gene therapy, obesity, drug delivery, gene drug discovery

  • dliu@uga.edu
  • 706-542-7385
  • Website
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Hongxiang Liu

Assistant Professor, Animal & Dairy Science

Research Interests: See website

  • lhx@uga.edu
  • 706-542-7048
  • Website
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Tianming Liu

Distinguished Research Professor, Computer Science

Research Interests: Brain Imaging, computational neuroscience, cognitive computing, and deep neural learning

  • tliu@cs.uga.edu
  • 706-542-3478
  • Website
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Puliyur S. MohanKumar

Professor, Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology reproductive aging, stress axis and metabolic function, neuroendocrine-immune interactions, prenatal programming and its neuroendocrine consequences, neuroendocrine effects of exposure to environmentally relevant chemicals

  • psmohan@uga.edu
  • 706-542-8310
  • Website
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Sheba M.J. MohanKumar

Associate Professor, Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests: Neuroendocrine immune interactions in the context of reproduction and stress, prenatal stress and programming of obesity, environmental exposures and their impact on stress and reproduction, biomarker development for various human diseases

  • shebamk@uga.edu
  • Website
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Luke Mortensen

Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine and Engineering

Research Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, cellular therapeutics, optical imaging, Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)

  • luke.mortensen@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0985
  • Website
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Emily Noble

Assistant Professor, Foods and Nutrition

Research Interests: Feeding behavior, physical activity, energy expenditure, mechanisms by which diet and exercise affect the brain and cognitive function

  • emily.noble@uga.edu
  • 651-246-0377
  • Website
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Patrick J. Oconnor

Professor, Department of Kinesiology

Research Interests: Feelings of energy and fatigue, pain, anxiety, cognition (executive function, sustained attention)

  • poconnor@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4382
  • Website
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Assaf Oshri

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science

Research Interests: Children and youth well-being and resilience, understanding youth development using multi-method (observation, surveys, neuroimaging, stress physiology) and multi-level research (e.g., individual cognition,  personality, family, peer, and neighborhood environments), mechanisms that underlie the link between early life stress in childhood (e.g., child maltreatment, poverty, cultural stress) and adolescent behavioral risk (e.g. substance use and sexual risk behaviors) and resilience

  • oshri@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4882
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Ramana Pidaparti

Professor, Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow

Research Interests: design engineering and innovation, computational mechanics, drug delivery devices, STEM education

  • rmparti@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4057
  • Website
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Simon Platt

Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Research Interests: Ischemic disease of the CNS (canine stroke), canine brain tumors, epilepsy

  • srplatt@uga.edu
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Lisa M. Renzi-Hammond

Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior, Institute of Gerontology; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Interests: Aging, nutrition, cognitive function, brain health, sensory function, cognitive training, lifespan development

  • lrenzi@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2252
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Rachel Roberts-Galbraith

Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Regeneration using planarians as a model, central nervous system, regeneration of neurons

  • robertsgalbraith@uga.edu
  • 706-542-9330
  • Website
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Dean Sabatinelli

Associate Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program, Neuroscience

Research Interests: Emotional stimulus processing, emotional perception and imagery, functional magnetic resonance imaging, dense-array electroencephalography, peripheral psychophysiological recording

  • sabat@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3094
  • Website
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Jesse Schank

Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Drug and alcohol abuse, stress and anxiety, neuropeptides, neuropharmacology

  • jschank@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0661
  • Website
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Walter Schmidt

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Integrated Life Sciences Graduate Coordinator

Research Interests: Post-translational modifications in regards to the function of CaaX-type proteins, enzymology/metalloenzyme chemistry, cancer/signal transduction

  • wschmidt@uga.edu
  • 706-583-8241
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Ping Shen

Professor, Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Cells and disease, cell development, cell structure and function

  • pshen@uga.edu
  • 706-542-1220
  • Website
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Tarkeshwar Singh

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

Research Interests: Sensorimotor control, biomechanics, eye-tracking, robotics, electrophysiology, computational modeling

  • tsingh@uga.edu
  • 706-542-4385
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Heather Steet

Associate Research Scientist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research Interests: Development/ stem cell biology, disease mechanisms/medical biochemistry/infectious disease, enzymology/metalloenzyme chemistry, glycobiology

  • heatherfs@ccrc.uga.edu
  • 706-583-5551
  • Website
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Steven Stice

Professor, Eminent Scholar, Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Ctr. (RBC)

Research Interests: Exosome-based regenerative therapies for the treatment of CNS and neurodegenerative disorders, namely Stroke and TBI

  • sstice@uga.edu
  • 706-583-0071
  • Website
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Gregory Strauss

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Research Interests: Schizophrenia, psychosis risk, anhedonia, reward, emotion, social cognition

  • gstrauss@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0307
  • Website
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Lawrence Sweet

Gary R. Sperduto Professor, Clinical Psychology

Research Interests: Brain-behavior relationships, neuroimaging data analysis, neuropsychological assessment

  • sweet@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0746
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Michael Tiemeyer

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Associate Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Research Interests: Development/stem cell biology, glycobiology

  • mtiemeyer@ccrc.uga.edu

  • 706-542-3355
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John Wagner 

Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Neurophysiology of the hippocampus, cellular mechanisms of learning & memory, neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse

  • jwagner@uga.edu
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Franklin D. West

Associate Professor, Regenerative Bioscience Center, Animal & Dairy Science

Research Interests: Regenerative therapies to treat stroke and TBI, development of induced pluripotent stem cell derived neural stem cells (iNSCs) and extracellular vesicles as novel multimodal neuroprotective and regenerative therapeutics

  • westf@uga.edu
  • 706-542-0988
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Kojo Mensa Wilmot

Professor, Department Head, Cellular Biology

Research Interests: Cells in infection and immunity, cell structure and function

  • mensawil@uga.edu
  • 706-542-3356
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Adrian Wolstenholme

Professor, Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: Molecular helminthology, molecular basis of drug resistance

  • adrianw@uga.edu
  • 706-542-7048
  • Website
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Jing Xu

Associate Professor, Cognition and Dexterity (CoDex) Lab

Research Interests: Understanding how humans learn complex motor skills, how skills are maintained across age, how to restore them after neuromuscular injuries; identifying behavioral, cognitive, and neural components essential for hand dexterous function; deriving learning and control principles that support the acquisition and production of dexterous movement; exploring factors that influence rehabilitation; long-term goal is designing effective therapies to help patients regain their motor skills

  •  jing.xu@uga.edu
  • 706-542-9840
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Yao Yao

Assistant Professor, Animal & Dairy Science

Research Interests: In vivo delivery shuttle for genome engineering in biomedicine and agriculture; gene regulation, neuromuscular dystrophy, neurodegenerative disease, gene therapy and drug target screen

  • Yao.Yao@uga.edu
  • 706-542-9767
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Yao Yao

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests: Using conditional knockout technique to study the functions of laminin in blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity under both physiological and pathological conditions (using stroke and Alzheimer’s disease as disease models), generating novel tools to manipulate BBB permeability to aid CNS drug delivery, developing innovative therapies for stroke and Alzheimer’s disease

  • yyao@uga.edu
  • 706-542-1430
  • Website
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Nadja Zeltner

Assistant Professor, Member of the Center for Molecular Medicine

Research Interests: Utilizing stem cells, hPSCs, to generate cell types affected in disorders of the peripheral nervous system

  • nadja.zeltner@uga.edu
  • 706-542-2650
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Qun Zhao

Associate Professor, Physics

Research Interests: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physics, both experimental and computational, MR applications in biomedicine

  • qzhao@physast.uga.edu
  • 706-542-8065
  • Website
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