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Maggie Braun

Maggie Braun

Teaching Professor and Associate DeanCarnegie Mellon University

Maggie Braun has had a profound impact on undergraduate education and advising during her 13-year tenure at the Mellon College of Science.

Molecular CloningMolecular BiologyFuture of EducationBiological SciencesBiochemistry
Aryn Gittis

Aryn Gittis

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Aryn Gittis studies neural circuits in a multifunctional brain region that plays a role in the regulation of movement, learning, and reward.

Movement DisordersOptogeneticsNeuroscienceElectrophysiologyNeural Circuits
Swati Agrawal

Swati Agrawal

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Agrawal's research focuses on protozoan pathogens that cause serious diseases like African sleeping sickness and Toxoplasmosis.

Molecular Biology (CRISPR-cas9 gene editing)Microscopy (Fluorescence, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy)BiochemistryBioinformaticsBiomolecular Visualization (PyMOL, MolStar, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality)
Alison Barth

Alison Barth

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Alison Barth's work focuses on understanding how experience transforms the properties of neurons to encode memory.

Research DesignNeural PlasticityBiophysicsNeuroscience
Melanie Gainey

Melanie Gainey

STEM LibrarianCarnegie Mellon University

Melanie Gainey is a trained neuroscientist and spent over 10 years studying the plasticity of neural circuits in sensory cortex.

BioinformaticsLibrary & Information ScienceNeuroscienceOpen ScienceBiology
Tamara  Franz-Odendaal

Tamara Franz-Odendaal

Professor, Faculty of Biology, NSERC Chair Women in Science and Engineering- Atlantic Canada; Principal Investigator - Bone Development LaboratoryMount Saint Vincent University

Developmental biologist / Anatomist; Advocate for the Advancement of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Morphology EmbryologyMolecular BiologyAnatomyGenetics
Kenneth Hovis

Kenneth Hovis

Associate Teaching Professor, Mellon College of Science; Assistant Dean for Educational InitiativesCarnegie Mellon University

As Mellon College of Science Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives, Kenneth Hovis oversees the MCS core education.

Higher EducationBiochemistryScience EducationBiological SciencesNeuroscience
Chunyu Wang

Chunyu Wang

Professor, Biological SciencesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Applying nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study Alzheimer's and other diseases.

OncologyBiochemistryNuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyBiomedical imagingAlzheimer's Disease
Parrish Waters

Parrish Waters

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Parrish Waters’ areas of expertise include neuroscience, physiology, hormone axis function, stress physiology and sensory perception.

NeuroscienceScientific WritingMolecular BiologyStress PhysiologyHuman Physiology
Ken Catania

Ken Catania

Stevenson Professor of Biological SciencesVanderbilt University

Expert on sensory systems' impact on animal behavior, particularly naked mole rats, star-nosed moles, cockroaches and eels.

spatial mapsrodentsBiological Sciencesneural processingmammals