Quantitative Bioscience at the University of Tennessee

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	Department	Research Interests
Steve Abel Email	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Computational cell biology and immunology, theory and simulation of soft biological materials, membrane and polymer biophysics, systems biology
Vasilios Alexiades Email	Mathematics	Math biology (chemotaxis, action potentials, phototransduction), phase change processes (laser ablation, solidification), CFD, parallel computing
David Anderson Email	Anthropology	Eastern U.S. prehistoric and historic archaeology, development of cultural complexity, colonization and migration
Paul Armsworth Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Applications of mathematical modeling, statistics and optimization to inform conservation of biodiversity and the management of ecosystem services
Alex Bentley Email	Anthropology	Culture evolution, computational social science
Michael Berry Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Mathematics	Scientific computing, parallel numerical algorithms, information retrieval, data mining
Michael J. Blum Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Aquatic ecology, socioecology, sustainability, conservation biology
Alison Buchan Email	Microbiology	Molecular microbial ecology, bacterial aromatic compound catabolism, marine microbiology
Jessica Budke Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary developmental biology, maternal effects, structure-function relationships, systematics, botany, bryology (mosses), natural history collections
Maitreyi Das Email	Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology	Study and experimental quantification of cell shape and polarity control
Judy Day Email	Mathematics; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Mathematical modeling and control, dynamical systems, model predictive control, acute inflammation/immunology
Elizabeth Derryberry Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Behavioral and cultural evolution
Shigetoshi Eda Email	Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries; Associate Director, Center for Wildlife Health	Mathematical modeling of Johne's disease epidemiology and immunology, development of an onsite diagnostic system for diseases and physiological conditions
Scott Emrich Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Genome-focused bioinformatics, high-throughput and parallel computing, life science applications
Nina Fefferman Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics; Director, Math Modeling Consulting Center	Self-organizing complex systems, mathematical and computational models of problems in epidemiology, evolutionary and behavioral ecology, conservation biology
James Fordyce Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary ecology, plant-insect interactions
Todd Freeberg Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Psychology	Complexity of communicative signals
Vitaly Ganusov Email	Microbiology; Mathematics	Mathematical modeling of CD8 T cell responses to acute and chronic infections
Orou Gaoue Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Conservation biology, demography, plant-human interactions
Sergey Gavrilets Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics	Theoretical evolutionary biology, social and evolutionary dynamics
Xingli Giam Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Conservation ecology, global environmental change
Michael Gilchrist Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary theory, mathematical biology, molecular evolution, protein translation
Louis Gross Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics	Mathematical ecology. Director, NIMBioS; Director, The Institute for Environmental Modeling (TIEM)
Hong Guo Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Computational molecular and structural biology
Terry C. Hazen Email	Governor's Chair for Environmental Biotechnology; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Microbiology	Environmental microbiology, systems biology approach to bioremediation, bioenergy and water quality, genomics
Tian Hong Email	Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology	Computational systems biology
Yetta Jager Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab	Quantitative ecology, hydropower, conservation biology
Kristina Kintziger Email	Public Health	Environmental health and infectious disease epidemiology, impacts of climate change on human health
Stephanie Kivlin Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, global change
Michael Langston Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Graph algorithms in bioinformatics, machine learning
Maxim Lavrentovich Email	Physics and Astronomy	Theoretical biophysics, soft condensed matter physics
Sarah Lebeis Email	Microbiology	Plant-microbe interactions, genomics and bioinformatics, plant-associated microbial communities and innate immunology
Suzanne Lenhart Email	Mathematics	Optimal control, population and environmental models, natural resource modeling, disease models
Frank Löffler Email	Governor's Chair for Microbiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering; Microbiology	Environmental microbiology and microbial ecology, microbial bioremediation, genomics
Jaan Mannik Email	Physics and Astronomy	Cellular biophysics, self-organizing processes in bacterial cell
Vasileios Maroulas Email	Mathematics	Topological data analysis, applications of statistical learning methods to neuroscience and biology
Rachel Patton McCord Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	3D genome structure and the biophysics of cell migration
Nicholas Nagle Email	Geography	Spatial statistics and demography
Andreas Nebenführ Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Cell biology of organelle movement in Arabidopsis
Agricola Odoi Email	Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine	GIS and spatial epidemiology in health research and practice, zoonotic infections of public health significance, determinants of population health
Brian O'Meara Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Phylogenetics, macroevolution
Monica Papeş Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Director, Spatial Analysis Lab	Ecological niche modeling, conservation science, GIS and remote sensing
Olivia Prosper Email	Mathematics	Mathematical biology, modeling disease dynamics, population dynamics, optimal control
Dan Roberts Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Biochemistry and biophysics of plant membrane transporters/channels, calcium regulatory proteins
Shih-Lung Shaw Email	Geography	Transportation, GIS, space time analytics, human dynamics
Kimberly Sheldon Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Biogeography, physiological ecology, tropical ecology
Tongye Shen Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Stability and dynamics of biomolecular structures and supramolecular assembly
Elena Shpak Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Plant growth and development, signal transduction in Arabidopsis
Daniel Simberloff Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Biological invasions, ecology, conservation biology, biogeography
Mike Simpson Email	Materials Science and Engineering; Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL	Nanobioscience, nanobiotechnology
Jeremy Smith Email	Governor's Chair for Molecular Biophysics; Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Computational molecular biophysics, supercomputing, neutrons, drug design. Director, Center for Molecular Biophysics, ORNL
Meg Staton Email	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Bioinformatics, computational genomics, genomic database development
Christopher Strickland Email	Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Mathematical ecology, addiction epidemiology, data-driven mathematical modeling, computational biomath
David Talmy Email	Microbiology	Ocean microbial ecology & biogeochemistry
Albrecht von Arnim Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Translational regulation of gene expression. Director, Genome Science and Technology Program
Steven Wilhelm Email	Microbiology	Molecular ecology of viruses, bacteria and algae in oceans and large lakes
Joe Williams Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Plant evolutionary biology
Steven Wise Email	Mathematics	Mathematical biology, computational materials science, computational and applied math
Xiaopeng Zhao Email	Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering	Biommedical signal processing, medical informatics, dynamics and control, computational biology

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.