Faculty
Director:
Keith R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Oral Biology at UNMC
Associate Director:
Richard G. MacDonald, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNMC
Current Project Leaders:
Naava Naslavsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNMC
Jixin Dong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Rene Opavsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Aimin Peng, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Oral Biology at UNMC
Graduated Project Leaders (9 total from 2003 to present):
Melanie Simpson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry at UNL
Received R01 funding 2005
Steve Caplan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNMC
Received R01 funding 2006
Xu Luo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Received R01 funding 2006
James Wahl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Oral Biology at UNMC
Received R01 funding 2006
Yaping Tu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor , Pharmacology at Creighton School of Medicine
Received R01 funding 2007
Laura A Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences at Creighton School of Medicine
Received R01 funding 2007
Ali Nawshad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Oral Biology at UNMC
Received R01 funding 2008
Greg Oakley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Oral biology at UNMC
Received ACS funding 2010
Jing "Jenny" Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Received R01 funding 2010
Mentors:
Robert E. Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Thomas M. Petro, Ph.D.
Professor, Oral Biology at UNMC
Parmender Mehta, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNMC
Joyce Solheim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Eppley Institute at UNMC
Shantaram Joshi, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics and Cell Biology at UNMC
Melanie Simpson, Ph.D.
Jr. mentor/Graduated member
Steve Caplan, Ph.D.
Jr. mentor/Graduated member
James K. Wahl, Ph.D.
Director Live Cell Core/Graduated member
