Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

27 results found

College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology Life Sciences: Cell Biology & Physiology

Sort by: Alphabetical (A - Z)

Alphabetical (A - Z)

Department

James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Juan Arroyo

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3052 LSB

Research Interests:
- Molecular or cellular signaling
- Apoptosis
- Placenta development
- Cell invasion or mobility regulation
- Pregnancy and Gestation
- Fetal and embryonic development

Jeffery Barrow

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3049 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genetic regulation of structure
- Gene activity
- Developmental Biology
- Embryology

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Benjamin Bikman

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3017 LSB

Research Interests:
- Obesity
- Molecular mechanisms of weight gain
- Etiology of insulin resistance and mitochondrial function
- Metabolism
- Fat development and accrual

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Jeff Edwards

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3046 LSB

Research Interests:
- Learning and memory
- Reward and addiction pathways
- Electrophysiology
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neurological diseases -- Epilepsy and Alzheimer's

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Jason Hansen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3047 LSB

Research Interests:
- Oxidative stress
- Birth defects
- Birth defect interventions or prevention
- Protein, DNA, lipid damage
- Developmental Biology

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Jonathon Hill

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3018 LSB

Research Interests:
- Gene or genetic regulation
- Heart formation
- Developmental Biology
- Congenital heart disease diagnosis and treatment

Timothy Jenkins

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
2025 LSB

Research Interests:
- Epigenetics
- DNA methylation
- Male fertility
- Sperm function

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Dario Mizrachi

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3015 LSB

Research Interests:
- Protein engineering
- Cell adhesion modulation or modification
- Drug delivery
- Membrane proteins

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Paul Reynolds

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3054 LSB

Research Interests:
- Embryology
- Developmental Biology
- Cell signaling
- Molecular and cellular causes of disease

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Roy Silcox

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
2026 LSB

Research Interests:
- Pregnancy and Gestation
- Developmental Biology

Michael Stark

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
4005 LSB

Research Interests:
- Developmental Biology
- Neural tube defects
- Cell fate determination
- Nervous system development
- Birth defects

Sterling Sudweeks

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3045 LSB

Research Interests:
- Ligand-gated ion channels
- Neurotransmission
- Synaptic communication
- Pharmacological targets
- Neuropathological treatments

Arminda Suli

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3048 LSB

Research Interests:
- Nervous system development
- Neural circuit formation
- Machanosensory hair cell development and innervation
- Multisensory neurons
- Neurological diseases or disorders

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

David Thomson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3013 LSB

Research Interests:
- Skeletal muscle metabolism, mass and function
- Muscular diseases or disorders
- Molecular signaling or signal transduction
- Behavioral or pharmacological treatments for muscle-compromising conditions or diseases

Dixon Woodbury

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3066 LSB

Research Interests:
- Cellular and molecular physiology
- Vesicle membrane fusion

Jordan Yorgason

College: Life Sciences
Department: Cell Biology & Physiology
3019 LSB

Research Interests:
- Neural circuit formation
- Drug seeking behavior and motivation
- Addiction
- Stress and drug seeking behavior