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Research-focused faculty at University of Connecticut, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at University of Connecticut with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
. Kshitiz
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting lab Rotation Students: Fall 2025
Our lab's objective is to understand a cell's interaction with its neighbors and the microenvironment. With a particular focus on tumor microenvironment, we aim to unravel the language cells employ to converse with each other, how the grammar and the content of the language adapt…
Abhijit Rath
Instructor of Molecular Oncology
⭐ Research Opportunities
i. Hereditary basis of unexplained MMR deficiency
Our lab's interest can broadly be divided into two categories.
i. Investigating mechanism of mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency in solid tumors. Primarily, our lab is interested in discovering genetic causes of early-onset colorectal cancer. Specifically, we focus on understanding…
Adam D. Schuyler
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Nonuniform Sampling of Multidimensional NMR. Nonuniform sampling (NUS) approaches in multidimensional NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) enable dramatic reductions in experiment time, increases in sensitivity and enhancements in resolution. In order to access these benefits, comple…
Adam Kim
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Alcohol-associated liver disease, Immunology, Epigenetics, Macrophage biology, Hepatocyte biology, Histone deacetylases (HDACs), Gut-liver axis, Microbiome, Inflammation
Alexander Jackson
Associate Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in cellular and synaptic electrophysiology and hypothalamic circuits.
Research in the laboratory is focused on the cellular and synaptic neurophysiology of neural circuits in the mammalian hypothalamus that regulate fundamental behavioral states such as sleep, arousal and feeding. Techniques are centered on using patch-clamp electrophysiology and …
Alice L. Burghard
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Sound-evoked plasticity, tinnitus mechanisms, auditory temporal processing, inferior colliculus physiology, electrophysiological tinnitus assessment, cochlear implantation, systems neuroscience
Alix C. Deymier
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The body must maintain a pH within a narrow range (7.4±0.05) to sustain life. However, many factors such as kidney disease, diabetes, metabolic diseases, and diet can shift this pH outside the acceptable range. To counter these variations, the body employs a variety of regulatory…
Andres D. Grosmark
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
What Are the Circuit Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory?
The overt learning that occurs while you are navigating the world around you is complemented by a covert form of re-learning, called memory consolidation, which occurs during your down-time. But how do these distinct memory mec…
Andrew Arnold, MD
Murray-Heilig Chair in Molecular Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Genome Sciences
Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Director, Center for Molecular Oncology and
Chief Academic Officer, Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director, Office of Physician-Scientist Career Development
⭐ please contact PI to discuss
The most longstanding interest of our laboratory has been in the molecular genetic underpinnings of tumors of the endocrine glands. It was in the context of a search for a parathyroid tumor oncogene lying adjacent to a clonal chromosomal breakpoint that we discovered cyclin D1 (P…
André A. Grassmann
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ The Spirochete Research Laboratories offer research opportunities for graduate students, MD/PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and motivated undergraduate trainees. Ongoing projects include defining gene regulatory networks across theBorreliaenzootic cycle, mapping protein–DNA interactions, and cha…
I am a molecular microbiologist studying how bacterial pathogens sense host environments and remodel gene expression and cell surface architecture to promote infection, persistence, and transmission. My work focuses on spirochetes, includingBorrelia burgdorferi,Leptospira interro…
Ann Cowan
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
My general research interests center on the dynamic organization of the plasma membrane and in the application of quantitative fluorescence imaging and biophysical methods to the study of molecular events in living cells.The Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling…
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, DDS, MS, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, School of Dental Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Microbial Pathogenesis
Basic Science Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis
Clinical Research Interests: Oral inflammation
Annabelle Rodriguez-Oquendo, MD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Linda and David Roth Chair for Cardiovascular Research, Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The Rodriguez-Oquendo lab is studying the genetic link between healthy HDL cholesterol, heart disease, and infertility in women. This work suggests that variations within the SCARB1 gene, connected to HDL levels, are associated with heart disease risk as well as hormonal and fert…
Anne M. Delany, PhD
Professor, Medicine · Uconn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Regulation of osteoblast gene expression by microRNAs; Molecular mechanisms controlling bone remodeling.
Anthony T. Vella, PhD
Professor and Chair, Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Immunology, Senior Associate Dean for Research Planning and Coordination · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
My laboratory focuses on several aspects of T cell and inflammation biology. Our aim is to uncover how T cells function so that we can guide and control behavior of these important immune cells. We believe that the outcome of this work will foster vaccine development, but also de…
Archana Sanjay
Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 block 2026
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Arthur R. Hand, DDS
Professor of Craniofacial Sciences and Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Students for Lab Rotations At This Time
Our laboratory employs morphological, immunological and biochemical methodology to study protein expression and localization in salivary glands. Current areas of interest are:--microgravity effects on structure and protein expression in salivary glands;--the localization of saliv…
Asis K. Das, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Gene Regulation in Bacteria. We study basic gene regulatory mechanisms in prokaryotes by a combination of biochemistry and classic and molecular genetics. Current research efforts are devoted in three areas: Genetics, genomics and mechanisms of bacterial adaptive response. Geneti…
Benjamin P. Sinder
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Email to discuss further and arrange!
Bone disorders, including OI, and their treatment by pharmacologic and cell therapeutics. The factors regulating the accrual of bone mass and related impact on therapeutic efficacy. Translational orthopaedics and modulation of growth.
Bing Hao
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Lab Rotation Projects
--Elucidation of the mechanism that regulates the substrate lysine selection by E2 and E3 during ubiquitin transfer.
--Structural characterization of the E2-SCF E3 interaction and its role in the ubi…
Our research focuses on understanding how the cell cycle is regulated by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis using x-ray crystallography as a primary tool. Progression through the cell cycle is coordinated by the cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and their activating cyclin subunits as …
Bing Lu, MD, DrPH
Professor, Public Health Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Dr. Lu's research projects have opportunities for graduate students.
