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Mentors for INBRE program

Name	Position	Department	Research Interests
UNMC
Jyothi Arikkath	Assistant Professor	MMI - Developmental Neurosciences	molecular and cellular neuroscience, autism, intellectual disability, synapses, mouse behavior
Hamid Band	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	breast cancer, hematological malignancies, endocytic traffic, immunology, stem cell
Surinder Batra	Chairman	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	tumor-associated genes; cancer diagnostics, cancer vaccines; monoclonal antibodies, genetic engineering of antibodies
Ken Bayles	Professor	Pathology & Microbiology	biofilm, metabolism, antibiotic resistance, cell death, pathogenesis
Erika Boesen	Assistant Professor	Cellular & Integrative Physiology	kidney, renal physiology, lupus, endothelin, collecting duct
Gloria Borgstahl	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	structural biology, reactive oxygen species, DNA repair, biochemistry, cancer research
Steve Caplan	Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	membrane trafficking, vesicular transport, endocytosis, recycling, organelle biogenesis
Pawel Ciborowski	Professor	Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience	HIV, macrophage, mass spectrometry, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, histones
Martin Conda-Sheridan	Assistant Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	drug delivery, antibacterials, drug design, nanotechnology, cancer
Punita Dhawan	Associate Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	colon cancer, metastasis, therapeutics, biomarker, Claudins.
Jixin Dong	Associate Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	Hippo-YAP, mitosis, cancer, paclitaxel, protein kinase
Andrew Dudley	Associate Professor	Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy	cartilage, bone, regeneration, tissue engineering, developmental and systems biology
Paul Fey	Professor	Pathology & Microbiology	bacterial pathogenesis, metabolism, biofilm, antibiotic resistance, genetics
Howard Fox	Professor	Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience	neurodegeneration, HIV, mitochondria, Parkinson's, pathogenesis
Jered Garrison	Associate Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	radiation, cancer, imaging, drug delivery and therapy
Karen Gould	Associate Professor	Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy	genetics, immunology, autoimmunity, cancer, estrogens
Babu Guda	Professor	Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy	bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer genomics, systems biology, metagenomics
Corey Hopkins	Associate Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, infectious disease, neuroscience
Ricia "Kate" Hyde	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	leukemia, hematopoiesis, transcription factors, cancer, gene expression
Joshi Shantaram	Professor	Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy	chronic lymphocytic leukemia, tumor microenvironment, molecular basis of leukemic progression, experimental therapeutics, lymphoma, neuroblastoma
Tammy Kielian	Professor	Pathology & Microbiology	immunology, infectious disease, Staphylococcus aureus biofilm, neuroimmunology, host-pathogen interactions
Alan Kolok	Director	Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology	toxicology, gene expression, reproductive development, fish model, sexual differentiation
Robert Lewis	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	cell signaling, colon cancer, obesity, metabolism, tumorigenesis
Ming-Fong Lin	Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	prostate cancer, carcinogenesis and metastasis, steroid hormones, signal transduction, experimental therapy
Kevin Luczynksi	Assistant Professor	MMI - Center for Autism Spectrum Disorder	prevention of problem behavior, teaching conversation skills, telehealth to improve autism services, identifying children's preferences, observational learning
Luis Marky	Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	molecular biophysics, nucleic acids, thermodynamics and hydration, ligand binding, control of gene expression
Parmender Mehta	Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	cell-cell adhesion, gap junctions, connexins, cadherins, cancer
Justin Mott	Associate Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	apoptosis, cancer, fatty liver, obesity, steatohepatitis
Amar Natarajan	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	chemical biology, kinase inhibitors, protein-protein interactions, drug discovery
Greg Oakley	Associate Professor	COD - Oral Biology	cancer, replication stress, DNA damage, cell cycle, biochemistry
Michel Ouellette	Associate Professor	Internal Med GI	telomere, telomerase, pancreatic cancer, Ras signaling, Rac1 GTPase
