BIO 487: Research in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - Research Sponsors

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biochem Biochem & Cell Biol    micro Molecular Genetics & Microbio    pathol Pathology    surg Surgery
anesthes Anesthesiology   neuro Neurobiology & Behavior   pedia Pediatrics   ugbio Undergrad. Biol
cancer Cancer Center   obst/gyn Obstet, Gynecol & Repr Med   pharm Pharmacology      
chem Chemistry   oral bio Oral Biology & Pathology   pnb Physiol & Biophys      
medic Medicine   ortho Orthodontics & Pediatric Dent   psychol Psychology      

 
Faculty Sponsor   Course   Sect.   Dept.   Research Interests
    BIO 487   T01       TBD
 
Krug, Laurie   BIO 487   T02   MICRO    Molecular virology. Virus pathogens. Virus-host interactions. Herpesvirus latency. Innate & adaptive immunity 
Brown, Deborah   BIO 487   T03   BIOCHEM    Cholesterol/sphingolipid-rich domains in membrane signaling
Simmerling, Carlos   BIO 487   T04   CHEM    Computational Structural Biology
Li, Huilin   BIO 487   T05   BIOCHEM    Structure and function of large protein machines
Deutsch, Dale   BIO 487   T06   BIOCHEM    Uptake of endocannabinoids and neurobiochemistry/ cell biology of enzymes involved in their metabolism
Dean, Neta   BIO 487   T07   BIOCHEM    Protein glycosylation  
    BIO 487   T08       TBD
Neiman, Aaron    BIO 487   T09   BIOCHEM    The cell biology of sporulation in yeast  
Roemer, Elizabeth (email)   BIO 487   T10   OBST/GYN    Research coordinator for OB/GYN
Czaplinski, Kevin    BIO 487   T11   BIOCHEM    mRNA transport and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in the nervous system
Simon, Sanford   BIO 487   T12   BIOCHEM    Extracellular degradation by neutrophil proteases
Holdener, Bernadette   BIO 487   T13   BIOCHEM    Role of mesd in embryonic development and trafficking the low-density lipoprotein receptor family
    BIO 487   T14       TBD
    BIO 487   T15       TBD
Moloney, Daniel   BIO 487   T16   BIOCHEM    Biotechnology; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of model systems; Science Teacher Education
Ballas, Nurit   BIO 487   T17   BIOCHEM    Transcriptional repressor REST and corepressor CoREST in neural development. Molecular mechanism(s) underlying disorder Rett Syndrome (RTT)
O'Neal, Marvin 
(email)		   BIO 487   T18   UGBIO    UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY
Souza, Joanne   BIO 487   T19   UGBIO     
Simon, Marcia   BIO 487   T20   ORAL BIO    Development and production of cell based therapies for the treatment of partial and full thickness injury to oral, cutaneous and ocular surfaces; regulation of epithelial differentiation; retinoid and non-retinoid lipid metabolism in epithelial and mesenchymal cells
Thomsen, Gerald   BIO 487   T21   BIOCHEM    Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development 
Li, Ellen   BIO 487   T22   MEDIC    Bioinformatics; Colorectal Cancer; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Gene Expression; Microbial Pathogenesis; Gastroenterology; Biostatistics; Genetic Markers; Microbial Ecology; Systematic Biology
Citovsky, Vitaly   BIO 487   T23   BIOCHEM    Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Marcu, Kenneth    BIO 487   T24   BIOCHEM    Roles of NF- k B activating IKKs in innate and adaptive immunity and cancer; Mechanisms of action AID in antibody class switching
Hearing, Patrick   BIO 487   T25   MICRO    Human CNA tumor virus, adenovirus (Ad). Regulation of cell proliferation, gene expression, and host responses to virus infection
Grollman, Arthur   BIO 487   T26   PHARM    Molecular Carcinogenesis: Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Mutagenesis in Mammalian Cells 
van der Velden, Adrianus   BIO 487   T27   MICRO    The mammalian T cell response to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Erster, Susan (email)   BIO 487   T28   BIOCHEM    Cancer Biology; Genomics
Bingham, Paul   BIO 487   T29   BIOCHEM    Genetic control of development and gene expression in animals
London, Erwin   BIO 487   T30    BIOCHEM    Membrane protein structure and function
Ferguson, Fred   BIO 487   T31   ORTHO    Oral health concerns for pediatric and special needs patients, development of training protocols for health professionals 
Morrison, Sidonie   BIO 487   T32    MEDIC    Mechanisms of AIDS pathogenesis, including how host factors normally involved in the inflammatory response modulate infection of cells by HIV-1
Garcia-Diaz, Miguel    BIO 487   T33    PHARM    DNA Damage Repair, Mitochondrial Biology, Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research 
Demple, Bruce   BIO 487   T34    PHARM    Cellular Systems to Counteract Oxidative Damage 
Seeliger, Jessica    BIO 487   T35    PHARM    Membrane biosynthesis, structure & behavior in bacterial pathogenesis 
Reich, Nancy   BIO 487   T36   MICRO    Cytokines and Viral Defense
Hollingsworth, Nancy   BIO 487   T37    BIOCHEM    Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis  
Van Nostrand, William    BIO 487   T38    MEDIC    Alzheimer's Disease; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Hemorrhage; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Stroke
  
