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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

J. Merrill Shanks

J. Merrill Shanks

Dept of Political Science

political science, election behavior, public opinion

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

Roy L. Caldwell

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, evolution, Invertebrates, animal behavior, behavioral ecology, marine biology, stomatopods, crustaceans, cephalopods, octopus, mating systems, communication, sensory ecology, aggressive behavior, coral reef restoration

Dept of Integrative Biology

biomechanics, insects, invertebrate functional morphology, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, gliding vertebrates

Dept of Integrative Biology

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

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Judith P. Klinman

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

catalytic & regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, kinetic, spectroscopic, stereochemical biological techniques, peptide- derived cofactors, nuclear tunneling & role of protein dynamics in catalysis, enzymatic activation of molecular oxygen

Terry E. Machen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

physiology pathophysiology secretory epithelial cells, airway, ion transport, cell regulationm, imaging microscopy, calcium pH redox, electrophysiology, green fluorescent protein, genetic targeting, innate immune defense

Kam-Biu Luk

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, neutrino oscillation, neutrino mixing parameters, nuclear instrumentation, data mining, neutrino physics

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

Jere Lipps

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, paleontology, molecular phylogenetics, evolution of marine biotas, paleoenvironments, coral reef, Antarctic habitats, seismic histories, astrobiology, Charles Darwin

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, internet architecture, software-defined networking, network function virtualization, game theoretic approaches to resource allocation, large-scale distributed systems, edge computing

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, fungi, phylogenomics, mycology, population genomics, ecology

Eli Yablonovitch

Eli Yablonovitch

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, physical electronics, high speed optical communications, nanocavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication

Keith Johnson at lectern

Dept of Linguistics

phonetics

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Alice M. Agogino

Alice M. Agogino

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

intelligent learning systems, information retrieval and data mining, multiobjective and strategic product design, nonlinear optimization, probabilistic modeling, intelligent control and manufacturing, sensor validation and fusion and diagnostics, wireless sensor networks, multimedia and computer-aided design, design databases, design theory and methods, MEMS Synthesis and CAD, artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems, gender equity

Alan D. Weinstein

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, mathematical physics, symplectic geometry

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator