BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
CONCENTRATION IN BIOLOGY
THE GRADUATE FACULTY:
THEIR RESEARCH AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The underlined author names are M.S. students whose thesis research is included in the manuscript.

To read publications by each faculty, click on the link titled "PUBLICATIONS" for each person.

Zulfiqar Ahmad, Assistant Professor. (ahmadz@etsu.edu) Research: Molecular modulation of ATP Synthase
    

Fred J. Alsop, III, Professor. (alsopf@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Threatened and endangered bird species of Tennessee; avian ecology and population density; neotropical migratory breeding birds.  PUBLICATIONS
    

Karl H. Joplin, Associate Professor. (joplin@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Ohio State University. The molecular biology of gene expression during insect development and diapause using microarray analysis. Effects of stress on molecular physiological and behavioral processes. Chaotic patterns in circadian behavior. Microbial ecology of insect systems.  PUBLICATIONS

Istvan Karsai, Assistant Professor. (karsai@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary. Theoretical biology, computational biology, animal behavior, ecology, complex systems, self-organization, insect societies.  PUBLICATIONS

Dhirendra Kumar, Assistant Professor. (kumard@etsu.edu), Ph.D. Lucknow University , India . Molecular biology and biochemistry of plant defense responses. PUBLICATIONS

Thomas Laughlin Assistant Professor. (laughlin@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Virginia Tech. Hypervariable DNA markers and population genetics of three fish species.  PUBLICATIONS

Foster Levy, Professor. (levyf@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Duke University. Population genetics emphasizing, (1) antibiotic resistance and mechanisms of spread of a bacterial pathogen, and (2) the genetics of speciation using classical genetics, allozymes, and chloroplast DNA.  PUBLICATIONS

Timothy McDowell, Associate Professor. (mcdowelt@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Duke University. Plant systematics, evolution and natural history of neotropical Rubiaceae and studies in Southern Appalachian flora, using morphological and molecular phylogenetic methods.  PUBLICATIONS

Cecilia A. McIntosh, Assistant Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. (mcintosc@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of South Florida, Tampa. Plant biochemistry; study of the biosynthesis of flavonoids; regulation of accumulation of specific compounds in plants; structure/function studies of flavonoid glucosyltransferase enzymes; biotechnology.  PUBLICATIONS

Hugh A. Miller, III, Interim Chair and Associate Professor. (millerh@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Isolation and characterization of Plant Natriuretic in Peptide gene; stress response in plants.  PUBLICATIONS

Darrell J. Moore, Associate Professor (moored@etsu.edu).     Ph.D. University of Texas , Austin . Animal behavior; neurobiology; animal physiology; circadian rhythms; behavioral, physiological, and genetic studies of honey bee foraging and general locomotor activity rhythms.  PUBLICATIONS

Diane R. Nelson, Professor Emerita. (nelsond@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Ecology and systematics of the Tardigrada (water bears); selected topics in marine biology.  PUBLICATIONS

Rebecca A. Pyles, Dean, The Honors College and Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. (pylesr@etsu.edu) Ph.D., University of Kansas. Evolution of morphology and life history strategies in lower tetrapods; especially metamorphic development, feeding ecology and body size evolution in amphibians.  PUBLICATIONS

Leonard Robertson, Professor. (robertjl@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Reproductive and developmental biology; in vitro fertilization and embryo cryopreservation.  PUBLICATIONS

Lev Yampolsky, Assistant Professor. (yampolsk@etsu.edu)  Ph.D. N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences.  Research interests include the evolutionary role of mutations and mutational biases, the evolution of life-histories and mating systems and speciation.  He mostly works with  Drosophila, although his previous studies involved other arthropods, such as Daphnia and amphipods.  PUBLICATIONS

HEALTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

CONCENTRATION IN MICROBIOLOGY
THE GRADUATE FACULTY:
THEIR RESEARCH AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

W. David Currie, Assistant Professor. (currie@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Saskatcheuan, Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Physiology.  PUBLICATIONS

