Our program includes over 35 distinguished faculty with diverse research interests in cancer, receptor biology, developmental disorders, drug design, chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease, vaccine development, parasitology, physiology, neurodegeneration, microbiology, biophysics and bioengineering.
Altshuler, Douglas: The study of how animals fly.
Anvari, Bahman: Nanoelectromechanical characteristics of
cell membranes, of outer hair cells within the cochlea,
exogenous chromophores to enhance optical diagnosis
and therapy of tissue malformations.
Atkinson, Peter: Developing transposons as human gene
therapy agents, effects of chromatin structure (with
lessons learned from invertebrate models)
Byus, Craig V: Molecular mechanisms involved in the
regulation of cell growth and proliferation, particularly as
this process relates to cancer.
Carson, Monica J: The role of microglia in the
healthy and diseased central nervous system.
Curras, Margarita C.: Glutamate receptors in the
mammalian central nervous system: expression,
function, and plasticity
Currie, Scott: Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of sensory
motor processing in the spinal cord
Defea, Kathryn: How different G-protein coupled receptors
can utilize protein scaffolding complexes to direct the sub
cellular localization, and thus the downstream effects, of
MAPK activation.
Eastmond, David A: Mechanisms involved in the
toxicology and carcinogenesis of environmental
chemicals; use of molecular cytogenic techniques to
detect chromosomal alterations in human populations
exposed to chemicals
Ethell, Douglas W.: How brain cells die in disorders such
as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, diabetic neuropathy, and
Multiple Sclerosis.
Ethell, Iryna: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of
synapse development and plasticity.
Garland, Ted: Exercise physiology and metabolism from
comparative, evolutionary, and genetic perspectives.
Henry, Helen L: Molecular regulation of vitamin D steroid
metabolism, cytochrome P-450, and hormone signal
transduction systems.
Huffman, Kelly: My research is focused on the
development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex.
In my laboratory, I investigate the mechanisms involved
in the development of the neocortex, specifically the
establishment of discrete neocortical areas and the
‘wiring’ of the brain.
Johnson, David A: The development and the use of
quantitative fluorescence spectroscopic methods to
understand at a molecular level how drugs and proteins
work.
Korzus, Edward: Spatiotemporal dynamics of neural
information processing using genetic model systems in
conjunction with functional imaging, biochemical,
electrophysiological and behavioral analytic techniques
Larive, Cindy: Research interests are mainly in the area of
bioanalytical chemistry with a focus on understanding
ligand-protein interactions, tissue-targeted
metabonomics and the development and application of
hyphenated NMR experiments.
Le Roch, Karine: Understanding cell cycle and life cycle
progression of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium
falciparum, throughout ubiquitin regulations.
Liao, Jiayu: High-throughput screening systems for novel
G-protein coupled receptors, drug candidates for obesity
and diabetes
Liu, Xuan: Mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription
regulation, molecular basis of cell growth and cancer.
Lo, David: Study of the basic developmental biology of
mucosal immune tissue, CD4 T cell homeostatic
regulation, and the role of relB in the regulation of NF-
kappaB activity and cellular differentiation.
Lytle, Christian Y.: Gastrointestinal fluid and electrolyte
transport in health and disease.
Maduro, Morris: How different cells acquire different fates
during development.
Martinez, Ernest: Characterization of the factors and
molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene
transcription by RNA polymerase II.
Martins-Green, Manuela: Molecular and cellular
mechanisms of growth regulation in tumor development
and wound healing.
Morikis, Dimitrios: Biomolecular Modeling and Design Lab,
Immunophysics, complement and drug design
Pirrung, Michael: The long-term goal of his research is to
establish paradigms for the development of small
molecule ligands for growth factor receptors and in so
doing to develop orally active insulin mimetic drugs,
based on the lead compound demethylasterriquinone B1
(DAQ B1).
Quinton, Paul: Abnormalities of fluid transport expressed
in the genetic disease, cystic fibrosis.
Razak, Khaleel: Development of auditory and visual
systems, traumatic brain injury.
Rodgers, Victor G. J.: Biomedical Engineering:
Mathematical analysis of the transport phenomena and
reaction kinetics of biological systems.
Saltzman, Wendy: Neuroendocrine causes and
consequences of social behavior.
Sato, Noboru: Stem cell biology: focus on defining
mechanism of pluripotency in human embryonic stem
cells and following nuclear somatic transfer in
reprogramed adult cells
Schiller, Neal L.: Analysis of the microbial physiology,
genetics, immunobiology and pathogenesis of several
bacterial agents.
Schutz, Jerome: Biosensors; transport processes in
tissues; pharmacokinetics; immobilized enzymes.
Shyy, John: To elucidate the molecular mechanisms by
which fluid shear stress and mechanical stretch activate
gene expression in cells in the cardiovascular system.
Stanley, B. Glenn: Brain mechanisms regulating eating
behavior.
Straus, Daniel S.: Molecular mechanisms for regulation of
mammalian gene expression.
Walker, Ameae: Growth factor activities of the hormone
prolactin.
Wilson, Emma: Toxoplasma gondii: host-pathogen
defense interactions in CNS and gastrointestinal
disorders
Zanello, Laura: Steroid-regulated exocytosis in
osteoblasts: Signaling pathways in bone formation.
