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Sean Foley is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University and specializes in the history of the Middle East and the cultural, political, and religious trends in the wider Islamic world. He has published widely and delivered public presentations to major institutions and conferences around the world. His second book, , was published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in 2019 and is based on extensive in-country research and interviews. An Arabic version of the text with an updated introduction will soon be published. His first book, , was published in 2010 by Lynne Rienner Publishers. He has also won multiple fellowships, including Fulbright grants to Syria, Turkey, and Malaysia. For more on his work, see his website  or follow him on Twitter .

I'm an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education preparing future teachers and researching topics related to career and technical education (CTE), leadership development, and agriculture. Throughout my career, I've served as a middle and high school teacher, a high school assistant principal, a system level CTE director, and a state and national level consultant. Much of my work has involved providing instructional leadership for teachers, advising students, and working with the community to create real world learning opportunities with an emphasis on helping states, districts, and schools be highly effective in increasing students' preparedness to succeed in careers and postsecondary training and education.

In my work with Metro Nashville Public Schools, I provided leadership for 41 career academies employing 125 CTE teachers across 15 different high schools serving more than 16,000 students and managed an operating budget in excess of $9.8 million while collaborating with more than 350 business, industry and higher education partners to support successful secondary to post-secondary transitions for a diverse student population, with greater than 70% of students coming from low-income families.

I am a National Board Certified Teacher and have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in agriculture, leadership, and education. I am experienced in high school redesign and transformation by combining academic and career education while engaging business, industry and higher education partners to support simultaneous college and career readiness.

Kent Syler is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Middle Tennessee State University. He has been immensely involved in Tennessee politics for over 40 years. Starting as a campaign “sound truck” driver in 1978, he has gone on to become one of Tennessee’s most respected political strategists and analysts.
Kent has taught at MTSU since 2002 and also serves as Special Projects Coordinator for the University’s Albert Gore Research Center.
He managed Congressman Bart Gordon’s first campaign for congress in 1984 and his tough re-election campaigns in 1994 and 1996. He served as Gordon’s Tennessee Chief of Staff from 1985 until his retirement in 2011.
He has been actively involved with dozens of other campaigns, ranging from city council to governor and U.S. Senate. Kent served as a winter school lecturer at Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies) in Reims, France where he designed and taught a course with Gordon.  The class introduced European students to the ideas, practices, and institutions that constitute politics and government in the United States.
Kent is a political columnist and is frequently quoted in Tennessee and national news media. His work introducing students to archival constituent letters sent to Senator Albert Gore Sr. was featured in the New York Times. He serves as political analyst for WSMV-TV, 麻豆传媒 4 in Nashville.
Kent is active in the community serving as the Chair of the Murfreesboro Greenways Committee and is a Past President of the Murfreesboro Rotary Club. He and his wife Lynell have two daughters.

Latasha "Tasha" Holden is an assistant professor in the  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Holden's research seeks to better understand how (process), when (context), and why (internal vs. external factors) different individuals achieve academic and career success in spite of threats to their identity, well-being, and belonging.
Her research interests include learning and memory with a focus on applying cognitive science to support students with diverse learning needs. She is particularly interested in supporting student resilience in the face of cognitive demands, biases, and identity threats experienced in various testing and learning situations. 
Research areas

Working memory, long-term memory, and learning
Control of cognition
Inter- and intra-individual differences
Culturally informed and responsive science and pedagogy
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Test performance and achievement
Intervention
Open science and secondary data approaches

Education

B.A., psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010
B.A., art history/museum studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010
M.A., experimental psychology, Towson University, 2012
M.A., psychology, Princeton University, 2014
Ph.D., psychology, Princeton University, 2018

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Dr. Daniel Llano is a professor in the  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition Group. He is also a physician-surgeon at Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His field of professional interest is systems neuroscience.
 studies the mechanisms by which complex sounds like speech are processed by the auditory system. He hypothesizes that the auditory system generates internal models of the sensory world and uses these models to extract meaning from complex sensory stimuli. One potential neuronal substrate for this generative model is the massive system of descending projections from the auditory cortex to virtually every level of the subcortical auditory system. These projections are critical for shaping the response properties of neurons in the auditory periphery, but very little is known about their functional organization. 

