Bioscience Experts at University of Maryland

I. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Note: All email addresses end with .umd.edu* unless otherwise indicated*
Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Eric Baerecke	Cell death and development	301-405-7525	baehreck@umbi.
Ben Bederson	Interface search for biodiversity informatics	301-405-2764	bederson@cs.
Michael Cummings	Molecular evolution, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology	301-405-9903	mike@umiacs.
Charles Delwiche	Plant evolution	301-405-8286	delwiche@umd.
Lise Getoor	Link mining for bioinformatics	301-405-2691	getoor@cs.
Timothy Hiriuchi	Neural computation	301-405-7412	timmer@isr.
Joseph JaJa	Development of novel data products and computer science technologies in support of the NASA Earth Science Enterprise.	301-405-6722	joseph@umiacs.
Douglas Julin	Enzymology of genetic recombination and DNC repair.	301-405-1821	dj13@umail.
Benjamin Kedem	Statistical techniques and analysis of time-series data.	301-405-5112	bnk@math.
Maria Klapa	Bioinformatics, modeling of biological networks.	301-405-1320	mklapa@eng.
Doron Levy	Mathematical Modeling, Cancer, Immunology, Plant Biology, Imaging.	301-405-5140	dlevy@math.
Charles Mitter	Phylogeny and insect-plant interactions.	301-405-3912	cmitter@
Stephen Mount	Splice site selection	301-405-6934	smount@wam.
Dianne O'Leary	Scientific computing	301-405-2678	oleary@cs.
Louiqa Raschid	Scientific discovery from biomolecular data sources.	301-405-2228	louiqa@umiacs.
Estelle Russek-Cohen	Biometrics.	301-405-1403	erussek@
Shihab Shamma	Neural signal processing.	301-405-6842	sas@eng.
Ben Shneiderman	Information visualization for the exploration of genetic and microarray data.	301-405-2680	ben@cs.
Jonathan Simon	Neural processing and sound localization.	301-405-3645	jzsimon@eng.
Sarah Tishkoff	Human evolutionary genetics.	301-405-6038	tishkoff@
Chau-Wen Tseng	High-performance computing for bioinformatic applications.	301-405-8010	tseng@cs.
Amitabh Varshney	3D graphics and scientific visualization.	301-405-6761	varshney@cs.
Gerald Wilkinson	Social behavior and evolutionary genetics.	301-405-6942	gw10@umail.
James Yorke	Genome research, population dynamics of the HIV-AIDS epidemic.	301-405-4875	yorke2@ipst.

II. Cell biology and molecular genetics
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Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Ibrahim Ades	Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.	301-405-5435	ia1@umail.
George Bean	Plant pathology: occurrence, development and control of mycotoxins.	301-405-1592	gb9@umail.
Spencer Benson	Genetic analysis of bacterial surfaces; prokaryotic molecular biology; evolution.	301-405-5478	sb77@umail.
Brian Bequette	Metabolomics, or metabolic profiling, the bridge between genomics and proteomics and animal performance.	301-405-8457	bbequett@wam.
Caren Chang	Plant molecular genetics: signal transduction; hormonal signaling.	301-405-1643	carenc@
Gary Coleman	Molecular analysis of terminal bud formation, environmental regulation of poplar bark storage protein gene expression.	301-405-4371	gc76@umail.
Rita Colwell	Bioinformatics.	703-306-1000	colwell@umbi.
Todd Cooke	Plant development and evolution, generation of biological form, developmental mechanisms operating in the origin and diversification of land plants, nature of multicellularity.	301-405-1628	tc23@umail.
Jose Costa	Screening of germplasm from soft red Winter wheat for molecular marker polymorphisms linked to pre-harvest sprouting; isolation of resistant gene analogs from wheat.	301-405-1317	jc274@umail.
James Culver	Molecular plant-virus interactions; virion assembly, repliation, and long-distance movement of tobacco mosaic virus.	301-405-2912	jc216@umail.
Margaret de Cuevas	Drosophila cell and developmental biology.	301-405-4163	mc281@umail.
Gerald Deitzer	Molecular genetics of floral induction.	301-405-4335	gd3@umail.
