Departmental Research
Specialty Areas, Groups, and Centers
Specialty Areas
Ecosystems, Animal behavior and communication.
Bio or Agro-terrorism defense.
Repairing our environment.
Study of plants, animals, and protists together, spanning both the cellular- and nano-scales.
Increasing th understanding of the evolution of plant pathogens.
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Unveiling of the map of the human genome.
Discovering the fundamental processes of biology, including mechanisms of cellular function, genomics, and an understanding of environmental processes.
Study of tiny molecular machines and processes studied at the nanoscale, using x-ray crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and advanced computational tools.
Study of basic cellular, molecular and developmental processes, and promises discoveries that could revolutionize the field of agriculture.
Pioneering the scientific exploration of virus structure.
Structural cell biology of biomachinery and self-assembling materials will yield biomedical applications as well as inform the quest for nanomachines of artificial manufacture.
Enhance our fundamental understanding of vision.
Groups
Research in the Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology Area encompasses a diversity of topics and approaches.Current research projects include several aspects of behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and host-parasite coevolution.
Improving the scientific understanding of how ecosystems function in the presence of human activity.
The Purdue University Center for Basic and Applied Membrane Sciences
has been conceived to utilize the expertise of fifty-one faculty members, working collaboratively in twelve different areas of basic and applied membrane sciences to improve our basic biochemical and biophysical understanding of membrane sciences, and to develop applications that are important in medicine, physiology, agriculture and engineering.
Transgenic Mouse Core Facility
The TMCF is a state-of-the-art transgenic mouse core facility that is operated through the Purdue University Cancer Center to serve members of the Purdue University community. In addition to excellent microinjection equipment, the TMCF also contains a dedicated tissue culture laboratory and a strictly maintained barrier containment mouse facility.
Centers
The Markey Center for Structural Biology is a group of research laboratories that is studying a diverse group of biological problems including cellular signaling pathways, RNA catalysis, bioremediation, molecular evolution, viral entry, viral replication and viral pathogenesis using a combination of x-ray crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and advanced computational and modeling tools.
The Purdue Cancer Center is among an elite group of Cancer Centers nationwide to earn the distinguished National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. One of just seven NCI-designated basic-research Cancer Centers in the United States, we are committed to helping cancer patients by identifying new molecular targets and designing future agents and drugs for effectively detecting and treating cancer.
The Ross Reserve has for 56 years provided Purdue University with an invaluable teaching and research environment. On the bank of the Wabash River, it is a forest rich in biological diversity and in history of ecological study.
