Note:
The faculty list below is intended to provide you with an overview of potential research mentors in various NMSU colleges and departments. If you are interested in a research lab not listed, please contact the faculty and the NMSU-HHMI office to discuss mentoring possibilities.
Department of Biology
Donovan Bailey
Email: dbailey@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7012
Research Area: Plant Systematics.
Maria Castillo
Email: mcastill@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7664
Research Area: Immunology aspects between molluscs and their symbionts.
Jennifer Curtiss
Email: curtij01@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5611
Research Area: Cell & Developmental Biology.
Kathy Hanley
Email: khanley@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-4583
Research Area: Virus Evolution Ecology.
Immo Hansen
Email: immoh@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-6-7719
Research Area: Molecular Vector Biology.
Peter Houde
Email: phoude@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-6019
Research Area: Avian Systematics.
Emily Indriolo
Email: indriolo@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3611
Research Area: Plant Molecular Biology, Cell Signaling.
Karen Mabry
Email: kmabry@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2633
Research Area: Behavioral Ecology.
Brook Milligan
Email: brook@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7980
Research Area: Evolutionary Genetics.
Elba Serrano
Email contact only: serrano@nmsu.edu
Research Area: Neuroinformatics, Pharmaceutical Database and Neuroethics.
Brad Shuster
Email: schuster@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1325
Research Area: Regulation of the Cell Skeleton.
Geoff Smith- not available in spring 2019-
Email: gsmith@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-6080
Research Area: Environmental Biology.
Graciela Unguez
Email: gunguez@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7963
Research Area: Developmental Biology.
Tim Wright
Email: wright@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1136
Research Area: Animal Behavior and Evolution.
John Xu
Email: jxu@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7713
Research Area: Genomics.
Department of Animal and Range Sciences
Ryan Ashley
Email: ryashley@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-4135
Research Area: Reproductive Physiology.
Gaylene Fasenko
Email: gfasenko@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3402
Research Area: Companion Animals and Human Animal Interactions (HAI).
Clint Loest
Email: cloest@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1714
Research Area: Ruminant Nutrition.
Eric Scholljegerdes
Email: ejs@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1755
Research Area: Ruminant Nutrition.
Sergio Soto-Navarro
Email: ssoto@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2515
Research Area: Ruminant Nutrition.
Adam Summers
Email: asummers@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1549
Research Area: Reproductive Physiology, Fetal Programming.
Laura White
Email: lmwhite@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5595
Research Area: Pedagogy, Higher Order Thinking and Equine Nutrition and Growth.
Shanna Ivey
Email: sivey@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-4650
Research Area: Rumen Microbiology.
Jennifer Hernandez-Gifford
Phone: 646-2514
Email: jgifford@ad.nmsu.edu
Research Area: Reproductive Physiology, Signaling Pathways that contribute to female fertility.
Sara Fuentes-Soriano
Phone: 646-3732
Email: sfuensor@nmsu.edu
Research Area: Natural history collection management, plant systematics, biodiversity, and conservation.
Akasha Faist
Phone: 646-1805
Email: afaist@nmsu.edu
Research Area: Rangeland and restoration ecology.
Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservative Ecology
Wiebke Boeing
Email: wboeing@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1707
Research Area: Aquatic Ecology.
James Cain
Email: jwcain@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3382
Research Area: Wildlife Habitat Relationships, Large Mammal, Ecology, Wildlife Management and Conservation.
Colleen Caldwell
Email: ccaldwel@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-8126
Research Area: Fish Physiology, Aquatic Toxicology and Conservation Biology.
Scott Carleton
Email: carleton@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7196
Research Area: Migration, Habitat Use and Demography, Non Game and Game Bird Ecology.
Gary Roemer
Email: groemer@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3394
Research Area: Mammalian Ecology.
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Chris Cramer
Email: cscramer@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2657
Research Area: Breeding, Genetics, Onions, Quantitative Genetics, Crop Production.
Champa Gopalan
Email: csgopala@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5784
Research Area: Biotechnology, Genetics.
Omar Holguin
Email: frholgui@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5913
Research Area: Mass Spectral Analysis of Plant Primary and Secondary Metabolism from GMO’s.
Kulbushan Grover
Email: kgrover@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2352
Research Area: Sustainable Energy.
Ian Ray
Email: iaray@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3819
Research Area: Improving Osmotic Stress Tolerance in Alfalfa Through Molecular Techniques and Conventional Breeding.
Manoj Shukla
Email: shuklamk@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2324
Research Area: Environmental Soil Physics.
Jinfa Zhang
Email: jinzhang@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3438
Research Area: Cotton Breeding, Genetics and Genomics.
Nicole Pietrasiak
Email: npietras@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-6041
Research Area: Soil Microbiology, Phycology, Desert Soil Ecology, Biocrusts.
Ivette Guzman
Email: ivguzman@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1914
Research Area: Medicinal plants, plant physiology and biochemistry, functional foods.
Eric Lehnhoff
Email: lehnhoff@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2328
Research Area: Weed Ecology and Management.
Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Sciences (EPPWS)
Rebecca Creamer
Email: creamer@taipan.nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3068
Research Area: Plant Virology.
Steve Hanson
Email: shanson@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5073
Research Area: Virology.
Jane Pierce
Email: japierce@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1228
Research Area: Entomology.
Alvaro Romero
Email: aromero2@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5550
Research Area: Entomology/Parasitology.
Soum Sanogo
Email: ssanogo@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3577
Research Area: Host-Pathogen Relationships.
Jennifer Randall
Email: jrandall@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2920
Research Area: Genetic and molecular mechanisms of plant development and plant microbe interactions.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Amanda Ashley
Email: ashleyak@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2084
Research Area: DNA Repair/Replication, Cancer Biology, Development Chemotherapy Resistance.
Jeff Arterburn
Email: jarterbu@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2738
Research Area: Development Of Small Molecular Probes, Imaging Agents, Anticancer and Antiviral Drugs.
Paola Mera
Email: mera@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-7679
Research Area: Bacterial genetics and physiology.
Kevin Houston
Email: khouston@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3918
Research Area: Molecular Function of Ovarian Hormones in Cancers and Tumors.
Feifei Li
Email: fli@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3346
Research Area: Synthetic Transition Metal Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry of Metal-Ion Based Therapy, Novel Imaging Technology.
Shelley Lusetti
Email: slusetti@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-6016
Research Area: Cellular Processes Underlying Chromosomal Maintenance by Studying the enzymes and Regulatory Mechanism that Control it.
Aravamudan Gopalan
Email: agopalan@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-2589
Research Area: Chelators for Environmental Applications.
Erik Yukl
Email: etyukl@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-3176
Research Area: Mechanism By Which Bacteria Aquire Metals (Copper, Iron, Magnesium) from the Environment and how Certain Metalloproteins are Used as Sensors of Environmental Conditions.
Department of Psychology
Michael Hout
Email: mhout@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-1730
Research Area: Visual Cognition, Visual Attention, Memory, Eye Movements, and Computational Modeling.
Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
Jessica Houston
Email: jph@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-5563
Research Area: Developing and advancing time-resolved flow cytometry.
Catherine Brewer
Email: cbrewer@nmsu.edu
Phone: 646-8637
Research Area: Biomass, thermochemical processing.