Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Humanities: Philosophy College of Life Sciences: Microbiology & Molecular Biology

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Travis Anderson

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Art
- Film and architecture
- Contemporary French and German philosophy
- Philosophy of psychology
- History of Western Civilization
- Philosophy of Economics
- Studio drawing and painting
- Writing and critical thinking pedagogy

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

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

Ryan Christensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4081 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Philosophical theology
- Philosophical anthropology
- Philosophical logic
- Essence
- Truth

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

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

Derek Haderlie

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4083 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaethics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of religion

Mike Hansen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4092 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Rationalism (especially Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes)
- Philosophy of Mind (especially perception and point of view)
- Epistemology (especially self-knowledge)

David Jensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4093 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Ethics
- Medical Ethics
- Kant

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

David Laraway

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086A JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hispanic Literature
- Hispanic Culture
- Basque and Basque-American Literature
- Basque and Basque-American Culture
- Philosophy of Art
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy in the Spanish-speaking World

Bill McCleary

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

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

Taylor-Grey E. Miller

College: College of Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4087 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaphysics
- The relationships that essence, ground, and metaphysical generation bear to one another.
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophical theology

Gordy Mower

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Descartes
- Montaigne
- Machiavelli
- Locke
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Legalism
- Republicanism
- Virtue theory
- Civic theory
- Natural law theory
- Professional ethics
- Neo-Confucianism
- Korean Philosophy

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

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

Katharina Paxman

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of the mind
- History of Philosophy of emotions
- Moral psychology
- Metaethics
- Applied ethics
- History of women in philosophy

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

Nathan Rockwood

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4089 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Locke
- Descartes
- Philosophy of Religion

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

Angela Wentz Faulconer

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4085 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Moral philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Morality of genome editing
- Human germ line
- Physician assisted suicide
- The distribution of scarce resources (medicine)
- Ethics of compensation for bodily goods

Justin White

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4079 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century European Philosophy
- Twentieth Century European Philosophy
- Philosophy of Agency
- Moral psychology

Eric Wilson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Exercise Sciences
3135 LSB

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