Dr. Lu is a tenured Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. He has a multidisciplinary background in biostatistics, epidemiology, and medicine, with specific teaching and research interests in the design and analysis of clinical st…
Breno Satler Diniz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Dr. Diniz lab is focused on investigating how age-related changes in biological processes (the Pillars of Biological Aging) affect the development and outcomes of late-life mental and neuropsychiatric disorders and how it translates into the repurpose or development of novel inte…
Byoung-Il Bae, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The cerebral cortex is the largest part of the human brain and mediates advanced cognitive functions such as language and abstract thinking. Its abnormal development is implicated in neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism and schizophrenia. Our GOAL is to unders…
Carolyn Greene
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ TheFamily Adversity and Resilience (FARR)Program currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have manyresearch opportunitiesfor individuals from all levels of training (undergraduate, doc…
Dr. Greene’s research is aimed at improving mental health outcomes for children by understanding the protective and risk factors and family processes that contribute to the development of childhood psychopathology. Current research focuses on understanding family emotional proces…
Cathryn Glanton Holzhauer, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ UConn NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Changchun Liu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ People are the engine and driving force of innovations in our research lab. We always seek highly talented researchers from different biomedical science field (e.g., molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, cell biology) to work synthetic biology, CRISPR technology, and their biomedi…
Our research group is interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to develop new tools and methods to solve current challenges in life sciences, such as disease diagnostics, medical therapeutics, as well as personalized medicine. We are a diverse team of scientists and en…
Christine R. Beck, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
Joint Appointment, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Associate Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The mechanisms governing non-recurrent human structural variation (SV) are diverse and often poorly understood. I am investigating how human DNA maintains fidelity in the context of a repetitive genome. Human Alu elements number over one million copies per human genome, and recen…
Christopher D. Heinen, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Colon cancer is the third most common malignancy in men and women and ranks behind only lung cancer in cancer deaths. The most common hereditary disease that predisposes patients to colorectal cancer is Lynch syndrome (LS) which stems from mutations in the mismatch repair (MMR) g…
Corey Acker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Functional imaging of neural activity, synaptic physiology, cardiac electrophysiology, mechanisms and functional signatures of autism in model systems.
Dr. Acker's lab focuses on developing and applying advanced quantitative techniques from computational modeling to imaging to l…
Cory A. Brennick
Assistant Professor in Residence · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotations at this time.
My career in cancer immunotherapy began with focusing on somatic mutations that give rise to tumor-specific antigens, or neoantigens. After thoroughly testing hundreds of putative neoantigens, we identified novel criteria that can predict a tumor rejection mediating neoantigen. F…
Damion J. Grasso, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ The Family Adversity and Resilience (FARR) Program currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have many research opportunities for individuals from all levels of training (undergraduate,…
Dr. Grasso's research broadly focuses on understanding biobehavioral mechanisms involved in trauma- and stress-related disorders in children and effective strategies for assessing and treating trauma-related impairment. He co-leads the UConn Health Family Adversity and Resilience…
Daniel W. Rosenberg
Professor of Medicine and HealthNet Chair in Cancer Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My laboratory has a longstanding interest in the molecular events that accompany early gastrointestinal neoplasia. We apply powerful and exquisitely sensitive cutting-edge technologies to understand the earliest cellular changes that precede cancer, including RNA-sequencing, comp…
Danielle R. Rux
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Come join us! We are seeking curious and collaborative scientists at all stages of training, including undergraduate, post-bacc and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please contact Dr. Rux directly for more information. rux@uchc.edu.
The Rux Laboratory specializes in musculoskeletal development, regeneration, and disease. Dr. Rux is an expert in skeletal developmental biology and in the Hox genes that are evolutionarily conserved fro embryonic patterning. She received her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biolo…
Dashzeveg Bayarsaihan, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at This Time
Dr. Bayarsaihan received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University and carried out postdoctoral training at Yale University. One of his research topics focuses on the molecular basis of human diseases with complex phenotype using functional genomics and animal models. Another area of in…
David C. Martinelli, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
A synapse is the fundamental structural unit by which neurons communicate. The importance of synapses cannot be overstated as their collective activities impact every moment of our subconscious and conscious mind. Furthermore, synapses are formed and continuously restructured thr…
David C. Steffens, MD, MHS
Samuel “Sy” Birnbaum/Ida, Louis and Richard Blum Chair in Psychiatry
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Undergraduate, graduate and medical students and trainees interested in working with Dr. Steffens should contact him at steffens@uchc.edu.
Dr. Steffens has been funded by the NIH for over twenty-five years. His research focuses on links between late life depression and subsequent cognitive decline and development of dementia. Assessments include structural and functional brain imaging, neuropsychological testing, bl…
David Han
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Students for Lab Rotations at This Time
We are currently working on three areas: The first project deals with the process of recognition and engulfment of apoptotic cells. In terms of the basic biology of this process, we are interested in identification of ligands that coat apoptotic cells, receptors that recognize th…
David W. Rowe
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The primary focus of the laboratory is to recognize and ultimately isolate subpopulations of cells at define levels of differentiation within the skeletal lineage for bone, articular cartilage, temporal mandibular cartilage and tendon. This goal has been made possible by the cons…
Dongyuan Song, PhD
Assistant Professor in Computational Genomics · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for students and postdocs that are interested in developing novel computational methods for single-cell/spatial omics.
Students in Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at UConn Health are very welcome to rotate in our lab. If you are interested in computational genomics, please email me (doso…
Our primary research interest is to develop computational methods for analyzing modern “omics” data, especially for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Our research combines statistical modeling, bioinformatics, and machine learning to provide a more rigorous interpretation …
Douglas M. Brugge
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences<br />Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Community Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Many of Dr. Brugge's research projects have opportunities for students. In the past students at all leavels, from high school to post docs have worked on projects he directs.
Dr. Brugge directs the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH), a set of studies about ultrafine particles from traffic and their association with cardiovascular health risk (funded by NIEHS, NHLBI, EPA, HUD, and the Kresge Foundation). Additional research has…
Duck O. Kim, DSc
Professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Neuroscience of the auditory system; computational neuroscience of single neurons and neural systems; otolaryngology research using otoacoustic emissions; biomedical engineering. Our research seeks to integrate systems-neuroscience experimental investigations with mathematical mo…
Duygu Ucar
Assistant Professor, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine · Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Elisa Barbarese, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
The role of mRNA trafficking in myelin and synapse formation.Our laboratory studies the mechanism and regulation of mRNA transport, localization, and translation in oligodendrocytes and neurons. An 11-nucleotide sequence first identified in the 3’UTR of myelin basic protein…
Elizabeth A. Eipper, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Peptides; membrane protein trafficking; cuproenzymes; neurons; pituitary peptides seem to have preceded the 'classical' transmitters as the nervous system developed - creatures like Hydra and Drosophila utilize peptides to control key developmental decisions. Beginning with our w…
Eran Agmon
Assistant Professor
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering Department
Associate Director, Systems Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
computational systems biology, multi-scale modeling and simulation, cell biology, machine learning, complex adaptive systems
Ernesto Canalis
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Medicine, UConn Health · UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Projects available include --Role of Hes1 in osteoclast differentiation and function; --Role of Nfat in osteoblast differentiation and function; --Characterization of genetically engineered mice carrying Notch2 or Notch3 mu…
Bone metabolism, osteoporosis, metabolic bone disorders, skeletal growth factors, glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, Notch signaling, NFAT in osteoblast and osteoclast differentiation, genetically engineered mouse models of Hajdu Cheney Syndrome and Lateral Meningocele Syndrome…
Ernst J. Reichenberger
Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development, Department of Reconstructive Sciences · Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development
⭐ Accepting students for Lab Rotations: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026. Email for more information.
