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Jiri Adamec

Associate Professor
N151 Beadle Center
402-472-7369
Email: jadamec2@unl.edu
Research Area: Oxidative stress; proteomics; metabolomics; cancer; neurodegenerative diseases; predictive biomarkers

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Cheryl Bailey

Assistant Professor
N106 Beadle Center
402-472-3530
Email: cbailey7@unl.edu
Research Area: Teaching and learning; forensic science; algal biology

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Joseph Barycki

Associate Professor
N114 Beadle Center
402-472-9307
Email: jbarycki2@unl.edu
Research Area: Crystallographic and biochemical characterizations of enzymes involved in redox homeostasis
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Gilles Basset

Assistant Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture / Biochemistry
E321 Beadle Center
402-472-2930
Email: gbasset2@unl.edu
Research Area: Plant nutrigenomics; plant secondary metabolism; protein and metabolic engineering
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Donald Becker

Professor
N258 Beadle Center
402-472-9652
Email: dbecker3@unl.edu
Research Area: Redox enzymology and gene regulation; Proline metabolism; Flavin Biochemistry
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Paul N. Black

Department Chair / Charles Bessey Professor
N202 Beadle Center
402-472-3212
Email: pblack2@unl.edu
Research Area: Fatty acid transport proteins; fatty acid trafficking; metabolic transformation

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Nicole Buan

Assistant Professor
N222 Beadle Center
402-472-7413
Email: nbuan2@unl.edu
Research Area: Biochemical mechanisms by which organisms conserve energy from simple chemicals

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Edgar Cahoon

Professor of Biochemistry; Director, Plant Science Innovation
E318 Beadle Center
402-472-5611
Email: ecahoon2@unl.edu
Research Area: Functional genomics of plant lipid and oil metabolism; sphingolipid metabolism and function; nutritional biofortification of crop plants
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Concetta DiRusso

Professor
N241 Beadle Center
402-472-6504
Email: cdirusso2@unl.edu
Research Area: Nutrient fatty acids; fatty acid-dependent regulation; fatty acids in health and disease

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Dmitri Fomenko

Assistant Professor
N138 Beadle Center
402-472-9062
Email: dfomenko2@unl.edu
Research Area: Redox biology; bioinformatics; transcription regulation and molecular diagnostic systems

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Ashley Hall

Assistant Professor
305A Entomology
402-472-6556
Email: ahall6@unl.edu
Research Area: Forensic science

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Edward Harris

Assistant Professor
N133 Beadle Center
402-472-7468
Email: eharris5@unl.edu
Research Area: Focus on a small family of Stabilin receptors, which are primarily responsible for the clearance of GAGs from both lymphatic and circulatory systems

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Oleh Khalimonchuk

Assistant Professor
N230 Beadle Center
402-472-8060
E-mail: okhalimonchuk2@unl.edu
Research Area: Biogenesis and maintenance of membrane-embedded protein complexes within mitochondria; role of the protein quality control in mitochondrial homeostasis and stress response; mitochondrial redox homeostasis
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Heejeong Kim

Research Assistant Professor
N211 Beadle Center
402-472-2939
Email: hkim7@unl.edu
Research Area: Micronutrient regulation of energy metabolism, stress responses, and cell death; signaling pathways
 

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Jaekwon Lee

Associate Professor
N210 Beadle Center
402-472-2658
Email: jlee7@unl.edu
Research Area: Molecular genetics of ion transporters and mineral metabolism; ER and mitochondria in health and disease; redox homeostasis

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Nandakumar Madayiputhiya

Research Assistant Professor
E154 Beadle Center
402-472-5097
Email: nmadayiputhiya2@unl.edu
Reseach Area: Systems biology - proteomics; metabolomics; biomarker discovery and validation. Analytical biochemistry - mass spectrometry; chromatography. Microbial; plant; human diseases and bioprocess

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Jonathan Markham

Assistant Professor
N146 Beadle Center
402-472-6967
Email: jmarkham3@unl.edu
Research Area: Synthesis and function of Arabidopsis thaliana Sphingolipids
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John Markwell

Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
103 Agriculture Hall
402-472-7912
Email: jmarkwell2@unl.edu
Research Area: Photosynthetic efficiency, higher plant photosynthetic pigments; the use of surfactants as probes of membrane structure; formate dehydrogenase; soybean proteins that cause human allergies

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Renu Nandakumar

Research Assistant Professor
E154 Beadle Center
402-472-5097
Email: rnandakumar2@unl.edu
Research Area: Metaproteomics of infectious diseases; quantitative microbial proteomics; redox proteomics of oral pathogens; proteome bioinformatics; metabolomics; biological mass spectrometry

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George Oyler

Research Associate Professor
N147 Beadle Center
402-472-2948
Email: goyler2@unl.edu
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Melanie Simpson

Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
N246 Beadle Center
402-472-9309
Email: msimpson2@unl.edu
Research Area: Prostate cancer; early regulation of tumor formation; extracellular control of gene expression
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Javier Seravalli

Research Assistant Professor
E157 Beadle Center
Voice: 402-4723124
Email: jseravalli1@unl.edu
Research Area: Mechanistic enzymology; metallo enzymes; spectroscopy; protein purification; elemental analysis

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Madhavan Soundararajan

Professor of Practice
N251 Beadle Center
402-472-9802
Email: msoundararajan1@unl.edu
Research Area: Biochemical and environmental regulation of carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation in plants; stomatal biochemistry


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Robert Spreitzer

Charles Bessey Professor
N217 Beadle Center
402-472-5446
Email: rspreitzer1@unl.edu
Research Area: Structure-function relationships of Rubisco; Photosynthesis; Chloroplast molecular genetics

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Julie Stone

Associate Professor
N164 Beadle Center
402-472-4902
Email: jstone2@unl.edu
Research Area: Plant molecular biology; program cell death; signal transduction; reactive oxygen species (redox); biotic and abiotic stress responses; plant development

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Donald Weeks

Maxcy Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources/Biochemistry
N158 Beadle Center
402-472-7917
Email: dweeks1@unl.edu
Research Area: Plant molecular biology; genetic engineering of plants; gene regulation and signal transduction

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Mark Wilson

Associate Professor
N118 Beadle Center
402-472-3626
Email: mwilson13@unl.edu
Research Area: Structural biology of proteins relevant to neurodegeneration; structural and functional studies of the DJ-1 superfamily; atomic and ultra-high resolution X-ray crystallography
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Charles Wood

Lewis Lehr/3M University Professor/School of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry
102C Morrison Life Sciences Research Center
402-472-4550
Email: cwood1@unl.edu
Research Area: Molecular virology; HIV and human herpus virus gene regulation
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