Faculty members distinguish themselves by contributing new information to a field of study and receiving recognition for their research.
2021-2022
Peggy Gesing, PhD | Assistant Professor, School of Health Professions
PEG grant activity: Attend and present at the American Educational Research Association conference
Ming-Lei Guo, PhD | Assistant Professor, Pathology and Anatomy
PEG grant activity: Attend an online bioinformatic training session and visit a research lab that has been successfully employing single cell RNA sequencing
Nagaraja Nagre, PhD | Assistant Professor, Physiological Sciences
PEG grant activity: Attend the Trans-Agency Meeting on developing medical counter measures to treat acute and chronic effects of pulmonary chemical injuries, as well as the American Thoracic Society international conference
Lifang Yang, PhD | Instructor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend Multi-omics Boot Camp, NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp and the 2022 Gordon Research Conference: Extracellular Vesicles
2020-2021
Amanda Burbage, PhD | Assistant Professor, School of Health Professions
PEG grant activity: Present at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual research symposium
David Mu, MD | Professor Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA on Exosomes, Microvesicles and Other Extracellular Vesicles
Mohan Pant, PhD | Associate Professor, School of Health Professions
PEG grant activity: Support for a Data Science Symposium, Introduction to Cloud Computing with R in Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and Deep Learning Specialization Coursera Certification
2018-2019
Dianne Daniel, PhD | Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Cold Spring Harbor meeting, Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biology and Therapeutics
Woong-Ki Kim, PhD | Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: BD Biosciences FACSAria Fusion Operator Course and Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS
Julius Nyalwidhe, PhD | Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Training in Glycobiology and Glycan, University of Georgia’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Julia Sharp, PhD | Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: International Complement Workshop
Greg Weingart, MD | Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
PEG grant activity: Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Course: Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design
2017-2018
Rajan Lamichhane, PhD|Assistant Professor, School of Health Professions
PEG grant activity: 3rd Summer Institute in Statistics for Big Data
David Mu, PhD |Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Graduate Professors Course
Amy Tang, PhD|Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant Activity: AACR Annual Meeting, Annual NIH HHS SBIR/STTR Conference
2016-2017
Hadiza Galadima, PhD |Assistant Professor, School of Health Professions
PEG grant activity: Attend the 2016 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference and the 2017 Esri Southeast User Conference
Aurora Kerscher, PhD|Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC 2016)
Patric Lundberg, PhD| Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend Keystone Symposium's Noncoding RNAs: From Disease to Targeted Therapeutics and the Cambridge Innovation Institute's Conference on Targeting the Microbiome
David Taylor-Fishwick, PhD|Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: 2017 Keystone Symposia “Microbiome in Health and Disease”, Keystone Colorado
2015-2016
Dianne C. Daniel, PhD|Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend the Keystone Symposium joint meeting "Maintenance of Genome Stability"
Eva Forgacs-Lonart, PhD|Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences
PEG grant activity: Attend the "Myosin & Muscle and Many other Motors" meeting
Travonia Hughes, PhD| Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
PEG grant activity: Conducted pilot test of the Positive Approach Care model and use baseline data collected to apply for NIH-R21 award or NPSASA Award sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association
Woong-Ki Kim, PhD|Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend the Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS and International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy
Neel K. Krishna, PhD|Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend the International Conference on Complement Therapeutics
Margaret Morris, PhD|Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
PEG grant activity: Attend the World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as meeting with a new collaborator after the meeting
Vivian Wu, MD|Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
PEG grant activity: Attend and Present at the Keystone Symposium entitled, "Exosomes/Microvesicles: Novel Mechanisms of Cell-Cell Communication”
2014-2015
Frank J. Castora, PhD|Professor, Physiological Sciences
PEG grant activity: 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (Attend & Present)
Dianne Daniel, PhD| Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Present at Co-regulation and function of Purgamma and WRN in the CNS at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory NY meeting on “Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biology and Therapeutics.” Attend the Keystone Symposia conference on “DNA Replication and Recombination” and “Genomic Instability and DNA Repair.”
Diane Duffy, PhD|Professor, Physiological Sciences
PEG grant activity: Visit to laboratory of Dr. John S. Davis, PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
David Mu, PhD|Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Applications (Course)
Etta Vinik, MEd| Instructor, Internal Medicine
PEG grant activity: Attend an introductory level biostatistics course at Old Dominion University
2013-2014
Dianne Daniel, PhD| Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Present at Co-regulation and function of Purgamma and WRN in the CNS at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory NY meeting on “Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biology and Therapeutics.” Attend the Keystone Symposia conference on “DNA Replication and Recombination” and “Genomic Instability and DNA Repair.”
Aurora Kerscher, PhD|Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend the Keystone Symposia conference on RNA Silencing in Seattle, WA and the Genomics Research Conference - Gene Silencing & Epigenetics Track in San Francisco CA
Julius Nyalwidhe, PhD|Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
PEG grant activity: Attend the 2014 National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Translational Health Disparities Course at the National Institutes of Health Campus in Bethesda, Maryland