David Oupicky	Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	drug delivery, nanomedicine, nanoparticles, cancer, nucleic acids
Kaushik Patel	Professor	Cellular & Integrative Physiology	heart failure, diabetes, neuroscience, renal function, exercise training
Youri Pavlov	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	mutation, cancer replication, recombination, genome stability
William Rizzo	Helen Freytag Chairman in Pediatrics	MMI - Pediatrics	genetic disease, mutation, lipid biochemistry, mouse model, cell culture
Nicole Rodriguez	Assistant Professor	MMI - Center for Autism Spec Disord	autism, children, clinical, language, teaching
Eleanor Rogan	Professor	CoPH - Environ	Agricultural and Occupational Health, estrogens, breast cancer, estrogen-DNA adducts, cancer prevention
Deb Romberger	Chairperson	Internal Medicine Administration	environmental exposures, inflammation, lung, airway epithelial cells, repair
Pankaj Singh	Associate Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	cancer metabolism, systems biology, pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy resistance, metastasis
Rakesh Singh	Professor	Pathology & Microbiology	host-tumor interaction, tumor microenvironment, progression and metastasis
Shelley Smith	Professor	MMI - Developmental Neurosciences	identification of genes affecting hereditary deafness, reading disability, language impairment, speech sound disorder and ADHD
Joyce Solheim	Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	immunology, cancer, therapy, treatment, vaccine
Paul Sorgen	Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	gap junctions, heart disease, phosphorylation, cell signaling, intercellular communication
Melissa Teoh-Fitzgerald	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	breast cancer, redox signaling, antioxidants, tumor microenvironment, tumor-stroma interactions
Wallace Thoreson	Professor	Ophthalmology	synaptic transmission, vision, retina, imaging, electrophysiology
Jonathan Vennerstrom	Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, antimalarial, antiparasitic, drug discovery
Joseph Vetro	Assistant Professor	COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences	drug delivery, vaccines, cancer, virus, nanomedicine
James Wahl	Associate Professor	COD - Oral Biology	oral cancer, epithelium, cell migration, live cell microscopy, cadherins, desmosome
Jing (Jenny) Wang	Associate Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	colon cancer, metastasis, drug resistance, microRNAs, cancer stem cells
San Ming Wang	Associate Professor	Genetics	Cell Biology & Anatomy,genomics, transcriptome studies, familial breast cancer
Nick Woods	Assistant Professor	Eppley Cancer Center	mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, DNA damage, proteomics, domainomics
Todd Wyatt	Professor	CoPH - Environ	Agricultural & Occupational Health,cigarettes, alcohol, lungs, dusts, agriculture
Matt Zimmerman	Assoc Professor	Cellular & Integrative Physiology	neuroscience, hypertension, neurons, reactive oxygen species, antioxidants
Irving Zucker	Chairperson	Cellular & Integrative Physiology	cardiovascular, heart failure, neural control, hypertension, oxidative stress
CUMC
Peter Abel	Professor	Pharmacology	vascular and airway smooth muscle function, nerve stimulation, pulmonary hypertension, asthma
Devendra Agrawal	Professor and Senior Associate Dean	Center for Clinical & Translational Science	intimal hyperplasia, restenosis, vulnerability of atherosclerotic plaques, mesenchymal stem cells, TREM-1 and inflammation
Jason Bartz	Professor & Vice Chair	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	prions, strains, pathogenesis
Michael Belshan	Associate Professor	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	HIV, virus-host interactions, molecular virology, proteomics, genomics
Charles Bockman	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology	Nicotine, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, environmental enrichment, addiction, neuroplasticity
Travis Bourret	Assistant Professor	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	lyme disease, vector-borne diseases, gene regulation, antioxidant defenses
Laura Bruce	Associate Professor	Biomedical Sciences	amygdala, brain, evolution, fear behavior, genetics
Shashank Dravid	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology	glutamate, electrophysiology, mouse behavior, NMDA receptor, neuropharmacology
Kristen Drescher	Professor	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	multiple sclerosis, creatine, virus, type 1 diabetes
Richard Goering	Professor and Chair	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	strain typing, epidemiology, whole genome sequencing, MRSA, C. difficile
