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 - lab |
 Barbara A. Baird |
Structures and molecular mechanisms of cell surface immunoreceptors - 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 |
 Robin Dando |
Taste and sensory science, the biology of how we perceive foods, obesity and metabolic diseases – lab |
| Investigating mitochondria as a link between cartilage trauma and osteoarthritis to understand how joint injury leads to arthritis in horses and humans | |
 Maria Garcia-Garcia |
Developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of developmental mechanisms that influence embryonic morphology - lab |
 Kei Hayashi |
Pathology of ligament/tendon injury and wound healing; evaluation of total joint replacement systems; molecular profiling of osteoarthritis; comparative orthopedics and sports medicine |
 David Holowka |
IgE and T-cell antigen receptors; fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy - 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 |
| Aims to better understand the signal transduction events that occur following engagement of the T cell antigen receptor; study more globally the molecular events important for immune cell development, differentiation and function | |
 Natasza Kurpios
|
Tissue morphogenesis; cell shape and architecture; organ development; gut morphogenesis; mammary gland biology; breast cancer - 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 |
 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 - lab |
 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 |
 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 |
 Gary R. Whittaker |
Role of nuclear import and export in influenza virus infection - lab |
 Andrew Yen |
Leukemia; cell growth and differentiation; oncogenes/genetics - lab |
