Faculty

Gary Perdew
H. Thomas & Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair, Professor, College of Agricultural Sciences, Director, Center for Molecular Toxicology & Carcinogenesis
309A Huck Life Sciences Building
Telephone: 814-865-0400
Email: ghp2@psu.edu
Research Interest: Ah receptor Toxicology/Biology

Shantu Amin
Professor of Pharmacology
Hershey Medical Center
College of Medicine
Telephone: 717-531-8285
Email: sga3@psu.edu
Research Interest: Chemical Carcinogenesis

Jordan Bisanz
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
306D Huck Life Sciences Building
Eberly College of Science
Telephone: 814-863-1625
Email: jpb6325@psu.edu
Research Interest: The structure and function of the microbiome and its impacts on health and disease

Dhimant Desai
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Hershey Medical Center
College of Medicine
Telephone: 717-531-8285
Email: dhd11@psu.edu
Research Interest: Chemical Carcinogenesis

Adam Glick
Professor of Veterinary & Biomedical Science
306C Life Sciences Building
Telephone: 814-865-7170
Email: abg11@psu.edu
http://sites.psu.edu/adamglicklab
Research Interest: Mechanism of Skin Carcinogenesis

Jessica A. Grembi
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, College of Agricultural Sciences
306B Life Sciences Building
Email: grembi@psu.edu
Research Interest: Gut microbiome, Childhood undernutrition, Small intestine microbial ecology, Evironmental enteropathy, Global health

Joshua Kellogg
Assistant Professor of Metabolomics
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
325 Huck Life Sciences Bldg
Telephone: 814-865-2887
Email: jjk6146@psu.edu
Areas of Interest: Metabolomics, Natural Products, Antibacterial/Antifungal Development and Ethnobotany

Sri-Rajasekhar (Raj) Kothapalli
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
325 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
Telephone: 814-865-0459
Email: szk416@psu.edu
Personal or Departmental Website

Joshua Lambert
Department of Food Science
Professor of Food Science
Co-Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
332 Rodney Erickson Food Science Building
Telephone: 814-865-5223
Email: jdl134@psu.edu
Research Interest: Environmental chemicals effects on obesity

C Denise Okafor
Assistant Professor
Eberly College of Science
Department of Biochemistry

Andrew Patterson
John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in Agricultural Sciences
Professor of Molecular Toxicology
Professor of Molecular Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
322 Life Sciences Building
Tel: 814-867-4565
Email: adp117@psu.edu
Twitter: @PSUmetabolomics
Research Interest: Xenobiotic metabolism/Host-gut interactions

Jeff Peters
Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
Deputy Director, The Penn State Cancer Institute
Associate Director, Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
312 Life Sciences Building
Telephone: 814-863-1387
Email: jmp21@psu.edu
Research Interest: Xenobiotic Receptor Mediated Toxicology and Carcinogenesis

K. Sandeep Prabhu
Department Head, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Immunology & Molecular Toxicology

Heather Preisendanz
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
and Natural Resource Engineering
252 Agricultural Engineering Building
Telephone: 814-863-1817
Email: heg12@psu.edu
Research Interest: The fate, transport, and impacts of emerging contaminants

Arun Kumar Sharma
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Hershey Medical Center
College of Medicine
Telephone: 717-531-8285
Email: aks14@psu.edu
Research Interest: Chemical carcinogenesis

Guy Townsend
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State College of Medicine
H171 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Email: gxt191@psu.edu
Research Interest: Elucidating the molecular mechanisms that connect microbial metabolism, gene expression and colonization of the mammalian intestine

Jack Vanden Heuvel
Professor of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
122 Ag Sci & Ind Building
Telephone: 814-863-8532
Email: jpv2@psu.edu
Research Interest: Xenobiotic Receptor Mediated Toxicity

Vanessa “Sue” Wacleche
Assistant Professor, College of Agricultural Sciences, IID Faculty, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
439 AVBS Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-7696
Email: vsw5047@psu.edu
Research Interest: Development of immune responses in Lupus research

Emily Weinert
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Eberly College of Science
306 Althouse Lab
Phone: 814-865-3719
Email: eew5225@psu.edu
Research Interest: The mechanisms by which bacteria sense and respond to the environment, as well as how these signaling proteins/pathways affect competition, host colonization, and pathogenesis.

Fang (Rose) Zhu
Assistant Professor of Entomology
121A Chemical Ecology Lab
Telephone: 814-863-4432
Email: fuz59@psu.edu
http://ento.psu.edu/research/labs/zhu
Research Interest: Understand the mechanisms and evolution of insects’ adaptation to chemical stresses in their environment