Faculty
A
- Jeffrey Amack, PhD
Assistant Professor
Genetics and cell biology of organ morphogenesis during embryonic
development.
- David Amberg, PhD
Professor
Regulation of actin dynamics and analysis of genomic influences on actin function.
B
- Edward Berry, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biological energy transduction by membrane protein complexes, with emphasis on oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthesis.
- Scott Blystone, PhD
Associate Professor
Actin Cytoskeletal Dynamics in the leukocyte inflammatory phenotype.
C
- Blair Calancie, PhD
Professor
CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology.
- Peter Calvert, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of protein transport and localization in retinal neurons; mechanisms of retinal degenerative diseases
- Gary Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Human cytomegalovirus pathogenesis.
- Xin Jie Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Mitochondrial biogenesis and inheritance, aging and aging-related degenerative diseases.
- Michael Cosgrove, PhD
Associate Professor
Epigenetic regulation of chromatin, Mixed Lineage Leukemia, structural biology, enzymology.
- Richard Cross, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Bioenergetics, enzymology, structural biology, membrane protein function
D
- Timothy Damron, MD
Professor
Radioprotectant strategies: pediatric growth plate. Treatment of Fractures in Pathology Bone, Reconstructive Alternatives: Limb-Sparing Sarcoma Surgery, Genetics of Pagetoid Osteosarcoma
- Joseph Domachowske, MD
Professor
Pneumovirus pathogenesis.
- Dipak Dube, PhD
Professor
Molecular mechanism of cardiac myofibrillogenesis in vertebrates.
- Thomas Duncan, PhD
Associate Professor
Bioenergetics, enzymology, structural biology, membrane protein function.
- Russell Durkovic, PhD
Professor
Examination of processes underlying recovery from spinal cord injury in the salamander.
E
- Timothy Endy, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Understanding the epidemiology and pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic and encephalitic arboviruses and host-vector interactions.
F
G
- Vivian Gahtan, MD
Professor
Smooth muscle cell migration, thrombospondin, extracellular matrix-smooth muscle cell interactions, vascular surgery procedure outcomes
- Jerrie Gavalchin, PhD
Professor
Regulation of pathogenic antibody production in autoimmune glomerulonephritis; Cell-surface receptors for retroviruses
- Debashis Ghosh, MSc, PhD
Professor
Structure and function of enzymes in estrogen and androgen biosynthesis; rational design of enzyme modulators in hormonal breast and prostate cancers; characterization of interphotoreceptor retinol binding proteins.
- Stephen Glatt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
- Steven Goodman, PhD
Professor
Proteomic assessment of sickle cell severity.
H
- Steven Hanes, PhD
Professor
Gene expression in development and disease, RNA pol II regulation, homeobox genes, prolyl isomerases
- Sandra Hayes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Determining the roles of γδ T cell receptor structure and signaling potential in γδ T cell development and function
- George Holz, PhD
Professor
Drug development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Brian Howell, PhD
Assistant Professor
The signal transduction events that regulate the functional organization of neurons in the brain, and the phenotypes caused by defects in the genes that encode these signaling molecules.
- Huaiyu Hu, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular studies of brain malformations.
- Ying Huang, MD, PhD
Professor
Oncogenic signaling in cellular transformation and apoptosis; tumor suppressor genes.
- Ziwei Huang, PhD
Professor and Chair
Discovery and mechanism of action of new pharmacological agents for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, infectious disease, and stem cell-based regenerative medicine.
- Bihchen Hwang, DDS, PhD
Professor
DNA replication of herpes viruses.
J
K
- Patricia Kane, PhD
Professor and Chair
Vacuolar H+ATPases (structure, function, assembly and regulation), cellular pH homeostasis, cellular stress responses, protein sorting, genomics, yeast as a model system
- Wendy Kates, PhD
Professor
Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders
- William Kerr, PhD
Professor
Transplant immunology and stem cell biology.
- Dilip Kittur, MD
Professor
Xenotransplantation, Endothelial cell dysfunction, Use of herbal products in transplant biology
- Barry Knox, PhD
Professor and Chair
Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins
- Mira Krendel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physiological functions of myosin motors and their roles in diabetic kidney disease and cancer
- Andrzej Krol, PhD
Associate Professor
Advanced tomographic reconstruction in PET and SPECT. Breast cancer detection and imaging using molecular, MR and x-ray imaging. Nonrigid multimodality breast image registration and fusion. Advanced breast cancer lumpectomy. Ultrafast laser-based x-ray source for biomedical imaging. Advanced tomographic reconstruction in cone-beam micro-CT.
L
- Stewart Loh, PhD
Professor
Protein engineering, design, and folding
- Hong Lu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Gene regulation during liver development and carcinogenesis
Drug metabolism, cancer chemoprevention, and cancer therapy
- Juntao Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Nanomedicine, drug delivery, cancer imaging and cancer treatment; gene delivery and gene therapy, protein/peptide delivery. biomaterials in tissue engineering; combinatorial chemistry and drug discovery; High throughput screening; microarrays.
- Michael Lyon, PhD
Associate Professor
Age-related changes in the laryngeal muscles and vocal folds.
M
- Kenneth Mann, PhD
Professor
Micro-mechanics of implant interfaces; damage evolution of joint replacements and biomaterials; in vivo models of tumor osteolysis and prediction of fracture risk; general orthopedic biomechanics.
- Bryan Margulies, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Tumor/ adverse therapy effects on bone (fracture)
- Endochondral bone growth
- Cell migration and fate (MSC, osteoblast, adipocyte)
- Paul Massa, PhD
Professor
Regulation of cytokine-induced gene expression in oligodendrodcytes.
Regulation of innate immune responses in glial cells.
Unique control of NF-kappaB activation in neurons.
- Russell Matthews, PhD
Assistant Professor
Role of glycoproteins in oncogenesis and brain development
- James McCasland, PhD
Professor
Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex
- Frank Middleton, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular basis of cortical-basal ganglia and cortical-cerebellar circuit formation and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease.
- David Mitchell, PhD
Professor
Regulation of ciliary dynein activity and assembly, and the role of the central pair complex in ciliary motility regulation.
- Jennifer Moffat, PhD
Associate Professor
Varicella zoster pathogenesis.
- Golam Mohi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cell signaling, hematopoiesis and cancer biology
- Brad Motter, PhD
Voluntary Faculty
Visual Neurophysiology;
Visual Attention;
Visual Search Behavior
N
- Nancy Nussmeier, MD
Professor
Stroke after cardiac surgery, cerebral protection during cardiac surgery, gender-related surgical outcomes
O
- Megan Oest, PhD
Assistant Professor
Orthopedic tissue engineering; angiogenesis & graft/implant viability; fetal basis of adult disease; intrauterine stem cell programming.
- Eric Olson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex development.
P
- Andras Perl, MD, PhD
Professor
Genes and Viruses Predisposing to Autoimmunity, Genetics, Apoptosis, Endogenous Retroviruses, Transaldolase
- Arkadii Perzov, PhD
Professor
Biophysical mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias; fluorescence imaging.
- Francesca Pignoni, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurogenesis; Retinal Progenitor Cells Specification and Proliferation; Genetic Control of Stem Cell Identity and Maintenance; Disease Genes Analysis in Drosophila
- Thomas Poole, PhD
Associate Professor
Vascular development and the alignment of growing nerves and blood vessels in quail and zebrafish embryos.
- Dawn Post, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer treatment using oncolytic viruses and gene therapy
- Michael Princiotta, PhD
Assistant Professor
Antigen processing and presentation; Cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to viral and bacterial infections
- David Pruyne, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and cell biology of formins as actin cytoskeleton organizers, using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system.
R
- Rosemary Rochford, PhD
Professor and Chair
Etiology of viral-associated malignancies, gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis.
- Michael Roe, PhD
Associate Professor
The Roe laboratory studies signal transduction mechanisms that regulate pancreatic beta cell biology and the pathophysiology of diabetes.
S
- Jean Sanger, PhD
Professor
Analysis of the assembly of the actin/myosin cytoskeleton in muscle and non-muscle cells.
- Joseph Sanger, PhD
Professor and Chair
Cellular analysis of the formation of myofibrils, stress fibers, and cleavage furrows in living cells.
- Steven Scheinman, MD
Professor
Molecular genetics of nephrolithiasis and tubulointerstitial disease
- Mark Schmitt, PhD
Professor
Ribonucleoprotein assembly and biogenesis; mitochondrial RNA import, mRNA degradation, cell cycle control
- M Saeed Sheikh, MD, PhD
Professor
Apoptotic signal transduction and cancer biology.
- Edward Shillitoe, PhD
Professor
Gene therapy for cancer; Bacterial causes of obesity, diabetes and periodontal disease
- Allen Silverstone, PhD
Professor
How dioxins and estrogens and estrogenic compounds affect the immune system.
- Vladimir Sirotkin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of the actin cytoskeleton assembly and role of myosin-1 during endocytosis in fission yeast.
- Joseph Spadaro, PhD
Professor
Electromagnetic and mechanical regulation of bone physiology;
Bone density and osteoporosis;
Skeletal irradiation effects;
Biomaterials.
- Dennis Stelzner, PhD
Professor
CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity.
T
- Steven Taffet, PhD
Professor
Regulation of intercellular communication in the heart, gene expression during macrophage activation
- Daniel Tso, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques.
- Christopher Turner, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Regulation of cell migration by focal adhesion adapter proteins and their role in cancer cell metastasis.
V
- Mary Lou Vallano, PhD
Professor
Neuronal survival and development.
- Richard Veenstra, PhD
Professor
Regulation of connexin-specific-gap-junctions; gap junction channel biophysics.
- Andrea Viczian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mammalian retinal stem cells formation; molecular mechanism of retinal cell fate decisions; using cell replacement therapy to heal the blinded eye.
- Brent Vogt, PhD
Professor
Structure, functions, and pathologies of cingulate cortex.
W
Y
- Steven Youngentob, PhD
Professor
In utero ethanol and nicotine exposures and chemsensory systems plasticity, olfactory biomarkers of ADHD, olfactory signal transduction, peripheral and central mechanisms of odorant quality coding.
Z
- Michael Zuber, PhD
Assistant Professor
The molecular basis of retinal stem cell formation; regulating retinal stem/progenitor cell proliferation; using retinal stem/progenitor cells to heal the injured or degenerating retina.
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