Graça Almeida-Porada,M.D.,Ph.D. Stem cell biology and tissue engineering. Stem cell expansion and modulation.

Patricia Berninsone, Ph.D. Cell biology and genetics of protein glycosylation

Gary J. Blomquist. Biochemistry and endocrine regulation of insect sex pheromones; cuticular lipid biochemistry of insects.

Dean J. Burkin, Ph.D.. Role of integrins and integrin signaling in neuromuscular development and disease. Role of integrin signaling in vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity. Director of the Nevada Transgenic Center.

Iain L.O. Buxton. Receptor-signal transduction in cardiac and smooth muscle. cells. Role of receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism; agonist-specific regulation of cyclic nucleotide action; role of adenyl purines in myometrial function and hormonal regulation of endothelial cell contractile factors.

Scott Clark, PhD. Biology

William E. Courchesne. Molecular regulation of signal transduction and cell cycle control in the yeast, S. cerevisiae.

Grant R. Cramer. Elucidating salinity, drought and cold tolerance mechanisms at the whole plant and molecular levels including functional genomics of Arabidopsis and wine grapes; helping to establish a wine industry in northern Nevada.

Christine Cremo. The structural changes that proteins undergo and how those changes are related to protein function.

John Cushman. Molecular genetics of Crassulacean acid metabolism; molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and adaptive responses to salinity and drought stress in plants; functional genomics of salinity and drought stress tolerance.

Mark R. Hall. Molecular biology of human papilloma viruses and bovine Tritrichomonas; molecular biochemical approaches to vaccine development.

Dorothy Hudig. Molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity; role of serine proteases in granule-mediated lysis.

Kenneth Hunter.  Immunoregulation in cancer, infectious and autoimmune diseases; biosensors and gene microarray technology.

Thomas R. Kozel. Molecular immunology of surface carbohydrate antigens on opportunistic fungal pathogens and biothreat agents

David A. Lightner. Molecular recognition; mechanisms of binding, transport, conjugation and hepatic excretion of bilirubin and its photoisomers.

David M. Lupan. Regulation of iron transport in pathogenic fungi; interaction of yeasts with mammalian iron-binding proteins.

Cynthia Mastick. Molecular mechanisms underlying specificity in signal transduction.

Grant Mastick. Genetic regulation of embryonic brain development; axon guidance, neuron specification, and transcriptional regulation.

Sergey P. Morzunov. Genetic diversity and evolution of hantaviruses and their rodent hosts.

William J. Murphy. Immunobiology of Bone Marrow Transplantation.
 

Violeta Mutafova-Yambolieva, M.D., Ph.D. the delineation of mechanisms of neural control of blood vessels and other smooth muscles.
 

Chi-Yun Pai, Ph.D., Biology

Mihalis I. Panagiotidis, PhD. Environmental & Occupational Health

Gregory Pari. Molecular mechanisms of herpesvirus DNA replication.

Brian A. Perrino, Ph.D. . Characterization of smooth muscle CaMKII; characterization of physiological substrates and NFAT activation by calcineurin isoforms.

Christopher D. Porada,Ph.D. In Utero Gene Therapy and In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation

Chris A. Pritsos. Characterization of the molecular mechanism of action of anticancer xenobiotics; effects of side-stream smoke on health.

Dave Shintani. Engineering of food crops with increased nutritive value.

Stephen St. Jeor. Molecular biology of cytomegalovirus; application of recombinant DNA technology to study gene expression; DNA analysis of genetic diseases: epidemiology of the hantaviruses.

John L. Sutko. Regulation of differentiation and phenotype selection during development of embryonic skeletal muscle and nerve

William Welch. Relationship of macromolecular structure and function; role of cations and anions in modulating protein conformation and enzymic activity.

Esmail D. Zanjani.  Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology and Transdifferentiation, In Utero Gene Therapy, In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation, Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology.