Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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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

Dan Ames

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
EB 430N

Research Interests:
- Geospatial data analysis
- Hydroinformatics
- Engineering software applications for hydrology
- Alternative Energy
- Uncertainty analysis
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programming

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Brad Berges

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3136 LSB

Research Interests:
- Viruses and disease in blood cells
- Dengue Virus, HIV, Epstein-Barr, Kaposi's Sarcome Herpesvirus
- Vaccine development
- Anti-viral drugs
- Virus or viral infections
- Animal models of human systems
- Virology

Evan Bingham

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430H EB

Research Interests:
- Scheduling tools and best practices
- Project Controls
- Innovative Construction
- Building Science
- Surveying and geomatics
- Construction Scheduling and cost control

Don Breakwell

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
2060G LSB

Research Interests:
- Microbiology education
- Bacteriophage Genomics

Laura Bridgewater

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
D-387 ASB

Research Interests:
- Transcriptional regulation
- Cell signaling
- Cartilage
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
- DNA
- Gene Regulation
- Gene function
- Gut microbiota
- Gut effects on obesity, type 2 diabetes, anxiety and depression

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Jay Christofferson

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
230Q SNLB

Research Interests:
- Construction
- Management
- Computer Applications
- Building Materials
- Strategic Management
- Leadership and Leadership Development
- Project Management
- Consulting
- Computer Solutions for Management, communication, and estimation

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

Mary Davis

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3129 LSB

Research Interests:
- Statistical genetic analysis of complex diseases
- Phenotype extraction from electronic medical records
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

David O. Eddington

College: College of Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Biology

David Erickson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3133 LSB

Research Interests:
- Immunology
- Bacteria or bacterial pathogens
- Bacterial pathogen evolution

R. Paul Evans, Jr.

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3139 LSB

Research Interests:
- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Morphology
- Genetic diversity
- Phylogenetics

Clifton Farnsworth

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430L EB

Research Interests:
- Geotechnical Construction
- Construction Engineering Education
- Infrastructure
- Disaster Reconstruction

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Kevin Franke

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430J EB

Research Interests:
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
- Liquefaction and Effects

Joel Griffitts

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
4007 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biological versatility in bacteria
- Abiotic or antibiotic stress or stressors
- Antimicrobial compounds
- Gene expression engineering
- Protein production or engineering

Julianne Grose

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3140 LSB

Research Interests:
- Cellular metabolism
- Metabolism regulation
- Protein kinase
- Glucose metabolism and regulation
- Bacteriophages
- Bacterial hosts
- Pathogen treatment

Spencer Guthrie

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
368-C CB

Research Interests:
- Concrete Durability
- Construction/Civil Engineering Materials
- Construction Engineering
- Nondestructive Testing
- Concrete
- Bridge Engineering
- Numerical Modeling
- Concrete Technology

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

Rollin Hotchkiss

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 K EB

Research Interests:
- Dam and reservoir lifespan
- Reducing fatalities at low-head dams
- Water Resources Engineering
- Data Analysis

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

Steve Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3132 LSB

Research Interests:
- Gene expression and regulation
- Gene or DNA sequencing
- Chromatin architecture or structure
- Histones
- Gene silencing
- Gene therapy
- DNA-based disease treatments

Norm Jones

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430Q EB

Research Interests:
- Groundwater Modeling
- Hydroinformatics
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Cloud Computing
- High Performance Computing

Johnn Judd

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 F EB

Research Interests:
- Structural Engineering

Gregory Macfarlane

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 E EB

Research Interests:
- Passive transportation data
- Travel behavior analysis
- Applied econometrics

Bill McCleary

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3128 LSB

Research Interests:
- Signal transduction
- Gene expression and regulation
- Cell regulatory mechanisms or regulation

Woodruff Miller

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 W EB

Research Interests:
- Hydrology
- Hydraulics
- Engineering Education

Jim Nelson

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-P EB

Research Interests:
- Spatial hydrology
- Modeling
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Hydroinformatics

Brent Nielsen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3130 LSB

Research Interests:
- Plant molecular biology
- DNA replication and recombination in chloroplasts and mitochondria
- Transcriptomics of halophytes
- Microbiome of halophytes

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.

Kim O'Neill

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3142 LSB

Research Interests:
- Cancer prevention
- Phytochemicals
- Public Health and disease education
- Immune response to cancer
- DNA repair mechanisms
- Tumor or cancerous macrophage
- Cancer or disease detection

Brett Pickett

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3141 LSB

Research Interests:
- Pathogen comparative genomics
- Transcription response to a stimulus
- Phylogenetics
- Pathogen evolution
- Infection or chronic disease
- Machine Learning algorithms

Brian Poole

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3138 LSB

Research Interests:
- Autoimmune diseases -- Lupus
- Genetic risk of autoimmune diseases
- Environmental factors of autoimmune diseases
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)

Richard Robison

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3131 LSB

Research Interests:
- Disease causing bacterial agents or bacteria
- Pathogen or pathogenic mechanism
- Virulence
- Decontamination, disinfection and infection control

Kyle Rollins

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-S EB

Research Interests:
- Earthquake Engineering
- Liquefaction
- Deep Foundation
- Collapsible Soils
- Ground Improvement
- Bridge Abutments

Grant Schultz

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 EB

Research Interests:
- Transportation safety
- Urban transportation planning
- Transportation economics

Michael Scott

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430M EB

Research Interests:
- Computer Aided Design
- Computational Mechanics
- Isogeometric Analysis

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

Kendrick Shepherd

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-X EB

Research Interests:
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Geometry
- Isogeometric Analysis
- Mathematical and Computer Models

James Smith

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-Y EB

Research Interests:
- Construction Delivery
- Lean Construction
- Residential Construction
- Trust-building in construction
- Alternative Project Delivery
- Pedagogy for enhancing soft skills

Darrell B. Sonntag

College: College of Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430D EB

Research Interests:
- Vehicle emissions and indoor air quality
- Modeling environmental impacts of transportation systems

Taylor Sorensen

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430B EB

Research Interests:
- Structural Analysis, Dynamics and Reliability
- Building Design
- Earthquake Engineering
- Concrete Technology

Robert Sowby

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430C EB

Research Interests:
- Water Resources
- Drinking Water
- Water-Energy Nexus

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

Scott Weber

College: Life Sciences
Department: Microbiology & Molecular Biology
3137 LSB

Research Interests:
- Immunology -- T cell activation and T cell memory
- Protein engineering
- Immune involvement in Alzheimer's disease
- Environmental exposure influence on asthma development

Gustavious Williams

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430L EB

Research Interests:
- Water Resources
- Remote Sensing
- Applied statistics
- Data Analysis

Eric Wilson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Exercise Sciences
3135 LSB

Research Interests:
- White blood cell migration and accumulation
- Immunology