Affiliated Researchers: Biological Sciences

Sohail Anwar

Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Students, Education, Voltage, MOSFET

James Kasting

Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences and Meteorology, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Planets, Planet, Atmosphere, Atmospheres, Climate

Gary Perdew

John T. And Paige S. Smith Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, Hydrocarbon, Ligands, Human AHR Protein, Protein

Yingwei Mao

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Schizophrenia, Crystallins, Lenses, Apoptosis, Genes

Rebecca Bliege Bird

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Hunting, Hunters, Foraging, Desert, Deserts

Xiang Gao

Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Top research keywords: Parkinson Disease, Prospective Studies, Confidence Intervals, Restless Legs Syndrome, Cohort Studies

Raymond Najjar

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Ocean, Estuary, Chesapeake Bay (US), Chesapeake Bay, Estuaries

Larry Gorenflo

Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design and Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Mexico, Biodiversity, Settlement Pattern, Micronesia, World Heritage Site

Jeffrey Peters

Distinguished Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors, Peroxisome Proliferators, Ligands, Carcinogenesis, Liver

Jacqueline McLaughlin

Professor of Biology, Penn State Lehigh Valley
Top research keywords: College Students, Biology, Students, Biological Sciences, Teachers

Joshua D. Lambert

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Tea, Polyphenols, Epigallocatechin Gallate, (-)-Epigallocatechin 3-Gallate, Polyphenol

Katherine Freeman

Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Biomarker, Lipid, Carbon Isotope, Biological Marker, Alkane

Mary K. Shenk

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Marriage, Bangladesh, Kinship, Fertility, Population Dynamics

Donald Bryant

Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology and Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Synechococcus, Cyanobacteria, Photosystem I Protein Complex, Chlorobi, Light

George Milner

Distinguished Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Skeleton, Cemetery, Dental Calculus, Death, River

Gui Becker

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Chytridiomycota, Amphibian, Amphibians, Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis, Ecosystem

Jason Keagy

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mating Success, Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteus Aculeatus, Smegmamorpha, Sexual Selection

John Golbeck

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Photosystem I Protein Complex, Electrons, Sulfur, Iron, Phylloquinone

Laura Y. Cabrera

Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Deep Brain Stimulation, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Ethics, Brain

Tracy Langkilde

Verne M. Willaman Dean, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Lizard, Lizards, Sceloporus Undulatus, Fire Ants, Ant

Ashley Shay

Assistant Research Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Top research keywords: Selenoproteins, Macrophages, Selenium, Inflammation, Protectin D1

William Hancock

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Top research keywords: Kinesin, Microtubules, Dyneins, Head, Kinetics

Christina Grozinger

Distinguished Professor and Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Honey, Bee, Honey Bees, Apis Mellifera

David A.W. Miller

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Amphibians, Salamander, Amphibian, Branta Canadensis, Nest

Sagan Friant

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Parasites, Cercocebus, Bushmeat, Rivers, Food Supply

Timothy Ryan

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Cancellous Bone, Bones, Bone, Hominidae, Primates

Sandeep Prabhu

Department Head and Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Selenium, Selenoproteins, Macrophages, Inositol Oxygenase, Inflammation

Todd LaJeunesse

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Symbiodinium, Dinoflagellida, Symbiont, Anthozoa, Corals

Natalie Boyle

Assistant Research Professor, Genomics of Social Behavior and Bee Health, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Osmia Lignaria, Bee, Megachilidae, Pollination

Charles Anderson

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Arabidopsis, Cell Wall, Pectins, Plant Cells, Cellulose

Murali Haran

Department Head and Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Model Calibration, Spatial Data, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Model, Computer Model

Liana Burghardt

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Rhizobium, Symbiosis, Plant Dormancy, Fabaceae, Phenology

Mark E. Patzkowsky

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Ordovician, Extinction, Brachiopod, Mass Extinction, Biofacies

Harland Patch

Assistant Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Honey, Bombus, Pollen

George Perry

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Primates, Genome, Rainforest, Lemur, Pan Troglodytes

Gregory Ferry

Stanley Person Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Methanosarcina, Archaea, Acetates, Carbonic Anhydrases, Methane

Stephen Schaeffer

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Drosophila, Gene Order, Drosophila Pseudoobscura, Chromosome Inversion, Chromosomes

Mark Brennan

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Community Development, Ireland, Youth, Social Support, Art

Shelby Fleischer

Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Chrysomelidae, Beetle, Coleoptera, Acalymma Vittatum, Potato

Robert Beelman

Professor Emeritus of Food Science; Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Top research keywords: Nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms, Antioxidants-selenium and ergothioneine, Vitamin D-enrichment of mushrooms