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USTAR Appointments and Affiliates
Raymond T. Coward
USU USTAR Executive Committee, Chair
Executive Vice President and Provost
Robert T. Behunin
USU USTAR Executive Committee
Vice President for Commercialization & Regional Development
Noelle Cockett
USU USTAR Executive Committee
Vice President for Extension & Dean of the College of Agriculture
H. Scott Hinton
USU USTAR Executive Committee
Dean of the College of Engineering
Douglas Lemon
USU USTAR Executive Committee
President of the Utah State University Research Foundation
James MacMahon
USU USTAR Executive Committee
Dean of the College of Science
Mark McLellan
USU USTAR Executive Committee
Vice President for Research & Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
APPLIED NUTRITION RESEARCH
USTAR FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Michael Lefevre
USTAR Professor, 2007
College of Agriculture
Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences
Research specialization: Nutrition, gut microbiota and health; plant bioactives and health; nutrition and chronic disease prevention;human nutrition clinical studies; personalized nutrition.
Stéphane Boghossian
Research Assistant Professor, 2011
College of Science
Department of Biology
Research specialization: Neurophysiology of diabetes and obesity.
APPLIED NUTRITION RESEARCH
USTAR AFFILIATES
Abby Benninghoff
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Focus on the interaction of genes and the environment, including dietary bioactive food components, to assess disease risk and develop strategies for disease prevention
Jeff Broadbent
College of Agriculture
Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences
Associate Vice President for Research
Research specialization: Genetics and physiology of lactic acid bacteria used in food and health.
Korry Hintze
College of Agriculture
Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences
Research specialization: Cellular iron metabolism, diet/gut microbiota and colon cancer, bioactive milk fractions and gastrointestinal health, and antioxidant gene regulation.
Giovanni Rompato
Center for Integrated BioSystems
Research specialization: Molecular biology and genomics; microarray processing and analysis,metagenomics and metaproteomics.
Robert Ward
College of Agriculture
Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences
Research specialization: Investigating the links between food lipids and nutritional physiology.
Heidi Wengreen
College of Agriculture
Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences
Research specialization: Examining associations between nutrition and health and disease across the lifespan.
ENERGY
USTAR FACULTY APPOINTMENTS (listed by hired date)
Foster Agblevor
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering,
BioEnergy Center
Research specialization: Conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.
Scott Hill
Director of Eastern Utah Field Operations, 2011
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory, Eastern Utah
Research specialization: Energy process development and deployment, with emphasis on unconventional fossil fuels.
Hunter Wu
Inductive Power Transfer Program Director,2011
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory,
Research specialization: Inductive power transfer.
ENERGY
USTAR AFFILIATES (listed in alphabetical order)
Heng Ban
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research specialization: Thermal sciences and thermophysical properties. Fluid flow, heat transfer and processing in energy and environmental applications.
Bruce Bugbee
College of Agriculture
Department of Plants, Soils and Climate
Research specialization: Crop physiology.
Aaron Gilchrist
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory, Inductive Power Transfer
Research specialization: Developing new solutions in wireless power transfer by creating innovative, high-power electronics. This promotes safe and efficient wireless energy transmission and improved power conversion capabilities.
Ky Sealy
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory, Inductive Power Transfer
Research specialization: Wireless Power Transfer for high power applications including electric vehicles. Specializes in robust electronic hardware/software design and advanced digital control techniques.
Lance Seefeldt
College of Science
Department of Chemistry, BioEnergy Center
Research specialization: Biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and bioenergy production.
Kevin Shurtleff
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory, BioEnergy Center
Research specialization: Unconventional energy projects.
Ron Sims
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering, BioEnergy Center
Research specialization: Production of microbially-based products and technologies using Synthetic Biology specifically related to bioplastics and biofuels.
Byard Wood
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, BioEnergy Center
Research specialization: Heat and mass transfer phenomena in energy systems with an emphasis on solar energy applications.