The skin and skeleton would seem to be very stable parts of the human body. Contrary to appearances, however, both skin and skeleton are in a nearly constant state of flux. The bone mass in skeletal structures is the result of a shifting balance between bone formation and bone re…
Evan Lentz
Assistant Extension Educator · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not accepting graduate students.
My research interests revolve primarily around commercial fruit production and serving the educational needs of the commercial fruit growers of Connecticut. My research combines traditional production, integrated pest management, and precision agricultural technology. Ongoing pes…
Feliks (Ephraim) Trakhtenberg
Associate Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Lab rotation projects revolve around fundamental questions in neuronal development and regeneration in the CNS. We integrate cutting edge molecular, biochemical, genetic, bioinformatics, and translational approaches. Rotation projects involve the following techniques…
Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and regeneration, and to utilize gained knowledge in developing translational approaches for repairing injured central nervous system (CNS) circuits. Several species of lower vertebrates have the capacity …
George A. Kuchel, MD CM, FRCP, AGSF, FAAAS
Professor of Medicine, Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology · University of Connecticut
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of aging emphasizing inter-individual variability and resilience mechanisms pertaining to mobility, voiding, cognition and host defense
Design and validation of geroscience-guided interventions into aging and common chronic diseases of ag…
Gloria Gronowicz, PhD
Professor Emeritus · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The major interest of my laboratory is the study of bone cell responses to implants in aging. Both dental and orthopedic implant materials are being investigated. Presently with Drs. Kuhn and Hurley, we are developing new implant materials that are able to sequentially release di…
Golda S. Ginsburg, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ CAMP is currently enrolling elementary school teachers and their students who struggle with anxiety in select CT public schools for a DOE funded study.
Students who wish to work in the CAMP lab can assist in implementing studies and analyzing collected data while receiving mentorship.
Golda S. Ginsburg, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Dr. Ginsburg has been developing and evaluating interventions for youth who struggle with a range of psychiatric disorders for over 25 years. A primary focus of her research is on the …
Guo-Hua Fong
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · Center for Vascular Biology
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
Angiogenesis, the growth of new microvessels, is a double-edged sword: it is essential for normal tissue growth and repair but is also associated with a variety of diseases such as tumorigenesis, neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP…
Haiying Tao
Associate Professor of Soil Nutrient Management and Soil Health · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently seeking a post doc in precision agriculture. Visiting scholars, national and international collaborations are welcome.
Soil fertility
Soil health
Nutrient and carbon cycling in soil-plant-atmosphere system
Best management practices for fertilizer and amendment applications to optimize yield and economic return, while minimizing environmental impacts.
Precision agriculture, big data
Crop residue m…
Hideyuki Oguro
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The Oguro laboratory investigates mechanisms that regulate blood-forming hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) development, self-renewal, and malignant transformation using mouse models, patient samples, and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).
Huanzhong Wang
Professor of Plant Molecular Biology · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Plant vascular tissues play essential roles in plant growth and development and allow plant species to adapt to various environments since they evolved 450 Mya. Xylem, the major component of vascular tissue, forms the majority of plant biomass on earth and holds the potential for…
Hugh M. Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine · UConn School of Medicine
⭐ I have served as faculty advisor and primary investigator for medical students doing research in the area of health care access.
I have done clinical research in the effects of music on patients recovering from traumatic brain injuries and on premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. I have presented at national conferences on several topics concerning medical education from traditional storyt…
I-Ping Chen
Professor, Endodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
In the Chen laboratory, we mainly focus on the investigation of pathogenic mechanisms of craniometaphyseal dysplasia (CMD) using multiple genetic and molecular biology approaches including a knock-in mouse model for CMD and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from CMD patients…
I-Ping Chen, DDS, PhD
Professor, Endodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
In the Chen laboratory, we mainly focus on the investigation of pathogenic mechanisms of craniometaphyseal dysplasia (CMD) using multiple genetic and molecular biology approaches including a knock-in mouse model for CMD and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from CMD pat…
Iddo Ben-Ari
Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I’m usually looking for both grad and undergrad students for research work.
Research Area: Probability. Advising: by appointment only. I do not use Nexus.
Probability
Irina Bezsonova, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Ubiquitination and Cancer:
The p53 signaling pathway is a complex multi-component network central to cancer biology. Over 50% of all tumors have mutated tumor suppressor p53. The primary focus of my reasearch is structural and biochemical characterization of proteins and protei…
Ivo Kalajzic, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 block 2026
Growth factor based enhancement of bone repair
Notch signaling and bone fracture healing
Transplantation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells as therapy for Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Jaime Imitola, MD
Professor of Neurology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ He has mentored and trained dozens of fellows, residents, and medical students, efforts that were recognized with the 2023 UConn Mentor of the Year Award.
progressive MS, neurodegeneration, and repair and has been studying these processes for the last 15 years. At the bedside, he is working on understanding the impact of social determinants of health in the biological progression of complex MS patients and real-world strategies for…
Jeffrey C. Hoch, PhD
Director, Gregory P. Mullen NMR Structural Biology Facility
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Our laboratory works on problems related to the physical basis for the biological activity of proteins. Broadly, this includes their structure, dynamics, stability, and interactions with other molecules. Some specific questions we are interested in include:
The relationship of p…
Jeffrey H. Chuang, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ We are currently seeking graduate students interested in a variety of problems in post-transcriptional regulation and cancer genomics. Our lab is a computational lab and students should have expertise/interest in programming and quantitative approaches.
My lab is interested in computational and mathematical approaches to analyzing large data sources, to understand how genomes function and evolve. Since moving to the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in 2012, the lab been focusing on cancer genomics and RNA-level gene regul…
Jeffrey Pella, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Please contact me for opportunities related to the Scholarship and Discovery course.
Dr. Pella earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island. He then pursued and completed his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Developmental Psychopathology and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Developmental Psychology from the Universi…
Jenna Bartley, PhD
Associate Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Not currently accepting rotation students.
Dr. Bartley studies translational research into human aging with a focus on how immune responses and physical function decline as we get older. Her multidisciplinary research aims to uncover common pathways among the aging process and to develop potential interventions to prevent…
Jianbin Ruan
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ The Lab is currently recruiting highly motivated post-doctoral research fellows. Interested persons please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a list of 3 references to Dr. Jianbin Ruan via ruan@uchc.edu.
The lab focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of innate immune signaling, especially signal transduction pathways of pyroptosis and inflammation using multi-disciplinary approaches including cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) and X-ray crystallography. The lab also stud…
Jianjun Sun
Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in reproductive physiology, ovulation, and ovarian cancer.