Allan Forsman, Assistant Professor. (forsman@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of North Dakota School of Medicine. Gravitational Biology, Reproductive Biology.  PUBLICATIONS

Michael T. Gallagher, Chair/Professor. (gallaghe@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Transplantation Immunology, Graft-vs Host Disease, Immunotoxicology and Macrophage Function.  PUBLICATIONS

Bert C. Lampson, Assistant Professor. (lampson@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, Medical School. Bacteriology; Regulation of iron and sulfur metabolism in the industrially important bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis; msDNA, retroelements, and the genetics of the myxobacteria: a prokaryote that displays a multicellular developmental life cycle.  PUBLICATIONS

Eric L. Mustain, Graduate Coordinator Microbiology Concentration, Assistant Professor, (mustain@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Comparative Immunology; Antibacterial defense mechanisms present in invertebrates; particularly crayfish. Regulation of the Immune response, History of Microbiology/Immunology.  NO PUBLICATIONS LISTED

John G. Osborne, Assistant Professor (osbornej@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Kentucky Medical Center. Effects of acute alcohol exposure on neural development.  PUBLICATIONS

Laraine Powers, Assistant Professor (powersl@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Memphis. Role of bacteriophages in microbial ecology, particularly the horizontal transfer of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes.  PUBLICATIONS

Burl R. Williams, Jr., Associate Professor (williamb@etsu.edu) Ph.D., University of Montana. Ventilatory control mechanisms in mammals and birds; ontogeny of ventilatory responsiveness to carbon dioxide.  PUBLICATIONS

W. Scott Champney, Professor. (champney@etsu.edu) Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo. macrolids antibiotic effects on bacterial ribosome structure and function. Genetic analysis of ribosomal protein function.  PUBLICATIONS

M. Lou Ernst-Fonberg, Professor. (ernstfon@etsu.edu) M.D. Temple University School of Medicine, Ph.D. Yale University. Molecular biology and biochemistry E. coli hemolysin toxin activation. A benign protein is made toxic (lyses erythrocytes) by fatty acylation (2 fatty acyl groups) catalyzed by a specific acyltransferase. The biology of the toxin system is used to study molecular mechanisms of protein-protein recognition and cellular signal propagation.  PUBLICATIONS

Zhihua Han, Assistant Professor. (han@etsu.edu)  Ph.D. University of California, San Diego.  PUBLICATIONS

David A. Johnson, Professor. (davidj@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Memphis. Human proteolytic enzymes and their inhibitors.  PUBLICATIONS

Ekaterina N. Kaverina, (e_katenina@yahoo.com) Part-time Instructor. Ph.D. Institute of Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia.  PUBLICATIONS

Elizabeth Laffan, (laffan@wildmail.com) Part-time Instructor. Ph.D. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Phillip R. Musich, Professor. (musichp@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Chicago. Molecular bioloty of eukaryotic genome dynamics, instability and plasticity. Human genome responses to oxidative damage. Utilization of alternative genome strategies in the evolution of parasitic protozoa.  PUBLICATIONS

Jack Rhoton, Professor.  (rhotonj@etsu.edu) Ed.D. - University of Tennessee.  A Study of Science Education in Tennessee as Perceived by Science Teachers and Principals.  PUBLICATIONS

Mitchell E. Robinson, Associate Professor. (robinson@etsu.edu) Ph.D., Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. Biology of lipid second messengers; regulation of cell proliferation.  PUBLICATIONS

Michael Sinensky, Professor and Chair. (sinensky@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Harvard University. The regulation of isoprenoid metabolism and its rold in cancer and cardiovascular disease.  PUBLICATIONS

James R. Stewart, Senior Research Scientist. (stewarjr@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Vertebrate reproductive biology; evolution of embryonic nutritional patterns.  PUBLICATIONS

Yue Zou, Associate Professor. (zouy@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Vertebrate reproductive biology; evolution of embryonic nutritional patterns.  PUBLICATIONS

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS WITH STUDENTS

These papers resulted from biology graduate students' thesis work, and the students are listed as authors or co-authors. Students' names are underlined and graduate faculty names are shown in bold print.  PUBLICATIONS