Colleges, Research, and Affiliated Faculty
Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise
Research focuses on nutrition, disease, health, metabolism, and human behavior
- Cardiac physiology and mitochondrial biology
- Community-based participatory research
- Dysregulated skeletal muscle substrate metabolism in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer
- Essential branched chain amino acids nutritional signals influencing macronutrient choice, body composition, immune function, and inborn errors of metabolism
- Metabolic diseases and weight control and health
- Nutrition and physical activity interventions targeting at-risk populations
- Physical and social factors on physical activity and nutrition
- Polyphenol research
- Social network analysis and the influence on physical activity, nutrition, and weight management
CALS faculty housed in the ILSB:
Department of Fish & Wildife Conservation
Research lab studies the genetics of fish and wildlife species
- Aquaculture biotechnology and related public policy
- Genetics education
- Genetic improvement of aquaculture stocks
CNRE faculty housed in the ILSB:
Departments of:
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geosciences, and School of Neuroscience
Research includes proteomics, crystallography, cellular processes and cell signaling, and regulation of the cell and circadian cycles
- Biomarker discovery, lab-on-a-chip applications, oncoproteomics, and breast cancer cell cycle
- Cellular signaling and movement
- Disruption of the cell cycle and cancer link
- High-pressure crystallography combined with high-pressure infrared and Raman spectroscopy applied to mineral stabilities
- Poteomics: methods to interrogate biological systems using advanced proteomics, mass spectrometry, and microfluidic technologies
- Microtubules and microtubule-dependent motor proteins in cellular processes such as mitosis and meiosis
- Understanding mind, brain, and behavior in health and disease at a cellular, genetic, molecular, and systems level through interdisciplinary studies and hands-on research
College of Science faculty housed in the ILSB:
Departments of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology and Population Health Sciences
Research focuses on: virology labs studying viral pathogenesis / development of vaccines against emerging viral diseases and outreach initiatives related to human and animal health
- Treatment regimens for viruses; study of host-pathogen interactions and mechanisms of how viruses predispose to secondary bacterial infections
- Novel vaccine technology with broad applicability against enveloped viral pathogens
- Rotavirus vaccines
- Molecular basis for zoonotic viral diseases
- Novel treatment regimens for immune and viral therapy to combat ovarian cancer
- Evaluating chemo-preventative and chemotherapeutic uses of natural and synthetic sphingolipid metabolites and regulation of epigenetic gene silencing
- Molecular mechanisms regulating herpes simplex virus latency and reactivation
- Neuronal pathways by which HSV1 and HSV2 reach the CNS
CVM faculty housed in the ILSB: