Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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Byron Adams

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4127 LSB

Research Interests:
- Soil Ecosystem responses to climate-driven environmental changes
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Ecological Genomics
- Soil Biodiversity
- Microfauna

Shayne Anderson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
262 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Couple Therapy

Liz Bailey

College: College of Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4146 LSB

Research Interests:
- Gender Gaps in Biology Education
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring
- Course Structures that Promote Growth Mindset
- Student Learning or Enrichment
- Cumulative Assessment
- Integration of Math and Biology
- Membrane Biophysics

Matt Bailey

Spatiogenomic Mapping of Epileptiform Activity in Mouse Neocortex and Hippocampus

Lauren Barnes

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
274 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Women's Studies

Dawna Baugh

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life

Research Interests:
- Apparel Industry

Roy Bean

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
257 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Parenting
- Cultural Competence

Mark Belk

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4023 LSB

Research Interests:
- Predator Prey Interactions
- Life History Evolution
- Native Fish Conservation
- Fisheries
- Parasites
- Buring Beetles
- Fishes

Angela Bradford

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life

Research Interests:
- Couple Therapy

Dean Busby

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2086B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Relationship Conflict and trauma
- Sexuality

Mark Butler

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2093 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Relationship Therapy

Seth Bybee

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4057 LSB

Research Interests:
- Phylogenetics
- Entomology (specifically Odonata)
- Visual Evolution

Jason Carroll

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2057 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Marriage Threats and Readiness

Shawn Clark

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
3101E MLBM

Research Interests:
- Entomology
- Identification and Classification of Insects

Sarah Coyne

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2086C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Media effects on children and families

Jeff Dew

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2101 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Family resources and relationship outcomes
- Parenting
- Positive relationship behavior

David Dollahite

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2092B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Religion and family life

Cortney Evans Stout

College: Family, Home & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2079 JFSB

Chad Gibbs

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2056 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Measuring meaning in the house

Ashley Larsen

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2063 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Intersection of Gender, Family, and child well-being

Richard Gill

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4101A LSB

Research Interests:
- Climate Change
- Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
- Community Response to Climate Change
- Human influence on the environment and climate
- Resource conservation in the United States and South Pacific

Blaine Griffen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
2121 LSB

Research Interests:
- Marine Biology
- Ecology
- Human influence on the environment and climate
- Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
- Extinction
- Individual variation within populations
- Population and Community Interactions

Natalie Hancock

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2060B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Teaching Pedagogy and Education

Craig Hart

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
3770B HBLL

Research Interests:
- Family Processes
- Parenting
- Children's social development

Alan Hawkins

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2077 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Relationship Therapy
- Educational Interventions and Public Policies to prevent divorce

Jeff Hill

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2052 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Family resources and relationship outcomes

Erin Holmes

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2086B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Parenting, specifically systemic influences on parental approaches

Quintin Hunt

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
273 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Suicide prevention

Dana Hunter

College: College of Family, Home & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2067 JFSB

Research Interests:
-A Look at the Meaning of Home for an Immigrant Bolivian Family

Spencer James

Benin

Alex Jensen

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2097 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Children's social development

Jamie Jensen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4059 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biological Science or Biology Education
- Reconciling Evolution and Religion
- STEM Faculty Professional Development
- Assessment Strategies

Jerry Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4033 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolutionary Diversity or Diversification
- Ecology and Evolution
- Speciation
- Species Interaction
- Species Conservation

Lee Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2055 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Marriage and Family Therapy

Leigh Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4058 LSB

Research Interests:
- Plant Systematics
- Taxonomy
- Phylogenetics AND inference
- Species Delimination
- Phylogeography
- Conservation Genetics

Robert Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
3115A MLBM

Research Interests:
- Plant Taxonomy
- Plant insect interactions

John "Keoni" Kauwe

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4102 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genetics and Genomics
- Novel Phenotypes
- Alzheimer's disease genetics
- Alzheimer's disease cure
- Prevention and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease
- Genomics and Evolution

Roger Koide

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4031 LSB

Research Interests:
- Population and Community Ecology of plants and fungi
- Mycorrhizal, endophytic and gut fungi
- Botany
- Plant Ecology
- Mycology
- Fungal Ecology
- Gut Microbiome
- Community Ecology
- Agricultural Ecology
- Soil Carbon Sequestration
- Soil Microbial Ecology

Chelom Leavitt

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2054 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Healthy sex within committed relationships
- Being mindful in daily and sexual experiences may be associated with increased sexual satisfaction

Steve Leavitt

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4143 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolutionary Diversity or Diversification
- Molecular Systematics and phylogenomics
- Species interactions and evolution
- Fungal symbioses
- Biogeography in arid environments
- Climate Change and Bio-monitoring
- Scientific Education and Outreach
- Conservation

Ashley LeBaron Black

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2065 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Family finance -- financial attitudes and behaviors
- Communication and relationship outcomes
- Role of gender and power in finance associations
- Financial socialization
- Emerging adulthood

Nathan D. Leonhardt

College: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2050 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Flourishing in marriage and long-term committed relationships
- Sexuality, religion, and virtue

Loren Marks

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2092C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Religion and family life
- Racial Minority Families
- Family Finance
- Qualitative Research

Rick Miller

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2050 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Couple Therapy
- Research Methodology
- Marriage and Health
- Marital Relationships over the life course
- Chinese families

David Nelson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2102C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Social Development
- Aggression, victimization, and prosocial behavior
- Social Cognition
- Gender Differences in behavior and social cognition
- Sexual and Gender Identity Issues

Larry Nelson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2091 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Factors that affect Emerging Adulthood (parenting, social competence, etc.)
- Children's social development

Riley Nelson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
2119 LSB

Research Interests:
- Insects
- Taxonomy
- Systematics
- Ecology
- Evolution

Samuel Payne

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4029 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Cancer biology
- Proteomics
- Protein Function

Steven Peck

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4145 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biomathematics or Math and Biology
- Simulation Modeling
- Philosophy of Simulation
- Evolution and Philosophy
- Evolution and Theology or Religion
- Bioethics

Stephen Piccolo

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4056 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Medicine
- Cancer
- Data Science
- Genomics
- Transcriptomics
- Bioinformatics Education

Chris Porter

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2102B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Children's social development with emphasis on psychophysiology

Russell Rader

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4025 LSB

Research Interests:
- Invasive species
- Freshwater biology
- Stream ecology
- Water resources management
- Environmental impact assessment
- Biodiversity

Peter Reschke

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2087 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Social cognition and emotion understanding in infancy

Perry Ridge, Jr.

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4126 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genetics
- Genome Biology or Genomics

Adam Rogers

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2089 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Family dynamics underlying adolescents' development of competence and psychopathology
- Gender development/socialization and implications for adolescents' psychosocial and academic adjustment
- Longitudinal methodologies

Jonathan Sandberg

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
266 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Couple Therapy
- Medical Family Therapy
- MFT outcome process

Steven Shumway

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
230 SNLB

Research Interests:
- Teaching the Engineering Design process; grades K-12

Laura Padilla Walker

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
990 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Media effects on children and families

Clinton Whipple

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4027 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolution and genetics of plant development

Jason Whiting

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
264 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Couple Conflict
- Abuse, control, and deception in couples
- Mindfulness and wellness
- Marriage and Family Therapy theory
- Qualitative inquiry

Michael Whiting

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4142 LSB

Research Interests:
- Insect Phylogenetics
- Genomics
- Morphology
- Insect Diversification and Evolution

Jocelyn Wikle

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2055 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Family interactions
- Adolescent contact with family members
- Early childhood education policy

Edward Wilcox

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4102 LSB

Research Interests:
- DNA or Gene Sequencing

Brian Willoughby

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2081 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Young adult development
- Relationship Development

Alyssa Witting

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
258 TLRB

Research Interests:
- Mass trauma
- Culture and trauma symptoms
- Systemic treatment of trauma symptoms
- MFT process research in trauma treatment

Jeremy Yorgason

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: School of Family Life
2086D JFSB

Research Interests:
- Health in Marriage
- Family Gerontology
- Data Analysis