Faculty

The Joint UA Little Rock/UAMS Bioinformatics Graduate Program involves many different disciplines such as biostatistics, information science, computer science, omics, life sciences and a wide array of medical specialties. Consequently we have participating faculty representing many different areas of expertise.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Behjatolah Karbassi UAMS karbassi@uams.edu
Grover P. Miller UAMS MillerGroverP@uams.edu
Donald Mock UAMS mockdonaldm@uams.edu
Kevin Raney UAMS raneykevind@uams.edu

Bioinformatics and Omics (e.g., Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics)

Name Affiliation E-mail
Marico Bryant-Howe Community Health Centers of Arkansas (CHCA) mbryanthowe@chc-ar.org
Galina Glazko UAMS GVGlazko@uams.edu
Intawat Nookaew UAMS inookaew@uams.edu
Alan Tackett UAMS ajtackett@uams.edu
Raj Vinay UAPB rajv@uapb.edu
Karl Walker UAPB walkerk@UAPB.EDU
Philip Williams UA Little Rock phwilliams@ualr.edu
Mary Yang UA Little Rock mqyang@ualr.edu

Biomedical Informatics

Name Affiliation E-mail
Hari Eswaran UAMS eswaranhari@uams.edu
Donald Johann UAMS DJJohann@uams.edu
Se-Ran Jun UAMS sjun@uams.edu
Fred Prior UAMS FWPrior@uams.edu
David W. Ussery UAMS DWUssery@uams.edu

Biostatistics

Name Affiliation E-mail
William H. Baltosser UA Little Rock whbaltosser@ualr.edu
Hassan Elsalloukh UA Little Rock hxelsalloukh@ualr.edu
Eric R. Kaufmann UA Little Rock erkaufmann@ualr.edu

Cancer Research

Name Affiliation E-mail
Thomas Kieber-Emmons UAMS tke@uams.edu

Cheminformatics

Name Affiliation E-mail
Robert Belford UA Little Rock rebelford@ualr.edu

Computational Biology and the Biological Life Sciences

Name Affiliation E-mail
Nawab Ali UA Little Rock nali@ualr.edu
John Bush UA Little Rock jmbush@ualr.edu
Stephen Grace UA Little Rock scgrace@ualr.edu
Qingfang He UA Little Rock qfhe@ualr.edu
Mariya Khodakovskaya UA Little Rock mvkhodakovsk@ualr.edu
Fusheng Tang UA Little Rock fxtang@ualr.edu
Wei Zhao UA Little Rock wxzhao@ualr.edu

Computer Sciences

Name Affiliation E-mail
Chia-Chu Chiang UA Little Rock cxchiang@ualr.edu
Xiuzhen Huang Arkansas State xhuang@ASTATE.EDU
Mariofanna Milanova UA Little Rock mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Engineering Systems and Technology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Kamran Iqbal UA Little Rock kxiqbal@ualr.edu
Srikanth Pidugu UA Little Rock sbpidugu@ualr.edu

Information Sciences

Name Affiliation E-mail
Nitin Agarwal UA Little Rock agarwal@ualr.edu
Dan Berleant UA Little Rock jdberleant@ualr.edu
Serhan Dagtas UA Little Rock sxdagtas@ualr.edu
Richard Segall Arkansas State rsegall@ASTATE.EDU
M. Eduard Tudoreanu UA Little Rock metudoreanu@ualr.edu
Ningning Wu UA Little Rock nxwu@ualr.edu
Xiaowei Xu UA Little Rock xwxu@ualr.edu

Information Quality

Name Affiliation E-mail
Elizabeth Pierce UA Little Rock expierce@ualr.edu
John Talburt UA Little Rock jrtalburt@ualr.edu

Longevity and Aging

Name Affiliation E-mail
Srinivas Ayyadevara UAMS AyyadevaraSrinivas@uams.edu
Robert J. S. Reis UAMS rjsr@uams.edu

Microbiology and Immunology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Boris Zybaylov UAMS blzybaylov@uams.edu

National Center For Toxicological Research (FDA)

Name Affiliation E-mail
Richard Beger NCTR rbeger@NCTR.FDA.GOV
Minjun Chen NCTR minjun.chen@FDA.HHS.GOV
Hong Fang NCTR Hong.Fang@FDA.HHS.GOV
Huixiao Hong FDA Huixiao.Hong@FDA.HHS.GOV
Tucker Patterson NCTR tpatterson@NCTR.FDA.GOV
Shraddha Thakkar NCTR shraddha.thakkar@FDA.HHS.GOV
William Slikker NCTR wslikker@NCTR.FDA.GOV
Weida Tong NCTR wtong@NCTR.FDA.GOV

Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences

Name Affiliation E-mail
Steve Barger UAMS sbarger@uams.edu

Ophthalmology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Joseph Chacko UAMS jchacko@uams.edu

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Curtis L. Lowery UAMS lowerycurtisl@uams.edu

Pediatrics

Name Affiliation E-mail
Kartik Shankar UAMS shankarkartik@uams.edu

Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Drug Design

Name Affiliation E-mail
Philip Breen UAMS breenphilipj@uams.edu
Cesar Compadre UAMS compadrecesarm@uams.edu
Peter Crooks UAMS PACrooks@uams.edu
Jerry A. Darsey UA Little Rock jadarsey@ualr.edu
Eric Peterson UAMS epeterson@uams.edu

Physiology and Biophysics

Name Affiliation E-mail
Frank Simmen UAMS SimmenFrankA@uams.edu
Kottayil Varughese UAMS KIVarughese@uams.edu

Public Health

Name Affiliation E-mail
Ping-Ching Hsu UAMS phsu@uams.edu
Mohammed S. Orloff UAMS MSOrloff@uams.edu
Songthip Ounpraseuth UAMS stounpraseuth@uams.edu
Paula K Roberson UAMS robersonpaulak@uams.edu

Radiation Health

Name Affiliation E-mail
Marjan Boerma UAMS mboerma@uams.edu