He employs electrophysiological, novel optical, and advanced anatomical approaches to study the projections from the auditory cortex to subcortical structures. One specific set of issues concerns the role of different cortical subnetworks in complex sound processing. For example, neurons in both cortical layer 5 and cortical layer 6 project to subcortical structures, and the neurons in these layers have very different intrinsic, integrative and synaptic properties. Llano's work explores the different roles that these groups of neurons play in processing complex sound. 

Llano also has a strong interest in studying the reorganization of such networks during neuronal disease. In particular, his lab is developing models of stroke and age-related auditory network dysfunction for the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
His patient care work is focused on aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Research interests:


Computational biology




Imaging


Neurobiology


Optogenetics


Sensory processing


Aging-related diseases


Neurological and behavioral disorders


Education


M.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 


Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Adrienne Antonson is a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She joined the UIUC faculty in January 2021.
Antonson's research is anchored within the fields of immunology, microbiology, and developmental and behavioral neuroscience. She uses translational animal models to investigate inflammatory and neurodevelopmental origins of behavioral abnormalities and mental health disorders. Focusing on the prenatal period as a critical developmental window, she has demonstrated that maternal insults such as viral infection and psychological stress during pregnancy alter neuroimmune signatures in the offspring brain, leading to disrupted behaviors.
Research interests:


Prenatal immune determinants of neurodevelopment and behavior


Research areas:


Molecular and cellular neuroscience


Neural & genomic bases of behavior


Neural bases of disease and disorders


Neural development


Education


Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 2021


Ph.D., Immunophysiology and Behavior Program, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018


NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship, The Ohio State University Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, 2020

 explores molecular diversity and how molecular structure determines biological function in plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of significance to agriculture. He studies the origin, structure, and evolution of genomes, proteomes, RNomes, and functionomes for applications including bioengineering, biomedicine, and systems biology.
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Caetano-Anollés' atelier of evolutionary bioinformatics and plant bioinformation focuses on creative ways to mine, visualize and integrate data from structural and functional genomic research. His group is particularly interested in the evolution of macromolecular structure and networks in biology, the reconstruction of evolutionary history, the incorporation of evolutionary considerations in genomic research, the study of levels and patterns of genome-wide mutation, and processes that are linked to co-evolutionary phenomena (such as plant pathogenesis and symbiosis). In particular, his research has been productive in two specific areas, the evolution of the structure of macromolecules and the molecular basis of biodiversity.
Affiliations: 
Caetano-Anollés is a professor of bioinformatics in the  in the  (ACES) and health innovation professor in the  at the . He is also a faculty affiliate in the .

 is an expert in the field of rapid detection of pathogens and toxins with extensive research and development experience in microbial diagnostics, and characterization of microbiome found in different environments (food, water, etc.), animal gut, and other body sites. He leads an interdisciplinary group researching food safety and neighborhood food systems in an urban environment, and clinical and translational microbiology.
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Banerjee's interdisciplinary group conducts research on food safety and neighborhood food systems. They are interested in assessing the attribution of different environmental sources in the dissemination of pathogens through the food chain causing human health risks and microbial food safety. The focus of their research program comprises extensive laboratory-based investigation to develop biosensors and other molecular methods for rapid detection, screening, and characterization of pathogenic microorganisms or toxins from food, environmental (water, air, soil), and clinical samples.
Affiliations:
Banerjee is an associate professor of food safety in the  and a faculty Extension specialist for , both housed in the  at the . He is also an associate professor in the  at U of I.


