Faculty
Bahl, Justin
Associate Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics & Department of Infectious Diseases
Phone: 706-542-3473
Office: Pound Hall | The University of Georgia
Lab Website | JUSTIN.BAHL@uga.edu
Research Interest
Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Science
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Bensasson, Douda
Associate Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics & Department of Plant Biology
Phone: 706-542-1790
Office: Miller Plant Sciences, RM 1508
Lab Website | dbensasson@uga.edu
Research Interest
Evolutionary Genomics and Population Genomics
Selected Publications
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Bergman, Casey
Associate Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics & Department of Genetics
Phone:
Office: A128a Davison Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | cbergman@uga.edu
Research Interest
Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolution, and Text Mining
Selected Publications
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Bik, Holly
Associate Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Phone: 706-542-2844
Office: 102B Marine Sciences Bldg
Lab Website | hbik@uga.edu
Research Interest
Environmental Data Science
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Dundas, Christopher M.
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology
Phone:
Office: TBA
Lab Website | cmdundas@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant & microbial synthetic biology, microbiome engineering, biological carbon sequestration
Selected Publications
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Edison, Arthur
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor of Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Director, NMR Facility in the CCRC
Phone: 706-5432-8156
Office: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, RM 1040
Lab Website | aedison@uga.edu
Research Interest
Metabolomics and Systems Biology
Selected Publications
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Fox, Spencer J
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Phone: 706-583-9394
Office: 120 B.S. Miller Hall, Health Science Campus
Lab Website | sjfox@uga.edu
Research Interest
Integrating biology, epidemiology, statistics, and computation to understand pandemic emergence risk and response in emerging infectious diseases.
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Glenn, Travis
Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science
Phone: 706-583-0662
Office: 152 Environmental Health Science Bldg
Lab Website | travisg@uga.edu
Research Interest
Environmental & Comparative Genomics
Selected Publications
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Gill, Mandev
Assistant Professor, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-3433
Office: 453 Brooks Hall
Lab Website | mandev.gill@uga.edu
Research Interest
Statistical and Computational Methods for Phylodynamic Inference
Selected Publications
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Ginn, Olivia
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 706-542-5102
Office: I-STEM 1 Room 2040N
Lab Website | oliviaginn@uga.edu
Research Interest
Enteric pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, aerosols
Selected Publications
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Kannan, Natarajan
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar
Phone: 706-542-7326
Office: A318 Davison Life Sciences
Lab Website | nkannan@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Structural Biology, Systems Biochemistry, Molecular Evolution and Ontologies
Selected Publications
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Kissinger, Jessica
Distinguished ResearchProfessor, Department of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-6562
Office: 107C Paul D, Coverdale Center
Lab Website | jkissing@uga.edu
Research Interest
Parasite Genomics and the Biology of Genome Evolution
Selected Publications
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Liu, Liang
Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-3309
Office: 458 Brooks Hall
Lab Website | lliu@uga.edu
Research Interest
Phylogenetics and Statistics
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Liu, Yang
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
Phone: 706-542-5417
Office: 2040k I-STEM Building 1
Lab Website | liuy@uga.edu
Research Interest
Single-cell/exosome analysis & Micro/Nano technology
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Mrázek, Jan
Graduate Coordinator, Institute of Bioinformatics & Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-1065
Office: 0523 Biological Science
Lab Website | mrazek@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Microbiology Laboratory and comparative analyses of microbial (mainly prokaryotic) genomes.
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Zhao, Shaying
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-9147
Office: B304B Davison Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | szhao@bmb.uga.edu
Research Interest
Cancer Systems Biology, Bacterial Genomics, Evolution and Systems Biology
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Wu, Taotao
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 706-542-1653
Office: 716A Boyd Center
Lab Website | taotao.wu@uga.edu
Research Interest
Network neuroscience, neurodynamic modeling
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Arnold, Jonathan
Professor, Department of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-1449
Office: C308B Davison Life Sciences Complex | The University of Georgia
Lab Website | arnold@uga.edu
Research Interest
Systems Biology, Microfluidics, Clock, Networks, and Neurospora
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Bennetzen, Jeffrey L.
