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.

Matt Anderson

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Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes

Alan Attie

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Biochemistry
Genetics & Genomics of Metabolic Disease and Response to Diet

Anjon Audhya

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of vesicle biogenesis and membrane transport during development

Andrew Bent

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Plant Pathology
Molecular/Genetic Mechanisms of Plant Disease Resistance

Barak Blum

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, genetics of type-1 and type-2 diabetes

Hao Chang

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Dermatology
Planar cell polarity in mammalian skin development and cancer

Qiang Chang

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Medical Genetics and Neurology
DNA methylation-dependent epigenetic regulation of brain functions

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

Emile Gluck-Thaler

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Plant Pathology
How fungi cause disease on animals and plants by integrating molecular genetics with evolutionary genomics and data science

Mary Halloran

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Integrative Biology
Neural development, axon transport, motors and cytoskeleton in neurons

Melissa Harrison

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Transcriptional regulation during development

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
Fungal pathogen biology, eukaryotic development and differentiation, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of infectious spore germination

Anna Huttenlocher

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Pediatrics
Cell migration, Wound repair, Inflammation

Tu-Anh Huynh

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Food Science
Bacterial signaling mechanisms, stress response, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis

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

Mark B. Meyer

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Nutritional Sciences
Vitamin D metabolism, inflammatory disease, genetic basis of disease, gene expression regulation, bioinformatics, genome-editing

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

Jason Peters

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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Roles of bacterial gene networks in antibiotic resistance and biofuel production

Ken Poss

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Models and mechanisms of tissue regeneration

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
Affiliate appointments in Life Science Communication and Art
Newly appreciated signaling organelle called the midbody (MB) and the midbody remnant (MBR)

Paul Sondel

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Pediatrics and Human Oncology
Antibody recognition of cancer cells in mice and in patients

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

David Wassarman

Credentials: Medical Genetics

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Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

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

Justin Wolter

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Medical Genetics
Genetic modifiers of neurodevelopment

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

Xinyu Zhao

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Neuroscience
Gene regulation of stem cells and brain development, autism spectrum disorders