Fresno State RISE Program
RISE Team
Fresno State
Dr. Krish Krishnan, Program Director
- Dr. Joy Goto, Chemistry
- Dr. Jason Bush, Biology
- Dr. Qiao-Hong Chen, Chemistry
- Dr. Alejandro Calderon-Urrea, Biology
RISE Program Manager
Ms. Lilia DeLaCerda, MPH
Office: Science 1 Room 101
Email: liliad@csufresno.edu
RISE Program Coordinator
Ms. Candice Cortney, MS
Office: Science 1 Room 101
Email: chcortney@csufresno.edu
Phone: (559) 278-6679
Current RISE Mentors
- Molecular genetics of programmed cell death (PCD) in plants
- Use of PCD in plant biotechnology
- PCD during sex determination in plants
- Transgenic plant development and plant biotechnology
- Biofuels and other metabolites
- Cell biology
- Cancer biology
- Genetics
- Molecular biology
- Biomedical research
- Neuroethology and neurobiology
- Adaptive behaviors and neural plasticity
- Insect cognition
- Behavior and neural mechanisms underlying spatial processing, learning and memory, and navigation
- Mycology and evolutionary biology of mycorrhizal
- Systematics, taxonomy, ecology,, phylogeography, and evolution of fungi
- Phylogenomics/phylogenetics, metagenomics, comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics
- Ecological and evolutionary physiology
- Thermal biology
- Global change biology
- Ecological developmental biology
- Herpetology
- Development of macrolide-based microtubule stabilizing agents for the treatment of multi-drug resistant cancer
- Development of improved analogs of natural dietary products for the treatment of advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Parkinsonism dementia complex (ALS-PDC): Proteomic, electrophysiological and behavioral approach
- Interaction of specific proteins involved in the abnormal proteolytic processing in Alzheimer's disease
- Oxidative stress and transition metal ion homeostasis investigations in fruit flies as a model of aging
- Develop new reactions and strategies for organic synthesis.
- Free radical-mediated reactions
- Processes at the intersections of chemistry with biology and material science
- Role of instructional technologies to support enhanced student ownership and understanding
of scientific concepts
- Simulations
- Virtual laboratories
- Online science learning environments
- Other research interests:
- Curriculum development and evaluation
- Professional development of teachers
- Power dynamics in science classrooms
- Check out Dr. Donnelly-Hermosillo's website for current research projects!
- Judgement and decision making
- Risk communication and judgement
- Informal quantitative reasoning
- Social and health-related judgement
- Forgetting; Implicit inference (influences on forgetting that occur outside of awareness)
- Improving students' efficiency (applications of cognitive psychology psychology to note-taking procedures, test-taking strategies, and studying procedure)
- Perception of virtual reality
- Video gaming behavior
- Perception of spoken language
- Psycholinguistics
- Impact of context (i.e. housing, community, neighborhood, and culture) on children's development.
- Implicit focus on immigrant children and families
- Neuropsychology
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Prediction of cognitive impairment
- Memory and executive abilities, everyday functioning
- Aging, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia
Don't see a faculty mentor you would like to work with in this list? Any faculty member that actively does research on-campus within the College of Science and Mathematics or the Lyles College of Engineering can be a potential RISE faculty mentor! If you have questions, please email the RISE program coordinator, Candice Cortney, at chcortney@csufresno.edu for more information.