Faculty Directory – Molecular and Structural Biology
Faculty Name | Department | Research Topics |
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Steve Ackerman | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Eosinophil effector functions in inflammation and tissue remodeling in asthma and allergy, regulation of eosinophil development. |
Elizaveta Benevolenskaya | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | The role of tumor suppressor pRB in differentiation through epigenetic mechanisms such as regulating histone demethylases. |
Marlene Bouvier | Microbiology and Immunology | Our research activities are focused on the cell biology, immunology, and structural biology of class I MHC molecules |
Michael Caffrey | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Biophysical Studies of Virus Entry |
Konstantinos Chronis | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Molecular mechanisms controlling cell pluripotency and specification |
Alan M. Diamond | Pathology | Role of selenium containing proteins in prostate cancer risk and outcome |
Dawood Darbar | Cardiology | The assessment and management of patients with inherited heart rhythm disorders, including long QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome. |
Xiaoping Du | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion, migration, signaling; platelets, thrombosis, inflammation; develop new drugs |
Maxim Frolov | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Transcriptional programs controlled by the Retinoblastoma and Hippo pathways |
Vadim Gaponenko | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
Nissim Hay | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Metabolomics and signaling |
Andrei Karginov | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Protein engineering and synthetic biology, Cell-cell interactions and cell migration |
Amy L. Kenter | Microbiology and Immunology |
Jiyeon Kim | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Metabolic reprogramming in disease |
Shafi Kuchay | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of protein degradation at cellular membranes via ubiquitylation |
Arnon Lavie | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
Alexander Mankin | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Molecular mechanisms of protein synthesis, Mechanisms of antibiotic action and resistance, Synthetic biology/ribosome engineering |
Brad Merrill | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, Wnt Signaling, Stem Cell Biology, and Synthetic Biology |
Gary Mo | Pharmacology | Visualization of compartmentalized live cell signaling at super-resolution. Imaging of complex tissue biochemical interplay in living organisms |
Toru Nakamura | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of telomere maintenance mechanism |
Christian J Peters | Anatomy and Cell Biology | The Peters lab is interested in the mechanisms by which the function, regulation and cellular distribution of neuronal ion channel proteins regulates nicotine seeking and avoidance behaviors. |
Mrinalini C. Rao | Physiology and Biophysics |
Pradip Raychaudhuri | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | The Forkhead box family of transcription factors in human disease |
Jalees Rehman | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
Stem cell biology, organoid models of disease, viral and bacterial infections, innate immune responses, genomics, bioinformatics, blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease
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Nava Segev | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of Intracellular Trafficking by Molecular Switches |
Sojin Shikano | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
Angela Tyner | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Tyrosine kinase signaling in normal tissues and disease |
Xiaowei Wang | Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, Bioengineering | miRNAs are small noncoding RNAs that regulate thousands of genes. We combine computational and experimental methods for integrative analysis of miRNA functions |