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Faculty Sponsoring Undergraduate Research
Lydia Arbogast, PhD
Phone: 453-1856
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Our research area is reproductive neuroendocrinology with a focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms for hormone action in the hypothalamus and the neuronal circuitry involved in the control of prolactin release from the anterior pituitary gland.
Brent Bany, PhD.
Phone: 453-1596
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Uterine and placental biology in mice and man.
Buffy Ellsworth , PhD.
Phone: 453-1539
Email: bellsworth@siumed.edu
Email: bellsworth@siumed.edu
We are interested in how forkhead transcription factors regulate pituitary gland development and function.
Jacob Nordman, PhD
Phone: 453-1579
Email: jnordman78@siumed.edu
Email: jnordman78@siumed.edu
Our lab studies the impact of stress on the brain that brings about long-lasting violent aggression.
Patrick Zheng, PhD
Phone: 453-8430
Email: zzheng@siumed.edu
Email: zzheng@siumed.edu
Our research area involves applying the power of mouse genetics and genomics to problems of sexual differentiation in order to understand when, where, and how sex steroids and their receptors interact with develpmental gene networks.
Nafisa Jadavji, PhD
Phone: 453-4147
Email: njadavji32@siumed.edu
Email: njadavji32@siumed.edu
Our research investigates how the brain responds to changes in one-carbon metabolism, with a specific focus on maternal nutrtion contributions to offspring neurodevelopment, neurological diseases (e.g. ischemic stroke and vascular dementia) and aging.