BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FACULTY

John Boyle, Professor and Head Degree: Ph.D. Duke University
Areas of Expertise: Molecular biology, nucleic acid probing in diagnosis of aquatic pathogens, use of nucleic acids for phylogenetic analysis, computational biology

Dwaine Braasch, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of Southern Mississippi
Areas of Expertise: Eukaryotic molecular biology, cell cycle regulation, regulation of gene expression using synthetic nucleic acid oligomers

Ashli Brown, Assistant Research Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of South Florida
Physical biochemistry, emzymology, protein kinases, insect pheromones, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry

Yean-Sung Jung, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Areas of Expertise: Metals in biology, agriculture and medicine, microbial molecular biology, the oxidative stress response regulons of microbial organisms, biological spectroscopy

Jiaxu Li, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Expertise: Protein kinases, histone methylation, post-translational modifications, abscisic acid signaling, abiotic stress, peptide sequencing, mass spectrometry, quantitative proteomics

Din Ma, Professor Degree: Ph.D. Kent State University
Areas of Expertise: Molecular biology, gene organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome in plants, expression and regulation of cotton fiber genes, mitochondrial tRNAs

Zhaohua Peng, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. Ohio State University
Areas of Expertise: Plant molecular biology, plant development, proteomics

Jeff Wilkinson, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of North Texas
Areas of Expertise: Molecular biology, fungal genomics, plant pathogen interactions, and pathogenesis related proteins

Kenneth Willeford, Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of California at Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Physical biochemistry, enzymology of plants, molecular basis of regulation of multienyzme aggregates in plants

ACTIVE EMERITI FACULTY

Robert Wilson, Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of Missouri Areas of Expertise: Comparative nitrogen metabolism, comparative biochemistry and nutrition of fish, dietary requirements of channel catfish.

AFFILIATED FACULTY WITH JOINT GRADUATE APPOINTMENTS

Susan Bridges, Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of Alabama at Huntsville
Areas of Expertise: Machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, fuzzy logic, applications in computer security and bioinformatics

Johnie N. Jenkins, Adjunct Professor and Research Geneticst USDA, ARS Degree: Ph.D. Purdue University
Area of Expertise: Genetics, plant breeding, plant resistance to pests of cotton, cotton genetics, transgenes for resistance to insects, molecular markers associated with QTL in cotton.

Erdogan Memili, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of expertise: Animal functional genomics, molecular embryology, epigenetics and animal biotechnology.

Daniel Peterson, Assistant Professor Degree: Ph.D. Colorado State University
Areas of expertise: genomics, genome sequencing, DNA, chromosome structure, meiosis

Nancy Reichert, Professor Degree: Ph.D. New Mexico State University
Areas of expertise: Horticulture - Genetic Engineering and Tissue Culture

W. Paul Williams, Adjunct Professor USDA, ARS Degree: Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Areas of Expertise: Genetics, plant breeding, host plant resistance to disease and insect pests of maize

Martin J. Wubben, Adjunct Assistant Professor USDA, ARS Degree: Ph.D. Iowa State University
Areas of expertise: Genetics, molecular plant-nematode interactions, plant defense signaling