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Research Opportunities

 

Graduate student research is performed under the supervision of a faculty advisor from the Department of Oral Biology in facilities at the College of Dentistry or associated laboratories on the Lincoln or Omaha campus of UNMC. Core facilities include those for biomaterials, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, cell and tissue culture, and molecular biology.


Faculty Research Interests

  • Mark W. Beatty*, D.D.S., M.S.
    Dental Biomaterials: Maxillofacial materials development; coatings for biomaterials; Biocompatibility

  • Indraneel Bhattacharyya, D.D.S., M.S.D.
    Oral Pathology: Diagnosis and molecular biology and oral cancer

  • David G. Brown, Ph.D.
    Pharmacology/Biochemistry: Outcomes research; Research design

  • John Casey*, M.D.
    Pathology: Oral cancer

  • Larry D. Crouch, Ph.D.
    Physiology: Neuroendocrine modulation of inflammatory processes; molecular biology

  • Dennis E. Feely, Ph.D.
    Histology: Fine structure and immunocytochemistry of dental tissues; Cell biology of parasitic protozoans; Electron and light microscopy

  • Eric Fung, Ph.D.
    Pharmacology/Therapeutics: Behavioral and biochemical effects of psychotropic drugs on the CNS; Mercury toxicity from dental amalgam

  • Stanton D. Harn, Ph.D.
    Gross Anatomy: Anatomy of deep face and mandibular anesthesia; History of dentistry-Dental Museum

  • Dona J. Housh, Ph.D.
    Physiology: Muscle physiology; Hypertrophic response to isokinetric and isotonic training stimuli

  • Laura Iwasaki, D.D.S., Ph.D.*
    Craniofacial Growth/Development: Mechanics of osteodegenerative change in the human TMJ

  • Keith R. Johnson, Ph.D.
    Cell/Molecular: Biology Cell-cell adhesion; Oral cancer

  • Sreenivas Koka, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D.
    Biochemistry: Estrogen regulation of human interleukin-6 gene promoter; signal transduction in human osteoblasts

  • William M. Lydiatt*, M.D.
    Oral Cancer: Premalignant and malignant lesions in the head and neck

  • Jeffrey C. Nickel*, D.M.D., Ph.D.
    Craniofacial Growth/ Development: Mechanics of osteodegenerative change in the human TMJ

  • Kalipada Pahan, Ph.D.
    Biochemistry: Signaling pathways for the biosynthesis of iNOS and proinflammatory cytokines; molecular biology

  • Jeffrey B. Payne*, D.D.S., M.S.
    Immunology/Periodontology: Immunologic and clinical response to periodontal pathogens, estrogen, tobacco products, and chemotherapeutics

  • Thomas M. Petro, Ph.D.
    Immunology: Effects of nutritional deficiencies on the immune system; foodborne pathogens and the secretory immune system; molecular biology

  • Richard A. Reinhardt*, D.D.S., Ph.D.
    Immunology/Periodontology: Immunologic and clinical response to periodontal pathogens, estrogen, tobacco products, and chemotherapeutics

  • David H. Shaw, Ph.D.
    Pharmacology/Therapeutics: Pharmacologic response to dental medicaments

  • James K. Wahl, III, Ph.D.
    Cell/Molecular Biology: Cell-cell adhesion


*Courtesy Faculty

 

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