 

A fundamental question in neuroscience is how we perceive and respond to our environment. Our laboratory uses mouse molecular genetics, circuit mapping, and electrophysiological analyses to gain an understanding of the development, organization, and function of neural circuits that underlie the sense of touch. Mouse molecular genetic approaches are used to identify, visualize, and functionally manipulate each of the physiologically defined classes of low-threshold mechanosensory neurons (LTMRs), the primary cutaneous sensory neurons that mediate the sense of touch. We have also gained genetic access to neurons that receive and process LTMR inputs in the spinal cord and propagate this information to the brain. Our current goals are to discover: 1) unique functions and properties of LTMR subtypes; 2) the organization and logic of synaptic connections between LTMR subtypes, spinal cord dorsal horn interneurons and projection neurons, and dorsal column nuclei neurons; 3) ascending pathways that underlie the perception of touch, 4) cellular and circuit level alterations that underlie touch sensitivity deficits in autism spectrum disorders and neuropathic pain, and; 5) mechanisms by which primary somatosensory neurons and touch circuit organization are established during development.
Dr. David D. Ginty (born 1962) is an American  and .
David graduated from  and received his Ph.D. degree in  from  for graduate work with Edward Seidel, on the regulation of  compounds and their metabolism during cell growth and proliferation. Moving to , David completed his postdoctoral research, first, with John Wagner at the  at , and then with Michael Greenberg at , where he made several seminal contributions to  and  signaling in neurons.
In 1995, David was invited by  to move to , , to become a new faculty member of the Department of  at the . In 2000, he became an investigator of the . David remained a faculty member at  for 18 years. In the fall of 2013, David and his laboratory moved from  to , MA, where he became the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at , while maintaining his status of an  investigator.
In the 1990s, David received several  awards including a , a  Award, and the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes.[] After becoming established, he received a  Neuroscience Investigator's Award from the . In 2015, David was elected into the . In 2017, David was elected to the .
His lab at  discovered functions and mechanisms of action of neuronal growth factors and axon guidance cues, and mechanisms of assembly and functional organization of the neural circuits that underlie autonomic functions and the sense of touch. His lab at  uses a variety of techniques including genetics, circuit mapping, and  analyses to gain understanding of the development, organization, and function of neural circuits that underlie the sense of touch. He uses mouse molecular genetic approaches to identify, visualize, and functionally manipulate physiologically defined classes of low-threshold mechanosensory neurons (LTMRs), the primary cutaneous sensory neurons that mediate the sense of touch, as well as spinal cord neurons that process LTMR information and convey it to the brain.

There have been more than 28,500 deaths due to gun violence in the U.S. in 2023 so far, according to .
Incidents of gun violence have long spurred debate about how to curb the problem. While some may be quick to point to mental health as a primary cause, , forensic psychologist and clinician at , suggests that placing blame on any one factor is likely inaccurate and may hinder progress that may otherwise be made by taking a broader approach.
Elbogen is the co-author of a book called . It examines various case studies and finds that the causes of gun violence are more like a jigsaw puzzle, where various factors reveal the full picture. 
Quote: “After high-profile violence, it’s natural for people to want clear answers immediately. But violence is multifactorial. Instead of jumping to conclusions, people need to consider many risk factors. Was this person under financial strain? How was their social support? What was their age and sex? Could they regulate their anger? Were they abusing substances? Did they embrace hate ideology? Could they access guns readily? Did they show antisocial traits, like lacking empathy for other human beings? Thinking about multiple causes is needed to identify the strongest factors to solve the problem of violence.”
Bio:  is a professor in the  at the . He is board-certified in forensic psychology, conducting clinical work and empirical research at the intersection of law and mental health services.

Dr. Michael Savin is a radiologist in Royal Oak, Michigan, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including  and . He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Specialties
SPECIALTY
Radiology
Radiologists use imaging to gather information about the structure and function of the human body that may be unavailable without surgery. They rely on penetrating radiation, such as X-rays, CT scans, and PET scans to diagnose diseases. They may also employ ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. They also use various forms of radiation to kill cancerous tissues. For doctors who use radiology to treat cancers, see .


SUBSPECIALTIES


Interventional Neuroradiology
Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Education & Experience

Medical School & Residency

University of Michigan Medical School
Medical School


University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Internship, Transitional Year, 1985-1986


Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Residency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 1986-1987


University of Washington
Residency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 1991-1995


University of Pennsylvania Health System
Fellowship, Interventional Radiology - Independent, 1995-1996



Certifications & Licensure

American Board of Radiology
Certified in Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology


FL State Medical License
Active through 2022


AZ State Medical License
Active through 2021


MO State Medical License
Active through 2021


IN State Medical License
Active through 2023


MI State Medical License
Active through 2024


PA State Medical License
Active through 1996

Dr. Herman K. Kado is a cardiologist in Farmington, Michigan and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including  and . He received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Specialties
SPECIALTY
Cardiology
Cardiologists diagnose and treat heart diseases, such as congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.


