Faculty

Pinku Mukherjee, PhD

Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor
Reese 5th Floor / Woodward 490D

AWARDS: Recipient of the 2018 First Citizens Bank Scholars Award Recipient of the 2015 O. Max Gardener Award RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Cancer Biology and Immunology LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. MUKHERJEE’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Dan Nelson, PhD

Associate Research Professor
Woodward 390A

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION:

Yuri Nesmelov, PhD

Professor

My research interests are focused on biological molecular motors. I study myosin, the protein responsible for force generation in muscle, cell locomotion and intracellular trafficking. I combine protein mutagenesis, site directed labeling, multifrequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and transient time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (TR2FRET) to explore myosin functional dynamics on molecular and submolecular level. […]

Kary Ocaña Gautherot, PhD

Assistant Research Professor
Woodward 363

Matthew W. Parrow, PhD

Associate Dean, College of Science
Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION:Eukaryotic microbiology, harmful algal blooms; applications of algae and fungi in biotechnology LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. PARROW’S RESEARCH LAB WORK:

Michelle B. Pass, PhD

Undergraduate Program Director
Teaching Professor

TEACHING CONCENTRATION: Microbiology and Urban Education MORE ABOUT DR. PASS

Jenna Pruett, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor

My research interests are focused on evolutionary ecology, phenotypic plasticity, herpetology, and pedagogy.  Personal Website

Adam M. Reitzel, PhD

Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, KCOS
Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Evolution and ecology of coastal invertebrates using comparative genomics, molecular biology, population genetics, evolutionary ecology, and field studies. LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. REITZEL’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Xiaojun Ren, PHD

Irwin Belk Distinguished Scholar of Biology/Associate Professor
Woodward 390D

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION:Epigenetic mechanisms, Genome organization, Single-molecule imaging, Liquid-liquid phase separation, Polycomb proteins LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. REN’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Christine Richardson, PhD

Department Chair
Professor

DNA recombination and repair