Lisa Bain
Professor
Developmental toxicology; effects of chemicals on stem cells and cell fate determination.
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Clemson University’s molecular, cellular and developmental biologists are involved in a diverse number of projects investigating neurobiology, developmental biology, pharmacology, immunology, obesity, diabetes, cancer biology and infectious diseases.
Current research investigates neurodevelopmental disease and neuropharmacology, inheritance of prenatal signals from parents under stress responses, stem cell differentiation and anthropogenic perturbations in stem cell differentiation, nutrition as signaling molecules, small solute transport, energy metabolism, cell physiology, virology, immunology, parasitology, and multiple other research projects that investigate molecular and cellular interactions in cell development, diabetes and obesity, aging and infectious diseases.
Some of the facilities supporting this research include the Jordan Hall Molecular Core Facility, Clemson Light Imaging Facility, Palmetto High Performance Computing Cluster, Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility, Multi-User Analytical Laboratory, Electron Microscopy Facility, the Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, and the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics.
Faculty have received funding from the NIH, NSF, DOD, USDA and industry sources. Our mission is to train molecular, cellular and developmental biologists so that they can continue to address the basic biology research needs and crucial medical and public health problems that will emerge. The Department of Biological Sciences offers B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Graduates work in academia, government, the pharmaceutical industry and other diverse places.
Faculty
Faculty with an asterisk after their name are currently accepting graduate students in the rotation program.
Bill Baldwin
Professor
Metabolic toxicology and energetics, interplay between diet and xenobiotics on obesity and diabetes.
Barbara Campbell*
Professor
My lab focuses on the ecology of microbes in the environment: who is there, what they are doing and how they interact with others.
Min Cao
Associate Professor
Microbial genetics, noninvasive detection and measurement of single bacterial cells using radio frequency.
Susan Chapman
Associate Professor
Evolution and development.
Subham Dasgupta*
Assistant Professor
Our lab uses zebrafish as a model to mechanistically examine how environmental chemicals exposures affect development.
Zhicheng Dou*
Associate Professor
Molecular parasitology of protozoan pathogens in biomedicine and poultry science.
David Feliciano*
Associate Professor
The Feliciano lab translates fundamental biological knowledge about the brain into clinically relevant ideas.
Vincent Gallicchio
Professor
Scholarly focus is disseminating clinical applications targeting stem cell use in medicine concurrent with improved pedagogy for students.
Julia George
Associate Professor
My lab uses genomic approaches to study the effects of early life experience on development, cognition and learning in songbirds.
Qing Liu
Assistant Professor
Stem cell biology, cardiovascular toxicology and metabolism, genomics.
Karolina Pajerowska-Mukhtar
Dept Chair/Head
Plant stress biology, endoplasmic reticulum signaling, plant-microbe interactions, biology education research.
Kara E Powder
Assistant Professor
We use evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) and genomic approaches to study craniofacial development and adaptation in cichlid fishes.
Charles Rice
Professor
Immunotoxicology, comparative marine immunobiology, cancer immunology.
Kylie Rock*
Assistant Professor
Reproductive toxicology, placental development and function, One-Health investigations to identify chemical-associated health risks.
Emily E Rosowski*
Assistant Professor
Innate immune responses to pathogens and host-pathogen interactions in a larval zebrafish host model.
Lesly Temesvari
Alumni Professor/Assoc Chair
Virulence mechanisms of the pathogenic amoebae, Entamoeba histolytica and Acanthamoeba castellanii; drug discovery and drug re-purposing.
Matt Turnbull
Associate Professor
Insect virology. Currently ecology, infection routes, and replication of the sterilizing nudivirus HzNV-2.
Jeremy Tzeng
Professor
Antimicrobial drug resistance, antibiotic alternatives, magnetically mediated energy delivery, biosensor, adhesin-specific nanoparticles.
Yanzhang (Charlie) Wei
Professor
Dr. Wei's research focuses on the development of novel anti-cancer immunotherapies using dendritic cells and natural killer cells.
