| Name/Title/Affiliation | Research | Contact Info | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hafiz Ahmed Assistant Professor UMB | Structure, function and regulation of galectins. Lectin-nanoparticle conjugates to target cancer cells. Zebrafish as a model organism for studying human cancer. Details > | hahmed@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8817 |
 | Robert Belas Professor UMBC | Cell-cell communication and senesory transduction with emphasis on how regulation of gene expression helps microorganisms adapt to a changeable environment. Cell-cell communication in symbiotic marine microorganisms Details > | belas@umbc.edu 410-234-8876 Lab > |
 | Feng Chen Associate Professor UMCES | Marine microbial ecology, microbial oceanography and biogeography, microbial diversity, genomics, and functional genomics, phage-host interactions, clean green biotechnology. Details > | chenf@umces.edu 410-234-8866 |
 | Sook Chung Assistant Professor UMCES | Neuroendocrine regulation on crustacean physiology of molting, growth, reproduction, sex differentiation and stress responses. Details > | chung@umces.edu 410-234-8841 |
 | Shiladitya DasSarma Professor UMB | Microbiology, genomics, and biotechnology of Archaea Details > | sdassarma@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8847 |
 | Shaojun "Jim" Du Associate Professor UMB | Developmental biology, muscle biology and genetics. Genetic regulation of muscle and bone development. Zebrafish as a model organism for the study of vertebrate development. Details > | sdu@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8854 |
 | Jose A. Fernãndez-Robledo Assistant Professor UMB | Molecular parasitology in the Phylum Apicomplexa. Details > | jfernãndez-robledo@ som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8849 |
 | Russell Hill Interim Director and Professor UMCES | Diversity and roles of microbial symbionts associated with marine invertebrates, in particular sponges. Marine microbes, including symbionts of marine invertebrates, as sources of novel bioactive compounds with pharmaceutical potential. Marine microalgae for production of biofuels and other bioproducts. Marine molecular microbiology. Details > | hill@umces.edu 410-234-8883 |
 | Rosemary Jagus Associate Professor UMCES | Translational control of gene expression, regulation of gene activity during early development, host defense against virus infection and viral countermeasures, role of protein synthesis in lactation. Details > | jagus@umces.edu 410-234-8822 |
 | Zeev Pancer Associate Professor UMB | Unique biomedicine-important antibodies from ancient fish.
Synthetic biology: development of a simple "synthetic immune system".
Details > | zpancer@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8834 |
 | Allen Place Professor UMCES | Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that permit organisms to adapt to unique diets, environments, and interactions (symbiosis), molecular basis of sex determination.
Details > | place@umces.edu 410-234-8828 |
 | Frank Robb Professor UMB | Mechanisms of heat tolerance in hyperthermophiles. Heat shock proteins. Details > | frobb@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8870 |
 | Keiko Saito Research Assistant Professor UMBC | Aquatic microbial ecology and aquacultural microbiology. Two new groups of nitrogen cycle microorganisms, anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA). Development and improvement of microbial mediated waste treatment bioreactor for marine recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). Details > | saito@umbc.edu 410-234-8820 |
 | Eric Schott Research Assistant Professor UMCES | Molecular detection of estuarine pathogens, molecular characterization of blue crab pathogens, viruses in the blue crab. Details > | schott@umces.edu 410-234-8881 |
 | Harold Schreier Associate Professor UMCES | The nitrogen and sulfur cycles of a closed marine recirculating aquaculture system biofilter Nitrogen fixation in the gut of a wood-eating (xylophagous) neotropical catfish. The use of probiotic bacteria in oyster larvae hatchery and their interaction with bacterial pathogens. Developing molecular tools for examining the biochemistry and physiology of the Planctomycetes. Details > | schreier@umbc.edu 410-234-8874 |
 | Kevin Sowers Professor UMBC | Biology of methanogenic Archaea. Microbial reductive dehalogenation of organochlorines. Details > | sowers@umbc.edu 410-234-8878 Lab > |
 | Vikram Vakharia Professor UMBC | Viral pathogenesis of fish rhabdoviruses, and development of novel vaccines for economically important fish pathogens. Details > | vakharia@umbc.edu 410-234-8880 |
 | Gerardo Vasta Professor UMB | Molecular, biochemical, structural, and functional aspects of protein-carbohydrate interactions relevant to immunity and early development. Details > | gvasta@som.umaryland.edu 410-234-8826 |
 | Yonathan Zohar Professor, Chair of Department of Marine Biotechnology UMBC | Basic and applied aspects of fish reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology. Applied technologies for aquaculture and fisheries. Recirculating marine aquaculture. Blue crab aquaculture and biology. Details > | zohar@umbc.edu 410-234-8803 |
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