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Vanya Quinones-Jenab
Professor and Chair |
BP-ENDURE and DIDARP
Areas of Research: Our group is trying to understand neurological mechanisms which underlie sex differences in responses to stressors, such as pain and drugs of abuse. To understand these questions we are using an integrated approach combining molecular, cellular, physiological and behavioral techniques such as in situhistochemistry, RNA solution hybridization, RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry, radioimmunoassay, and behavioral monitoring. |
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Regina Miranda
Associate Professor |
BP-ENDURE
Areas of Research: Our research seeks to elucidate social-cognitive processes relevant to the onset, maintenance, and treatment of depression in adolescence and young adulthood, by studying the way in which normal thought processes become abnormal. This program of research seeks to translate methodology developed in the field of social cognition to the study of important clinical phenomena. |
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Haydee Salmun
Associate Professor |
CATALYST
Areas of Research: Professor Salmun's interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, climate dynamics, oceanography, and coastal processes. Her research concentrates on understanding and modeling processes, particularly as applied to interdisciplinary aspects of atmospheric, marine, and environmental sciences. While at Hunter, she has been engaged in research that investigates the coupling of the atmosphere and the land surface in global climate models. |
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Shirley Raps
Professor and Chair |
HHMI
Areas of Research: Our long-term goal is to understand how environmentally regulated genes are expressed in the toxin-produced cynobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa UV027, a fresh water organism reported to be a health hazard to animals and humans. |
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Lynn Francesconi
Professor |
IGERT
Areas of Research: The Francesconi lab investigates the chemistry of technetium (Tc) and the lanthanides. As Tc-99m, technetium is most widely used isotope in the nuclear medicine clinic for the diagnosis of disease. The Francesconi lab, in collaboration with Diatide and Schering, has identified the structures of two recent targeted Tc-99m radiopharmaceuticals, AcuTect™and NeoTect™ that are now in the clinic for imaging Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and lung tumors, respectively. The lab is transitioning to radiotherapy applications employing rhenium-188 (Re-188), the third row congener of Tc, as well as radiolanthanides.
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Marilyn Rothschild
Director, Physical Sciences Learning Center |
LSAMP
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Derrick Brazill
Associate Professor |
MARC
Areas of Research: Our research focuses on signal transduction during development of Dictyostelium discoideum. The ability of mammalian cells to sense the density of the cells around them play an important role in cellular growth and differentiation. Without such an ability, a developing embryo would be unable to properly proportion its cells into different tissue types. Unfortunately, studying this phenomenon in mammals is made difficult due to their complexity and genetic intractability. Therefore, we study cell-density, or quorum sensing in the simple eukaryote Dictyostelium dicoideum. |
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Victoria Luine
Distinguished Professor |
MBRS/RISE
Areas of Research: Neuroendocrinology - the effects of hormones, stress, and gonadal on behavioral and neural function are studied. Behaviors include learning and memory, anxiety and depression. |
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Carol Oliver
School of Arts & Sciences |
MCNAIR
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Elizabeth Cardoso
Professor |
MIND ALLIANCEAreas of Research: Professor Cardoso has published extensively in the areas of substance abuse assessment and treatment, multicultural counseling, psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability, and evidence-based practice. |
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Candice Jenkins
Associate Professor |
MMUF/MMUP
Areas of Research: African-American Literature; 20th Century American Literature |
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Jeanne Wieler
Associate Professor |
NOYCE
Areas of Research: Dr. Weiler's research interests center on education and inequality and social class, race, and gender in education. In particular, Dr. Weiler's research focuses on the college experiences of students who are first in their families to attend higher education, high-achieving women of color in mathematics and science, and peer tutoring in mathematics and science programs. |
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Weigang Qiu
Associate Professor |
QUBI
Areas of Research: Evolutionary Bioinformatics & Microbial Diversity. I use computational and statistical approaches for understanding patterns and mechanisms of microbial diversity. My model organism for the study of bacterial population and genomic biology is the Lyme disease bacteria (the Borrelia burgdoreferi species complex). I am interested in uncovering the evolutionary history and mechanisms of this important vector-borne disease in terms of natural selection and biogeography. My lab is a part of a national team of scientists to perform the evolutionary comparison of multiple Borrelia genomes. On the informatics aspect, I am interested in developing software tools and informatics infrastures for phylogenetic analyses.
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Virginia Teller
Professor and Chair |
QUBI
Areas of Research: Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence
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