Faculty studying disease biology
Reid Alisch
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Neurological Surgery
The role of epigenetics in human health and disease processes, particularly in relation to the origins of mental illness.
Anjon Audhya
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of vesicle biogenesis and membrane transport during development
Barak Blum
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, genetics of type-1 and type-2 diabetes
David Brow
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of transcription termination and pre-mRNA splicing in yeast
Qiang Chang
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Medical Genetics and Neurology
DNA methylation-dependent epigenetic regulation of brain functions
Lara Collier
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Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy
Genetic and pharmacological approaches in mouse models to study disease etiology and treatment
Kerri Coon
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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors
Katie Drerup
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Integrative Biology
Neuronal Cell Biology, Neurodegenerative disease, Neurodevelopment
Feyza Engin
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Diabetes and metabolic disorders, organelle dysfunction, stress responses, beta cell biology
Daniel S. Greenspan
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Genes important to vertebrate development and human disease
Aaron Hoskins
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Biochemistry
RNA splicing, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, RNA/protein complexes
Zhen Huang
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Neurology and Nueroscience
Neuron and glial cell fate specification and differentiation, cortical neuron migration, migration disorders
Christina Hull
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Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology
The goal of the Hull Laboratory is to understand how eukaryotic pathogen development and differentiation intersect with human disease. We take a hypothesis-driven experimental approach to discover the molecular mechanisms by which the model pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus reproduces and ultimately causes fatal meningitis. Students and post-docs in the lab are encouraged to work across disciplines to explore diverse aspects of biology to solve meaningful and challenging problems in biomedicine.
Akihiro Ikeda
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Medical Genetics
Identifying genes involved in aging, cell proliferation and neovascularization using mouse genetics
Nancy Keller
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Fungal genetics, fungal/bacterial interactions, mining fungal genomes for bioactive chemicals
Judith Kimble
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Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
Molecular regulation of germ line self-renewal and differentiation in C. elegans
Peter Lewis
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms of chromatin assembly, gene silencing, and epigenetic inheritance
Ci Ji Lim
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Biochemistry
Telomeres, chromatin structure-function relationship, protein-DNA interactions, molecular machines
Valentina Lo Sardo
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Cellular and Molecular Biology
Stem cell biology, reprogramming, cell fate determination, genetic risk factors for Cardiovascular disease and Cancer, genomics, transcriptomics, human specific genomic regions, evolution
Brian Parks
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Nutritional Sciences
Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.
Nicole Perna
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Genetics
Systems-scale evolutionary genomics of agriculturally, biomedically and industrially significant bacteria
Vatsan Raman
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Biochemistry
High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics
Steven Schrodi
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Medical Genetics
Human genomics of inflammatory diseases, statistical genetics, genetic architecture of diseases
David Schwartz
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Genetics and Chemistry
Discovery of fundamental molecular phenomena, which are harnessed within fully integrated systems for comprehensive genome analysis; creation of a cell-free system (“GenSyn”) for the direct fabrication of synthetic chromosomes, which adapt/advance micro- and nanofluidics technologies previously developed for genome analysis by the Schwartz group
Ahna Skop
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Genetics, Medical Genetics and Life Science Communications
Asymmetric cell division, cytokinesis, cell polarity & cell cycle genomics and proteomics
Paul Sondel
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Pediatrics and Human Oncology
Antibody recognition of cancer cells in mice and in patients
Michael Taylor
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School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
Regulation of CNS angiogenesis and barriergenesis
Randal Tibbetts
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Human Oncology
Genetic control of DNA replication and repair in mammals. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Daifeng Wang
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Gene regulatory networks, functional genomics, genotype-phenotype prediction, single-cell biology, brain disorders
Beth A. Weaver
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Cell and Regenerative Biology; Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Mitosis, Aneuploidy, Chromosomal instability, Cancer
Donna Werling
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Genetics
Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease
Jerry Yin
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Medical Genetics and Neurology
cAMP/PKA/dCREB2 signaling in sleep, memory formation, neurodegenerative diseases, developmental disabilities
Jing Zhang
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McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Cell signaling in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis