Affiliated Researchers: PLoS

Sarah Assmann

Waller Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Guard Cell, Arabidopsis, Abscisic Acid, G Protein, Heterotrimeric G Protein

Sean Brennan

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Road, Vehicle Dynamics, Robotics, Vehicle Localization, Kalman Filter

Zhen Lei

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Patent Citations, China, Patent Examination, Citation Network, Academic Innovation

Hong Wu

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: China, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Pennsylvania, Stormwater, Public Perception

Roberto Iglesias-Prieto

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Coral, Symbiodinium, Symbiont, Coral Reefs, Reef-building Corals

Autumn Sabo

Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State Beaver
Top research keywords: Deer, Understory, Plant Community, Species Abundance, Understory Plant Community

Carolyn Mahan

Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Eastern Chipmunk, Tamias, National Parks, Pennsylvania, Tamias Striatus

Jia Li

Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Annotation, Hidden Markov Model, Information Retrieval, Content-based Image Retrieval, Image Database

Mihail Kantor

Assistant Research Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Nematode, Molecular Characterization, Morphological Characterization, Nematodes, Nematoda

Forrest Briscoe

Professor, Management and Organization
Top research keywords: Activism, Firm, Workers, Political Ideology, Law Firms

C. Lee Giles

David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Digital Libraries, Search Engines, Recurrent Neural Networks, Metadata, Neural Networks

Vikash Gayah

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, Traffic Signal, Urban Network, Safety Performance, Traffic Network

Richard Roush

Executive Special Assistant to Interim Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences
Top research keywords: Bacillus Thuringiensis, Diamondback Moth, Plutella Xylostella, Broccoli, Lepidoptera

Jennifer Van Hook

Roy C. Buck Professor, Sociology and Criminology
Top research keywords: Immigrant, USA, United States, Immigrants, Immigrant Children

Larry Gorenflo

Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design and Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Mexico, Basin Of Mexico, Settlement Patterns, Biodiversity Conservation, Pre-Hispanic

Teh-hui Kao

Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Petunia, Self Incompatibility, Self-incompatibility, Petunia Inflata, Ribonuclease

Tracy Nixon

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Sinorhizobium Meliloti, ATPases Associated With Diverse Cellular Activities, Cellulose Synthase, DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases, Adenosine Triphosphate

Sharifa Crandall

Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Fungal Spores, Plant Diseases, Vegetation Type, Plant Pathogen, Airborne Spores

Julian D. Avery

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Sexual Ornament, Lizard, Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow, Nestling

Lauren Greenlee

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticles, Iron, Struvite, Magnesium, Wastewater

Jordan Bisanz

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Intestine Flora, Microbiome, Gut Microbiome, Microflora, Microbiota

Pamela Hankey

Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, Friend Murine Leukemia Virus, Macrophages, Rice Bran Saccharide, Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute

Murali Haran

Department Head and Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian Inference, Model Calibration, Ice-sheet Models, Model Output

Katriona Shea

Alumni Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Carduus Nutans, Seeds, Thistle, Life History, Pollinator

Cheryl Thompson

Professor, Interim Vice Chair for Education and Endowed Chair in Cancer Population Sciences Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Neoplasm, Colon, Malignant Neoplasm

Mark E. Patzkowsky

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Late Ordovician, Middle Ordovician, Ordovician, Mass Extinction, Brachiopod

John E. Carlson

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Genome, Magnoliopsida, Populus, Genes, Coleoptera

Robersy Sanchez

Associate Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Genetic Code, Amino Acids, Epigenome, DNA Methylation, Arabidopsis

Peter Butler

Associate Dean for Education, College of Engineering
Top research keywords: Endothelial Cells, Shear Stress, Enzyme, Dynamics, Focal Adhesion

Peter Hudson

Verne M. Willaman Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Red Grouse, Dynamics, Infectious Agent, Grouse, Nematode

Esther Prins

Professor, Learning and Performance Systems
Top research keywords: Literacy Programmes, Family Literacy Programmes, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy, Literacy

Timothy W. McNellis

Associate Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Erwinia Amylovora, Arabidopsis, Apple, Wild Type, Virulence

Junjun Yin

Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter Data, Spatial Interaction, Mobile Device, Twitter User, Tweets

Anne-Marie Chang

Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Sleep Duration, Sleep Health, Circadian Rhythm, Sleep Scheduling, Sleep Restriction

Derrick Taff

Associate Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Top research keywords: Protected Areas, Visitor Experience, Park Area, Leave No Trace, Outdoor Recreation

Istvan Albert

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Jamming, Granular Drag, Drag Force, Granular Media, Nucleosome

Mark Shriver

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Genetics, Allele, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, African American, Skin Pigmentation

Siela Maximova

Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Theobroma Cacao, Cacao, Somatic Embryogenesis, Infectious Agent, Arabidopsis

Bradley Cardinale

Department Head and Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Biodiversity, Species Richness, Species Diversity, Ecosystem Function, Biomass Production

Mark J. Guiltinan

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cacao, Theobroma Cacao, Somatic Embryogenesis, Infectious Agent, Starch