Department: College of Medicine, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Male and female reproductive tract development, germ cell biology, tumorigenesis, and role played by peptide and steroid hormones in these processes
Office: HLS I 419B
Office Phone:305-348-1483

Website: http://medicine.fiu.edu/human_molecular.php?ss=faculty#agoulnik
E-mail: aagoulni@fiu.edu

Department: Psychology
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Intersensory redundancy and the development of perception learning, and memory in human infants
Office: DM 115
Office Phone: 305-348-3988

Website: http://infantlab.fiu.edu/Infant_Lab.htm
E-mail: bahrick@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Receptor mediated endocytosis on signal transductions in cancer or diabetes
Office: HLS-1 318C
Office Phone: 305-348-7535

Website: http://www2.fiu.edu/~barbieri/
E-mail: barbieri@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Medicinal plants, ethnopharmacology
Office: HLS 319A
Office Phone: 305-348-3586

Website: www.fiu.edu/~biology/html/people/profiles/bennettb.htm
E-mail: bradley.bennett@fiu.edu

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Mems and nanotechnology
Office: EC 3900
Office Phone: 305-348-4439

Website: mems.fiu.edu
E-mail: sbhansa@fiu.edu

Department: Physics
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Age-related macular degeneration and the competing influences of light and macular pigment
Office: CP 213
Office Phone: 305-348-3082

Website: www.fiu.edu/~bone/
E-mail: bone@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry/SERC
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Bioanalytical chemistry
Office: CP 315
Office Phone: 305-348-6210

Website: www.fiu.edu/~cai/
E-mail: yong.cai@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Interest: Theoretical/computational study of function of heme enzymes 
Office: CP 336
Office Phone: 305-348-3977

Website: http://www2.fiu.edu/~chatfiel/
E-mail: chatfiel@fiu.edu

Department: Epidemiology
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Genetic epidemiology, immunogenetics
Office: AHCII 584
Office Phone: 305-348-4920

Website: www.dorak.info
E-mail: mdorak@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Cellular Biology and Pharmacology
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Our current and future research is focused on the development of new generation instrumentation and methodologies for biomedical and behavioral research. In particular, our group is interested in the characterization of the chemical environment at the single cell and sub-cellular level of model cell systems and tissue sections using a "molecular microscope".
Office: AHC4 233
Office Phone: 305-348-2037

Website: www.fiu.edu/~fernandf/
E-mail: fernandf@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Cancer diagnostics using optical-based molecular imaging. Functional brain imaging using diffuse optical imaging
Office: EC 2675
Office Phone: 305 348-7340

Website: http://web.eng.fiu.edu/~godavart/
E-mail: godavart@fiu.edu

Department: Physics
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Single molecule biophysics
Office: CP 227
Office Phone: 305-348-4376

Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~jinhe/
E-mail: jinhe@fiu.edu

Department: Dietetics and Nutrition
Rank: Professor, Director of Graduate Programs in Dietetics and Nutrition
College of Health Sciences
Research Interest: Study of chronic diseases and ethnicity, biomarkers and risk factors for CVD and type-2 diabetes
Office: HLS I 449A
Office Phone: 305-348-3788

Website: www.fiu.edu/~huffmanf/
E-mail: huffmanf@fiu.edu

Department: Earth and Environment
Rank: Professor
Research Interest:Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry - biodegradation of pesticides, toxins, and environmental health
Office: ECS 337
Office Phone: 305-348-6553

Website: http://earthenvironment.fiu.edu/faculty/krishnaswamy-jay-jayachandran/
E-mail: jayachandran@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Professor and Chair
Research Interest:She and her team are developing a novel, fully implanted neural interface between a myolectric prosthetic hand and peripheral nerves of below-the-elbow amputees.
Office: EC 2602
Office Phone: 305-348-3722

Website:http://www.bme.fiu.edu/ 
E-mail: rjung@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Inorganic and organic supramolecular chemistry: Ligand design for separation and sensing of toxic metals and other biomedically and environmentally important targets
Office: CP 326
Office Phone: 305-348-6034

Website: www.fiu.edu/~kavallie/
E-mail: konstantinos.kavallieratos@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Eukaryotic cell migration and development
Office: HLS 218C
Office Phone: 305-348-7315

Website: www.fiu.edu/~kiml/
E-mail: leung.kim@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Program, Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Signaling pathways involved in the development and pathogenesis of neural crest cells
Office: HLS 219A
Office Phone: 305-348-6678

Website: www.fiu.edu/~kosl/
E-mail: lidia.kos@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Understanding and improving the in vitro folding of disulfide containing proteins
Office: CP 314
Office Phone: 305-348-3993

