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We investigate the effects of environmental stressors on the human thermal, metabolic and immunologic responses. 
Dr. Glickman's Lab Website

We investigate how the brain modulates skeletal muscle thermogenesis—heat generation in muscle—and how this impacts energy balance and body weight. 
Dr. Novak's Lab Website

We investigate early mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease. Our goal is to discover how disruption of basic functions of the body can drive disease processes that destroy the brain. We study how integrin protein dysfunction is an early driver of AD pathology, and how AD pathology affects visual system signaling. 
Dr. Dengler-Crish's Lab Website

We investigate how microbial symbionts shape the ecology and evolution of their vertebrate hosts. Our lab uses a combination of multi-omic techniques, germ-free animal experiments, and natural history studies to determine how intestinal microorganisms affect the phenotypes of wild vertebrates in nature. 

Dr. Trevelline's Lab Website

We investigate brain circuits that modulate how we hear in different environments, during growth and aging, and after damage to the ear or the brain. We use sophisticated neural tracing methods to characterize neural circuits in rodents so we can understand how those circuits contribute to hearing.
 

We investigate the tumor suppression activity of an eIF2-associated glycoprotein, p67 in human cancer cells and in mice model.
 

We investigate microbiome-host interactions in the oral cavity, particularly in the setting of gum disease (one of the most prevalent inflammatory conditions worldwide) and comorbidities such as diabetes and oral cancer. We are specifically interested in how host diet and inflammation regulate microbe-microbe interactions within the oral microbiome and how these interactions in turn impact host fitness. Long-term, our goal is to translate our findings into more targeted microbiome-directed therapeutics.