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Research Expertise and Interest

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Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

gene expression, microRNAs, Mammalian Cell Metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

Cybelle Fox

Dept of Sociology

historical sociology, American welfare state, race and ethnic relations, immigration policy

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue

James W. Rector

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas

Russell Robinson

Russell Robinson

anti discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, media and entertainment law

Professor Blackman in the field with sunflowers

Benjamin Blackman

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology

Dept of Demography

Haas School of Business

School of Public Health

health economics, public health, health care financing, economic development, industrial organizaition

Grace Gu

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Stephanie Zonszein

Dept of Political Science

immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior

Dept of Integrative Biology

community ecology, estuarine host-parasite interactions, canopy gaps, Caribbean coast of Panama

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography

Haas School of Business

economic development, labor and organizational economics, health economics, wage determination, corporate social responsibility

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American Studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

Omar Yaghi in lab

Dept of Chemistry

Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

Juana María Rodríguez

Juana María Rodríguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work

Joan Bloom

School of Public Health

health policy and management, cancer prevention, early detection and long term survival, public healthreducing disparities in access to health care

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy