Graduate School Bulletin

FACULTY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY MASTERS OF SCIENCE PROGRAM

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Michael Airola – Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes

Ivet Bahar,- Bridging Structure and Function, via Dynamics

Paul M. Bingham - Genetic control of development and gene expression in animals

Vitaly Citovsky - Nuclear targeting and intercellular communication in plants

Neta Dean - Glycosylation; fungal pathogenesis

Peter Gergen - Gene expression and development in Drosophila

Steven Glynn - Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria 

Kathryn Gunn- Spatiotemporal regulation of metabolic enzymes 

Bernadette C. Holdener - Genetic regulation of early mammalian development

Nancy Hollingsworth - Meiotic synapsis, recombination, and segregation in yeast

Chi-Kuo Hu -Biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism

Jonathan Nelson - Repetitive DNA Maintenance in germ cell immortality

Wali Karzai - Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB•tmRNA quality control system 

Benjamin Lin - Cell dynamics and motility.

Erwin London - Membrane protein structure/translocation/folding

Ed Luk - Chromosome biology and genome regulation

Benjamin Martin - Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis

David Q. Matus - Evolutionary, cell and developmental biological approaches to studying nematode uterine-vulval attachment and morphogenesis

Aaron Neiman - Vesicle trafficking and membrane/cytoskeletal interactions

Dada Pisconti - Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans

Stuti Sharma- Structural Biology and membrane biology

Gerald H. Thomsen - Growth factors /signal transduction in early vertebrate development

Department of Anesthesiology

Martin Kaczocha - Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.

Department of Chemistry

Elizabeth Boon - Nitric oxide regulation of quorum sensing and biofilm formation in bacteria

Isaac Carrico

David Green- Affiliated Assistant Professor. Computational biology of protein interactions.

Peter Tonge - Spectroscopic insights into enzyme mechanisms and structure

Scott Laughlin -. Chemical neuroscience. Design and application of optical probes for imaging neural circuitry. 

Department of Medicine

Yusuf Hannun - Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics

Richard Lin - Kinase signaling and cell proliferation

Cungui Mao - Bioactive sphingolipids in cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, and autophagy

William Van Nostrand - Vascular functions of Alzheimer's disease amyloid beta-protein

Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Nicolas Carpino - Positive and Negative Regulation of T cell Receptor Signaling

Bruce Futcher - Cell cycle, cyclins, and yeast genetics

Patrick Hearing - Adenovirus regulation of cellular proliferation and gene expression; adenovirus vectors for human gene therapy

James Konopka - Signal transduction, morphogenesis and genetics of pathogenic fungi

Erich R. Mackow - Viral Pathogenesis, Regulation of Innate Immunity, Hantavirus, Dengue Virus and Rotavirus Regulation of Cell Signaling Responses, miRNAs and Endothelial cell functions.

Nancy Reich - Cytokine and Innate Immune Responses

Brian Sheridan - Mucosal Immunology, T cell memory, Vaccine design, Host-pathogen interactions

David Thanassi - Secretion of virulence factors by bacterial pathogens; pilus biogenesis by uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Adrianus. W.M. van der Velden - Infectious Diseases Immunology; Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens; Bacterial Immune Subversion

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Maurice Kernan - Molecular basis of mechanical senses

Howard Sirotkin - Genetic and molecular analysis of early vertebrate development

Lonnie Wollmuth - Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission

Department of Oral Biology and Pathology

Department of Pathology

Jiang Chen - Skin and hair follicle development, maintenance and malignancy

Jingfang Ju - Post-transcriptional control of non-coding RNAs and RNA binding proteins in cancer

Richard R. Kew - Leukocyte chemotaxis/inflammation

Yupo Ma - Stem cell reprogramming and therapy, genome engineering, blood and marrow transplantation

Kenneth Shroyer - Cancer biomarkers as diagnostic adjuncts in cervical pathology and cytopathology; cervical cancer and HPV

Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Adan Aguirre - Stem cell biology in the central nervous system and neurobiology in health and disease

Christopher Brownlee -(Aging, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Chemical Biology, Lipid Biology, Mitochondrial Biology, Neuropharmacology, Signaling, Stem Cells)

Molecular mechanisms of spindle orientation, ciologenesis, polarity, cytokinesis and axonogenesis.

Holly Colognato - Extracellular matrix in the brain; roles during development and during neurodegeneration.

Michael A. Frohman - Lipid signaling pathways in immune responses, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Miguel Garcia-Diaz - Genetic Toxicology/Mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression

Chioma Okeoma (Cancer, Infectious Diseases) Mechanisms of virus-host and tumor-host interactions

Jessica C. Seeliger - We are applying biochemical, microbiological and biophysical methods to fundamental questions in bacterial membrane biogenesis as they relate to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and to bacterial pathogenesis in general.

Markus Seeliger - Mechanism of Protein kinases and Ubiquitin Ligases in Cancer and Aging

Ken-Ichi Takemaru - Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease

Dongyan Tan (Cancer, DNA Damage Repair) Structure and function of macromolecules in epigenetic regulation

Styliani-Anna Tsirka - Neuronal-microglial interactions in the central nervous system

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Mark Bowen - Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds

Todd Miller - Tyrosine phosphorylation and signal transduction

Thomas White - Molecular biology and physiology of gap junction channels