Richard Hallworth	Professor	Biomedical Sciences	hearing, deafness, hair cells, prestin, biophysics
Laura Hansen	Professor	Biomedical Sciences	cancer, skin cancer, signaling, cell biology, sun exposure
David He	Professor	Biomedical Sciences	neuroscience, gene regulation, inner ear, mechanotransduction, prestin
Kenneth Kramer	Assistant Professor	Biomedical Sciences	zebrafish, development, balance, ear, glycan
Sandor Lovas	Professor	Biomedical Sciences	proteins, polypeptides, structural bioinformatics, molecular dynamics simulations, circular dichroism
Thomas Murray	Professor and Chair	Pharmacology	neurons, opioid receptors, brain, glutamate, ion channels
Anna Selmecki	Asst Professor	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	genomics, bioinformatics, fungal pathogens, drug resistance, population genetics
Kristina Simeone	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology	epilepsy, sleep, diet, neuroscience
Timothy Simeone	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology	epilepsy, neurophysiology, electrophysiology, therapeutic mechanisms, ketogenic diet
D. David Smith	Associate Professor	Biomedical Sciences	peptides, amino acids, solid phase peptide synthesis, chromatography, CGRP
Patrick Swanson	Professor	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	V(D)J recombination, immunoglobulins, B cell tolerance, B cell development, autoimmunity
Yaping Tu	Professor	Pharmacology	signal transduction, G protein-coupled receptor, tyrosine kinase receptor, tumor progression and metastasis, lung diseases
UNL
Peter Angeletti	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer, dysplasia, HIV, Tanzania
Audrey Atkin	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	RNA biology, regulation of gene expression, mRNA decay, signaling, bioactive dietary RNAs
Paul Blum	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	pain control therapeutics, anti-cancer cytokines, synthetic biology, cytokine glycosylation
Deborah Brown	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	T cells, influenza, vaccines, pattern recognition receptors, dendritic cells
Heriberto Cerutti	Professor	School of Biological Sciences - Ctr for Biotechnology	epigenetics, RNA interference, genomics, biotechnology, biofuels
Hernan Garcia Ruiz	Assistant Professor	Plant Pathology	plant-virus interactions, antiviral RNA silencing, antiviral immunity
Eileen Hebets	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	animal communication, sensory systems, mating systems, behavioral evolution, arachnids
Qingsheng Li	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	HIV-1, transmission, vaccine, mucosal immunology, emerging infectious disease
Colin Meiklejohn	Assistant Professor	School of Biological Sciences	Evolution, genetics, speciation, Drosophila, gene regulation
Kristi Montooth	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	Physiological genetics, Mitochondrial biology, Evolutionary genetics, Functional Drosophila genetics, Metabolism
Etsuko Moriyama	Professor	School of Biological Sciences - Ctr for Biotechnology	bioinformatics, genomics, molecular evolution, protein functions, chemoreceptors
Hideaki Moriyama	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	cancer, electrophysiology, hypoxia, influenza, structural biology
Ken Nickerson	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	microbial physiology, fungal dimorphism, quorum sensing, candida albicans, farnesol, glyoxalase and methyl glyoxal, biotin
Angela Pannier	Associate Professor	Therapeutic Nanoparticles	gene therapy, tissue engineering, biomaterials, developmental biology, DNA delivery
Hernan Garcia Ruiz	Assistant Professor	Plant Pathology	Antiviral immunity, virus-host interactions, small RNA biology, antiviral RNA silencing, bioinformatics
James van Etten	Professor	Plant Pathology	algal viruses, chloroviruses, large dsDNA viruses, virus encoded glycosylation, algae
Karrie Weber	Associate Professor	School of Biological Sciences	microbial ecology, virus ecology, environmental microbiology, microbial physiology
Matthew Wiebe	Associate Professor	Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences	virology, immunity, signal transduction, DNA replication, cancer biology
Charles Wood	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	HIV/AIDS, AIDS associated cancer, neuroAIDS
Shi-hua Xiang	Asst Professor	Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences	HIV envelope glycoproteins, structure-based design of vaccines or drugs, commensal bacterial therapy, virus-host interactions, viral entry
Janos Zempleni	Willa Cather Professor of Molecular Nutrition	Nutrition & Health Sciences	exosomes, gene regulation, human nutrition, non-coding RNA, vesicles
Luwen Zhang	Professor	School of Biological Sciences	Epstein Barr virus, Zika virus, flavivirus, herpesvirus, cancer