Research in the laboratory focuses on reproductive physiology and ovarian cancer. Powerful genetic tools in Drosophila will be applied to decipher the formation and physiological function of the secretory cells in the female reproductive tract, the cells of origin of ovarian canc…
Jianzhong Yu
Associate Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking motivated graduate students and postdocs to join our team.
Currently, there are two major research directions in the lab. The lab’s first research direction is focused on the molecular mechanisms of organ size control and tumorigenesis. For this direction, we are particularly interested in 1) Molecular mechanisms underlying upstream regu…
Jill Desimini
Director & Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently accepting graduate students.
The Climate Justice Design Lab (CJDL), directed by Professor Jill Desimini, focuses on developing design frameworks, tools, and collaborations to support local climate advocates, activists, public agents, and not-for-profit organizations. The research looks at the critical inters…
Jillian Wanik
Associate Professor in Residence · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently not accepting Graduate students.
Dr. Jillian Wanik is an Assistant Professor in Residence for the Dietetics Program in the Department of Allied Health Sciences. She is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition (DCN), Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), and Certifi…
Jinbo Bi
Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ There are multiple postdoctoral fellowship positions in our laboratory
Bi is the Frederick H. Leonhardt Professor of Computer Science and associate head of the department. She holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, optimization, …
Joana Paulino, PhD
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
We are a membrane protein biophysics and structural biology research group investigating viral-host protein interactions that allow viruses to bypass the host's native immunity. We investigate how some Flavivirus such as Zika and Powassan virus are able to bypass important physic…
Joanne Conover
Professor
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students who are interested in research topics involving developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology, neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury.
Neural stem cell biology and its application in neurodegenerative disease
Joel S. Pachter, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The major focus in this laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms by which leukocytes and pathogens invade the central nervous system (CNS). Movement of both soluble and cellular elements into the CNS is regulated by microvessel endothelial cells comprising the blood-brain barrie…
John B. Schenkman
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
The cytochrome P450s are ubiquitous proteins found in most phyla. Several thousand different forms have already been identified. The individual species have large numbers of cytochrome P450 forms. In humans, for example, 57 different forms of cytochrome P450 have been identified …
John H. Carson
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
This laboratory is investigating intracellular trafficking of mRNA in cells of the nervous system using a combination of molecular biological, microinjection, confocal microscopy and three dimensional visualization techniques. We have delineated an RNA trafficking pathway consist…
John R. Harrison
Associate Professor, Orthodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for lab rotations at this time
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John R. Harrison, PhD
Associate Professor, Orthodontics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for lab rotations at this time
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Travis Hinson, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiology and Genetics
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My laboratory utilizes genomic approaches to interrogate mechanisms of inherited cardiovascular disorders especially those that lead to heart failure. We are particularly interested in developing single cell and cardiac microtissue assays derived from disease-specific, human indu…
Joseph Lorenzo, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UConn Health · UConn Health
⭐ Role of Runx1 in osteoclast biology
The influence of hormones and cytokines on both bone resorption, which is mediated by osteoclasts, and bone formation, which is mediated by osteoblasts. The nature and regulation of osteoclast precursor cells in health and disease. The influence of the immune system on bone remod…
Julia Smachylo
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Dr.Smachylo's research and practice are situated at the intersection of critical urban theory, political ecology and landscape studies, and focus on making visible largely unseen processes shaping both our interactions with, as well as the form of, the built and unbuilt environme…
Julie Robison
Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ I often have research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students interested in aging and disability policy and aging families. Please contact me directly for current information.
Long-Term Services and Supports, Family Caregiving, Dementia, Depression
My research aims to improve quality of life and quality of care for people who need long term services and supports (LTSS), and their families. LTSS includes in-home, community-based, and institutional care …
Justin D. Radolf, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Lab Rotation Projects
Molecular Pathogenesis of Syphilis and Lyme Disease
1. Differential gene expression by Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete. B. burgdorferi undergoes dramatic changes in gene expression …
Lyme Disease/Borrelia burgdorferi
The Lyme disease spirochete B. urgdorferi is maintained in nature via an enzootic cycle in which it is transmitted by the nymphal stage of its vector, the deer tick Ixodes scapularis, to a mammalian host (typically the white-footed mouse Peromys…
Justin L. Cotney, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Postdoctoral positions in comparative functional genomics for both experienced molecular biologists and computational biologists are available in the Cotney Lab within the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences and the Institute for Systems Genomics at UConn Health.
The Cotney Lab is interested in determining how gene regulatory elements, namely enhancers, control gene expression during mammalian development. We aim to understand how new gene regulatory functions evolve, to identify mechanisms of enhancer function over large genomic distance…
Kai Li
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for students and postdocs that are interested in studying immune recognition, innate immunity or host-microbe interaction. Students in PhD or MD-PhD program at UConn Health are welcome to rotate in our lab. Please email me (kali@uchc.edu) directly. Our lab is seeking postdoctoral rese…
Immune recognition is the process by which the immune system distinguishes self from non-self or aberrant self entities. Our lab has previously developed PhagoPL , an innovative proteomic platform for studying the composition of phagosomes (Li et al., Nature 2024). Future work of…
Karen Menuz
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking highly motivated graduate students and postdocs who are interested in olfaction, sensory neuroscience, and cellular and molecular physiology.
Our lab studies the mechanisms supporting robust responses to odors in the insect olfactory system. Currently, we are interested in how the molecular and cellular environment surrounding olfactory neurons influences their activity, and ultimately odor-driven behaviors. We take ad…
Kelly L. Hawley
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kepeng Wang
Assistant Professor of Immunology
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Chronic inflammation increases cancer risk and accelerates the progression of many malignancies, including those of the lung, stomach, liver and colon. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and tumor-infiltrating myeloid and immune cells play critical roles in all stages of cancer developme…
Kevin Lo, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Endocrinology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Institute of Materials Science (IMS)
Assistant Director
Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering · UConn Health
⭐ PhD studentship and postdoctoral fellowship. Accepting new students at all levels.
SHORT-HEAL (SHORT-term treatment HEALing) Initiative: activating stem cells, modulating immune response, promoting angiogenesis for tissue regeneration; The Role of Piezoelectricity in Stem Cell Culture; Pre-Innervated Tissue-Engineered Constructs for Bone Regeneration
Kevin P. Claffey, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology<br />Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Post-Doctoral Candidates with relevant experience will be considered. Please submit a CV or Biosketch with contact information for at least three references to:claffey@nso2.ucuc.edu.
The projects in Dr. Claffey's laboratory are focused on pre-clinical models of breast cancer, particularly targeting angiogenesis and VEGF-dependent mechanisms is a key area of interest for my laboratory. Key areas of expertise include both real-time animal imaging and post-analy…
Lance Bauer, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Students with expertise in neurobiology or computer science can use our neuroimaging software to conduct secondary analyses of EEG/ERP data for class projects or publications.
