University of Memphis
Memphis, TN·Public
3 labs on PI Pages. It spends $109M a year on research and awards 180 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 25,221: 19,263 undergraduates, 5,958 graduate
- Postdocs
- 32
- Faculty
- 896 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Gary Stinchcomb
Earth & Environmental Science
Map plant-essential nutrients such as phosphorus, calcium and potassium in modern and fossil soils using micro X-ray fluorescence (µ-XRF), a nondestructive X-ray chemical imaging method.
Brandt Pence
Microbiology & Immunology
Investigate how dysfunction of mitochondrial complex I, the first enzyme in the cell's energy chain, impairs inflammatory responses in monocytes from older adults, using human and mouse experiments.
Duane McKenna
Ecology & Evolution
Reconstruct the first comprehensive phylogeny of longhorned beetles using more than 500 nuclear genes from over 600 species, collected by anchored hybrid enrichment sequencing and supported by genomes of key species.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.