SUBSPECIALTIES


Interventional Cardiology
Peripheral Endovascular Interventional Cardiology
Vascular Medicine
 
Education & Experience

Medical School & Residency

Wayne State University School of Medicine
Medical School


University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
Fellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2009-2012


Michigan State University
Fellowship, Interventional Cardiology, 2012-2013


University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Residency, Internal Medicine, 2006-2009



Certifications & Licensure

American Board of Internal Medicine
Certified in Cardiovascular Disease


American Board of Internal Medicine
Certified in Interventional Cardiology


IL State Medical License
Active through 2009


FL State Medical License
Active through 2023


MI State Medical License
Active through 2025

 works to increase reproductive efficiency in humans and animals by increasing our understanding of the ovary, oviduct, and uterus. Projects in his lab include understanding how the uterus stores nutrients to support early pregnancy, how endocrine disruption chemicals (EDCs) affect the function of the oviduct, and the early events in the development of ovarian cancer.
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Approximately 50% of pregnancies are lost in both humans and livestock, with most losses occurring before or during embryo implantation. During this time embryos are dependent on secretions to support and regulate embryonic growth, while the uterine endometrium must prepare for implantation. Dean's lab is working to understand how nutrients, such as glucose, are taken up, stored by the uterus, and used by the embryo and endometrium during early pregnancy. Their goal is to undercover ways to increase fertility in humans and livestock.
Ovarian cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer death in women. Part of the reason for this is a poor understanding of the early events in disease development. It is now clear that high-grade serous ovarian cancer (the most lethal subtype) originates in the fallopian tube epithelium and spreads to the ovary very early in disease development. The Dean lab is working to understand how these tumor cells recruit cancer associated fibroblasts and remodel the extracellular matrix in the ovary during colonization.
Affiliations:
Dean is an assistant professor in the  and the  in the  (ACES) at the .

Joaquín Rodríguez-López is a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research group combines interests in electroanalytical chemistry and energy materials by developing chemically sensitive methods for elucidating the chemistry of batteries, fuel cell materials, electrolyzers, sensors, CO2 capture devices, and many other electrochemical technologies. Recognition to Joaquin’s work has come through awards such as the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry by the International Society of Electrochemistry (2021), The Arthur Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist by the ACS DAC (2020), the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award (2017), a Toyota-Electrochemical Society Young Investigator Fellowship (2017), and the Sloan Research Fellowship (2016) amongst other awards. His outreach and education have earned him the School of Chemical Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2023) and the East Central Illinois ACS Chapter Distinguished Service Award (2016). His work has also been highlighted in the media by The Analytical Scientist as a 40-under-40 investigator (2022) and by Science 麻豆传媒 10 Scientists to Watch (2018). Rodríguez-López is a recognized leader in electroanalysis, summing over 120 invited national and international presentations, over 110 publications and book chapters, leadership in large scale energy initiatives, and a thriving electrochemical program that gives back through educational activities such as his staple “Electrochemistry Bootcamp,” which teaches laboratory skills to broad audiences. 
 
Research/Citations
Research group webpage: 
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Contact  
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Jeffrey Moore received his B.S. in chemistry (1984) and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering with Samuel Stupp (1989), both from the University of Illinois. He then went to Caltech as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow working with Robert Grubbs. In 1990, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 1993, returned to the University of Illinois, where he was a Professor of Chemistry, as well as a Professor of Materials Science and engineering until 2022 and was also selected as the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair in 2018. Jeff currently holds the titles of Stanley O. Ikenberry, Research Professor of Chemistry, Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair Emeritus, and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. Jeff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society (ACS); he has received the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and has been recognized as a “Faculty Ranked Excellent by their Students.” For 14 years, he served as an associate editor for the Journal of American Chemical Society. In 2014, he was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and in 2016 was chosen as the recipient of the ACS Edward Leete Award in Organic Chemistry. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Chemistry Division 2018 Stephanie L. Kwolek Award and was part of a team that was honored with the Secretary of Energy Honor Award and Achievement Award the same year. Jeff was also awarded the 2019 National Award in Polymer Chemistry by the American Chemical Society. He has published over 400 articles covering topics from technology in the classroom to self-healing polymers, mechanoresponsive materials, and shape-persistent macrocycles. He served as the Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois from 2017-2022. In this role, he received the 2021 Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award from the UIUC Campus.

