Faculty

The Joint UALR/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 UALR phwilliams@UALR.EDU
Mary Yang UALR 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 UALR whbaltosser@UALR.EDU
Hassan Elsalloukh UALR hxelsalloukh@UALR.EDU
Eric R. Kaufmann UALR erkaufmann@UALR.EDU

Cancer Research

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

Cheminformatics

Name Affiliation E-mail
Robert Belford UALR rebelford@UALR.EDU

Computational Biology and the Biological Life Sciences

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

Computer Sciences

Name Affiliation E-mail
Chia-Chu Chiang UALR cxchiang@UALR.EDU
Xiuzhen Huang Arkansas State xhuang@ASTATE.EDU
Mariofanna Milanova UALR mgmilanova@UALR.EDU

Engineering Systems and Technology

Name Affiliation E-mail
Kamran Iqbal UALR kxiqbal@UALR.EDU
Srikanth Pidugu UALR sbpidugu@UALR.EDU

Information Sciences

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

Information Quality

Name Affiliation E-mail
Elizabeth Pierce UALR expierce@UALR.EDU
John Talburt UALR 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 UALR 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