Genetic and personality risk factors for addiction and their neurophysiological correlates.
Leslie A. Caromile
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Center for Vascular Biology
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025
Investigating the mechanistic role of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in prostate cancer tumor vascularization, progression and metastasis; SNPs in PSMA and prostate cancer health disparities; novel PSMA targeted therapy using 3D bioprinted human prostate cancer tumor m…
Leslie R. Bernstein, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time.
Psychoacoustics, sensory processes. Our current research is aimed at gaining a broader understanding of the manner in which information at the two ears is utilized in order to detect and localize sound (binaural information processing). In an effort to determine the extent to whi…
Lihong Wang
Associate Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Neuroimaging correlates of cognitive outcomes in late-life depression, neural signatures of depression vulnerability, neural plasticity in patients with late-life depression and mild cognitive decline, geriatric depression, cognitive neuroscience
Linda Hillstrom Shapiro
Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Director, Center for Vascular Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2024, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2025
Research in the Shapiro laboratory concentrates on understanding the regulation and function of cell surface peptidases in the angiogenic endothelium of tumors, vessels at sites of inflammation and in cardiovascular disease. Numerous cell surface peptidases are strikingly upregul…
Lynn Puddington
Associate Professor of Immunology and Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
The overall goal of the research ongoing in my laboratory is to elucidate the contribution of maternal antigen or immune status in the susceptibility or resistance to development of allergic airway disease in offspring. It is evident from epidemiological studies that the risk for…
Madison L. Doolittle
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Not currently accepting lab rotation students
We study mechanisms of musculoskeletal aging, senescence, and osteoimmunology within the bone microenvironment. With age, a higher proportion of cells exhibit cellular senescence: a growth-arrested, yet inflammatory state that drives tissue dysfunction. A primary focus of our lab…
Manisha Sinha
James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Accepting MA Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
The Long Nineteenth Century: Transnational histories of slavery, abolition, and feminism, the History and Legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, United States History, Political History, African American History, Women’s History, Southern History.
Mansoor Sarfarazi
Professor of Surgery and Human Molecular Genetics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time.
Molecular Genetics Studies of Glaucoma, Molecular Genetics Studies of Other Inherited Conditions, Ongoing Studies utilizing Next-Generation Exome & DNA Sequencing Technologies
Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos
Professor of Neuroscience
Janice and Rodney Reynolds Endowed Chair of Neurobiology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The synaptic, cellular and network mechanisms involved in sensorimotor information transmission, coding and storage during motivated behaviors.
Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan
Professor of Psychiatry · UConn Health
⭐ The Family Adversity and Resilience Program (FARR Program) currently has three active NIH-funded studies centered on understanding how exposure to stress, trauma and other adversity affects children and families. We have many research opportunities for individuals from all levels of training (underg…
Dr. Briggs-Gowan’s current research broadly centers on mental health problems in young children, including identifying risk factors, and pinpointing underlying genetic, stress-response, and neurocognitive factors involved in these processes. She has expertise in psychometric asse…
Margaret K. Callahan, MD, PhD
Professor of Immunology and Medicine
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Advanced Melanoma
Cancer Immunotherapy
Checkpoint Blockade
Targeted Inhibitors
Novel Therapies
Biomarker Development
Clinical Trials
Mariana B. Alfonso Fragomeni
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
My research interests are in climate adaptation and decision-making, with focus on heat vulnerability. My fields of expertise are in urban climatology, human bioclimatology and urban design, therefore, I am often working in applied research in urban areas and my research question…
Marion E. Frank, PhD
Professor of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
To reveal chemosensory stimulus coding strategies, we study odor and taste identification in humans, and gustatory neurophysiology and behavior in hamsters. The broad goal of our research is to develop fundamental understanding of the functioning of mammalian gustatory and olfact…
Mark Brand
Professor of Horticulture and Plant Breeding, Nursery Extension Specialist · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Currently accepting graduate students.
Our breeding efforts are focused on development of new ornamental plants that are sustainable in the landscape and provide solutions to landscape issues such as invasiveness, support of pollinators, desire for compact plants, and superior performance under stressful conditions. O…
Mark R. Terasaki
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
I have been using advanced light microscopy techniques to investigate intracellular organization and function. Most of my work has involved imaging of living cells using confocal microscopy. I have recently completed work using green fluorescent protein chimeras to label the ER a…
Masako Nakanishi
Assistant Professor-in-Residence · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2026, Spring Block 2027
The Rosenberg/Nakanishi laboratory focuses on the chemoprevention of colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). A key focus of our work is the role of bioactive lipid signaling in colon carcinogenesis. We also investigate therapeutic interventions and nutriti…
Maureen Kahiu
Assistant Cooperative Extension Educator of Turfgrass and Weed Ecology · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Turfgrass Management, Turfgrass Weed Science, Weed Science, Turfgrass Organic Matter Management
Mayu Inaba-Oguro, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Our research aims to elucidate how cells alter their fates between normal or disease conditions. To address this, we model regeneration and tumorigenesis using Drosophila gonads. We use a combination of fly genetics with various imaging techniques, including immunofluorescence, s…
Melissa J. Caimano
Professor · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Regulatory pathways and molecular mechanisms underlying mammalian host adaptation and maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi within its natural enzootic cycle; role of the alternate sigma factor RpoS; c-di-GMP for maintenance of B. burgdorferi in its arthropod vector; microbial path…
Mia Maltz
Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology and Soil Health · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Mia Maltz is a soil microbial ecologist working at the interface of community ecology, biogeography, and mycology. Her work broadly focuses on community responses to disturbance, which feedback to influence plant and fungal community structure and ecosystem functioning.
Maltz st…
Michael R. Gryk
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The focus of our laboratory is structural bioinformatics. We are currently involved in several projects on this topic, mainly the use of NMR spectroscopy as a tool for macromolecular characterization and molecular structure as an aid to bioinformatics.
Particular projects includ…
Mina Mina, DMD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Pediatric Dentistry
Director, DMD/PHD Program
Co-Director, Skeletal, Craniofacial and Oral Biology Training Grant · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
My labaratory is interested in the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the formation of organs in embryos, their renewal and regeneration into adulthood. Most of our studies are focused in initiation and morphogenesis of organs in craniofacial regions including mandib…
Ming Xu
Assistant Professor, UConn Center on Aging and the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences
⭐ We have several openings for graduate students and postdocs.