Website: www.fiu.edu/~leeswj/
E-mail: leeswj@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank:Associate Professor
Research Interest: Transcription-coupled DNA super coiling and the interaction of the mammalian high mobility group protein AT hook 2 (HMGA2) with AT rich DNA and the synthesis of anticancer compounds.
Office: CP 317
Office Phone: 305-348-3277

Website: www.fiu.edu/~lengf/
E-mail: fenfei.leng@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest:Biosensors, Biomedical Devices, Nanomedicine, Biofuel Cell, Point of Care Testings , Lab-on-Chip
Office: EC 2671
Office Phone: 305-348-6950

Website: http://www.nanomed.fiu.edu
E-mail: chenzhong.li@fiu.edu

Department: Psychology
Rank: Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interest: Developmental psychobiology, with a focus on the prenatal determinants of intersensory perception
Office: DM 260
Office Phone: 305-348-3441

Website: http://dpblab.fiu.edu/
E-mail: robert.lickliter@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Oxidative DNA damage and repair and genomic and epigenomic stability, mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases and cancer and their prevention and treatment
Office: CP 338B
Office Phone: 305-348-3628

Website: http://chemistry.fiu.edu/faculty/yuan-liu/
E-mail: yuan.liu@fiu.edu

Department: Dietetics and Nutrition
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: The study of mammalian zinc transporters and gene regulation by zinc
Office: HLS I 446
Office Phone: 305-348-1611

Website: http://ssph.fiu.edu/dietetics_nutrition/faculty_research.html
E-mail: jliuzzi@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Professor, Undergraduate Program Director
Research Interest: Marine bioluminescent bacteria and their ecology, physiology, and luciferase kinetics; particularly their life in fish guts, feces and seawater; the evolution of luciferase kinetic classes and arginine regulation of luciferase synthesis. (lux operon)
Office: OE 246
Office Phone: 305-348-3097

Website: www.fiu.edu/~makemson/index.html
E-mail: john.makemson@fiu.edu

Department: College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Rank: Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Research Interest: Microbiology, esp. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Office: HLS II 419D
Office Phone: 305-348-0629

Website: www.fiu.edu/~matheek/
E-mail: kalai.mathee@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry
Rank: Professor of Analytical and Forensic Chemistry
Research Interest:
Office:
Office Phone: 305-348-7543

Website:
E-mail: mccordb@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Associate Professor and Acting Chair
Research Interest: Drug delivery and drug transport modeling in the areas of cancer and cardiovascular diseases
Office: EC 2614
Office Phone: 305-348-1352

Website: http://www.bme.fiu.edu/faculty/anthony-mcgoron/
E-mail: anthony.mcgoron@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Biophysics
Office: CP 328
Office Phone: 305-348-7406

Website: http://www2.fiu.edu/~miksovsk/
E-mail: miksovsk@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Microbial Ecology/ Forensics
Office: OE 116C-D
Office Phone: 305-348-7410

Website: www.fiu.edu/~ifri/FDPF/Mills_CV_WEBPAGE.htm
E-mail: millsd@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Novel fluorescence materials for biomedical applications such as fluorescence detections and delivery of therapeutic agents
Office: CP 338A
Office Phone: 305-348-1368

Website: www.fiu.edu/~jmoon/
E-mail: jmoon@fiu.edu

Department: College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Drug activation and resistance in a parasitic protozoan Leishmania
Office: HLS II 693
Office Phone: 305-348-0570

Website: www.med.wayne.edu/biochem/BMB_faculty/mukhopadhyay.html
E-mail: rmukhope@fiu.edu

Department: Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Enhanced Biocompatibility of Nitinol Alloys
Office: EC 3445
Office Phone: 305-348-3556

Website: http://web.eng.fiu.edu/munroen/index.html
E-mail: norman.munroe@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Molecular virology, double-stranded (ds) RNA virology, virus:host interactions, viral genome replication, viral translation initiation strategies, and viral oncolysis.
Office: HLS 319B
Office Phone: 305-348-7318

Website: www.fiu.edu/~biology/html/people/profiles/cv/Murray%20CV%202008.pdf
E-mail: kmurray@fiu.edu

Department: College of Engineering and Computing
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Bioinformatics and data mining
Office: EC 2474 and ECS 254
Office Phone: 305-348-3748

Website: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~giri/
E-mail: Giri@cs.fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology used to address fundamental questions in insect biology such as endocrine regulation and adaptation to pollutants
Office: HLS 218B
Office Phone: 305-348-6632

Website: www.fiu.edu/~noriegaf/Noriega.htm
E-mail: fernando.noriega@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Investigation of the role of reactive oxygen species in the degradation of biologically active compounds
Office: PC 230 / CP 310
Office Phone: 305-348-2455

