Departmental research and professional interests: Mechanisms of endocytic pathway, intracellular trafficking of proteins and membranes, membrane organization, nanomaterial traffic, and nanomaterial-mediated global gene expression pattern changes.
Dr. Tiglet Besara
Assistant Professor
MNAS Coordinator of Physics, Astronomy, and Material Science
Experimental condensed matter physics and materials science; single crystal growth; x-ray diffraction and crystallography; magnetism.
Immunology, Infectious Disease, Protein Interactions
Departmental research and professional interests: Volcanology, Igneous Petrology & Geochemistry
Dr. Lloyd A. Smith
Professor
Graduate Coordinator of Computer Science; MNAS Coordinator of Computer Science
Departmental research and professional interests: Algorithm designs and analysis, bioinformatics, computer games, data mining, digital image processing, graphics, machine learning, programming languages, theory of computation and speech recognition
Department research and professional interests: Sensor technology, utilizing modern electrochemical techniques to monitor transport across thin membranes, nanochannels made of gold or alumina, novel ion-selective electrodes (ISEs)
Departmental research and professional interests: Mathematical Analysis and Computational Artificial Intelligence