Laboratories

 

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Aimee Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Research in the Beaulieu Lab focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular signals that regulate immune responses by Natural Killer (NK) cells and “helper” Group 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s).

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Samantha Bell, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Host-pathogen interactions between macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)

Purnima Bhanot, Ph.D.

Purnima Bhanot, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Biology of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium

Raymond Birge, Ph.D.

Raymond Birge, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cellular actions of oncogenes and proto-oncogenes; Recognition and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells

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Theresa Liyun Chang, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Studies the mechanisms of mucosal determinants and sex hormones modulating viral infection, cancer and disease outcomes. 

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Alok Choudhary, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Infection and Inflammation.  

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Sylvia Christakos, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Mechanisms involved in the pleitropic actions of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3

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David Dubnau, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Studies DNA uptake during genetic transformation and the regulation of bacterial competence, sporulation and biofilms.

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Emanuel Goldman, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Accuracy and Efficiency of Protein Synthesis Elongation in Escherichia coli

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Utz Herbig, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Telomere induced Senescence in Cancer and Aging

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Pingping Hou, Ph.D..
Research Focus: Understand and overcome KRAS targeted therapy resistance, and develop myeloid cell therapy to treat pancreatic cancer.

David Kaback, Ph.D.

David B. Kaback, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Meiotic Pairing and Chromosome Segregation

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Hee-Sook Kim, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Molecular understanding of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative parasite of African sleeping sickness.

Kotenko, Ph.D.

Sergei Kotenko, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Study of cytokines, their receptors and biological activities

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Fred Kramer, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Design of nucleic acids whose functions enable the detection of target genes in assays whose results improve people’s health.

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Hong Li, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Proteomics and bioinformatics research

David Lukac, PhD

David Lukac, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Molecular host-virus interactions that regulate lytic reactivation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus from latency

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Carol Lutz, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Regulation of gene expression by post-transcriptional mechanisms

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Salvatore A.E. Marras. Ph.D.
Research Focus: Develops novel nucleic acid amplification assays and studies the properties of fluorescent nucleic acid hybridization probes.

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Veronika Miskolci, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Immunometabolism of inflammation and tissue repair

Matthew B. Neiditch

Matthew B. Neiditch, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Structural Biology of Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signal Transduction

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Alexandros Papachristodoulou, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Precision medicine, Prostate Cancer, Mitochondrial Biology, Oncogenetics, Pre-clinical cancer modeling.

Nikhat Parveen, Ph.D.

Nikhat Parveen, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Virulence factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

Vasileios Petrou, Ph.D.

Vasileios Petrou, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Structure-function relationship of membrane proteins

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Melissa Rogers, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cellular and molecular biology of BMP2

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Katsunori Sugimoto, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cell Cycle, DNA damage signaling, Checkpoint, Cellular signal transduction, telomere regulation, Cancer

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Carolyn Suzuki, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Regulation of mitochondrial genome stability and expression; Mitochondrial apoptosis

Ian P. Whitehead, Ph.D.

Ian P. Whitehead, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Signal Transduction and Oncogenesis

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Tania Wong, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Investigates host-pathogen interactions, focusing on how opportunistic airway pathogens manipulate host metabolic responses to evade immune clearance.

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Lok Yin Roy Wong, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Coronavirus biology, virus-host interaction and pathogenesis using novel models and approaches.

Jason H Yang, Ph.D.

Jason H. Yang, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Systems biology and synthetic biology of chronic and infectious diseases

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Chaoyang Xue, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cryptococcus neoformans; Virulence; Antifungal drug; Host signal sensing: Receptor