Cellular senescence is one of the major players contributing to the fundamental aging process. My lab is leveraging novel mouse models and primary human cells as tools to examine the role and underlying mechanism of senescent cells in various conditions in mammals, and we aim to …
Mingyu Qiao
Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ My lab currently has multiple openings for motivated senior undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars. Students/scholars with multidisciplinary skills in chemistry, biology, and materials or strong backgrounds in chemical/biological/food/agricultural/biomedical/environment…
The major research focus of Dr. Qiao’s laboratory is to utilize food- or nature-derived materials, in combination with advanced bioprocessing technologies, to create scalable and cost-effective encapsulation solutions for the protection and target delivery of bioactives (e.g., an…
Nick Goltz
Assistant Extension Educator, Director of Plant Diagnostic Laboratory · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not accepting graduate students.
My primary role is to serve as the director of the University of Connecticut Plant Diagnostic Laboratory (UConn PDL). The UConn PDL provides plant disease diagnostic services, plant and pest identification, and management recommendations to stakeholders such as home gardeners, pr…
Nilanjana Maulik
Professor of Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Molecular mechanism of myocardial angiogenesis in the diseased/infarcted heart, ischemia/reperfusion injury, apoptosis and on the development of cardioprotective strategies which includes gene and stem cell therapy.
Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Our lab offers diverse research opportunities for trainees at different career stages.
Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Email Oscar for more information.
We are a bacteriology lab studying the molecular bases that enable pathogenic bacteria to endure, acclimate, and prevail in the unwelcoming conditions of their host. Our research seeks to understand how bacterial pathogens regulate protein synthesis (translation) in response to i…
Paola Vera-Licona
Associate Professor/Basic Science · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
We have available short and long-term projects including: development of modeling and analysis tools and algorithms of regulatory networks, the analysis of multi-omics data in cancer such as triple negative breast cancer and…
Our research group works on a variety of problems within the fields of computational systems medicine, computational systems biology, mathematical biology and bioinformatics. We focus on the design and application of mathematical algorithms for the modeling, simulation and contro…
Patrick A. Murphy, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Cell Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Disturbed blood flow patterns can lead to chronic inflammatory conditions in the arterial wall, a precipitating event in cardiovascular components of heart attack and stroke. The Murphy lab is dissecting the interactions between recruited immune cells and the arterial wall using …
Paul M. Epstein, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Dr. Epstein's laboratory has been studying cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDE), a large family of isozymic enzymes which control the cellular levels of two key signal transduction molecules, cAMP and cGMP, and thereby play a role in controlling a wide variety of critical c…
Pedro Mendes, PhD
Boehringer Ingelheim Professor in Cell Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My research is in the area of computational systems biology, which aims to better understand biological systems through the use of computer models. My active areas of research are:
- Development of modelling and simulation software: I was the author of the popular simulator Gepa…
Penghua Wang
Associate Professor · UConn Health
⭐ A PhD student position is available from now (March 2026).
My research is focused on pattern recognition receptor signaling pathways and pathogenesis of mosquito-borne RNA viruses. On the host end, I am interested in cellular regulation of the major viral RNA (RIG-I like receptors)- and DNA (cGAS-STING)-sensing pathways. I am also keen o…
Peter F. Maye, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My lab investigates how different genes and cell types contribute to the regulation of skeletal tissues. Advances in omics approaches and applications to mine datasets are rapidly changing the landscape of biology. Current efforts in my lab are focused on applying spatial transcr…
Peter Setlow
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Spores of bacteria of Bacillus species are extraordinarily resistant to all manner of harsh treatments, and largely because of this resistance, spores of some Bacillus species are major agents of food spoilage and food-borne and other diseases (eg-Bacillus anthracis). The convers…
Rajkumar Verma
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
⭐ A postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the group of Rajkumar Verma in the Neuroscience Department, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington CT. Verma lab studies mechanisms of recovery in a rodent model of ischemic stroke injury. The current focus of Verma lab is to …
My lab investigates the cause-effect-relationships of stroke outcome. we focus on following three specific areas of stroke research. Project 1: Stroke remains a leading cause of disability in the United States. Despite recent advances, interventions to reduce damage and enhance r…
Rashmi Bansal, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Developmental, cellular and molecular biology of Oligodendrocytes, the cells that synthesize myelin membrane in the central nervous system; growth factor regulation of development and function and its relationship to neurodegenerative disease, including Multiple Sclerosis.Current…
Rebecca Page
Professor of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
How we sense and react to our environment is communicated in the cell by vast networks of highly dynamic, interacting proteins. These interactions are regulated in both space and time, and it is this tight regulation that allows signals from outside of the cell to be rapidly and …
Rosa Raudales
Associate Professor in Horticulture & Greenhouse Extension Specialist · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ Not Currently Accepting Graduate Students
In our laboratory we conduct research and outreach on practical issues related to water recirculation, use of low-quality water for irrigation of crops, and water treatment and irrigation system design with a focus on chemical and microbial parameters that impact quality and yiel…
Sandra K. Weller
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time
HSV-1 and -2 are large DNA virus which are responsible for oral and genital infections, sight-threatening ocular infections and brain infections which can be life threatening. Our laboratory uses genetic, biochemical, biophysical, structural and molecular approaches to elucidate …
Scott Rich
Assistant Professor · University of Connecticut
⭐ We are currently seeking undergrads, graduate students, and postdocs excited by this research question and the tools of computational neuroscience to build the lab. To stay up-to-date with these opportunities, please fill out this form.
Dr. Rich's lab will use a wealth of tools from computational neuroscience, including the creation of biophysically detailed models of individual neurons, the study of in silico neuronal microcircuits, and mathematical analysis of more abstract models of large-scale brain activity…
Sebnem Nur Tuncdemir
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Positions for a postdoctoral fellow and PhD (MD or MD/PhD) candidates are available in the Tuncdemir lab on a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study examining the circuit mechanisms by which multisensory information arriving from the external world generates the functional diversity in the…
My lab is interested in understanding how the neural circuits that encode specific features of contexts are organized in adults and the key developmental mechanisms by which this network is formed. We study the hippocampal circuitry underlying flexible memory encoding using …
Sergio Luzzatto
Professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ Accepting PhD Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Accepting MA Advisees for Fall 2026 Start: Yes
Sergio Luzzatto is professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History. He was born in Italy, and received his Ph.D from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, as well as from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before joining UConn, he taught for a…
Shuwen Tan
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I am looking for PhD/MS students to start in Fall 2025.
I am a physical oceanographer who is interested in studying oceanic processes driven by interactions with topography, including dense overflows, flow hydraulics, internal waves, and turbulent mixing, as well as their impacts on Earth’s climate.
Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology · School of Medicine
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, inflammasomes
Srdjan D. Antic, MD
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Electrophysiology and optical imaging of calcium and voltage from dendrites in brain slices, cell culture of human neurons, spontaneous electrical activity, immunolabeling of human and mouse brain sections, computational modeling of CNS neurons and genetically-encoded voltage ind…
Stefan Brocke
Associate Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
My laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain injury in inflammatory and inflammation-associated disorders of the central nervous system. For this purpose, we focus on:
vascular triggers leading to the invasion of pathogenic lymphocytes into the normal and …
Stephen J. Crocker, PhD
Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Co-Associate Director, Neuroscience Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ There are research opportunities to study and learn about our projects (as described above), for PhD, MS, MD and MD/PhD candidates.
