Faculty listed alphabetically A - G - M - Z

Abe, Jun-ichi (Associate Professor of Medicine), The role of Bcr kinase in PDGF-mediated effects in vascular smooth muscle.

Bambara, Robert (Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics), DNA replication and expression.

Bi, Xin (Assistant Professor of Biology), Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes.

Bohmann, Dirk (Professor of Genetics), Mechanisms and functions of signal transduction and gene regulation in higher organisms.

Bottaro, Andrea (Assistant Professor of Medicine), Immunoglobulin gene recombination - B cell activation.

Bowers, William (Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology), Gene therapeutics and neurodegeneration.

Brookes, Paul (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and of Pharmacology and Physiology), New insights into mitochrondrial pathology.

Bulger, Michael (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics), Chromatin domains and long-range activation by enhancer.

Butler, Scott (Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology), Mechanism and function of mRNA polyadenylation in eukaryotic cells.

Dickerson, Ian (Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy), Molecular mechanisms of G protein-mediated signal transduction.

Dumont, Mark (Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Signal transduction; membrane protein structure, yeast molecular biology.

Eickbush, Thomas (Professor Biology), Retrotransposable elements, protein: RNA and protein: DNA interactions, sequence specific endonucleases.

Fay, Philip (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Enzymology of blood coagulation; factor VIII structure/function.

Frelinger, John (Professor of Microbiology & Immunology), Molecular genetics of immune response, tumor immunotherapy.

Fujiwara, Keigi (Professor of Medicine in the Center for Cardiovascular Research), Molecular mechanisms of mechano-signaling and response by epithelial cells.

Goldfarb, David (Professor of Biology), Cell biology, genetics, and molecular genetics; the mechanism of nucleocytoplasmic and related processes.

Gorbunova, Vera (Assistant Professor of Biology), Mechanisms of aging and the role of DNA repair and genomic instability in the aging process.

Gorovsky, Martin (Rush Rhees Professor of Biology), Function of histones in chromatin; Tubulin genes and microtubule diversity.

Grayhack, Elizabeth (Research Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Transcription regulation of yeast cell cycle regulated genes by Mcm1, signal transduction.

Grossfield, Alan (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation.

Hagen, Fred (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics in the Center for Oral Biology), Glycobiology, O-glycosylation, role of O-Linked glycoproteins in development.

Hayes, Jeffrey (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Protein-DNA interactions in chromatin.

Hinkle, Patricia M. (Associate Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology; Professor of Oncology in Pharmacology and Physiology), Signal transduction; calcium regulation; molecular endocrinology.

Jiang, Rulang (Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics in the Center for Oral Biology), Molecular genetic basis of craniofacial development and birth defects.

Jordan, Craig (Associate Professor of of Medicine), Characterization and targeting of cancer stem cells in the hematopoietic system.

Kielkopf, Clara (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Structural and Biophysical Basis of Normal and Disease-Associated pre-mRNA Recognition.

Land, Hartmut (Robert and Dorothy Markin Professor and Chair of Biomedical Genetics ), Molecular basis of multi-step carcinogenesis.

Li, Willis (Associate Professor of Genetics), Signal Transduction and Epigenetic Regulation.

Maines, Mahin (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Heme oxygenases and second messenger gases: CO and NO.

Maquat, Lynne (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), RNA metabolism in mammalian cells; Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (mRNA surveillance); Influence of pre-mRNA splicing on mRNA translation.

Mathews, David (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), RNA secondary structure prediction.

Mayer-Proschel, Margot (Associate Professor of Genetics), Biological and molecular mechanisms governing precursor cell division, differentiation and survival in the brain.

McGrath, James L. (Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering), Cell mechanics and motility, endothelial monolayer function, actin-based motility of pathogens.

Munger, Joshua (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics), Viral mechanisms of metabolic network manipulation.

Nehrke, Keith (Assistant Professor of Medicine), Integrative physiology in the nematode C. elegans.

Noble, Mark (Professor of Genetics), Stem cell biology, regeneration in the central nervous system, redox modulation of precursor cell function, developmental disorders, brain tumor biology and adverse effects of chemotherapy of neural stem cell populations.

Pearce, David (Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Yeast and mouse models for the study of human disease.

Phizicky, Eric (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), tRNA splicing; RNA-protein interactions; protein phosphateses; signal transduction; genomics; yeast.

Portman, Douglas (Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics), Neuronal development in the nematode C. elegans.

Rahman, Irfan (Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine), Oxidant and cigarette smoke-mediated glutathione regulation, lung inflammation and COPD.

Sherman, Fred* (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Yeast molecular biology and genetics; gene expression; cytochrome c biosynthesis and degradation.

Sia, Elaine (Associate Professor of Biology), Mutagenesis and repair of the mitochondrial genome.

Smith, Harold (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), The role of mRNA editing in health and disease.

Smrcka, Alan (Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology), Molecular basis of signal transduction by G proteins.

Sun, Yin (Assistant Professor of Genetics), TGF-ß regulation of proliferation and differentiation.

Thornton, Charles (Associate Professor of Neurology) Neurodegenerative disorders.

Turner, Doug (Professor of Chemistry), RNA Folding; therapeutics targeting RNA; prediction of RNA structure from sequence.

Wedekind, Joseph (Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), Crystallographic analysis of small ribozymes & RNA editing proteins.

Yoon, Yisang (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology), Cell biology of mitochondria: Regulation of mitochondrial dynamics.

Yu, Yi-Tao (Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics), RNA modification, pre-mRNA splicing, snPNP biogenesis.

Zhao, Jiyong (Assistant Professor of Genetics), Cellular poliferation and eukaryotic cell cycle progression.

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