Website: www.fiu.edu/~osheak/
E-mail: kevin.o_shea@fiu.edu

Department: Psychology
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Dr. Pruden's primary research interests lie at the intersection between developmental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and education. Employing a variety of methodologies (i.e., experimental and naturalistic; cross-sectional and longitudinal) and age groups (i.e., infants, preschoolers and school-aged children), her research focuses on the development of early language abilities with an emphasis on the growth of children's spatial language and spatial cognition.
Office: DM 296A
Office Phone: 305-348-2784

Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~sdick Lab
E-mail: shannon.pruden@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Tissue engineering approaches for treatment of cardiovascular disease
Office: EC 2612
Office Phone: 305-348-2532

Website: http://www.bme.fiu.edu/faculty/sharan-ramaswamy/
E-mail: sharan.ramaswamy@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Marine Natural Products
Office: CP 323A
Office Phone: 305-348-6682

Website: http://www2.fiu.edu/~reink/index.htm
E-mail: reink@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: The biology, ecology and etiology of coral diseases, including identification and characterization of coral microbial pathogens, and the effects of coral disease on the reef
Office: HLS1 318A
Office Phone: 305-348-1988

Website: www.fiu.edu/~biology/hmpgs/laur.htm
E-mail: laurie.richardson@fiu.edu

Department: College of Medicine, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology
Rank: Associate Dean for Basic Research and Graduate Studies, Office of Academic Affairs; Professor, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of heavy metal uptake and detoxification
Office: HLS II 673A
Office Phone: 305-348-0570

Website: http://medicine.fiu.edu/faculty.php?ss=dir&show=rosen_barry
E-mail: brosen@fiu.edu

Department: Environmental and Occupational Health
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Gene-environment interactions, genetic polymorphism in environmentally susceptible genes, signal transduction in toxicology and environmental health
Office: HLS 591
Office Phone: 305-348-1694

Website: http://chua2.fiu.edu/faculty/droy/?ID=858
E-mail: droy@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Integrative biology of behavior
Office: HLS 219B
Office Phone: 305-348-0378

Website: www.fiu.edu/~stoddard
E-mail: philip.stoddard@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Genetic basis of male infertility; DNA damage and organization of the genome
Office: AHC1 418B
Office Phone: 305-348-4838

Website: http://medicine.fiu.edu/about-us/directory/profile.php?id=1090
E-mail: htempest@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Professor, Founding Director, Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science
Research Interest: Professor and Founding Director, Biomolecular Sciences Institute Research Interest: DNA topoisomerases structure, mechanism and physiological function related to antibacterial drug discovery, cancer, stress response and genomic stability
Office: AHC4 210
Office Phone: 305-348-4956

Website: http://chemistry.fiu.edu/faculty/yuk-ching-tse-dinh/
E-mail: yukching.tsedinh@fiu.edu

Department: Biomedical Engineering
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Computational physiology and biotransport
Office: EC 2674
Office Phone: 305-348-7291

Website: http://www.bme.fiu.edu/faculty/nikolaos-tsoukias/
E-mail: nikolaos.tsoukias@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Plant conservation genomics and evolutionary ecology
Office: HLS 318B
Office Phone: 305-348-2298

Website: http://www2.fiu.edu/~ebishopv/
E-mail: ebishopv@fiu.edu

Department: Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Nanobiosensing & Energy, surface engineered carbon electrodes for biosensor application
Office: EC 3463
Office Phone: 305-348-1217

Website: http://web.eng.fiu.edu/wangc/
E-mail: wangc@fiu.edu

Department:Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Associate Professor
Research Interest: Structural basis for the chloroperoxidase-catalyzed enantioselective transformations & molecular mechanisms of antiprion compounds
Office: CP 308
Office Phone: 305-348-7544

Website: http://casgroup.fiu.edu/chemistry/faculty.php?id=73
E-mail: xiaotang.wang@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Learning and memory, memory and menopause
Office: HLS 219C
Office Phone: 305-348-3099

Website: www.fiu.edu/~weekso/
E-mail: weekso@fiu.edu

Department: Biological Sciences
Rank: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: The biology and ecology of avian zoonoses (infectious diseases carried by birds, e.g. West Nile virus)
Office: OE 212
Office Phone: 305-348-4483

Website: http://biology.fiu.edu/people/faculty/john-withey/
E-mail: jwithey@fiu.edu

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rank: Professor
Research Interest: Organic chemistry of carbohydrates and nucleosides with applications in biochemistry and in anti-cancer and anti-viral medicine
Office:CP 325
Office Phone: 305-348-6195

Website: www.fiu.edu/~wnuk/
E-mail: stanislaw.wnuk@fiu.edu