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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

design theory and methods, automation, decision-making applied to engineering teams and individuals, ideation and creativity, analogical reasoning in design, preference modeling and design attribute optimization, design cognition, neuroimaging methods applied to design, sustainable design, New product development, crowdsourcing and collaboration

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Dept of Geography

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

Dan Fletcher holding equipment

Daniel Fletcher

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, biophysics, mechanical properties of cells

Dept of Scandinavian

Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

Cindy Looy

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleoecology, paleobotany, palynology

Douglas Koshland

Douglas Koshland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors

Kunxin Luo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis

Priya Moorjani standing in front of map of the world

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front

Teresa Head-Gordon

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

Kathleen Collins posing in a laboratory.

Kathleen Collins

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

retrotransposon, reverse transcriptase, genome engineering, RNA sequencing

Nicholas Ingolia

Nicholas Ingolia

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Ribosome Profiling, translation, genomics

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Dipti Nayak

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Picture of Seth Finnegan lecturing in the field in Utah

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleobiology, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, mass extinctions, marine ecosystems

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, eye development and diseases, lens development

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, epigenetics, CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing

Jack Tseng

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology, jaws, bite force, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, mammals, vertebrates, evolution, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, mammalian systematics, evolution of form and function

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant climate change adaptation, historical functional genomics, plant development

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

Dept of Integrative Biology

marine mammals, pre-clinical models of disease

Dept of Integrative Biology

energetics, comparative biomechanics, arthropod, adhesion, comparative physiology, locomotion, neuromechanics, biomimicry, biological inspiration, reptile, gecko, amphibian, robots, artificial muscles