Montana State University

Kopriva MSU Faculty Lectureship Recipients

2012-2013
Sandra Halonen, Ph.D.
Sandra Halonen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Montana State University. She studies the effects of the parasite Toxoplasma Gondii on the human brain.  

2011-2012
Tomáš Gedeon, Ph.D.
Professor Gedeon's interests lie in applied dynamical systems, neuroscience, discrete optimization theory and modeling. He actively collaborates with Center for Computational Biology at MSU on neural coding problems and with colleagues in the Computer Science Department on algorithm development.  

2010-2011
Bern Kohler, Ph.D.
Bern Kohler is a professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Montana State University. He is the recipient of a Kopriva MSU Faculty Lectureship in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Kohler's research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy, DNA photophysics and photochemistry, and solar energy conversion.  

2010-2011
Mary Cloninger, Ph.D.

    
Mary Cloninger is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Montana State University. She is the recipient of a Kopriva MSU Faculty Lectureship in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Cloninger's research program is based on key questions in chemical biology, including the signaling mechanisms used to control cell functions and the processes that mediate the adhesions and metastatic migrations of cancer cells. Her lab's approach is to synthesize synthetic multivalent frameworks for the study cellular recognition events.