Jeffrey DeStefano	Mechanism of retroviral reverse transcriptases as it relates to replication and recombination.	301-405-5449	jd146@umail.
Jonathan Dinman	Techniques for interfering with viral reproduction by upsetting necessary ratios of viral proteins	301-405-0918	jd280@umail.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero	Archaeal molecular biology, comparative and functional genomics.	301-405-4598	jd92@umail.
Kenneth Frauwirth	T cell activation and peripheral tolerance mechanisms; regulation of lymphocyte metabolism.	301-405-2507	kfrauwir@
Elisabeth Gantt	Photosynthetic apparatus and accessory pigments; physiology of algae; phylogenetic relationships.	301-405-1649	eg37@umail.
Eric Haag	Molecular and functional evolution of nematode sex determination genes.	301-405-8534	ehaag@wam.
Iqbal Hamza	Cell biology and genetics of micronutrient and metal metabolism.	301-405-0649	hamza@
Steven Hutcheson	Molecular plant pathology; molecular biology of pseudomonas parasitism; role and regulation of Type III protein secretion systems; pathogenecity and non-host plant resistance.	301-405-5498	sh53@umail.
Richard Imberski	Genetic regulation of development; hormone-deficient mutants; ecydsteroids in insect development.	301-405-6929	rimbersk@
Sam Joseph	Bacterial toxins; mechanisms of virulence; emerging causes of human gastroenteritis; bacterial pathogenesis.	301-405-5452	sj13@umail.
Carol Keefer	Reproductive biology and embryology.	301-405-3933	ckeefer@
Zhongchi Liu	Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.	301-405-1586	zl17@umail.
Ian Mather	Expression and function of mammary glycoproteins.	301-405-1380	imather@
Marla McIntosh	Genetics of hyperaccumulation of Cd in Thiaspi caerulescens; genetic diversity; phytomedicinals.	301-405-1323	mm45@umail.
Edgar Moctezuma	Plant physiology - fruit development, plant hormones, postharvest biology, plant genetic engineering.	301-405-1638	emoctezu@
Bernard Moss	Virus replication and host interactions.		bmoss@nih.gov
David Mosser	Cell biology and immunology of macrophages and dentritic cells.	301-405-2781	dm268@umail.
Donald Nuss	Engineering viruses to understand and control fungal pathogenesis.	301-405-0334	nuss@umbi.
Mary Ann Ottinger	Physiology/reproduction.	301-405-5780	maotting@
Daniel Perez	Molecular basis of interspecies transmission, pathogenesis, and cross-protection of influenza A viruses.	301-314-6811	dperez1@
Tom Porter	Cell molecular biology and physiology/reproduction.	301-405-2516	TEPorter@umd.
Anne Simon	Molecular biology of plant-virus interactions.	301-405-8975	Anne_Simon @umail.
Leon Slaughter	Differential growth among wheat and barley phenotypes.	301-405-2078	ls24@umail.
Theo Solomos	Biochemical and molecular effects f hypoxia on plant senescence; suppression of reducing sugar accumulation during storage of potatoes at chilling temperatures through genetic engineering.	301-405-4348	ts22@umail.
Wenxia Song	Immunology; processing and presentation of antigens by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II in B cells.	301-405-7552	ws98@umail
Daniel Stein	Molecular genetics; virulence mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria; characterization of DNA restriction and modification systems.	301-405-5448	ds64@umail.
Richard Stewart	Microbial physiology, molecular biology of bacterial motility, sensory systems in microorganisms.	301-405-5475	rs224@umail.
David Straney	Regulation of gene expression and development in response to external cues; plant pathogen interactions. fungal-fungal interactions.	301-405-1622	straney@umail.
Joseph Sullivan	The role of phenolics in the response of plants to UVB radiation.	301-405-1626	js128@umail.
Heven Sze	Cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry	301-405-1645	hs29@umail.
Vikram Vakharia	Molecular virology and vaccine development.	301-405-4777	vakharia@umbi.
Inder Vijay	Cell molecular biology, physiology/reproduction, and transgenics.	301-405-1407	ivijay@
Ronald Weiner	Microbial ecology; bioremediation; molecular mechanisms of microbial adhesion and biofouling.	301-405-5446	rw19@umail.
