Dr.
A. Bennett
Dr.
A. BennettGeneral: Relationship of dietary fatty acids to mouse mammary tumors. Specific: Factors affecting the degree of differentiation of transplanted tumors and expression of the murine mammary tumor virus (MMTV). Altered activities of selected enzymes, control mechanisms, and structural changes in mammary gland tissues and tumors.
Dr.
N. Behforouz
General: Immunoregulation and Chemotherapy of Infectious
Disease.
Specific: Immune response to tumor, parasitic and other
chronic antigen stimulation and the study of immunomodulation and chemotherapy
by antibiotics such as Cyclosporine A and lavendamycin analogs. Examination
of subsets of immune cells involved in the immune response both in vitro
and in vivo; their proliferation, activity and production of lymphokines
and other immunoregulatory molecules. Of particular interest is the perturbation
of the immune network stimulated by tumors and infectious agents and the
mechanisms of action of antibiotics in reversing these effects.
Dr. D. CostillGeneral: Applied Human Physiology; responses to
environmental and exercise stress.
Specific: Muscle metabolism during
acute and chronic bouts of activity; nutritional aspects of exercise performance;
acid-base balance in skeletal muscle during exercise and training.
Dr. L. EngstromGeneral: Genetic control of embryonic development
in Drosophila.
Specific: 1) Characterizing all identified genes
with respect to their effects - lethal phases, maternal effects, developmental
lesions, molecular bases - on development; 2) gene interactions affecting
development; 3) examination of internal organs in maternal effect lethal
and embryonic lethal mutant embryos. The types of techniques employed include
classical genetic mapping, mutagenesis, light, transmission and scanning
electron microscopy, mitotic germ-line clonal analysis, enhancer trap mutagenesis;
4) nervous control of behavior through metamorphosis.
Dr.
D. HendricksonGeneral: Environmental microbiology.
Specific:
Microbial analysis of hot tubs, microbial indicators of water quality,
bacterial slime formation, isolation of mycotoxin producing fungi, rapid
diagnostic tests for identifying food-borne pathogens.
Dr.
J. HendrixGeneral: Biology and General Science Education
and Bioethics.
Specific:
Science process skill building; models of teaching science and clarifying
values; impact assessment of science education programs; bioethical decision-making;
impact of bioshock on mankind; accountability in science education; the
ethics of Genetic control, Methods and Materials in Human genetics education.
Dr. T. C. McComishGeneral: Biology and General Science Education
and Bioethics.
Specific:
Science process skill building; models of teaching science and clarifying
values; impact assessment of science education programs; bioethical decision-making;
impact of bioshock on mankind; accountability in science education; the
ethics of Genetic control, Methods and Materials in Human genetics education.
Dr.
T. Mertens Distinguished Professor Emeritus General: Genetics.
Dr.
B. Torke
General: Invertebrate Zoology, Entomology, Limnology
and Ecology.
Specific: Freshwater zooplankton ecology, lake classification
and management, water chemistry, and biological production, aquatic and
wetland plants.
