Faculty Research Interests

research

Hugo Arias, Ph.D.

Holly Ballard, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
holly.ballard@okstate.edu

Using large-sample osteohistology to assess growth dynamics, individual variability, and survivorship in dinosaurs and other extinct vertebrates, while utilizing the bone microstructure of extant vertebrates
to provide a framework for paleohistologic inferences.

Daniel Barta, Ph.D.

daniel.barta@okstate.edu

Ian Browne, Ph.D.

ian.browne@okstate.edu

Franklin R. Champlin, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
franklin.champlin@okstate.edu

Cell envelope physiology and antibiotic resistance of gram-negative bacterial pathogens

Sheri Core, Ph.D.

sheri.core@okstate.edu

Jasmine Croghan, M.S.

jasmine.croghan@okstate.edu

Subhas Das, Ph.D. (Research Profile)

subhas.das@okstate.edu

Randall L. Davis, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
randall.davis@okstate.edu
Neuroinflammation in CNS disease and infection; and neuroimmune-opioid interactions

Bart Ford, Ph.D.

bart.ford@okstate.edu

Vikramsingh Gujar, Ph.D.

vikram.gujar@okstate.edu

I-Hsiu Huang, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
george.huang@okstate.edu

Bacterial pathogenesis with particular emphasis on the anaerobic pathogen Clostridium difficile and Fusobacterium nucleatum

Crystal Johnson, Ph.D.

crystal.n.johnson@okstate.edu

Alexis Jones, Ph.D.

alexis.jones@okstate.edu

Anil Kaul, M.D., D.D.S., M.P.H. (Research Profile)
anil.kaul@okstate.edu

Translational research related to women's health and infectious diseases

Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
rashmi.kaul10@okstate.edu

Hormonal Regulation of Inflammation during infections or cancer development

Zachary Klukkert, Ph.D.

zachary.klukkert@okstate.edu

Gerwald Köhler, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
gerwald.kohler@okstate.edu
Microbial pathogenesis, probiotics and gut microbiota in health and disease

Jacob Manjarrez, Ph.D. (Research Profile)

jacob.manjarrez@okstate.edu

Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans as a drug discovery model and measuring neural activity in the C. elegans nerve ring to decipher the neural networks associated with decision making for use in computer modeling and simulation.

Malabika Maulik, Ph.D.

mmaulik@okstate.edu

William Meek, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
bill.meek@okstate.edu

Fine structure of flagellar movement; vimentin arrangement in mammalian cells.

Swarup Mitra, Ph.D.

swarup.mitra@okstate.edu

Joshua Muia, Ph.D.

jmuia@okstate.edu

Dolores Vazquez-Sanroman, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
dolores.vazquez_sanroman@okstate.edu
Dr. Vazquez-Sanroman studies the neurobiology of opioid and psychostimulants addiction, cellular signal mechanisms of reward-related plasticity in an adolescent rodent model.

Kyle Simmons, Ph.D.

kyle.simmons@okstate.edu

Dusti Sloan, Ph.D.

dusti.sloan@okstate.edu

Kent Smith, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
kent.smith@okstate.edu
Evolution, systematics, biogeography, and functional and comparative anatomy of fossil and recent mammals

Eric Snively, Ph.D.

eric.snively@okstate.edu

Craig Stevens, Ph.D.

cw.stevens@okstate.edu

David R. Wallace, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
david.wallace@okstate.edu
Effects of environmental or disease toxins on brain functioning

Anne Weil, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
anne.weil@okstate.edu

Vertebrate paleontology (mammalian): evolution and recovery from mass extinction events

Nedra Wilson, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
nedra.wilson@okstate.edu
Identification of signaling pathways that regulate the assembly state of cilia/flagella

Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D. (Research Profile)
randy.wymore@okstate.edu
Morgellons disease; roles of channels in heart, nervous system and cancer