Biochemistry and Cell Biology
| Faculty | Research Area(s) |
|---|---|
 Carolyn Adler |
Stem cell biology in planarian flatworms; organ regeneration; transcriptional and cell biological responses to tissue injuries; animal behavior - lab |
 Hector Aguilar-Carreno |
Entry, egress, and interactions of enveloped viruses with host cells, with emphasis on emerging paramyxoviruses, vaccine and antiviral strategies |
 Barbara A. Baird |
Structures and molecular mechanisms of cell surface immunoreceptors - lab |
 Nicolas Buchon |
Host/microbe relationships and control of intestinal stem cell behavior in homeostasis and disease - lab |
 Joshua Chappie |
Structural biology; biophysics; protein biochemistry; bacterial pathogenesis and defense systems; infection/agent; intracellular trafficking; nucleotide-driven molecular machines; molecular membrane remodeling; protein-nucleic acid interactions |
| Cellular and molecular medicine; developmental and reproductive biology; infectious diseases; population medicine and epidemiology; structural and functional biology - lab | |
 Theodore Clark |
Cutaneous immunity; host-parasite interaction; DNA vaccines; genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease |
 Paula E. Cohen |
Etiology of spontaneous birth defects in mammals; mechanisms of meiotic recombination; DNA repair proteins in meiosis and recombination; germ cell development; ovarian development - lab |
 Ruth Collins |
Pharmacology; cancer cell biology; small GTPase regulation of intracellular traffic and cellular growth control - lab |
 Bethany Cummings |
Use of mouse modeling, molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics approaches to understand the molecular underpinnings of cardiometabolic and gastrointestinal disease - lab |
 Charles Danko |
Medical genetics and genomics and cancer biology research |
 Matthew DeLisa |
Molecular biotechnology; protein biogenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering - lab |
 Tobias Doerr |
Cell envelope biology of Gram-negative pathogens; antibiotic resistance; tolerance and mechanism of action; microbial stress responses - lab |
 Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in B cell response; neonatal immunology and response to vaccination; immunomodulation using biologic response modifiers; cancer immunotherapy; characterization of primary and secondary immunodeficiencies - lab |
 Maria Garcia-Garcia |
Developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of developmental mechanisms that influence embryonic morphology - lab |
 Kei Hayashi |
Arthroscopy, total joint arthroplasty, biological approach to joint surgery, minimally invasive fracture treatment, and application of novel research discoveries (such as stem cell and regenerative medicine technologies) to clinical patients |
| Molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking in multicellular systems, in vivo imaging and CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering in C. elegans, protein biochemistry and structural biology of clathrin adaptor complexes - lab | |
 David Holowka |
IgE and T-cell antigen receptors; fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy - lab |
 Fenghua Hu |
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration - lab |
 Kelly Hume |
Cancer biology; veterinary oncology; clinical oncology; molecular oncology; DNA damage; chemosensitivity and novel therapeutics |
 Toshi Kawate |
Structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins that regulate extracellular signaling - lab |
 Kathleen Kelly |
Pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease; effects of inflammation on cardiac function; comparative pathology - lab |
 Natasza Kurpios |
Tissue morphogenesis; cell shape and architecture; organ development; gut morphogenesis; mammary gland biology; breast cancer - lab |
 Jan Lammerding |
Cellular biomechanics; mechanotransduction; cell migration; muscular dystrophy and cancer cell biology - lab |
 Cynthia Leifer |
Understanding innate immunity from the receptors that detect microbes to how innate immune cells react to changes in their environment during inflammatory processes - lab |
 David Lin |
Axon guidance; neurodevelopment; epilepsy; autism; genomics - lab |
 Hening Lin |
Protein post-translational modifications with a focus on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) dependent modifications and diphthamide - lab |
 Maurine Linder |
Regulation of cell signaling by protein lipidation |
 Sabine Mann |
Metabolic diseases and insulin signaling; nutrition; epidemiology; metabolic and nutritional immunology |
 Angela McCleary-Wheeler |
Companion animal models of cancer; hedgehog signaling; epigenetics; novel therapeutics |
 Shu-Bing Qian |
Translational control of gene expression; signaling pathways in stress response; protein quality control in metabolic diseases |
 Heidi Reesink |
Comparative and translational orthopedics; metabolism and musculoskeletal disease; osteoarthritis; regenerative medicine |
 Kristy Richards |
Immuno-oncology; monoclonal antibodies; genetic mechanisms of resistance; personalized medicine; comparative oncogenomics; novel therapeutic development |
 Luis Schang |
Role of cellular protein, lipids, and glycans play in viral infection |
 Carolyn Sevier |
Signaling of cellular oxidative stress; molecular mechanisms used by cellular pathways that sense and signal redox imbalances within the cell - lab |
 Ankur Singh |
Immune-engineering; cancer engineering; lymphoma and hematological malignancies; biomaterials; vaccine and immunotherapy; stem cell engineering; inflammation; micro-nano-bioengineering; cell mechanobiology - lab |
 Paul Soloway |
Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in mammals; Chromatin changes associated with neuropathy using single cell analyses - lab |
 Holger Sondermann |
Structural biology; cell signaling; biochemistry; biophysics - lab |
 Jeongmin Song |
Bacterial toxins; Salmonella Typhi; bacterial pathogenesis - lab |
 Anna Thalacker-Mercer |
Skeletal muscle metabolic and inflammatory dysfunction; muscle atrophy and hypertrophy in aging and disease; dynamics among amino acids, metabolites, and inflammation in the development of metabolic disease and sarcopenia - lab |
 Alexander J. Travis |
Comparative biology of male germ cells; signaling and metabolism of sperm during capacitation; organization of lipid raft membrane sub-domains in sperm; applications of technologies using reproductive stem cells for wildlife conservation - lab |
 Robert Weiss |
Molecular mechanisms for the maintenance of genomic stability; cellular responses to DNA damage; mouse models of human cancer - lab |
 Andrew C. White |
Cancer biology; stem cell biology; biochemistry and cell biology - lab |
 Gary R. Whittaker |
Role of nuclear import and export in influenza virus infection - lab |
 Mariana Wolfner |
Molecular and genetic mechanisms of reproductive processes, specifically functions and evolution of seminal proteins and (separately) mechanisms of egg activation and early embryogenesls - lab |
 Andrew Yen |
Leukemia; cell growth and differentiation; oncogenes/genetics - lab |