Norman and Doris Giles Professor, Georgia Alliance & Eminent Scholar, Department of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-3698
Office: C426a Davison Life Sciences Complex | The University of Georgia
Lab Website | Maize@uga.edu
Research Interest
Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Computational Biology
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Bucksch, Alexander
Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Lab Website |bucksch@arizona.edu
Research Interest
Computational Plant Science
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Buell, C. Robin
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Phone: 706-583-8119
Office: Center for Applied Genetic Technologies | 111 Riverbend Rd | Athens GA 30602
Lab Website | Robin.Buell@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant Genome Biology, Crop Domestication, Genome Engineering
Selected Publications
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Cohen, Natalie
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Phone: 912-598-2312
Office: Skidaway Institute of Oceanography | 10 Ocean Science Circle | Savannah GA 31411
Lab Website | cohen@uga.edu
Research Interest
Marine Microbial Ecology, Environmental Bioinformatics, Ocean Biogeochemistry
Selected Publications
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Dawe, Kelly
UGA Athletic Association Professor, Departments of Plant Biology and Genetics
Phone: 706-542-1658
Office: B412 Davison Life Sciences
Lab Website | kdawe@uga.edu
Research Interest
Grass Genome Structure and Evolution
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Devos, Katrien
Professor, Department of Plant Biology
Phone: 706-542-0925
Office: Miller Plant Sciences Building, RM 4107
Lab Website | kdevos@uga.edu
Research Interest
Grass Genome Structure and Evolution
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Douglass, Eugene
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 706-542-4017
Office: R.C. Wilson, Rm 353
Lab Website | Eugene.Douglass@uga.edu
Research Interest
Chemical Biology & Immunology, Fluorescent Sensors, Small Molecule Immunotherapies
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Drake, John
Regents Professor, Odum School of Ecology
Director, Center for Ecology and Infectious Diseases
Phone: 706-818-4452
Office: Ecology, Rm 133
Lab Website | jdrake@uga.edu
Research Interest
Population Dynamics, Epidemiology, Computational Ecology
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Funato, Kosuke
Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-0814
Office: Center for Molecular Medicine, RM 2210
Lab Website | kosuke.funato@uga.edu
Research Interest
Epigenetics, Cancer Biology, and Drug Discovery
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Hoarfrost, Adrienne
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Phone:
Office: 290A MARSCI
Lab Website | adrienne.hoarfrost@uga.edu
Research Interest
Foundation models and transfer learning for microbes and microbial communities
Selected Publications
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Joye, Samantha
Professor, School of Marine Programs
Phone: 706-542-5893
Office: 0159 Marine Sciences
Lab Website | mjoye@uga.edu
Research Interest
Environmental Genomics and Deep Ocean Microbiomes
Selected Publications
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Li, Sheng
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 617-676-7028
Office: 804 Boyd Research Center
Lab Website | SHENG.LI@uga.edu
Research Interest
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, Bioinformatic
Selected Publications
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Liu, Tianming
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-3478
Office: 0415 Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website | tliu@uga.edu
Research Interest
Brain Imaging
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Logan, David
Associate Professor & WEB DuBois Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences | Clark Atlanta University
Phone: 404-880-6830
Office: N/A
Lab Website | dlogan@cau.edu
Research Interest
Fungal Physiology and Genetics
Selected Publications
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Ma, Ping
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-0714
Office: 204 Statistics and Computer Science Services
Lab Website | pingma@uga.edu
Research Interest
Bioinformatics, Statistics, Big Data Analytics, and Functional Data Analysis
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Mao, Leidong
Associate Professor, College of Engineering
Phone: 706-542-1871
Office: 220 Riverbend Road, RM 166
Lab Website | mao@uga.edu
Research Interest
Microfluidic Platform for Systems Biology
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Mishra, Aditya
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-0716
Office: 510 Brooks Hall
Lab Website | Aditya.Mishra@uga.edu
Research Interest
Selected Publications
Mortimer, Tatum
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine
Phone: 706-542-1904
Office: 121 Poultry and Diagnostic Research Center
Lab Website | tdm@uga.edu
Research Interest
Selected Publications
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Nelms, Brad
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology
Phone:
Office: PBio
Lab Website | nelms@uga.edu
Research Interest
Selected Publications
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Ottesen, Elizabeth
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-1434
Office: 0550 Biological Science
Lab Website |ottesen@uga.edu
Research Interest
Environmental Biology
Selected Publications
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Paterson, Andrew H.
