Faculty Mentor List

Her current research focuses on the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among human commensal bacteria and the fate of these bacteria in the environment.

Indiana University Northwest Assistant Professor of Biology Ming Gao believes that understanding the me31B gene in fruit flies could yield answers crucial to treating human reproductive disorders in the future.

Dr. Kelly’s research is two-fold; it attempts to unravel connections between surfaces and the Hofmeister Series, and then to use this knowledge for directed design of nanoscale chemical surfaces.

See Walker Research Webpage below for research interest.

Our lab studies the impact of drugs and environmental stressors on the physiological and behavioral expression of stress responses in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model.

Dr. Wang's teaching interests are artificial intelligence, databases, data science and data mining. Her research interests are data and computational issues arising from information systems, including information management, data mining, and data science.

See Taschner Research Webpage below for research interest

Dr. Avis is a mycologist, which means he studies fungi. His research focuses include fungal ecology of the greater Chicago Region, fugal diversity, and systematics. He and his students have discovered and classified several new species of fungus from Northwest Indiana. Dr. Avis is also the director of Northwest Indiana Restoration Monitoring Inventory (NIRMI). NIRMI monitors ecological restorations in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.