My lab is interested in how the immune and nervous systems interact and how this balance is disrupted by disease. Specifically, my research program has centered around the role of glia in the context of immunity and myelin physiology during development and disease.
Steven Z. Chou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Visiting Scholars or Students: Yes. Please contact Dr. Steven Chou at schou@uchc.edu to discuss the details of your visiting plan and research program.
Postdocs: Yes. Highly motivated candidates are invited to apply for a 3-year postdoc position in our lab (with the potential to extend after the 3rd…
Our research is focused on the structural basis of the following three cellular processes in health, and protein engineering for treating related diseases:
1. Actin-Based Cell Motility
2. Cytokinesis
3. Transmembrane Signaling
Tannin A. Schmidt, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering · UConn School of Dental Medicine
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
My basic and translational research interests in biomedical engineering lie within biomechanics (biotribology), biomaterials, biointerface science and biochemistry/biophysics, all within the context of engineering health. The goal of my program is to understand the fundamental me…
Vanessa M. Scanlon
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Biology · UConn Health
⭐ Not Accepting Lab Rotation Students at this time
Currently, I work on understanding extrinsic mechanisms that underly hematopoietic progenitor cell fate decisions. I have developed a novel method for time-lapse microscopy of bipotent progenitors dividing and committing to two potential lineages. I'm also interested in developin…
Vijay A. Rathinam, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
The overall goal of our research efforts is to understand the immunologic basis of infectious and inflammatory diseases. The recognition of invading pathogens by the innate immune system is central to the development of anti-microbial immunity. The innate immune system is compose…
Vladimir I. Rodionov
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time
Research in this laboratory is focused on molecular mechanisms of intracellular transport and organization of microtubule cytoskeleton. The model system that is being used is melanophores, pigment cells of lower vertebrates. The only function of these large cells is synchronous t…
Wendy Mok, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Our research focuses on how bacteria respond to and survive antibiotic treatment. We are especially interested in bacterial persisters, which are rare cell types in a population that can tolerate lethal doses of antibiotics that kill their genetically identical kin. Unlike antibi…
Xian Wu
Associate Professor In Residence · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
⭐ I welcome graduate students who are curious about these questions and eager to explore them through collaborative research.
I see myself as an educator and I have broad interests across diverse areas of education research. Through the endeavor in both teaching and scholarship, I hope to be closer to some of the field's most fundamental questions:
- What defines a better education?
- Is it teaching or…
Xiangyou Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of age-related dementia, is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive memory loss, cognitive impairment, and ultimately death. The β-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is a major drug target for A…
Yanjiao Zhou
Associate Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
⭐ Postdoctoral Fellow position in microbiome and alcohol research. A position is available to conduct studies and receive training in alcohol research with a focus on the gut-brain axis and the gut microbiome. This collaborative effort involving the UConn Alcohol Research Center, the Laboratory of Mic…
The major research interest of her laboratory is to develop microbiome-based diagnostics and therapeutics for multiple sclerosis as well as other diseases, with a focus on how nutrition and microbial metabolites influence the gut-brain axis. By taking a multidisciplinary approach…
Yanlin Wang
Professor of Medicine<br />Chief, Division of Nephrology<br />MD/PhD Program Co-Director · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
The overall goal of the Wang lab is to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of kidney disease with a focus on the roles of inflammatory cells and fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of kidney injury and fibrosis. We have demonstrated that that b…
Yi Li
Professor of Horticultural Plant Biotechnology and Breeding · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
⭐ No longer accepting new graduate students.
Development of climate-smart turfgrasses requiring reduced mowing, fertilizer, and irrigation inputs
Development of plant biotechnologies for crop improvement
Yulan Xiong
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Neuroscience Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Accepting Lab Rotation Students: Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026
Molecular Pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease
Yusuf M. Khan
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery<br />Associate Director, Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ Not accepting lab rotation students at this time for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Skeletal Biology, Regenerative Engineering, Bone Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Nanofibrous Matrices, Ultrasound-Mediated Mechanical Stimulation, Stem Cells, Mechanotransduction
Zhao-Wen Wang
Professor of Neuroscience · UConn Health
⭐ Currently not accepting lab rotation students for Fall 2025/Spring 2026
Regulation of neurotransmitter release by Ca2+ and Ca2+-sensitive proteins Function and regulation of gap junctions My lab uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model organism to study molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release, and the function and reg…
Zhichao Fan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology · UConn Health
⭐ NIH-supported Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in Leukocyte Biology and Immunology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn Health). Our laboratory is looking for motivated postdoctoral fellows to study integrin activation and leukocyte trafficking in inflammatory diseases using advan…
Neutrophils are the most abundant population of human leukocytes (~60%) and play critical roles in infections and inflammation. Circulating neutrophils are recruited to inflamed or infected tissue. The recruitment cascade is initiated by selectin-mediated rolling and chemokine-tr…
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Dmitry M. Korzhnev
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students</strong>: Fall Block 2025, Spring 1 and 2 Block 2026</p><br /><p>Lab Rotation Projects <br /> - Structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins involved in DNA damage tolerance pathways <br /> - Studying folding mechanisms of single-domain proteins. S…
The primary focus of my laboratory is studies of protein structure, dynamics and interactions using structural biology methods, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. We make use of cutting-edge TROSY-NMR techniques that allow to access…
Ion I. Moraru
Professor, Department of Cell Biology · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students</strong>: </strong>Fall Block 2025 and<strong> </strong>Spring 2 Block 2026</p>
My general research interests center on understanding signal transduction mechanisms, in particular related to calcium and phosphoinositides. Examples are quantitative experimental and modeling studies of signaling networks in neuronal cells, such as the nonlinear response and sp…
Jean-Denis Beaudoin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences
Assistant Director, Genetics and Developmental Biology Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program · UConn Health
⭐ The Beaudoin lab is currently building its team! The lab will open in January 2020 and it is your chance to become an active and important member of this new exciting team. We aim to build a diverse and collaborative team where each individual brings something different and has room to grow scientif…
Research in our lab stems from two captivating biological observations that appear unrelated at first sight. The first is the fascinating process by which two of the most specialized and highly differentiated animal cells, the sperm and the oocyte, come together and transiti…
Pedro E.T. Miura
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences · UConn Health
⭐ We are looking for trainees and technicians that would like to work with mammalian cultured cells (mES, hES, and derived neurons), CRISPR gene editing, and RNA-sequencing to answer questions in RNA biology.