Education

Ph.D., Nagasaki University
M.S., Tohoku College of Pharmacy
B.S., Tohoku College of Pharmacy
 

Academic Positions

Research Scientist, Duke University School of Medicine
Research Associate Senior, Duke University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

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Professional Affiliations

American Association of Immunologists

Patents
Shinohara ML, Inoue M; Duke University “Methods of optimizing disease treatment” U.S. # 13/347,233 (Utility Application Filed 1/10/2012)

Education
PhD, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Research Biography
 

The Zhang laboratory studies the disease mechanism of enteric bacteria and develops vaccines against diarrheal disease, with the main focus on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), Shigella, and cholera.  ETEC and Shigella are the leading cause of children’s diarrhea and travelers’ diarrhea and the significant risk of antibiotic resistance, and cholera remains a major threat to public health.  ETEC is also a predominant cause of diarrhea in young animals, particularly newly weaned pigs.  The development of effective vaccines against these enteric bacteria is the top priority for the World Health Organization (WHO), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and many other public health institutes.  
Applying isogenic strains and animal models, the research team determines the significance of individual virulence factors and identifies virulence determinants, then targets virulence determinants as antigens for the development of precision vaccines.
Collaborating with world-class scientists, the group combines the epitope vaccine concept and the structure vaccine concept and has developed a novel epitope- and structure-based vaccinology platform to develop protein-based safe and cross-protective vaccines (multivalent vaccines and combination vaccines) against heterogeneous strains or different diseases.
The laboratory develops different animal models to study disease mechanisms and to evaluate vaccine pre-clinical efficacy.  Animal models routinely used in the laboratory include pig (conventional as well as germ-free), mouse, and rabbit (adult model, pregnant model, and infant passive or active model).
His research program has been well-funded by NIH, USDA-NIFA, and private funding agencies including PATH.
The laboratory currently accepts applications for postdoc research associates and PhD-level graduate students.

, is a board-certified cardiologist and medical director of heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support. He specializes in advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation.
As a professor of medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Adler conducts research on the use of stem cells to treat cardiovascular disease. He is also an investigator for many clinical trials for all stages of heart failure.
Adler's work has been featured in the world's top journals, including Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Circulation. He speaks throughout the country on topics related to heart failure and stem cell biology.

, is the chief administrative officer for health justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at UC San Diego Health. She also serves as the associate chief medical officer for health equity. In this dual, complementary role, she’s focused on creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive environment for students, trainees, faculty, staff and patients.
Cené is responsible for the vision, leadership and strategic planning of UC San Diego Health’s justice, equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives. She partners closely with leaders within the organization to ensure anti-racist, equitable, diverse and inclusive strategies, programs and policies are implemented across the health system. She brings extensive leadership, research, teaching and clinical experience to her position.
She is a nationally recognized health services and health disparities researcher. Her research focuses on evaluating and implementing solutions that enhance patient and family-centered care, focusing on the disparities in care by race and socioeconomic status. Cené has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has mentored over a dozen students, trainees, and junior faculty. She has held leadership roles in national and international organizations throughout her career, including the American Heart Association, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Women’s Health Initiative.

, is a board-certified cardiologist. She works with patients on prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as management of coronary disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and other cardiovascular problems. She believes good communication with her patients is an important part of the physician-patient relationship, and strives to provide evidence-based yet individualized care to each one.
Daniels is a professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She lectures to physicians, medical students and the general public on topics such as screening for cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular disease prevention, women's cardiovascular health, and late cardiovascular outcomes in adults with a history of Kawasaki disease.