Stephen Wolniak	Cell biology: cell motility; mechanisms of chromosome movement during mitosis; signal transduction in the regulation of mitotic progression.	301-405-1605	sw36@umail.
Robert Yuan	Protein recognition of specific DNA sequences; reaction mechanism of restriction and modification enzymes; DNA methylation in mammalian cells.	301-405-5436	ry11@umail.

III. Chemistry and Biochemistry
Note: All email addresses end with .umd.edu* unless otherwise indicated*
Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Millard Alexander	Inelastic and reactive molecular collisions; photofragmentation of small molecules.	301-405-1823	mha@wam.
Norma Allewell	Biochemical mechanisms of action of multisubunit proteins, particularly those involved in nitrogen metabolism.	301-405-2071	allewell@deans.
Herman Ammon	Structural chemistry, explosives and propellants, lattice energy calculations, crystal packing analysis, crystal structure predictions.	301-405-1824	ha3@umail.
Dorothy Beckett	Molecular recognition and allostery in the multi-functional biotin repressor .	301-405-1812	db248@umail.
Kaye Brubaker	Hydrology and water resources.	301-405-1965	klbrubak@eng.
Allen Davis	Environmental engineering.	301-405-1958	apdavis@eng.
Jeffery Davis	Organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, self-assembly, molecular recognition, chirality.	301-405-7315	jd140@umail.
Philip DeShong	Synthesis of heterocyclic natural products, development of methodology for organic synthesis, new methods for the synthesis of combinatorial libraries.	301-405-1889	pd10@umail.
Michael Doyle	Design and development of transition metal catalysts capable of high selectivity in organic chemical transformations. Focus on pharmaceutical applications.	301-405-8388	mdoyle3@
Bryan Eichhorn	Synthesizing new metastable materials by non-traditional methods. Production and full characterization of pseudo-binary molecular precursors and structure. Property analysis of results.	301-405-1864	be11@umail.
Douglas English	Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Self-assembling biomimetic membrane systems. Bioinorganic interactions and semiconductor nanoparticles.	301-405-3368	denglish@wam.
Daniel Falvey	Photoenzymatic repair of DNA. Design and synthesis of photochemical triggering agents. Photochemical degradation of drugs and natural products.	301-405-7023	df37@umail.
David Fushman	Structure determination in multi-domain proteins, protein complexes and protein dynamics; physical and mathematical modeling.	301-405-3461	fushman@wam.
Reza Ghodssi	Development of polymeric microfluidic devices for patterning bio-molecules.	301-405-8058	ghodssi@eng.
Sandra Greer	Exerpimental thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of fluids and fluid mixtures.	301-405-0382	sg28@umail.
Samuel Grim	Organophosphorus chemistry; synthesis of novel ligands; anionic tripod ligands; sulfur ligands; phosphorus NMR studies; coordination compounds; organometallic chemistry.	301-405-1846	sg31@umail.
J. Norman Hansen	Novel ribosomally-synthesized peptide antibiotics that are produced by gram-positive bacteria. They are subtilin, which is produced by Bacillus subtilis; and nisin, which is produced by Streptococcus lactis.	301-405-1848	jh21@umail.
Jin-Shan Hu	Structural biology, new NMR methods and application in DNA repair and tumor suppressor proteins.	301-405-1504	jh336@umail.
Lyle Isaacs	Self-assembly in water, self-sorting.	301-405-1884	li8@umail.
Bruce Jarvis	Isolation of anti-tumor agents from natural sources, medicinal plant chemistry, chemical basis of plant-fungus interactions.	301-405-1844	bj6@umail.
Jason Kahn	DNA topology in multi–protein complexes. Geometry and flexibility of protein-DNA complexes and DNA loops.	301-405-0058	jk158@umail.
Frederick Khachik	Isolation and characterization of carotenoids and their metabolites from natural products and human serum/tissues. Bioavailability and metabolic studies with carotenoids in humans and animals.	301-405-5991	fk17@umail.
Raj Khanna	Infrared and Raman spectroscopy, solid state physics, crystal structure.	301-405-1894	rk13@umail.
