Jo Anne Powell-Coffman
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Position
- Professor
Dr. Powell-Coffman joined the ISU faculty in 1998. Her leadership roles have included serving as the GDCB Department Chair (2011-2018) and Associate Dean for Research in the LAS College (2019-2025). Awards have included the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Award for Diversity Enhancement (2011) and the ISU Award for Early Achievement in Departmental Leadership (2015). She was selected to be one of the Founding PULSE Leadership Fellows in 2012 (Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education; www.pulsecommunity.org).
Contact
Email
japc@iastate.edu
Phone
515-294-3906
3002 Advanced Teaching and Research Building
Ames
,
IA
50011-1079
Research Area
Area of Expertise
- Biomedical Research
- Developmental Genetics
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
Education
- B.S., University of California,Davis, 1986
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1993
Recent Publications (since 2020)
- Kang, P., et al (2025) NF-κB-mediated developmental delay extends lifespan in Drosophila. PNAS May 8, 2025 122 (19) e2420811122 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420811122
- Allen T, et al (2024) Building communities of practice among undergraduate STEM departments to foster emergent transformation: a report on the impact of multiple-year engagement within the PULSE Midwest and Great Plains Regional Network. CBE Life Sciences Vol 24 no 1 doi.org/10.1187/cbe.24-02-0042
- Feng D, Qu L, Powell-Coffman JA. (2024) Whole genome profiling of short-term hypoxia induced genes and identification of HIF-1 binding sites provide insights into HIF-1 function in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One. 2024 May 14;19(5):e0295094. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295094. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38743782
- Feng D, Qu L, Powell-Coffman J.A. (2024) Transcriptome analyses describe the consequences of persistent HIF-1 over-activation in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One. e0295093. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295093. PMID: 38517909
- Feng D, Zhai Z, Shao Z, Zhang Y, Powell-Coffman JA. (2021) Crosstalk in oxygen homeostasis networks: SKN-1/NRF inhibits the HIF-1 hypoxia-inducible factor in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One Jul 9;16(7):e0249103. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249103.
McHugh, M, Williams, P, Verma, S, Powell-Coffman, JA, Robertson, AP and Martin RJ (2020) Cholinergic receptors on intestine cells of Ascaris suum and activation of nAChRs by levamisole. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 13: 38-50.