Principal Investigators

Erik Amezquita Morataya

Erik Amezquita Morataya

Assistant Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Ruthie Angelovici

Ruthie Angelovici

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Ruthie Angelovici is an associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences. ...

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Olga Baker

Olga Juliana Baker

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Otolaryngology

Professor of Biochemistry

Olga Juliana Baker is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and the Department of Biochemistry. ...

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Donald Burke-Aguero

Donald H. Burke-Agüero

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Donald H. Burke-Agüero is a professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. ...

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D Cornelison

D Cornelison

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biological Sciences

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

D Cornelison is a professor in the departments of Biological Sciences and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Work in Cornelison’s lab is aimed at understanding satellite cells, the stem cell...

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Susie Dai

Susie Dai

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Susie Dai, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, earned her PhD in Chemistry with a Biomedical Engineering certificate from Duke University. She completed postdoctoral ...

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Paul de Figueiredo

Paul de Figueiredo

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Courtesy Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Courtesy Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Paul de Figueiredo is a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine as well as in the Department of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Science i...

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John Driver

John Driver

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Associate Professor of Animal Sciences

John Driver is an associate professor in the Division of Animal Sciences. ...

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Laxman Gangwani

Laxman Gangwani

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Laxman Gangwani is a professor in the Department of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences. ...

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Roman Ganta

Roman Ganta

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators' Distinguished Professor and McKee Endowed Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Roman Ganta is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and McKee Endowed Professor of the Department of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences. ...

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Walter Gassmann

Walter Gassmann

Director, Bond LSC

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Plant Science & Technology

As Bond LSC’s director, Gassmann works with the Vice Chancellor for Research to develop and implement plans for growth of the MU research enterprise. That includes partnering with academic units to at...

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Anthony Griffiths

Anthony Griffiths

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Director of the Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research (LIDR)

Anthony Griffiths is a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. ...

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Marco Johnson

Marc Johnson

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Marc Johnson is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology (MMI).  The Johnson lab studies viral metagenomics through air and water sampling.  A primary focus of the lab is to work with publ...

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Marc Libault

Marc Libault

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Marc Libault is a professor in the Division of Plant Science and Technology and a member of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) at Mizzou. He received his PhD degree in 2004 from the University o...

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Chris Lorson

Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Associate Vice Chancellor of Research

Associate Dean of Research for Veterinary Medicine

Christian Lorson, PhD, serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Strategic Initiatives at Mizzou. He is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical ...

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Monique Lorson

Monique Lorson

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Associate Research Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Monique Lorson’s research has focused towards understanding how mutations in IGHMBP2 result in two distinct diseases SMARD1 and CMT2S. In collaboration with the C. Lorson laboratory, they have w...

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Joseph Lynch

Joseph Lynch

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Assistant Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Joseph Lynch grew up in rural Washington State and received his BS in Biology from Gonzaga University. He then earned his PhD from Washington State University in the Molecular Plant Sciences program,...

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Paula Mcsteen

Paula McSteen

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biological Sciences

Member of Interdisciplinary Plant Group

Paula McSteen is a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences and part of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG). Developmental biologist McSteen is studying the genetics of the maize plant, an...

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David Mendoza

David Mendoza

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Member of Interdisciplinary Plant Group

David Mendoza holds a PhD in Biochemistry (2005) and in 2006, he obtained a postdoctoral PEW fellowship to study plant molecular biology at UC San Diego. In 2011, Mendoza joined the Division of Plant ...

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Ron Mittler

Ron Mittler

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators' Distinguished Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Ron Mittler’s research interests are focused on the role Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) play in the regulation of different biological processes. As model organisms, he uses Arabidopsis thaliana ...

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Scott Peck

Scott C. Peck

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biochemistry

Scott C. Peck’s research investigates how cells recognize and respond to changes in the environment. The primary foci of his lab are how plants and bacterial pathogens recognize each other, and ...

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Michael Petris

Michael J. Petris

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biochemistry

The Petris lab investigates how minerals are accumulated within the body at the right locations and in the right concentrations. Certain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and microb...

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Bill Picking, Bond LSC principal investigator

William Picking

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

William Picking is a professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine Picking investigates the molecules and structures used by pathogenic bacter...

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Wendy Picking, Bond LSC principal investigator

Wendy Picking

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Wendy Picking is developing prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines to bacterial pathogens that cause enterica and respiratory infections. These vaccines are based on protein antigens and are formulate...

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Kamal Singh

Kamal Singh

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology

Director, Molecular Interactions Core

Kamal Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and the director of the Molecular Interactions Core. ...

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Erin Sparks

Erin Sparks

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Associate Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Associate Member and Principle Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Erin Sparks has a BS in Biomedical Engineering, a PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology, and Postdoctoral experience in Plant Molecular Biology. Sparks’ research uses interdisciplinary and mult...

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Gary Stacey

Gary Stacey

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators' Distinguished Professor of Plant Science & Technology

Gary Stacey is Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Professor of Plant Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research focuses generally on molecular aspects of plan...

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Bing Stacey

Bing Stacey

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Research Assistant Professor of Plant Science and Technology

Bing Stacey is a research assistant professor in the Division of Plant Science and Technology. ...

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Lloyd Sumner

Lloyd W. Sumner

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biochemistry

Director, Metabolomics Center

Lloyd W. Sumner acquired his BSc degree in chemistry with a minor in mathematics in 1989 from Cameron University in Lawton, OK, USA, and a PhD in analytical chemistry focused on mass spectrometry in 1...

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Jay J. Thelen

Jay J. Thelen

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Biochemistry

Member of Interdisciplinary Plant Group

Jay J. Thelen, a plant biochemist, works on several research projects that employ large-scale biology to quantitatively study protein and metabolic regulation in model and crop seeds. His research int...

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Henry Wan

Henry Wan

Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Henry Wan is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and professor of Pathobiology and Integrative Biom...

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Wes Warren

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Animal Sciences

Professor of Surgical Research

Wesley Warren is a professor of comparative genomics in Department of Animal Sciences, Department of Surgery, Institute for Data Science and Informatics. Dr. Warren is a recognized leader in the field...

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Gary Weisman

Gary A. Weisman

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators' Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry

Gary A. Weisman is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry. He received his B.S. degree in 1973 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NY and his PhD degree in 1982 from the Un...

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Dong Xu

Dong Xu

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Investigator, Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health

Dong Xu is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Engineering with appointments in Bond LSC and the MU Institute for Da...

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Bing Yang

Bing Yang

Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Plant Science & Technology

Member and Principal Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Bing Yang is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a member and Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. He re...

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