Peter Kofinas	Biomimetic recognition of sugars and viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using self-assembled block copolymer patterns.	301-405-7335	kofinas@
Cheng S. Lee	Bioseparations and bioanalytical chemistry; microchip based bioassays;drug screening; genome mapping/typing; proteome analysis	301-405-1020	cl143@umail.
Sang Bok Lee	Nanotubes for chemical and biochemical separations and detections.	301-405-7906	sl223@umail.
George Lorimer	Methods in enzymology: molecular chaperones.	301-405-1828	gl48@umail.
Wolfgang Losert	Dynamic control and analysis of biopolymer networks. Laser tweezer array for submicron control of soft materials and novel network dynamics.	301-405-0629	wlosert@glue.
Alice Mignerey	Heavy-ion induced nuclear reactions with special emphasis placed on deeply inelastic collisions and projectile fragmentation.	301-405-1853	mignerey @wam.
Gerald Miller	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, particularly the NMR of solids. Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance detection of 14 N in explosives and narcotics.	301-405-1799	gm26@umail.
John Moore	Low-energy electron-molecule interactions with application to semiconductor device fabrication; electrons and ions in the upper atmosphere.	301-405-1867	jm89@umail.
Andrew Morehead	Organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, ligand design and synthesis, organic synthesis	301-405-1809	am228@umail.
Victor Munoz	Biophysical chemistry, protein folding, design, protein engineering, misfolding, aggregation, conformational diseases.	301-405-3165	vm48@umail.
Thomas Murphy	Statistical mechanics of gases and Brownian systems with hard-core and/or Coulomb interactions.	301-405-1874	tm34@umail.
Tracey Holoman	Biochemical engineering and bioremediation.	301-405-1909	tholoman@eng.
Janice Reutt-Robey	Surface chemistry and nanoscale science, supramolecular nanostructures, chemisorption and mass transport processes, crystal growth and engineering, surface morphology, scanning probe methods, surface spectroscopy and microscopy.	301-405-1807	rrobey@wam.
Steven Rokita	Nucleic acid structure and reactivity; therapeutic and toxicology aspects of DNA modification.	301-405-0373	rokita@
Rajarshi Roy	Holographic laser tweezer array for submicron control of soft materials and novel network dynamics.	301-405-4878	rroy@glue.
Larry Sita	Transition and main group metal inorganic and organometallic chemistry, new nanofabrication processes	301-405-5911	ls214@umail.
Devarajan Thirumalai	Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; transition from liquid to amorphous state; polymer-colloid interactions; the dynamics of protein folding.	301-405-4803	thirum@glue.
John Tossell	Geometric and electronic structure of various molecules and clusters occuring both in gas and condensed phases.	301-405-1868	tossell@chem.
Nam Sun Wang	Biochemical engineering.	301-405-1910	nsw@eng.
John Weeks	The static and dynamic properties of interfaces: the dynamics of steps on crystal surfaces. The properties of inhomogeneous and confined fluids. Both areas involve properties of strongly interacting disordered systems.	301-405-4802	jdw@ipst.
William Weigand	Biochemical engineering, bioprocess control and optimization.	301-405-1916	weigand@eng.

IV. Engineering and Biology
Note: All email addresses end with .umd.edu* unless otherwise indicated*
Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Pamela Abshire	Bioengineering, neuromorphic engineering.	301-405-6629	pabshire@isr.
Ilias Balaras	Biomedical fluid flows.	301-405-8268	balaras@eng.
Timothy Barbari	Membrane science, polymer science, membrane-based separations and biomedical devices.	301-405-2983	barbari@glue.
Avram Bar-Cohen	Thermal phenomena in biological systems.	301-405-3173	abc@
William Bentley	Metabolic engineering, quorum sensing and in vivo genetic manipulation.	301-405-4321	bentley@eng.
Robert Briber	Thermodynamics of complex polymer sytstems, structural solutions of novel molecules.	301-405-7313	rbriber@
Nicholas DeClaris	Computational intelligence, system and medical applications.	301-405-3639	declaris@eng.
Donald DeVoe	Biofluidic microsystems.	301-405-8125	ddev@eng.
Panos Dimitrakopoulos	Biofluid mechanics, biophysics and microrheology.	301-405-8166	dimitrak@eng.
