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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 

Perdew Research Group

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

https://sites.psu.edu/kellogglab

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

 

 

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C Denise Okafor

Assistant Professor
Eberly College of Science
Department of Biochemistry

408 Althouse Laboratory
Telephone: 814-865-0116
Research Interests: Structure, dynamics and molecular mechanisms of ligand regulation in nuclear receptors

 

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

Patterson Research Group

Research Interest: Xenobiotic metabolism/Host-gut interactions

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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

Peters Research Group

Research Interest: Xenobiotic Receptor Mediated Toxicology and Carcinogenesis

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K. Sandeep Prabhu

Department Head, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Immunology & Molecular Toxicology

Telephone: 814-863-897

Email: ksp4@psu.edu

Prabhu Research Group

 

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

 

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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

Vanden Heuvel Research Group

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