Regents Professor and Head, Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Phone: 706-542-1434
Office: 0228 Center for Applied Genetic Technology Science
Lab Website | paterson@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant Genome Biology
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Quinn, Shannon
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Cellular Biology
Phone: 706-542-4661
Office: 0638a Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website |spq@uga.edu
Research Interest
Biomedical imaging, generative modeling of biological systems, and large-scale machine learning
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Rohani, Pejman
UGA Athletic Association Professor, Department of Ecology & Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine
Phone: 706-542-8838
Office: 103 Ecology Building
Lab Website |rohani@uga.edu
Research Interest
Population Biology, Spatial & Disease Ecology, and Mathematical Modeling
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Salvador, Liliana
Assistant Professor, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Office: University of Arizona, PO Box 210090, Animal and Comparative Bio Sci, RM 201
Lab Website |lilianasalvador@arizona.edu
Research Interest
Infectious Disease Ecology and Quantitative Epidemiology
Selected Publications
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Schliekelman, Paul
Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-4241
Office: 456 Brooks Hall | Computer Services
Lab Website |pdschlie@uga.edu
Research Interest
Statistical Genomics
Selected Publications
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Schmitz, Robert
Professor, Department of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-1887
Office: B416 Davison Life Science Complex
Lab Website |schmitz@uga.edu
Research Interest
Epigenetics, Epigenomics, and DNA methylation
Selected Publications
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Schüttler, Heinz-Bernd
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Phone: 706-542-3886
Office: 313D Physics at 220 Cedar Street
Lab Website | hbs@phyast.uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Systems Biology
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Strauch, Eva-Maria
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 706-542-7725
Office: Pharmacy South, Rm 324
Lab Website | estrauch@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Structural Design & Protein Engineering
Selected Publications
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Taha, Thiab
Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-3475
Office: 412 Boyd Graduate Studies
Lab Website | thiab@uga.edu
Research Interest
High Performance Computing and Big Data
Selected Publications
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Tarleton, Rick
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Cellular Biology
Phone: 706-542-3362
Office: 310b Coverdell Center
Lab Website | tartleton@uga.edu
Research Interest
Immunology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Pathology Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas Diesease
Selected Publications
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Tsai, Chung-Jui
Winifred N. “Hank” Hayes Professor and Georgia Alliance Eminent Research Scholar, Department of Genetics and Plant Biology and School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Phone: 706-542-1271
Office: B310 Davison Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | cjtsai@uga.edu
Research Interest
Gene Network Functional Genomics and Gene Family Evolution
Selected Publications
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Wallace, Jason
Associate Professor, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Phone: 706-542-9696
Office: 118A Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
Lab Website |jason.wallace@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant microbiomes, quantitative genetics, and genomics
Selected Publications
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Woods, Robert
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-4454
Office: 1089 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website |rwoods@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Simulations and Biophysics Applied to Infectious Diseases
Selected Publications
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Xie, Zhong-Ru (Paul)
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 858-436-5789
Office: 708B Boyd Graduate Studies Building
Lab Website |paulxie@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computational Drug Discovery
Selected Publications
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Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-5898
Office: C220 Davison Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | kaixiong.ye@uga.edu
Research Interest
Nutritional Genomics, a new interdisciplinary field bridging Nutritional Sciences and Human Genomics.
