MCDB Faculty Accepting Rotation Students 2009-2010
* Please Note, do not limit yourself to this list when approaching faculty about a possible rotation. If you are interested in the lab of an MCDB faculty member who is not on this list, you are highly encouraged to contact them personally to discuss possible rotation opportunities.
Bassham, Diane - GDCB
Website - http://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/faculty/facultyDetail.php?id=113
Phone - 515-294-7461
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Signal transduction during nutrient stress; role of vacuolar autophagy
Beattie, Gwyn - Plant Pathology
Website - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbeattie/
Phone - 515-294-5571
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall
Research area - Genetics, physiology and ecology of plant-associated bacteria; bacteria as biosensors
Bonning, Bryony - Entomology
Website - http://www.ent.iastate.edu/dept/faculty/bonningb/
Phone - 515-294-1989
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Virus-based insect pest management, Insect physiology
Johansen, Kristen BBMB
Website - http://www.bbmb.iastate.edu/kjohansen.shtml
Phone - (515) 294-7959
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Regulation of nuclear architecture and chromatin structure during the cell cycle
Kanthasamy, Anumantha - BMS
Website - http://vetmed.iastate.edu/faculty_staff/profiles/akanthas.asp
Phone - 515-294-216
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Parkinsons disease and its related movement disorders
Link, Charles - GDCB
Website - http://www.newlinkgenetics.com/
Phone - 515-294-3530
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research Area - Gene therapy of cancer, ovarian cancer, growth factor adjuvants for chemotherapy, DNA repair
Martin, Richard - BMS
Phone - 515-294-2470
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Our research activity stems from an interest in ion-channel receptors and their responses to drugs. We have developed C. elegans and Ascaris suum preparations for recording at the single-channel level and examining the mode of action of drugs on their ion-channels. Our research interest extends to the mode of action of antiparasitic drugs and resistance to them and covers developing areas of molecular pharmacology.
Miller, Cathy - VMPM
Website - http://vetmed.iastate.edu/research/labs/clm
Phone - 515-294-4797
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - The Miller lab is interested in gaining a better understanding of techniques used by viruses to overcome the host cell response to infection by defining interactions that occur between viruses and the cells they infect.
Nikolau, Basil BBMB
Website - http://www.fshn.hs.iastate.edu/faculty/nikolau.php
Phone - (515) 294-9423
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Biochemistry and functional genomics of plant metabolism
Nilsen-Hamilton, Marit BBMB
Website - http://www.bbmb.iastate.edu/nilsenhamilton.shtml
Phone - (515) 294-9996 (515) 294-5682
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Growth factors; tissue remodeling; RNA aptamer probes for medical applications
Ross, Jason - Ani Sci
Website - http://www.ans.iastate.edu/faculty/index.php?id=jwross
Phone - 515-294-8647
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Identification and the study of the effects miRNAs have on transcriptome and proteome during oocyte maturation, early embryonic development and implantation in the pig. These mechanisms are studied in vivo, in vitro and SCNT derived embryos.
Shogren-Knaak, Michael - BBMB
Website - http://www.bbmb.iastate.edu/shogren-knaak.shtml
Phone - (515) 294-9015
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall
Research area - Role and establishment of histone modifications; chromatin structure
Singh, Ravindra BMS
Website - http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/faculty_staff/profiles/sravindra.asp
Phone - (515) 294-8505
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Semester Accepting Rotations - accepting one student fall and one spring
Research area - Role of alternative splicing in human and animal diseases
Wang, Kan - Agronomy
Website - http://www.agron.iastate.edu/personnel/userspage.aspx?id=266
Phone - (515) 294-4429
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Provide services in genetic transformation of corn, soybean and rice for academic researchers. Develop advanced technology for genetic transformation. Develop corn-based edible vaccines for livestock. Elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which plants respond to environmental stress and hormonal signals. Develop stress-tolerant crops. Develop cellulase producing corn for biorenewable material.
Yang, Bing GDCB
Website - http://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/faculty/facultyDetail.php?id=1230
Phone - (515) 294-2968
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Spring
Research area - The long term goal of research in my laboratory is to better understand the plant disease, and gain knowledge to aid the design of more intelligent breeding strategies for disease control by blocking the host disease susceptibility pathway in addition to deployment of genetic disease resistance genes in crop plants.
Yu, Edward - Physics & Astronomy
Phone - 515-294-4955
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Semester Accepting Rotations - Fall/Spring
Research area - Structural and mechanistic aspects of membrane transport; X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins
MCDB Faculty Possibly Accepting Rotations
Brehm-Strecher, Byron - FSHN
Website - http://www.fshn.hs.iastate.edu/faculty/brehm-stecher.php
Phone - (515) 294-6469
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Research area - Flow cytometry and other single cell analytical methods
Macintosh, Gustavo - BBMB
Website - http://www.bbmb.iastate.edu/macintosh.shtml
Phone - (515) 294-2627
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Research area - Ribonuclease function in plants; proteomics of Arabidopsis nucleases