Carol Espy-Wilson	Digital speech processing and speech analysis, vocal tract modeling, acoustic phonetics and lexical access.	301-405-7411	espy@glue.
John Fisher	Biomedical engineering.	301-405-7475	jpfisher@
Sandra Greer	Polymer science, biomacromolecules.	301-405-1895	sg28@umail.
Keith Herold	Thermal aspects of bioengineering.	301-405-5268	herold@eng.
William Levine	Analysis and synthesis of biomechanical controls, and signal processing of biomechanical signals, with specific application to the biomechanics of the human tongue.	301-405-3654	wsl@eng.
Robert Newcomb	Biomedical engineering.	301-405-3662	newcomb@eng.
Gregory Payne	Biomolecular engineering of materials; biofabrication; interfacing biopolymers and enzymes with microfabrication; nature-inspired construction of structural biomaterials; utilization of renewable resources for polymeric materials.	301-405-8389	payne@umbi.
Omar Ramahi	Biomedical applications of electromagnetics.	301-405-5261	oramahi@calce.
Gary Rubloff	Biomaterials and bioMEMS.	301-405-2949	rubloff@isr.
Elisabeth Smela	Combination of living cells with sensors and microfabricated systems	301-405-5265	smela@eng.
Andrei Vedernikov	Development of new bond breaking and bond making processes, manipulation with kinetically inert molecules (methane, dinitrogen etc.).	301-405-2784	avederni@
Robert Walker	Structural and dynamic profiling of solvation at surfaces; hydrophobic interactions at solid–liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces; nonlinear optical spectroscopy.	301-405-8667	rw158@umail.

V. Environmental Bioscience
Note: All email addresses end with .umd.edu* unless otherwise indicated*
Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Jay S. Angle	Phytoremediation of metal contaminants in soil and of phosphorus enriched soils; development of microcosms for evaluating risk of genetically engineered bacteria.	301-405-1346	ja35@umail.
Earlene Armstrong	Insect pathology, parasitology, medical entomology.	301-405-3925	earmstro @deans.
Andrew Baldwin	Wetland ecology, plant community dynamics of coastal marshes and mangroves, ecological engineering.	301-405-7855	baldwin@
Pedro Barbosa	Host-plant interactions, ecology and behavior of parasitic insects.	301-405-3946	pb5@umail.
Jennifer Becker	Bioenvironmental engineering; biological treatment processes, bioremediation of groundwater and soils, biodegradation, microbial ecology of natural and engineered systems, recovery of products from waste streams, waste management.	301-405-1179	jgbecker@wam.
Neil Blough	Photochemical and free radical reactions in the environment.	301-405-0337	nb41@umail.
Dale Bottrell	Biological control, biodiversity.	301-405-3938	bottrell@
Amy Brown	Pesticide effects on human health.	301-405-3913	peap @entomology.
Steven Buckley	Air pollution and combustion chemistry, combustion-generated air pollution monitoring/modeling, and environmental health.	301-405-8441	buckley@eng.
Russ Dickerson	Chemistry of air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, global biogeochemical cycles and global climatic change.	301-405-5364	russ@atmos.
Galen Dively	Agricultural pest management; vegetable fruit and field crops.	301-405-3913	gd7@umail.
Kathryne Everts	Epidemiology and changes in vegetable plant pathogen populations in response to disease management practices and changes in cultural practices.	410-742-8780	ke35@umail.
Gary Felton	Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering, nonpoint source pollution, urban nutrient management, groundwater hydrology and quality, field sampling of water flow and quality.	301-405-8039	gfelton@
Catherine Fenselau	Biomolecular studies using mass spectrometry interactions of drugs and proteins; rapid characterization of microorganisms by mass spectrometry; new methods for proteomics mechanisms of acquired drug resistance.	301-405-8616	fenselau@
Oliver J. Hao	Wet air oxidation of hazardous wastes; co-metabolism of hazardous organics; nutrient removal; biological process control; biological nitrate, sulfate, chromium (VI) and selenium (IV) reduction.	301-405-1961	ojh1@eng.
Matthew Hare	Use of genetic markers to determine proportion of juvenile oysters that derive from slectively bred disease-resistant strains vs. natural background oysters.	301-405-7264	matt.hare @umail.
