Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Personnel

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Baker, Josh
Assistant Professor
Location: N/A Howard Medical Science
Office: (775) 784-4103 Email: jebaker@unr.edu
Blomquist, Gary
Professor & Department Chair
Location: 162 Howard Medical Science
Insect Biochemistry, Lipid Metabolism, Biosynthesis of Sex Pheromones, Comparative Biochemistry
Office: (775) 784-4104 Email: garyb@cabnr.unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/blomquist
Corley Mastick, Cynthia
Associate Professor
Location: 148 Howard Medical Science
molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and specificity; cellular basis of insulin action and peripheral insulin resistance; regulation of glucose and lipid uptake/metabolism; cell biology of adipocytes and muscle; regulation of GluT4 vesicle traffic: endocytosis and exocytosis; Maturity-Onset or Type II diabetes.
Office: (775) 784-1155 Email: cmastick@unr.edu
Cramer, Grant
Professor
Location: 322 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Cold, drought and salinity stress effects on grape and wine quality; fruit flavor; ion transport; metabolomics; plant hormones; proteomics; systems biology; transcriptomics.
Office: (775) 784-4204 Email: cramer@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/cramer/
Cremo, Christine
Professor
Location: 153 Howard Medical Science
The structure and function of motor proteins in smooth muscle.
Office: (775) 784-7033 Email: cremo@unr.edu
Cushman, John
Professor
Location: 307 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
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 desiccation stress tolerance; biofuels production from halophytic alga.
Office: (775) 784-1918 Email: jcushman@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/cushman/
Damke, Hanna
Research Assistant Professor
Location: 168 Howard Medical Science
Role of the signaling GTPase dynamin in coordinating endocytosis with other cellular functions to maintain homeostasis.
Office: (775) 784-1830 Email: damke@unr.edu
Ellison, Patricia
Assistant Professor
Location: 153 Howard Medical Science
Regulation of smooth muscle myosins by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. I am also interested in the interaction between myosin and actin, myosin light chain kinase and phosphatase.
Office: (775) 784-4561 Email: ellison@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/Ellison/
Facemyer, Kevin
Research Assistant Professor
Location: 154 A Howard Medical Science
Computational biochemistry of motor proteins. Phosphorylation dependent downregulation of smooth muscle myosin. Protein interface dynamics, protein docking prediction and scoring, as well as energetics of intraprotein domain interactions.
Office: (775) 327-2007 Email: facemyer@unr.edu
Harper, Jeff
Associate Professor
Location: 319 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Engineering plants to better tolerate abiotic and biotic stress.
Office: (775) 784-1349 Email: jfharper@unr.edu
Howard, Christie
Assistant Professor
Location: 236 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Office: (775) 784-6243 Email: cjhoward@cabnr.unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/howard/
Misono, Kunio
Professor
Location: 151 Howard Medical Science
Structure of cell membrane receptors and their signal transduction mechanisms.
Office: (775) 784-4690 Email: kmisono@unr.edu
Mittler, Ron
Associate Professor
Location: 151 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Genetically enhance the tolerance of crop plants to environmental stress, mechanisms underlying the acclimation of desert plants to their harsh environments, and involvement of reactive oxygen intermediates in the response of plants to different environmental stimuli and stress (biotic and abiotic).
Office: (775) 784-1384 Email: ronm@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/mittler/
Pardini, Ron
Associate Director of NAES
Location: 210 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Lipid metabolism; control of sex pheromone biosynthesis in the housefly, including fatty-acid-chain elongation, desaturation, and decarbonylation; effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids on tumor growth, with emphasis on the fish oil or n-3 fatty acids; effects of the alkylphosphocholines on tumor growth.
Office: (775) 784-6237 Email: ronp@cabnr.unr.edu
Qiu, Yue 'Sally'
Research Assistant Professor
Location: 151 Howard Medical Science
Hormone-receptor interaction and signal transduction mechanism and cardiovascular regulation and diseases.
Office: (775) 327-2251 Email: yueq@unr.edu
Schlauch, Karen
Associate Professor
Location: N/A Anderson Health Science
The development and implementation of mathematical and statistical tools to analyze large sets of genomic data.
Office: (775) 784-6236 Email: schlauch@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/Schlauch/
Schooley, David
Professor
Location: 160 Howard Medical Science
Structural and biosynthetic studies on physiologically active materials, chiefly insect juvenile hormones and peptide hormones; methods for titer determination of hormones; stereochemistry and its analysis; analytical biochemistry.
Office: (775) 784-4136 Email: schooley@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/schooley/
Shintani, David
Assistant Professor
Location: 308 Max Fleischmann Agriculture
Plant biochemistry and genome research; metabolic and developmental regulation of plant lipid metabolism; vitamin and cofactor biosynthesis in plants.
Office: (775) 784-4631 Email: shintani@unr.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/shintani/
Tittiger, Claus
Associate Professor
Location: 150 Howard Medical Science
Insect molecular biology and genomics; isoprenoid pheromone biosynthesis; juvenile hormone regulation; cytochrome P450s; hydrocarbon and lipid metabolism.
Office: (775) 784-6480 Email: crt@unr.edu
Valencik, Maria
Assistant Professor
Location: 166 Howard Medical Science
Cardiovascular research, integrins and natriuretic peptides in cardiac myocytes.
Office: (775) 784-1389 Email: mvalen@unr.edu
Welch, William
Emeritus Professor
Location: 165 Howard Medical Science
Role of cations in enzyme structure and function; structure-function relationships of biological molecules.
Office: (775) 784-4102 Email: welch@unr.nevada.edu
Personal Web: http://www.ag.unr.edu/welch/