Laboratories

 

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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)

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Vivian Bellofatto, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Regulation of Gene Expression in Parasitic Protozoa

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

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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.

M. Zafri Humayun, Ph.D.

M. Zafri Humayun, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Fidelity of DNA Replication

Hieronim Jakubowski, Ph.D.

Hieronim Jakubowski, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Homocysteine in Protein Structure/Function andHuman Disease

David Kaback, Ph.D.

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

Kotenko, Ph.D.

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

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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

Matthew B. Neiditch

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

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

Jason H Yang, Ph.D.

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