Directory
Evelyn Kulesza
Graduate Student
Genetic and environmental effects on cocoa butter diversity
Shanthanu Krishna Kumar
Assistant Professor of Tree Fruit
Tree fruit production. Plant growth regulators. Physiology and source-sink relationships. Crop load management. Post-harvest physiology.
Manoj Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher
High-throughput genomics, emphasizing bioinformatics and multi-omics strategies, including Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq), variant calling, whole genome sequencing (WGS), metagenomics, protein modeling, and molecular docking.
Janine Kwapis
Director of the Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders; Assistant Professor of Biology
Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying learning and memory and age-related memory impairments.
Zhi-Chun Lai
Emphasis Area Representative, Cell and Developmental Biology; Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Signal Transduction, Growth Control, and Cancer Genetics
Joshua Lambert
Professor of Food Science
Dietary polyphenols in prevention of obesity and fatty liver disease; efficacy and mechanisms of action of food-derived phytochemicals in prevention of lung cancer; biotransformation, bioavailability and potential hepatotoxicity of dietary phytochemicals
Impact of food and medicinal plants and phytochemicals on human health. Role of plant genetics, environmental factors, agronomic practices, and post-harvest processing in moderating the relationship between medicinal and food plants and human health
Joel Landry
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics
The welfare evaluation of current and proposed policies given the presence of pre-existing policy distortions and multiple market failures, and the evaluation of the incentives, institutions, and decision-making processes that explain why imperfect policies often emerge
Tracy Langkilde
Penn State Interim Executive Vice President and Provost; Dean of the Eberly College of Science; Professor of Biology
The interface of ecology and evolution to understand how an organism's traits are matched to its environment and responds to novel selective pressures imposed by global environmental change, and the consequences of this adaptation.