George Helz	Environmental geochemistry; water disinfection chemistry, trace metal chemistry in sulfidic waters, and Chesapeake Bay geochemistry.	301-405-1798	gh17@umail.
Bruce James	Chromium oxidation-reduction in soils: relevance to chromate contamination in groundwater of the Northeast U.S.	301-405-8573	bj5@umail.
Arthur Johnson	Human performance while wearing respirator masks, biomechanics.	301-405-1184	aj16@umail.
Yvette Johnson	On-farm risk factors for infectious disease.	410-742-8788 x309	yjj@
Richard Just	Pesticide regulation.	301-405-1289	rjust@
Andrew Kane	Pathology and toxicology of aquatic and marine organisms with emphasis on Chesapeake Bay fauna, aquaculture and captive fish species.		akane1@
Patrick Kangas	Ecological engineering, natural resources management, tropical ecosystems.	301-405-1259	pk31@umail.
Jungho Kim	Heat transfer mechanisms in boiling and spray cooling in Earth and microgravity environments.	301-405-5437	kimjh@eng.
Robert Kratochvil	Phytoremediation of phosphorus enriched soils.	301-405-6241	rk32@umail.
John Lea-Cox	Water and nutrient management.	301-405-4323	jl207@umail.
John List	Environmental and resource problems.	301-405-1288	JList@arec.
Richard McCuen	Hydrologic and water resources engineering.	301-405-1949	rhmccuen@eng.
Glenn Moglen	Hydrology and water resources.	301-405-1964	moglen@eng.
Bahram Momen	Forest ecosystems, air pollution effects on ecosystem processes through plants.	301-405-1332	bmomen@
Hubert Montas	Bioenviromental and water resources engineering, numerical methods in environmental biodynamics, transport modeling.	301-405-1196	montas@
Brian Needelman	Combining pedology and hydrology to understand soil development; hydrology of contaminant transport at field, watershet and regional scales, soil mapping.	301-405-8227	bneed@
Maile Neel	Biological diversity patterns and reserve design, evolutionary distinctiveness of rare taxa.	301-405-9780	mneel@
Judd Nelson	Insecticide toxicology, environmental toxicoloty.	301-405-3919	jn5@umail.
Timothy Ng	Disease resistance and host-pathogen relationships in vegetable crops.	301-405-4345	tng@deans.
John Ondov	Sources and atmospheric behavior of urban aerosol particles.	301-405-1857	jondov@wam.
Margaret Palmer	Stream community and ecosystems ecology, restoration ecology.	301-405-6948	mpalmer@
Doug Parker	Water quality and land use, land/water linkages in the Chesapeake Bay, agricultural production.	301-405-8042	dparker@arec.
Martin Rabenhorst	Genesis, morphology and classification of hydromorphic soils, pedogenesis and resource inventory of subaqueous soils.	301-405-9041	mr1@umail.
David Ross	Bioengineering, horticultural engineering, controlled-environment agriculture, trickle irrigation, water and nutrient management, Web-based teaching, postharvest cooling.	301-405-1188	dr27@umail.
Raymond St. Leger	Insect pathogens, molecular biology of fungal insect interactions, insect immunity.	301-405-5402	stleger@
Eric Seagren	Environmental engineering.	301-405-4828	eseagren@eng.
Adel Shirmohammadi	Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; water quality/transport modeling, nonpoint source pollution assessment using an integrated watershed approach.	301-405-1185	as31@umail.
Robert Sprinkle	Clinical medicine; bioengineering; health policy; bioethics; environmental dynamics and policy; political history; moral philosophy; and biosecurity.	301-405-0184	sprinkle@
Yaron Sternberg	Water resources engineering.	301-405-1947	yaronst@eng.
David Tilley	Ecological engineering; industrial ecology, ecological air purification, remote sensing of ecosystem energetics, emergy evaluation, ecological decision-making.	301-405-7288	dtilley@
Alba Torrents	Environmental engineering.	301-405-1979	alba@eng.
Sara Via	Ecological genetics and evolution.	301-405-8941	sv47@umail.
William Walters	Nuclear chemistry, nuclear structure, radioactive decay (including proton decay), explosive nucleosynthesis (r-process and rp-process), nuclear moments, exotic nuclei.	301-405-1856	ww3@umail.
