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New Mexico State University
Molecular Biology Program

 

Faculty Research Interests

Cramer, Chris

Agronomy & Horticulture

Molecular breeding technique applied to onion

Creamer, Rebecca

Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences

Etiology and management of plant pathogens in New Mexico

Curtiss, Jennifer

Biology
Cell and Developmental Biology

Dawe, Angus L.

Biology

Molecular biology of fungi, in particular, a fungus called cryphonectria parasitica

Gustafson, John

Biology

Bacterial antibiotic and biocide resistance, bacterial stress responses

Hanley, Kathryn

(not accepting students)

Biology

Research Program: Evolution, Ecology and Control of Arthropod-Borne Viruses

Hanson, Steve

Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences

Mechanisms of viral replication in crop plants

Hawkins, Dean E.

Animal & Range Sciences

Reproductive physiology of domestic animals

He, Jing

Computer Science

3D protein structure, prediction, and characterization

Jun, Jeongwon

(Not accepting students)

MOLB

DNA sequencing and gene expression

Kemp, John D.

Plant Genetic Engineering Lab

Plant genetics, plant transformations

Kuehn, Glenn D.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Polyamine biochemistry, plant wound-repair mechansim

Lammers, Peter J.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Bioinformatic approaches to protein structure, genomics of symbiotic fungi

Lucero, Mary

Agronomy & Horticulture

Research examines biochemical ecology of desert range plants

Lusetti, Shelley

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Mechanism of recombinational DNA repair and chromosomal maintenance

Nalim, F. Ameena

(Not accepting students)

MOLB - - Adjunct Professor
Molecular plant pathology and mycology

Nishiguchi, Michele

Biology

Molecular and ecological basis of speciation

Lyons, Barbara

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Determining three-dimensional structures of small proteins in solution by multidimensional multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy

Ray, Ian M.

Agronomy & Horticulture

Alfalfa genetics, transgene expression, marker-assisted selection

Sengupta-Gopalan, Champa

Agronomy & Horticulture

Nitrogen-fixation, plant-bacterial interactions

Serrano, Elba

Biology

Membrane biophysics, molecular neurobiology, desert legumes

Shuster, Charles Brad

Biology

Regulation of the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons

Smith, Geoffrey B.

Biology

Environmental gene probes, microbial biodegradation

Sterling, Tracy M.

Entomology Plant Pathology & Weed Sciences

Herbicide mode of action and transport, plant/insect interaction

Thomas, Milton

Animal & Range Sciences

Physiological-genetics of domestic animals

Thomas, Stephen

Entomology Plant Pathology & Weed Sciences

Nematode-plant interactions

Van Voorhies, Wayne

(not accepting students)

MOLB

Physiology of aging

Vilchis, Hugo

Health Center

Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, environmental health, international health

Agronomy & Horticulture

Structural, functional, molecular breeding, and genetic improvement of Acala and Pima cotton