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Integrated Bioscience Participating Faculty

Although not officially required, it is in the best interest of the prospective student to contact one or more potential faculty mentors before applying for the IB PhD program. Such a contact is useful to note whether a desired faculty has an opening in their lab in the year the student is interested applying. Additionally, individual faculty members may have their own sources of research funding that could open extra avenues of funding for the student, such as a grant-funded research assistantship. Finally, interested faculty can help facilitate your application process, which can be especially important if you need a speedy admissions decision because of competing offers, etc. For all the above reasons, it is wise to email individual faculty that you may be interested in working with to find out if they are available as mentors.


Below are the various faculty members that are associated with the Integrated Biosciences program. A brief description of their research programs is shown, but for more detailed information, please click on the professor's names to be taken to their web page(s). If the research interests of a particular faculty matches your own, then click on their email address to contact them to let them know of your potential interest in having them as your PhD advisor(s).

IB Faculty Available to Mentor PhD Students
Director Department
Biology - Ecology & Evolution
Faculty Department
Polymer Engineering
     
Biology - Developmental Physiology, Cardiovascular Development, Cardiac Regeneration
     
Polymer Science
     
Biology - Behavioral Ecology, Biomechanics, Biomaterials
     
Computer Science
     
Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
     
Civil Engineering - Phytoremediation, Bioremediation, Biotechnology
     
Dang, Xuan-Hien Thi; email: Dangx@uakron.edu
Computer Science
     
Polymer Science
     
Computer Science - Bioinformatics, Fast Algorithms, Computer Simulation
     
Biology - Systematics, Biogeography, RNA Editing
     
Biology - Cardiovascular Physiology, Hypertension, SRY Gene
     
Chemistry
     
Harris, Frank W; email: fharris@uakron.edu Polymer Science
     
Hopkins, Jessica; email: jhopkins@uakron.edu
  Biology - Ecology, Conservation Biology, Freshwater Biology
     
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Bioprocesses, Bioenergy, Environmental Bioengineering
     
Kennedy, Joseph P; email: josep19@uakron.edu Polymer Science
     
Theoretical and Applied Mathematics - Numerical Simulations
     
Lavrentyev, Peter J ; email: peterl@uakron.edu
Biology - Microbial Ecology, Limnology, Oceanography
     
Chemistry - Crystallography, Proteins, NMR
     
Computer Science - Mobile, Parallel, Security
     
Biology - Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Cadherin Expression & Function
     
Biology - Proteomics, Fat Metabolism, Comparative Biochemistry
     
Mechanical Engineering - Cardiovascular diseases, cerebrospinal disorders, fluid dynamics within the human body
     
Lyuksyutov, Sergei; email:sfl@physics.uakron.edu   Physics - Nanotechnology, Photorefractive optics
     
Malik, Robert R.; email: mallik@uakron.edu Physics - Surface physics, characterization of nanoscale thin-films
     
Milsted, Amy; email: Milsted@uakron.edu
Biology - Gene Regulation, Cell Culture, Hypertension
     
Biology - Evolutionary Ecology
     
  Chemistry - Photochemistry, Photophysics, Laser Spectroscopy
     
 
Biology - Evolutionary Synthesis, Bacteria, Vertebrates
     
Newby, Bi-min Zhang; email: bimin@uakron.edu Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
     
Biology - Ecology, Evolution, Biologically-Inspired Design
     
O'Neil, Timothy W; email: toneil@uakron.edu Computer Science
     
Ott, Donald W; email: dott@uakron.edu
Biology - Cell Biology, Phycology, Botany
     
Biology - Ecology, Symbiosis, Botany
     
 
Geology - Paleoecology, Climate Change, Phylogeny Reconstruction
     
Pugh, Coleen E; email: cpugh@uakron.edu   Polymer Science
     
Polymer Science
     
  Biology - Cardiovascular Physiology, Vascular Behavior, Vascular Mechanics
     
Ramsier, Rex D; email: rex@uakron.edu Physics - Biomaterials, Biocompatibility, Surface Science
     
Reddy, Narender P; email: npreddy@uakron.edu Biomedical Engineering
     
  Chemistry
     
Rittgers, Stanley E; email: rittger@uakron.edu Biomedical Engineering
     
Shawkey, Matthew; email: shawkey@uakron.edu
  Biology - Evolution, Ornithology, Biomechanics
     
Smith, Daniel J; email: djs5@uakron.edu   Chemistry
     
Smith, Gregory A.; email: gasmith@uakron.edu
  Biology - Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Biogeography
     
Polymer Science - Protein Dynamics, Bio-nano-mechanics
     
Tausig, Mark B; email: mtausig@uakron.edu Sociology
     
Chemistry - Biomineralization of Silica
     
Turner, Monte E; email: METURNER@uakron.edu
Biology - Genetics of Hypertension, Mammalian Y Chromosomes, Population Genetics
     
Weeks, Stephen C; email: scw@uakron.edu
Biology - Evolution, Biogeography, Paleoecology
     
Chemistry - Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules
     
Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
     
Theoretical and Applied Mathematics - Population Dynamics, Differential Equations, Scientific Computation
     
Mechanical Engineering
     
Computer Science - Visualization, Computer Graphics, Numerical Simulation
     
Youngs, Wiley J; email: youngs@uakron.edu Chemistry - Antimicrobials, Anti-tumor, Metals in Medicine
     
Yun, Yang Hyun; email: yy@uakron.edu Biomedical Engineering
     
Zheng, Weiping; email: wzheng@uakron.edu Chemistry

IB Faculty Currently Not Taking PhD Students
Faculty   Department
Calvo, Kim C   Chemistry
Holda, James H   Biology
Kory, Martha M   Biology
Margush, Timothy S   Computer Science
Pelz, Wolfgang   Computer Science
Salisbury, Ronald L   Biology
Sheffer, Daniel J   Biomedical Engineering
Verstraete, Mary C   Biomedical Engineering
Wang, Ping   Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
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