Michael Zachariah	Nano-particle science, manufacturing and measurements. Microcombustion, energetic materials and reacting flows (combustion and thermal CVD processes). Fundamentals of gas-phase chemical kinetics.	301-405-4311	mrz@

VI. Food Safety and Nutrition
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Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Thomas Castonguay	Dietary preferences, feeding patterns, glucoregulation, and neuroscience and nutrition.	301-405-4503	castong@
Robert Jackson	Nutritional anemias, international nutrition, diet and evolution, nutritional status during pregnancy.	301-405-4533	bojack@
Mark Kantor	Food safety, diet and chronic disease.	301-405-1018	mkantor@
Richard Kohn	Animal nutrition management.	301-405-4583	rkohn@
David Lei	Nutrient control of gene expression, trace mineral metabolism.	301-405-2143	dlei@
David Lineback	Food safety and nutrition	301-405-8382	lineback@
Y. Martin Lo	Bioprocessing technologies for value-added food products.	301-405-4509	ymlo@
Bernadene Magnuson	Food toxicology, diet and cancer prevention.	301-405-4523	bmagnuso@
Paul Mazzocchi	Food safety.	301-405-8482	pmazzoch@
Jianghong Meng	Foodborne bacterial pathogens: mechanisms of pathogenecity, diagnostic methods for pathogen detection.	301-405-1399	jmeng@
Phylis Moser-Veillon	Trace mineral metabolism during lactation and pregnancy.	301-405-4502	pmv@
Suman Mukhopadhyay	Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating host responses to food-borne pathogenic bacteria and the virulence factors of these bacteria that allow the organism to survive within the host.	301-314-6812	smukhopa@
Mark Sagoff	The dilemma encountered by the food industry in embracing genetic engineering due to the advertising of natural products.	301-405-4762	msagoff@
Nadine Sahyoun	Nutritional epidemiology.	301-405-8774	nsahyoun@
Yang Tao	Bioengineering, bioimaging, machine vision, food-processing engineering safety, food safety and quality, biomaterial inspection, sensors and bioinstrumentation, robotics, and automation.	301-405-1189	ytao@wam.
Dennis Westhoff	Microbiology and food safety.	301-405-3273	dcw@
Frederick Wheaton	Bioengineering; aquacultural engineering, closed-cycle aquaculture, automation, seafood processing, modeling of aquacultural systems, seafood plant waste disposal and use.	301-405-2223	fw4@umail.
Curry Woods	Aquaculture, physiology/reproduction and nutrition.	301-405-7974	curry@
Liangli Yu	Nutraceuticals and functional foods, food chemistry and enzymology, by-products from food processing.	301-405-0761	ly46@umail.

VII. Neurobiology
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Expert's Name	Research Interests	Phone	Email
Alexandra Bely	Evolution and mechanism of regeneration and segmentation. Animal body plan evolution.	301-405-0225	abely@
Catherine Carr	Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.	301-405-2085	cecarr@
Avis Cohen	Motor physiology and control; neuromorphic engineering; computational neuroscience with emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.	301-405-0069	avis@isr.
Marco Colombini	Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems.	301-405-6925	mc34@umail.
Roger Davenport	Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying development of the visual system.	301-405-8413	rd127@umail.
Robert Dooling	Comparative psycho acoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.	301-405-5925	dooling@psyc.
William Higgins	Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.	301-405-7916	whiggins@
William Hodos	Vision and visual system in birds; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of brain and behavior; animal intelligence.	301-405-5875	whodos@psyc.
William Jeffery	Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.	301-405-6884	jeffery@
Matthew Kelley	Development of vertebrate auditory system, determination of cell fate, cellular patterning.	301-405-6887	kelleymt @nidcd.nih.gov
Hey-Kyoung Lee	Molecular and cellular mechanisms that mediate synaptic activity in the brain.	301-405-9784	hlee21@
Cynthia Moss	Comparative sensory physiology and behavior; auditory information processing in bats; psychophysical studies of spatial perception by sonar.	301-405-0353	cmoss@psyc.
Stephen O'Brien	Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.	301-405-6887	sobrien3@umd.
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