INSTITUTE FOR INTUITIVE BUILDINGS
USTAR FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Aravind Dasu
Intuitive Buildings Program Director, 2009
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory
Research specialization: Research and Development of scene interpretation software and embedded hardware platforms that learn occupant behavioral patterns to control lighting systems and plug loads, making existing and new buildings energy efficient.
INSTITUTE FOR INTUITIVE BUILDINGS USTAR AFFILIATES
Paul Israelsen
USU Research Foundation
Energy Dynamics Laboratory
Research specialization: Renewable energy and energy efficiency, VLSI design, microelectronics, image compression and image processing, technology transfer and commercialization.
SYNTHETIC BIO-MANUFACTURING CENTER
USTAR FACULTY APPOINTMENTS (listed by hired date)
Foster Agblevor
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
Research specialization: Conversion of biomass into fuel.
Randy Lewis
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Science
Department of Biology
Research specialization: Development and
isolation of spider silk proteins.
SYNTHETIC BIO-MANUFACTURING CENTER
USTAR AFFILIATES (listed in alphabetical order)
Cheng-Wei Tom Chang
College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research specialization: Development of novel carbohydrate-containing molecules with biological activities and the practical applications of these molecules.
Dong Chen
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
Research specialization: Protein purification and identification, chemical instrumentation.
Daryll DeWald
Washington State University
College of Sciences
Research specialization: Examines the role of phosphoinositides in eukaryotic cellular processes.Phosphoinositides are a family of phospholipid second messenger molecules, and deciphering their metabolism and molecular interactions will reveal how they regulate important cellular processes like signal transduction, vesicular trafficking of proteins and cytoskeletal architecture.
H. Scott Hinton
USU USTAR Executive Committee
College of Engineering, Dean and Professor
Research specialization: Research is focused on developing systems applications of smart pixels and free-space optical interconnection,synthetic and systems biology, biophotonic systems, and in developing and understanding technology-enhanced learning environments.
Charles Miller
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
Research specialization: Focus on cellular engineering, synthetic biological engineering, bioplastics and biofuels.
Lance Seefeldt
College of Science
Department of Chemistry
Research specialization: Biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and bioenergy production.
Ron Sims
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
Research specialization: Production of microbially-based products and technologies using Synthetic Biology specifically related to bioplastics and biofuels.
Jon Takemoto
College of Science
Department of Biology
Research specialization: Research group
discovers and studies the structures,biosynthesis, and mechanisms of action of novel natural products including antimicrobials and bioactive porphyrins.
Jixun Zhan
College of Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
Research specialization: Research interests focus on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and natural product biosynthesis.
VETERINARY DIAGNOSTICS & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
USTAR FACULTY APPOINTMENTS (listed by hired date)
Irina Polejaeva
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Production of transgenic animals using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology (cloning) for biomedical and agricultural applications; Epigenetic changes during early embryonic development in embryos resulting from assisted reproductive technologies.
Young-Min Lee
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Research specialization: Molecular virology (RNA viruses)—replication,pathogenesis, and host responses to virus infection.
Zhongde Wang
USTAR Professor, 2011
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Genome engineering, Assisted reproduction technology, and Epigenetics.
Liaohai (Leo) Chen
USTAR Professor, 2012
College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research specialization: Sensor/assay development, molecular imaging and advanced materials.
UTAH COLLABORATIVE ARRHYTHMIA PROGRAM (listed in alphabetical order)
Chris Davies
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Veterinary immunology, genetics and reproduction; development of animal models for disease
research; regulation of immune responses and gene expression at the maternal-fetal interface.
Aaron Olsen
College of Agriculture
Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Laboratory Animal Medicine, Director of Laboratory Animal Research Center.
Kenneth White
College of Agriculture
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
Research specialization: Nuclear transfer (Cloning) of animals to study gene regulation and epigenetic re-programming; reproductive and developmental biology; production of transgenic animals/cells.