Cellular & Molecular Faculty
| Name | Campus | Specialty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena | sabeysir@kent.edu | Kent | |
| Mohammad Ansari | mansari1@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Julie Aultman | jmaultma@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Joseph Bedont | jbedont@kent.edu | Kent | sleep; circadian rhythms; metabolism; autophagy; polyamines; nitrogen stress. More on Bedont |
| Heather Caldwell | hcaldwel@kent.edu | Kent | Role of neuropeptides in regulating social behaviors and neuropsychiatric disorders. More on Caldwell |
| Peiwen Chen | chenp6@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Yeong-Renn Chen | ychen1@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Oxygen free radicals, Nitric oxide, oxidative postranslational modifications, mitochondrial biology in myocardial infarction. |
| Chi-hua Chiu Groff | cchiu5@kent.edu | Kent | More on Chiu Groff |
| Wilson Chung | wchung@kent.edu | Kent | Neuroendocrine brain, androgens, fibroblast growth factor signaling. More on Chung |
| Robert Clements | rclement@kent.edu | Kent | More on Clements |
| Lisa Cooper | lcooper@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Dimitrios Davalos | davalod@ccf.org | CCF | The Dimitrios Davalos lab studies the interactions between blood vessels, neurons and microglia in health and disease. |
| Christine Dengler-Crish | ccrish@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Early disease mechanisms in dementia; sensory system disruptions and homeostatic dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease. |
| Feng Dong | fdong@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Jean Engohang-Ndong | jengohan@kent.edu | Kent | More on Engohang-Ndong |
| Jessica Ferrell | jfrancl@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Long-term research interests lie in examining the pathological disruptions to bile acid physiology that contribute to alcoholic- and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We are also interested in studying the interactions between liver/gut metabolism and Alzheimer’s disease, as Type 2 diabetes, cholesterol homeostasis, and gut dysbiosis are thought to be involved in disease progression, while bile acids and their receptors may be novel therapeutic targets. |
| Sheila Fleming | sfleming1@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Alexander Galazyuk | agalaz@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Neuroscience of hearing. |
| Rebecca German | rgerman@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Neurophysiology and biomechanics. Regulation of feeding and pathophysiology of dysphagia. |
| Adam Goodwill | agoodwill@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Mechanisms of coronary flow control, studies of cardiac function and identification of cardioprotective pathways. |
| Neysa Grider-Potter | ngriderpotter@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Elda Hegmann | ehegmann@kent.edu | Kent | More on Hegmann |
| Tobin Hieronymus | thieronymus@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Pattern and process of skeletal evolution in vertebrates. |
| Min-Ho Kim | mkim15@kent.edu | Kent | Nanomedicine strategies towards the treatment of diseases including drug-resistant bacterial infections, chronic wounds, and Alzheimer's disease. More on Kim |
| Woo Yang Kim | wkim2@kent.edu | Kent | Brain development, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, intellectual disability, brain circuit, neural stem cell. More on Kim |
| Edgar Kooijman | ekooijma@kent.edu | Kent | Biophysics protein/lipid interactions, physical chemistry of lipid structure and function, model membranes, neutral lipid storage (lipid droplets/adipocytes). More on Kooijman |
| Gary Koski | gkoski@kent.edu | Kent | Immune system and cancer, vaccines, molecular mechanisms. More on Koski |
| Manabu Kurokawa | mkurokaw@kent.edu | Kent | |
| Sangeet Lamichhaney | slamichh@kent.edu | Kent | Our lab is broadly interested in understanding how an organism responds to novel environments. We integrate a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including comparative ‘omics’ (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics and Metabolomics), together with experimental physiology to uncover the molecular basis underlying the processes of adaptation. |
| Yoon-Kwang Lee | ylee3@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Structure and regulation of nuclear hormone receptors. |
| Laura Leff | lleff@kent.edu | Kent | Molecular ecology of bacteria, bacterial enumeration and identification. More on Leff |
| Michelle Longworth | longwom@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Hanbin Mao | hmao@kent.edu | Kent | |
| Ryota Matsuoka | matsuor@ccf.org | CCF | Developmental neuroscience, brain barriers, brain-blood communications, brain vascular cell heterogeneity, neurovascular morphogenesis, and cerebrovascular diseases. |
| Jennifer McDonough | jmcdonou@kent.edu | Kent | Regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. |
| Jeffrey Mellott | jmellott@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Age-related changes to inhibitory circuitry in the auditory pathways. |
| Michael Model | mmodel@kent.edu | Kent | Apoptosis, cell water and volume regulation, membrane potential. More on Model |