Selected Publications
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Yang, Yang
Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-3453
Office: 403 Brooks Hall
Lab Website | yang.yang4@uga.edu
Research Interest
Statistical methods for transmission dynamics of infectious diseases
Selected Publications
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Cormier, Guy
Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Bioinformatics
Director, Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center
Ph.D. 1993 Concordia University, Canada, Chemistry
Email: gcormier@uga.edu
Phone: (706) 542-0355
Office: 101 Computing Services Building
Lab Website
Research Interests
High Performance Computing, next-generation sequencing data analysis, and scientific visualization
Selected Publications
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Katiyar, Samiksha
Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Bioinformatics
Ph.D. 1996 Banaras Hindu University, India, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Email: samiksha@uga.edu
Phone: (706) 542-7326
Office: A320 Life Sciences
Research Interests
Evolutionary systems biology
Selected Publications
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Lorenz, W. Walter
Ph.D. 1990 University of Georgia, Biochemistry
Email: wlorenz@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-7974
Office: B320A Davison Life Sciences
Lab Website
Research Interests
Genome assembly and transcriptomic analysis of NGS datasets
Selected Publications
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Tao, Yun
Ph.D. 2014, University of California, Davis, Ecology
Email: yuntao@uga.edu
Research Interests
Transient, behavior-driven dynamics in ecological and epidemiological systems
Selected Publications
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Malmberg, Russell
Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Biology
Research Interest
Bioinformatics and Plant Evolutionary Genetics
Selected Publications
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Xu, Ying
Regents GRA Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interest
Cancer Systems Biology, Bacterial Genomics, Evolution and Systems Biology
Selected Publications
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Abdo, Zaid
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University
Phone: 970-492-4455
Office: D114 Ric | College of Veterinary Medicine & Bio Medical Sciences | Colorado State University
Lab Website | zaid.abdo@colostate.edu
Research Interest
Microbial Community Structure, Transmitting and Maintaining Antibiotic Resistance
Aggrey, Sammy
Professor, Department of Poultry Science
Phone: 706-542-1354
Office: 114 Poultry Sciences Building
Lab Website | saggrey@uga.edu
Research Interest
Nutrigenomics, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics, Growth and Skeletal Modeling
Amster, Jon
Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry
Phone: 706-542-2001
Office: 285 Chemistry Building
Lab Website | jamster@uga.edu
Research Interest
Development of new spectrometric methods for the identification and structural analysis of high weight molecules
Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj
Scientific Computing Professional, Enterprise Information Technology Services
Phone: 706-542-0188
Office: 0431 Stegeman Coliseum
Lab Website | raj76@uga.edu
Research Interest
Bioinformatics, large-scale data management and analysis, high performance computing
Bhandarkar, Suchi
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-1082
Office: 538a Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website | suchi@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, artificial intelligence, and computational biology
Burke, John M.
Associate Professor, Departments of Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-5511
Office: Miller Plant Sciences Building, RM 4617
Lab Website | jmburke@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant evolutionary genetics and genomics
Cai, Liming
Professor, Departments of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-6081
Office: 544 Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website | cai@cs.uga.edu
Research Interest
RNA Structures and Algorithms
Carlson, Russell W.
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | CCRC Executive Technical Director, Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates
Phone: 706-542-4439
Office: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center | 315 Riverbend Road
Lab Website | rcarlson@uga.edu
Research Interest
Molecular basis of the interaction between a bacterium and its plant or animal host
Davis, Melissa B.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-5014
Office: B408A Davison Life Science Complex
Lab Website | mbdavis@uga.edu
Research Interest
Breast Cancer Subtype Etiology, Cancer Immunology, and Cancer Health Disparities
Dobbin, Kevin K.
Associate Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 706-543-8112
Office: 150e Paul D. Coverdell Center
Lab Website | dobbinke@uga.edu
Research Interest
Biostatistics, High Dimensional Data, Design, and Analysis
Glover, Claiborne
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1769
Office: A320B Davison Life Sciences
Lab Website | glover@uga.edu
Research Interest
Protein phohoryation, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation Saccharimyces cerevisiae. Bioinformatic analysis of achaeal non-coding RNAs
Gutierrez, Juan B.
Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics | University of Texas, San Antonio
Phone: (210) 458-5735
Office: Flawn Science Building 4.01.10 | University of Texas, San Antonio
Lab Website | juan.gutierrez3@utsa.edu
Research Interest
Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, and Mathematics
Handel, Andreas
Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 706-542-5006
Office: 210A Paul D. Coverdale Center
Lab Website | ahandel@uga.edu
Research Interest
Infectious Disease Modeling
Huang, Hanwen
Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 706-713-2674
Office: B.S. Miller Hall, RM 210
Lab Website | huanghw@uga.edu
Research Interest
Statistical Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bayesian Analysis, and Bioinformatics
Jackson, Scott
Professor,Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
and the Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics
Phone: 706-542-4021
Office: 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602
Lab Website | sjackson@uga.edu
Research Interest
Genomic Landscape of Plant Genomes structural, functional, evolutionary and epigenetic.
Kushner, Sidney R.
Professor, Departments of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-1437
Office: C414B Davison Life Science Complex
Lab Website | skushner@uga.edu
Research Interest
Mechanisms for post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes
Landau, David P.
Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of
Physics
Phone: 706-542-2908
Office: 321A Physics
Lab Website | dlandau@physast.uga.edu
Research Interest
Phase transitions and critical phenomena in magnets, alloys(including binary semiconductors), and equilibrium polymer systems
Lee, Margie D
Professor, Departments of
Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-0797
Office: Department of Pathology
Lab Website | mdlee@uga.edu
Research Interest
Molecular ecology of intestinal bacterial communities, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, and molecular epidemiology of food safety pathogens
Leebens-Mack, Jim
Professor, Departments of
Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-5573
Office: 2101 Miller Plant Sciences
Lab Website | jleebensmack@uga.edu
Research Interest
Phylogenomics employs genome-scale sequence data to resolve organismal relationships and investigate gene family evolution within the context of organismal relationships
Li, Wentao
Assistant Professor, Departments of Environmental Health, College of Public Health
Phone: 706-542-7223
Office: 210A Paul D. Coverdell Center
Lab Website | wentao.li@uga.edu
Research Interest
Understand DNA Damage, Repair and Mutagenesis
Lu, Hang
Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and James R. Fair Faculty Fellow
Phone: 404-894-8473
Office: GATech | 311 Ferst Dr. NW | Atlanta, GA 30332
Lab Website | hang.lu@gatech.edu
Research Interest
Employing BioMEMS and microfluidic devices to address questions in neuroscience, cell biology, and biotechnology
Miller, John A.
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-3440
Office: 219 Hardman
Lab Website | jam@cs.uga.edu
Research Interest
Database systems, modeling & simulation, web services/workflow, and bioinformatics
Moran, Mary Ann
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Phone: 706-542-6481
Office: 285A Marine Science Building
Lab Website | mmoran@uga.edu
Research Interest
Database systems, modeling & simulation, web services/workflow, and bioinformatics
Orlando, Ron
Professor, Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology | CCRC
Phone: 706-542-4414
Office: 1078 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | orlando@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
n/a
Park, Andrew W.
Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases | Odum School of Ecology
Phone: 706-542-2968
Office: 106 Ecology
Lab Website | awpark@uga.edu
Research Interest
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Ecological & evolutionary host-parasite interactions.
Peterson, Joy Doran
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-4115
Office: 546 Biological Sciences
Lab Website | jpeterso@uga.edu
Research Interest
Microbial mining, disrupting biomass to release sugar, fermenting organisms, and economical viability research
Peterson, David S.
Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator & Assistant Department Head of Infectious Diseases
Phone: 706-542-5242
Office: 345c Coverdell Center
Lab Website | dspete@uga.edu
Research Interest
Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum
Prestegard, James H.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | CCRC
Phone: 706-542-6281
Office: 1077 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | jpresteg@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Charbohydrate Chemistry and Metabolomics
Reeves, Jaxk H.
Director, Statistical Consulting Center and Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-3316
Office: 444 Brooks Hall
Research Interest
Climate statistics and statistical phylogenetics
Rekaya, Romdhane
Professor, Department of Animal and Dairy Science & Statistics
Phone: 706-542-0949
Office: 348 Animal Dairy Sciences
Research Interest
Bayesian inferences and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, longitudinal data modeling, microarray data analysis and bioinformatics
Rose, John
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1750
Office: B204B Life Sciences Complex
Research Interest
Structural biology, protein structure-function, x-ray crystallography, single wavelength anomalous scattering, structural protenomics
Sabatini, Robert
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1737
Office: B122 Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | sabatini@uga.edu
Research Interest
Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes, and biosynthesis and function of base J
Song, Xiao
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Phone: 706-542-1540
Office: 213 Miller Hall | Health Sciences Campus
Research Interest
Statistical methods to deal with covariate measurement error and missing data, and to identify biomarkers for prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment selection
Summers, Anne O.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-2669
Office: 263 Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Bacterial plasmid-encoded resistance to inorganic and organic mercury compounds (the mer locus) as a model for (a) gene regulation by toxic metals, (b) microbial detoxification of
environmental hazards, and (c) the influence of toxic metals on the commensal microbiota of vertebrates
Wang, Bi-cheng
Professor and GRA Eminent Research Scholar of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1747
Office: B202 Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | bcwang@uga.edu
Research Interest
Structural Biology / Physical Biochemistry
Wells, Lance
Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Phone: 706-542-7806
Office: 3018 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | lwells@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Roles of regulatory post-translational modifications of proteins
York, William
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Phone: 706-542-4628
Office: 2081 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | will@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Structural and conformational analysis of complex carbohydrates