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Email

Research Interests

Abrudan, Jenica

Transposable elements in mosquitoes and their effect on gene expression

Bader, Jason R.

 jbader@nd.edu

Regulation of the molecular motor dynein and its receptor dynactin during mitosis

Working on Anti-Dengue viral strategies to suppress Dengue infection in mosquito cells using hammerhead, maxizymes and group I introns

Invasive species, aquatic ecology, aquatic conservation, predator-prey interactions

Aquatic ecology, invasion biology, malacology

Bobeldyk, Angela

 bobeldyk.1@nd.edu

Stream ecology, aquatic invasive species

Population and conservation genetics, population establishment, hybridization

Investigating the role of CDC42 in mammary gland development

Carr, Aprell L.

Studying visual defects in the zebrafish night blindness models nbb and nbd

Elucidating the overwintering strategy of cucujus clavipes via proteomics

Population and functional genomics of Anopheles gambiae

Clancy, James

The role small GTPase Arf6 plays in the progression of cancer

Lipid trafficking in the late endosomes and lysosomes, particularly as it pertains to Niemann-Pick Type C Disease

Mechanisms of dynein regulation during mitosis

Aquatic ecology, human impacts on ecosystems, coastal processes

Invasive species, ecotoxicology

To prevent HIV infection via the use of Group I Introns

Invasive species, particularly Nile Tilapia introduced for development purposes into African Freshwaters

Epstein, Sarah

 sepstein@nd.edu

Aedes aegypti population genetics and factors that influence competence for dengue

Immunology

Cell signaling and genetics as they relate to cancer

Immunobiology of Leishmania spp. transmission, infection, and host response evasion

Mechanisms controlling development

CD93 and its role in inflammation

Griffiths, Natalie

 ngriffi1@nd.edu

Carbon cycling in Midwestern agricultural streams

Ocular lens development using the zebrafish model system

Heckmann, Anna

piggyBac NLS; group I introns and Dengue Virus

Modulation of macrophage transcription factors and cell signaling by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, drug discovery

Hoban, Sean

Population genetics, speciation, forest conservation

Metastatic process of breast cancer

Hornick, Jessica

 jhornick@nd.edu

Spindle Assembly in Mammalian systems and the role of the centrosome

Cellular mechanism of Niemann Pick Disease Type C

Fisheries, stream ecology

Effects of Anti-androgens on Prostate Cancer

Regulation of Dynein cargo binding during mitosis

Molecular microbiology, host-pathogen interactions

Krivda, Joseph

 jkrivda@nd.edu

The cellular processes involved in Huntington's Disease

Kroeger, Paul

Identifying what controls the regulation of the eater gene, then using eater to identify blood proliferation mutants in Drosophila

Neuro-endocrine control of behavior as it relates to mate choice in gray tree frogs

Parasite-host interactions, evolutionary biology, landscape epidemiology, wildlife disease ecology

Aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry

How land-use, climate change and exotic disease influence forest ecosystems and how they respond to these disturbances

Landscape genetics and behavior of Balinese long-tailed macaques

Monteleon, Christine

Epithelial architecture, cell morphology

Montgomery, Jacob

Retinal regeneration

The effects of restoration activities and land-use change on soil composition and function

Factors that induce transcription of specific antifreeze proteins in Dendroides canadensis

Population ecology, global change, conservation

Patrick, Christopher J.

Biodiversity patterns, biotic homogenization, human-impacted systems, invasive species, restoration/ecosystem engineering

Molecular biology

Pellon, Oscar

Cell Signaling and Cancer

Aquatic ecology and invasive species

Ecological Speciation, population genetics, coevolution, history of life

Prather, Chelse

Effects of species and functional groups on ecosystem processes, tropical ecology, forest ecology

Global change biology, species range expansions, plant-insect interactions, insect conservation

Raycroft, Francis

Retinal development and retinal regeneration in zebrafish

Neurosteroids

Reidenbach, Kyanne

Stream ecology, nutrient cycling in streams, invasive species, aquatic conservation

Rothlisberger, John D.

Aquatic ecology, invasive species, human-mediated organismal dispersal

Stream ecology, salmon research in Alaska

Infectious disease

Vector-borne diseases; vector-pathogen dynamics (lymphatic filariasis)

Aquatic ecology and invasive species

Cancer biology

Aquatic ecosystems, endangered species, and the interrelationship between science and policy for the management of natural resources

Molecular characterization of traits involved in the incipient sympatric speciation of Rhagoletis pomonella

Parasitology, malaria and antimalarial drug resistance

Finding relationships between genomic data and biological phenotypes using computational methods

Plant invasive species biology, forest community ecology, global climate change, nutrient cycling, plant physiological ecology

Mosquitoes and infectious disease

Aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry

Stoller, Jessica

Secretory mechanism in toxoplasma, especially on retrograde transport by ERDs

Genetic monitoring of invasive or threatened species; Population, evolutionary, and ecological genetics; Freshwater conservation biology and management; Phylogeography and biogeography; Evolution and speciation; Communication behavior

Comparative genomics, transposable elements, bioinformatics

Circadian rhythms

White, Bradley

Vector genetics, chromosomal inversions, population genomics