| Aleisha Moore | amoor149@kent.edu | Kent | The Moore lab aims to define and understand neuronal networks regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, the final output cells in the brain controlling fertility. Currently, we are funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether changes in the regulation of GnRH neurons by cells co-expressing the neuropeptides Kisspeptin, Neurokinin B and Dynorphin (aka KNDy neurons) leads to infertility in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common endocrinopathy in women worldwide. To achieve this, we use a preclinical model of PCOS combined with genetic, anatomical, and functional tools to identify and analyze how changes within KNDy neurons and associated networks lead to the development of PCOS symptoms. |
| Xiaozhen Mou | xmou@kent.edu | Kent | Metatranscriptomics of bacteria, pathogens in ecosystem. More on Mou |
| Devin Mueller | dmuell10@kent.edu | Kent | Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller |
| Colleen Novak | cnovak13@kent.edu | Kent | Neural and endocrine mechanisms of activity thermogenesis in obesity. More on Novak |
| Christine O'Connor | oconnoc6@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Vahagn Ohanyan | vohanyan@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Heather O'Leary | holeary@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Moses Oyewumi | moyewumi@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Drug delivery, nanotechnology, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases. |
| Nikhil Panicker | panickn@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Richard Piet | rpiet@kent.edu | Kent | Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet |
| Helen Piontkivska | opiontki@kent.edu | Kent | Comparative and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution. More on Piontkivska |
| Gunnar Poplawski | poplawg@ccf.org | CCF | Translational therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell and gene therapies for spinal cord injury, in vitro and in vivo models of glioblastomas, hIPSC derived neurons to study regeneration. |
| Priya Raman | praman@neomed.edu | NEOMED | My lab is interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying vascular complications and Alzheimer's disease-related dementia associated with diabetes and obesity. We are studying the role of a post-translational protein modification (O-Glycosylation) and a proatherogenic matricellular protein (Thrombospondin-1) in vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic changes and seeking to understand how targets contributed to vascular and cognitive anomalies in metabolic disorders. |
| Erin Reed-Geaghan |
| NEOMED | My lab is interested in the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Specifically, we seek to understand the ways in which the brain’s resident immune cells, microglia, contribute to the neuroinflammatory processes driving neurodegeneration. We believe microglia from men and women respond differently in AD, contributing to the sex differences in disease onset and progression, and we’re working on identifying the reasons for these differences. We are also interested in how these cells communicate with the circulating peripheral immune system, and the ways in which these interactions affect disease progression |
| Merri Rosen | mrosen@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Effects of developmental stress and hearing loss on auditory perception and neural circuity. |
| Thorsten-Lars Schmidt | tschmi21@kent.edu | Kent | DNA nanotechnology-based tools and materials for single-molecule biophysics and nanomedicine. More on Schmidt |
| Brett Schofield | bschofie@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Functional anatomy of auditory pathways. |
| Sharad Shanbhag | sshanbhag@neomed.edu | NEOMED | The amygdala's role in vocal communication. |
| Woo-Shik Shin (Austin) | wshin@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Novel combination antibacterial therapy against drug resistance ESKAPE pathogens. Drug repurposing and combinational approach to block abnormal protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease. |
| Apollo Stacy | stacya2@ccf.org | CCF | |
| J.G.M. Thewissen | thewisse@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Mammalian anatomy and evolution, morphological adaptations such as those for swimming and flight. |
| Anthony Tosi | atosi@kent.edu | Kent | More on Tosi |
| Brian Trevelline | btrevell@kent.edu | Kent | |
| Sean Veney | sveney@kent.edu | Kent | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, sexual differentiation of the brain, syrinx anatomy, neuroethology of birdsong. More on Veney |
| Xinwen Wang | xwang2@neomed.edu | NEOMED | One size does not fit all. For many patients, standard drug treatment might not work or even trigger life-threatening adverse reactions. There is an urgent clinical need to provide tailored therapy for patients. Our laboratory focuses on applying pharmaco-omics tools (i.e. pharmacogenomics, proteomics and metabolomics) to identify both genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to the interindividual variability related to disease risks and drug therapies. Our research is expected to improve the efficacy and safety of drugs by identifying biomarkers that can predict individual drug responses, revealing novel drug targets and translating these findings into clinical precision pharmacotherapy. |
| Yuxin Wang | wangy7@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Jeffrey Wenstrup | jjw@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Neural mechanisms of hearing, acoustic communication, including emotional responses to sound. |
| Jessica Williams | williaj39@ccf.org | CCF | |
| Bradley Winters | bwinters@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears. |
| Jesse Young | jwyoung@neomed.edu | NEOMED | Comparative and developmental biomechanics of locomotion. |
| Ping Zhang | pzhang@neomed.edu | NEOMED | |
| Yaorong Zheng | yzheng7@kent.edu | Kent |