Members
Laura Vogtle, PhD
Professor
Department: Occupational Therapy
Division: Occupational Therapy
Research Interests: Cerebral Palsy; Aging; Vision Loss; Environmental Safety; Falls Prevention; Quality of Life; Epilepsy
Linda Wadiche, PhD
Professor
Department: Neurobiology
Research Interests: Neurodevelopment and developmental disabilities; Learning, memory and synaptic plasticity; Ion channels and synaptic function; Neurotransmitter; Neurotrophin receptors; Cell signaling
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Peter Watts, MPH, DDS, MD
Professor
Department: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Research Interests: Orthognathic deformities; Cosmetic facial surgery; Cleft lip and craniofacial disorders; Obstructive sleep apnea
Molly Wasko, PhD
Professor
Department: Mgmt, Info Sys, Quant Mthd
Research Interests: High-technology start-ups; Organizational innovation; Open innovation models
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Stephen Watts, PhD
Professor
Department: Biology
Research Interests: Nutrition; Health; Obesity; Longevity
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Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD
Professor
Department: Health Services Administration
Research Interests: Access, Quality; Cost; Care; Aging
Adam Wende, PhD
Associate Professor
Department: Pathology
Division: Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Research Interests: Diabetes, Hypertension, Exercise, Mitochondria, Metabolism, Glucose, Epigenetics, Gene expression, transcription, O-GlcNAc, protein modifications, DNA methylation, Histone modification, GLUT4, PDK2, PDK4
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Beverly William, PhD
Associate Professor
Department: Medicine
Division: Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Research Interests: End-of-Life Care; Bladder Health; Minority Health; Aging; Qualitative Research
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J. Michael Wyss, PhD
Professor
Department: Cell, Development, & Integrative Biology
Research Interests: Learning and memory, Blood pressure control, Polyphenols, Inquiry-based education
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Bradley Yoder, PhD
Professor
Department: Cell, Development, & Integrative Biology
Research Interests: Cilia; Developmental abnormalities; Disease pathogenesis
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Hon Yuen, PhD, OTR/L
Professor
Department: Occupational Therapy
Research Interests: Arts and Health, the use of arts to improve health
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Jianhua Zhang, PhD
Professor
Department: Pathology
Division: Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Research Interests: Aging biology; Autophagy, mitophagy, lysosomes, mitochondria
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Su Zhangli, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department: Genetics
Research Interests: Cancer biology
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Silvienne Sintjago, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Medicine
Division: Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Research Interests: Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of epilepsy and other neurological disorders
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Angad Yadav, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Cell, Development, & Integrative Biology
Division: Lab of Thalacker-Mercer
Research Interests: Muscle regeneration; Serine and glycine; Muscle progenitor cells; Biotechnology; Physiology; Epigenetics; Proteomics; Genomics; Bioinformatics
David Allison, PhD
Dean, Distinguished Professor, and Provost Professor
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Obesity; Nutrition; Energetics; Aging; Longevity, Statistical Methods, Research Rigor
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Karthikeyani Chellappa
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Aging; cancer; CRISPR (Genetics); Host-organism relationships; inflammatory bowel disease; Metabolic diseases; Metabolism; Metabolomics ; metagenomics; Obesity
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Stanislava Chtabarnova, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms; Cellular pathways; Brain immune reactions; Age-dependent changes; Drosophila
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Helen Collins
Assistant Professor
Department: HSOM
Research Interests: Female cardiovascular health; Resilience; Pregnancy-induced cardiac growth; Peripartum cardiomyopathy
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Christopher Girkin, MD
Professor
Department: Ophthalmology
Research Interests: Pediatric and adult glaucoma; Complex cataracts
Dao Fu Dai
Associate Professor
Department: HSOM
Research Interests: Cardiac, Mitochondria, Metabolism, Kidney, Aging