Office of Research

Missions to DC

April 2007 Mission


Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

Amit Dhingra
Intelli-GEN-Design™ Fruit of the Future

Biological Chemistry
David Kramer
Biological Energy Transduction: Importance for Photosynthesis, Climate, and Health

Biological Chemistry
Bernd Markus Lange
Harnessing Natural Product Biosynthesis to Produce Better Crops and Pharmaceuticals

Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Dorrie Main
Bioinformatics, Biological Data Integration and Systems Biology

Root Disease and Biological Control Research
Pat Okubara
Rhizosphere Plant-Microbe Interactions—Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind

Biological Chemistry
Sanja Roje
One-Carbon Metabolism and S-adenosylmethionine Biosynthesis

November 2006 Mission


Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology

Wendy Brown
Searching for Immunity to Vector-borne Diseases

Biological Sciences
Mark Dybdahl
Evolutionary Dynamics of Parasitic Infections and Invasive Alien Species

Entomology
William Snyder
Exploring the Relationship Between Predator Biodiversity and Biological Control

Biological Sciences
Andrew Storfer
Emerging Diseases Present Threat to Global Biodiversity

March 2005 Mission


Biological Sciences

Mike Alfaro
Form, Function, and Diversification

Plant Pathology
Dean Glawe
Mycology in the Age of the Internet

Biological Sciences
Howard Hosick
Bone Research at the Interface of Cancer Biology and Engineering Science

Health Research and Education
Sylvia Oliver
Program Models for Enriching K-16 Science, Math, and Technology Education

Animal Sciences
Buel D. Rodgers
Molecular Endocrinology and Muscle Development

Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Bernard Van Wie
Biosensors, Tissue Bioprocessing, and Novel Teaching Methods

December 2004 Mission


Pharmaceutical Sciences

Sayed Daoud
Genomics and the Development of New Molecular Therapeutics in Cancer

Intercollegiate College of Nursing
Linda Eddy
Marriage: Perception, Reality, and Meaningful Intervention for Famils of Children with Special Needs

Political Sciences
Amy G. Mazur
GRACe Researchers Offer a Multi-Faceted Approach to the Study of Gender Inequity

Psychology
Michael Morgan
In Search of the Neural Basis for Morphine Tolerance

History
David Pietz
Managing Scarcity: Water and Hydraulic Engineering on the North China Plain

Center for Precision Agricultural Systems
Francis J. Pierce
Research at the Center for Precision Agricultural Systems

Mission to DC: Diabetes


Community Outreach

Sue Butkus
Diabetes Awareness Education

Nursing
Cynthia F. Corbett
Behavioral Strategies to Improve Chronic Illness Management

Pharmacotherapy
Stephen Setter
Geriatric Focused Diabetes Managed Care

Statistics
Robert Short
Cardiovascular Event Predictors

Mission to DC: Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics 


C
hemistry
James Bruce
Proteomics

Crop and Soil Sciences
Kulvinder Gill
Understanding and Manipulating the Wheat Genome

Animal Sciences
Derek McLean
Animal Genomics and Biotechnology

Veterinary Medicine
Guy H. Palmer
Genomics and Proteomics in Vaccine Development

Biological Sciences
Mechthild Tegeder
Transport Processes

Molecular Biosciences
John Wyrick
Regulation of Genome Expression

Mission to DC: Nanomaterials


Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Susmita Bose
Nanomaterials for Bone Implant-Related Applications

Health and Life Sciences

Washington State University is committed to building on its existing strengths in the areas of safety and security. The researchers highlighted here provide a sampling of both established and recently added research programs in these fields. Each of these researchers and their many collaborators are making important impacts in their respective areas.

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