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| Faculty Profile | Research Areas | Primary Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Michelle Arbeitman, Ph.D. | Sex differences in development and behavior | Arbeitman Lab |
| Pradeep Bhide, Ph.D. | Developmental neuroscience, childhood onset movement disorders and cognitive disabilities of children and youth | |
| Ewa Bienkiewicz, Ph.D. | Protein misfolding disease | Bienkiewicz Lab |
| Michael Blaber, Ph.D | Protein engineering & enzymology with application to angiogenesis & inflammation | Blaber Lab |
| Cardiovascular adaptations to aging and exercise training, especially adaptations of the microcirculation in the heart and skeletal muscle that occur with aging | Delp Lab | |
| Jose Diaz, Ph.D. | ||
| Gail Galasko, Ph.D. | Role of inositolphosphoglycans in cell signaling | |
| Akash Gunjan, Ph.D. | Role of histones in genome stability and cancer | Gunjan Lab |
| Jamila Horabin, Ph.D. | Long non-coding RNAs, RNA silencing and chromatin modifiers in regulating Drosophila sex determination | Horabin Lab |
| Jerome Irianto, Ph.D. | Cancer mechanobiology and genomics | Irianto Lab |
| Myra Hurt, Ph.D. | Molecular regulation of the cell division cycle | Hurt Lab |
| Mohamed Kabbaj, Ph.D. | Epigenetics of social behaviors and neurobiology of sex differences in anxiety and depression | Kabbaj Lab |
| Yoichi Kato, Ph.D. | The role of notch signaling in ciliogenesis and early neural development | Kato Lab |
| Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D. | Synaptic physiology underlying cortical function and epilepsy | Kumar 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 rhythms | Lee 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 disease | Megraw Lab |
| David Meckes, Ph.D. | Molecular pathogenesis of Epstein-Barr Virus-associated cancers | Meckes 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 | |
| James Olcese, Ph.D. | Neuroendocrine chronobiology and reproductive neuroscience | Olcese Lab |
| Gary Ostrander, Ph.D. | ||
| J. Michael Overton, Ph.D. | Energy homeostasis, obesity and hypertension | |
| Jose Pinto, Ph.D. | The regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle contraction in normal and pathological conditions | |
| Yi Ren, Ph.D. | Macrophage function in cancer and CNS diseases | Ren Lab |
| The developmental basis of mental health disorders | Stanwood Lab | |
| Branko Stefanovic, Ph.D. | Molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosis | |
| Robert J. Tomko Jr., Ph.D. | Regulation of proteasome assembly and function in health and disease; design principles governing assembly of multiprotein complexes | Tomko Lab |
| Yue Julia Wang, Ph.D. | Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of pancreatic endocrine cells in normal, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders | J Wang Lab |
| Yanchang Wang, Ph.D. | Chromosome segregation regulation and the response to the expression of misfolded protein | Wang Lab |
| Yuan Wang, Ph.D. | Brain Development and Neurological Disorders | Y. Wang Lab |
| Yi Zhou, Ph.D. | Molecular, biochemical and electrophysiological analysis of neuronal ion channel function |