Faculty & Staff | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | University of Nebraska Medical Center

The Faculty and their Research Interests

PRIMARY FACULTY
Surinder K. Batra	Professor and Chairman Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Stokes-Shackelford Professor, Associate Director for Education and Training, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer
Steve Caplan	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1998. Molecular mechanisms controlling endocytic recycling and internalization.
Kishore Challagundla	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Lucknow (India), 2007.
Pi-Wan Cheng	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1975. Regulation of mucin glycan biosynthesis in lung diseases and cancer.
Kaustubh Datta	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (India), 1999. Molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and metastasis.
Punita Dhawan	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., PhD, UAMS (Little Rock, Arkansas) 1999
Kate Hyde	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin- Madison, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Imayavaramban Lakshmanan	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D.
Maneesh Jain	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., IMTECH (India), 2002. Development of diagnostics and therapeutics against cancer and allied diseases.
Sukhwinder Kaur	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., IMTECH (India), 2008.
Sushil Kumar	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., CCSHAU, 2001
David Klinkebiel	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Director, Epigenomics Core Facility; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1990. Influence of DNA methylation on gene expression and the association with cancer development.
Ming-Fong Lin	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1983. Tyrosine phosphorylation and Redox signal transduction in androgen regulation of cell proliferation and carcinogenesis.
Richard G. MacDonald	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Vermont, 1981. Transmembrane signaling and regulation of cell growth.
Muzafar Macha	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., All India Institute of Medical Sciences (India), 2010.
Parmender P. Mehta	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 1983. Connexins and cell-to-cell contact-dependent intercellular communication.
Justin Mott	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; M.D., St. Louis University, 2004; Ph.D., St. Louis University, 2003. Control of apoptotic signaling in liver cancer of the biliary tree, namely cholangiocarcinoma.
Naava Naslavsky	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1998. Control of receptor localization to the plasma membrane is central to normal cell function, and dysregulation is the underlying cause for diseases as diverse as atherosclerosis, diabetes and cancer.
Wasim (Mohd) Nasser	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
Rebecca Oberley-Deegan	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D.
Armen Petrosyan	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ph.D., Donetsk National Medical University, Donetsk, Ukraine, 2008 Mechanism of Golgi alteration in advanced prostate cancer: focus on aberrant glycosylation. The role for non-muscle Myosin IIA in alcohol-induced Golgi fragmentation.
Moorthy Ponnusamy	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Madras (India), 2005. Characterization of cancer stem cells, Mucins in ovarian cancer
Satyayanarayana Rachagani	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., National Dairy Research Institute (India), 2006.
Amar B. Singh	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University. Molecular mechanisms of mucosal Inflammation and associated cancer; and Ciliogenesis, autophagy and renal diseases.
Paul Sorgen	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1999. Structure, function, and regulation of cardiac gap junctions.
Gaelle Spagnol	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Laurey Steinke	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Director, Protein Structure Core Facility; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987. Investigation of biofilm metabolism, composition and communication, including Staphylococcus aureus, gut microbiome and thermophilic microbial mats.
Melissa Teoh-Fitzgerald	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada, 2005. Understanding the role of redox signaling in the tumor microenvironment that drives the oncogenic hepatocyte growth factor, HGF/c-Met activation during epithelial-fibroblast interaction in breast cancer.
EMERITUS FACULTY
Margaret L. Heidrick	Emeritus Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1971. Aging and immunology; Cytochrome P-450.
John F. Hofert	Emeritus Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1963. Metabolic alterations in diabetes mellitus; Cytochrome P-4502E1.
Robert F. Ramaley	Emeritus Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1964. Microbial enzymology of bacterial sporulation and the thermostable enzymes of bacteria.
Judith K. Christman	Emeritus Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Director, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Core Facility; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967. Gene regulation; DNA methylation.
G. Stanley Cox	Emeritus Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1973. Chromatin structure; DNA methylation; Transcription factors; and Regulation of gene expression.
William G. Chaney	Emeritus Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1979. Biological function of complex carbohydrates.
COURTESY FACULTY
Hamid Band, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute Robert G. Bennett, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Gloria Borgstahl, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute Shannon M. Buckley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy Siddappa Byrareddy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology/Exp Neuroscience Carol A. Casey, Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Pawel Ciborowski, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Dominic Cosgrove, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Boys Town National Research Hospital John S. Davis, Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pharmacology; Director, Research & Development, Olson Center for Women's Health Jixin Dong, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Eppley Institute Terrence Donohue, Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Anna Dunaevsky, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Developmental Neuroscience, Munroe-Meyer Institute Jered C. Garrison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Chittibabu Guda, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy; Director, Center for Genomics & Bioinformatics Michael Hollingsworth, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute Keith Johnson, Ph.D., Professor, Oral Biology, College of Dentistry Kusum Kharbanda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Developmental Neuroscience, Munroe-Meyer Institute Jodi Kreiling, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNO Robert Lewis, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute Xu Luo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Eppley Institute Luis Marky, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Aaron Mohs, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Michel J. Ouellette, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Internal Medicine GI David Oupicky, Ph.D., Professor, COPD Pharmaceutical Science Prakash Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Eppley Institute Angie Rizzino, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute Pankaj Singh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Eppley Institute Rakesh Singh, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology and Microbiology Joyce Solheim, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute William E. Tapprich, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology,UNO Sarah P. Thayer, Ph.D. Jing (Jenny) Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Eppley Institute Ying Yan, Ph.D.