UConn Graduate students in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program have the opportunity to rota…
The Miura lab studies alternative RNA isoforms, including long 3’UTR mRNA isoforms, alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms, and circRNAs. We are interested in the molecular functions of these RNAs in neurons, and how different steps of RNA biogenesis are coordinated. We use gene edi…
Sangamesh G. Kumbar
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
⭐ <p><strong><strong>Accepting Lab Rotation Students:</strong> </strong><span>Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023</span></p>
Dr. Kumbar’s research is focused on synthesis and characterization of novel biomaterials/polymers for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. Polymeric materials namely polysaccharides, polyposphazenes, polyanhydrides, polyesters as well as blends of two or more of the…
A. M. Brown
Assistant Professor, Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences · UConn Health
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A.S. McGrade
Professor Emeritus · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Moral issues connected with wars and with other aspects of contemporary politics
Aadarsh Gopalakrishna
Associate Professor and Chair, Division of General Dentistry · UConn Health
Adhesive dentistry
Aaradhana Kaul
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn School of Medicine
Gout; Scleroderma; Lupus; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Sjögren's Syndrome; Musculoskeletal Disease
Aaron Dhir
Professor of Law · School of Law
Aaron Dhir joined UConn Law in 2022 after 15 years on the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School. He previously has served as the Justin D’Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business, and Society at Columbia Law School and as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law and the Canadia…
Abhay Vaze
Lecturer · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Abhijit Deb Roy
Assistant Professor · UConn Health
We are an experimental cell biology lab interested in both hypothesis-based and curiosity-driven questions, broadly within the realm of biomedical sciences. Our ongoing research projects are focused on investigating molecular signaling pathways and cytoskeletal dynamics involved …
Abhinav Upadhyay
Associate Professor · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Developing effective intervention strategies for controlling foodborne pathogens – "farm-to-fork" food safety
Reducing pathogen survival in poultry gut
Controlling the persistence of foodborne pathogens in the processing environment
Inactivation of pathogens in food products
Redu…
Abir Rahman, DO
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine · UConn Health
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Abner S. Gershon, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology · UConn Health
Cerebrovascular disease, degenerative spine conditions, pain
Adam D. Lindsay, MD
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery · UConn Health
Dr. Lindsay's research interests involve the treatment of metastatic sarcoma. He is also involved in large national database studies to evaluate the outcomes of musculoskeletal oncology surgery. Finally, Dr. Lindsay is researching ways to improve orthopedic surgical resident educ…
Adam Eugene Perrin, MD
Associate Professor, Family Medicine · UConn Health
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Adam J. Adler, PhD
Professor of Immunology
Vice Chair, Graduate Programs Committee · UConn Health
T lymphocytes have the potential to eliminate tumors. Although tumor vaccines have been able to activate tumor-specific T cells and achieve modest clinical efficacy in treating human cancer patients, they are generally not curative because tumors possess immunosuppressive propert…
Adam Matson, MD, MS, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology · UConn Health
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Adam Williams
Assistant Professor, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine · UConn Health
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Aditya Tadinada, DDS, MDentSci
Associate Dean for Graduate Research, Education and Training · UConn Health
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Adrian Stegovec
Assistant Professor of Linguistics · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
I am an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Connecticut. In my research I focus primarily on syntax, semantics, morphology, and the interaction between them, in particular in relation to the problem of linguistic universals and crosslinguistic variation.
synta…
Adrian V. Hernandez
Associate Professor of Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research · School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses; Comparative effectiveness and outcomes research; Prognostic modeling; Clinical Practice Guidelines
Adrienne B. Berke, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Dermatopathology
Assistant Director of Dermatopathology Laboratory · UConn Health
Dermatopathology, pigmented skin lesions, and immunopathology
Adrián Garcia-Sierra
Associate Department Head (Undergraduate) and Associate Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dr. Garcia-Sierra's research interests include: brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials, speech perception, and bilingualism.
brain plasticity, language development, event related potentials, speech perception, and bilingualism
Afroditi Pita
Assistant Professor · UConn School of Dental Medicine
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Agnes S. Kim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging and Echocardiography Lab
Director, Cardio-Oncology Program · UConn Health
Non-invasive cardiac imaging (echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac MRI, vascular ultrasounds), Cardio-oncology, Coronary artery disease, Valvular heart disease, Cardiomyopathy
Aida Roman
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
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Aileen R. Pangilinan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
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Akif Altinbas
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
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Akiko Nishiyama
Professor
Research focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of heterogeneity and lineage plasticity of NG2 glial cells (also known as polydendrocytes or oligodendrocyte precursor cells) and neuron-glial interactions in normal development and in lesion repair. Techniques used in the la…
Akshat D. Patel, DO
Assistant Professor of Medicine · UConn Health
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Akshay Maggu
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dr. Maggu is an auditory-cognitive neuroscientist and audiologist who investigates how short-term (e.g., auditory training) and long-term (e.g., language experience) auditory experiences shape the central auditory nervous system in both typical and atypical populations. At the Un…
Akua Sarfo, MD, PhD, FAAD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology · UConn Health
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Alan Brush
Professor Emeritus
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Alan G. Lurie, DDS, PhD
Professor and Chair, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences; Chair, Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology; Hospital Staff Member, Department of Dentistry; Hospital Staff member, Department of Radiology · University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Lurie is professor and chair of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences and chair of the Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Department of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences, at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. He has John …
Alan Stein
Professor Emeritus · COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Alan Wuosmaa
Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Nuclear structure studies with exotic-beam nucleon transfer reactions, clustering phenomena in light nuclei, investigation of astrophysical nucleosynthesis through the interactions of exotic nuclear species, development of advanced instrumentation for nuclear physics, relativisti…
Aleksandr Gorenbeyn
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine · UConn Health
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Aleksandra Kuznetsova
Assistant Professor · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Star & planet formation; Astrophysical disks; The early solar system
Alena Meacham
Director of Horse Riding Program, Lecturer · College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
After earning her degree from Johnson and Wales University, Alena was fortunate enough to intern with Olympic Silver Medalist Ann Kursinski and then went on and trained with many Grand Prix Jumper and Dressage trainers from the US and Europe. Alena has a strong foundation in both…
Alex Merkulov, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology · UConn Health
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Alex Tung
Associate Professor · School of Business
Y. Alex Tung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are applied artificial intelligence, expert systems, and electronic commerce. His research has appeared in Management Science…
Alexander Agrios
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
materials for low-cost solar energy conversion
materials and devices for solar-powered CO<sub>2</sub> reduction
nanostructures and protection schemes for improved cycling of zinc-based batteries
measurements to identify ageing effects in photovoltaic panels
electrodes for PFAS de…