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Michelle Arbeitman, Ph.D.Sex differences in development and behaviorArbeitman Lab
Pradeep Bhide, Ph.D.Developmental neuroscience, childhood onset movement disorders and cognitive disabilities of children and youth 
Ewa Bienkiewicz, Ph.D.Protein misfolding diseaseBienkiewicz Lab
Stephen Chelko, Ph.D.Cardiac genetic disorders and Sudden Cardiac DeathChelko Lab
Akash Gunjan, Ph.D.Role of histones in genome stability and cancerGunjan Lab
Jerome Irianto, Ph.D.Cancer mechanobiology and genomicsIrianto Lab
Mohamed Kabbaj, Ph.D.Epigenetics of social behaviors and neurobiology of sex differences in anxiety and depressionKabbaj Lab
Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D.Synaptic physiology underlying cortical function and epilepsyKumar Lab
Eric Laywell, Ph.D.Thymidine analogs as cancer therapeutics; neurogenesis and stem cell biology; cellular neurobiology 
Choogon Lee, Ph.D.Molecular basis for circadian rhythmsLee Lab
Cathy Levenson, Ph.D.Stem cells in Traumatic Brain Injury; reducing damage and improving outcomes 
Tim Megraw, Ph.D.Biology of centrosomes, centrioles and cilia impact In diseaseMegraw Lab
Jarrod Mousa, Ph.D.Antibody responses, both structurally and functionally, to natural infection and vaccination to develop new antibody therapeutics and epitope-focused vaccinesMousa Lab
Richard S. Nowakowski, Ph.D.Cell cycle and neurogenesis in the developing adult nervous system; genetics of individual variation in the brain of mouse and man 
Gary Ostrander, Ph.D.  
Jose Pinto, Ph.D.The regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle contraction in normal and pathological conditionsPinto Lab
Yi Ren, Ph.D. Macrophage function in cancer and CNS diseasesRen Lab
Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D.Neurodevelopment; Biomarkers and Biomonitoring of Chemical and Non-Chemical StressorsStanwood Lab
Branko Stefanovic, Ph.D.Molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosisStefanovic Lab
Zucai Suo, Ph.D.Biochemistry and biophysics of DNA replication, DNA repair, DNA lesion bypass, gene editing, and proteasomes; Exosomes, drug delivery, and drug discovery.Suo Lab
Robert J. Tomko Jr., Ph.D.Regulation of proteolysis in health, cancer, and infectious disease; multidisciplinary analyses of the ubiquitin-proteasome systemTomko Lab
Yue Julia Wang, Ph.D.Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of pancreatic endocrine cells in normal, diabetes, and other metabolic disordersJ Wang Lab
Yanchang Wang, Ph.D.Chromosome segregation regulation and the response to the expression of misfolded proteinWang Lab
Yuan Wang, Ph.D. Brain Development and Neurological DisordersY. Wang Lab
Yi Zhou, Ph.D.Molecular, biochemical and electrophysiological analysis of neuronal ion channel function