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
Chemistry
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.