Mintz, Eric
We investigate circadian rhythms of feeding and activity and how they interact with environmental stimuli. We also study how disruption of circadian rhythms alters reproductive cycles.
Dr. Mintz's Lab Website
Students, faculty and veterans met at the Student Green for an early Veterans Day Commemoration on Friday, November 8. The university’s Army and Air Force ROTC groups stood beside local veterans for a flag-raising ceremony and speeches, along with keynote speaker and Alumna Major Alison Brager, Ph.D. ‘11 who spoke of her time in both the military and ºÚÁÏÍø’s Department of Biological Sciences. Brager, who earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Kent State, talked about the soft skills she learned that helped her in the military, especially with the work she did in New York City...
Glickman, Ellen
We investigate the effects of environmental stressors on the human thermal, metabolic and immunologic responses.
Novak, Colleen M.
We investigate how the brain modulates skeletal muscle thermogenesis—heat generation in muscle—and how this impacts energy balance and body weight.
Dr. Novak's Lab Website
Dengler-Crish, Christine M.
We investigate early mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. Our goal is to discover how disruption of basic functions of the body can drive disease processes that destroy the brain. We study how integrin protein dysfunction is an early driver of AD pathology, and how AD pathology affects visual system signaling.
Trevelline, Brian
We investigate how microbial symbionts shape the ecology and evolution of their vertebrate hosts. Our lab uses a combination of multi-omic techniques, germ-free animal experiments, and natural history studies to determine how intestinal microorganisms affect the phenotypes of wild vertebrates in nature.
Schofield, Brett R.
We investigate brain circuits that modulate how we hear in different environments, during growth and aging, and after damage to the ear or the brain. We use sophisticated neural tracing methods to characterize neural circuits in rodents so we can understand how those circuits contribute to hearing.
Datta, Bansidhar
We investigate the tumor suppression activity of an eIF2-associated glycoprotein, p67 in human cancer cells and in mice model.
Stacy, Apollo
We investigate microbiome-host interactions in the oral cavity, particularly in the setting of gum disease (one of the most prevalent inflammatory conditions worldwide) and comorbidities such as diabetes and oral cancer. We are specifically interested in how host diet and inflammation regulate microbe-microbe interactions within the oral microbiome and how these interactions in turn impact host fitness. Long-term, our goal is to translate our findings into more targeted microbiome-directed therapeutics.
Congratulations to the 2024 SURE Three Minute Presentation Winners from Psychology!These undergraduate psychology majors presented the research they conducted under the guidance of their faculty mentors as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) and took home top awards!First place: Ellie Gray (Mentor: Dr. Julie Evey) and Vinaya Patel (Mentor: Dr. Christopher Was)Second place: Elena Indorf (Mentor: Mr. Brandon Martin) and Lena Dellaria (Mentor: Dr. Jeffery Mellot)...