Bergamaschi, Robert   BIO 487    T39    SURG     
Gergen, J. Peter   BIO 487   T40   BIOCHEM    Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Haltiwanger, Robert   BIO 487   T41   BIOCHEM    Role of protein glycosylation in signal transduction and quality control 
Lyman, Harvard    BIO 487   T42    BIOCHEM    Photoregulation of Chloroplast Synthesis. Redox Regulation of Phototaxis  
    BIO 487   T43       TBD
Thanassi, David   BIO 487   T44    MICRO    Understanding mechanisms of virulence protein secretion by bacteria and the functions of secreted virulence factors within the host
Wimmer, Eckard   BIO 487   T45   MICRO    RNA viruses, particularly picornaviruses, whose prototype is poliovirus 
Delihas, Nicholas    BIO 487   T46        Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs. Annotation of genes. Repetitive sequences in intergenic regions in bacteria
Halegoua, Simon   BIO 487   T47   NEURO    Our lab has worked to dissect the signal transduction pathways for NT actions using a neuronal cell line, PC12, and in primary cultures of peripheral and central neurons from rat and mouse
Snider, Ashley   BIO 487   T48   MEDIC     
Brink, Peter   BIO 487   T49   PNB     
Karzai, Wali   BIO 487   T50   BIOCHEM    Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB•tmRNA quality control system 
Seeliger, Markus   BIO 487   T51   PHARM    Molecular Mechanism of Protein Kinase and Ubiquitin Ligase signaling in Cancer and Aging 
Takemaru, Ken-Ichi    BIO 487   T52   PHARM    Cell Signaling and Ciliogenesis in Mammalian Development, Health and Disease 
Spector, Ilan   BIO 487   T53   PNB    Electrophysiology of nerve and muscle cell lines; ion channels; neurotoxins 
Prives, Joav   BIO 487   T54    PHARM    Regulation of Surface Receptors in Muscle Cells 
Tsirka, Styliani-Anna   BIO 487   T55   PHARM    Neuro-immune interactions: Cross-talk between the nervous and immune systems in health and disease 
 
    BIO 487     T56       TBD 
 
 Yang, Jianchang   BIO 487     T57   SURG     
 
Wilson, Paul F.    BIO 487     T58        
 
Levine, Joel    BIO 487   T59   NEURO    The biology and functions of a unique class of glial cells known as oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), NG2-glia, or polydendrocytes
Colognato, Holly    BIO 487   T60    PHARM    Extracellular matrix in the brain: roles during development and during neurodegeneration 
Raleigh, Daniel     BIO 487   T61    CHEM    protein folding, protein structure and the mechanism of amyloid formation 
    BIO 487   T62        TBD
Aguirre, Adan    BIO 487   T63    PHARM    Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the transition of undifferentiated neural progenitor cells (“neural stem cells”) into specialized neural cells during normal development, and how these mechanisms function in pathological situations
Tonge, Peter    BIO 487   T64    CHEM    how proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands 
Fleit, Howard    BIO 487   T65   PATHOL    Leukocyte Fc receptors; granulocyte/macrophage growth and differentiation
Martin, Benjamin    BIO 487   T66   BIOCHEM    Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis 
Glynn, Steven    BIO 487   T67   BIOCHEM    Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria 
Canli, Turhan    BIO 487   T68   PSYCHOL    Neural and genetic basis of personality and emotion 
Benach, Jorge    BIO 487   T69   MICRO    Pathogenesis of spirochetal infections and their host responses
Benjamin, William    BIO 487   T70       EMERITUS 
Bogenhagen, Daniel    BIO 487   T71   PHARM    Mitochondrial Molecular Biology 
Luk, Edward    BIO 487   T72    BIOCHEM    Chromosome biology and genome regulation 
Smith, Steven O.   BIO 487   T73    BIOCHEM    Structure and function of membrane proteins 
Frohman, Michael    BIO 487   T74    PHARM    Lipid Signaling: Roles in mitochondrial biology, spermatogenesis, diabetes, immune function, the CNS, platelet activation, and cancer; - Imaging Pancreatic β-cells using metabolomics and MRI 
Furie, Martha    BIO 487   T75    PATHOL    Molecular mechanisms controlling the movement of leukocytes across the vessel wall, particularly in the context of bacterial infections. two bacterial illnesses, Lyme disease and tularemia 
Zong, Weixing    BIO 487   T76   MICRO    Study the molecular regulation of cancer cell death despite their impaired apoptosis machinery 
Jerath, Avinash    BIO 487   T77   PEDIA    lung surfactant biology and fetal lung development. Current research efforts are focused on regulation of lung surfactant secretion
Ghebrehiwet, Berhane    BIO 487   T78   MEDICINE    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Complement system with particular emphasis on the C1q receptors
Erezyilmaz, Deniz    BIO 487   T79   BIOCHEM    BIOCHEMISTRY 
Kaczocha, Martin   BIO 487   T80   BIOCHEM     
Hayman, Michael   BIO 487   T81   MICRO    Understand the regulatory mechanisms that control the proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of cells and how oncoproteins subvert these mechanisms to cause cancer. 
Rebecchi, Mario     BIO 487   T82   ANESTHES    Gene Regulation by Phosphoinositides, Ischemia and Reperfusion, Opiate Tolerance 
    BIO 487   T83       TBD
Kernan, Maurice    BIO 487   T84   NEURO    Our research combines Drosophila genetics, molecular biology and electrophysiology to investigate the cellular and molecular basis for the mechanical senses: touch, hearing and proprioception
Kew, Richard     BIO 487   T85   PATHOL    Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation; pulmonary immunopathology
Konopka, James    BIO 487   T86   MICRO    Molecular mechanisms regulating cell growth and development in yeast. In particular, the pathways that regulate the fungal pathogen Candida albicans during infection. Also comparative studies on the regulation of mating of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
Malbon, Craig     BIO 487   T87   PHARM    Signal Transduction in Differentiation and Development: Roles of Molecular Scaffold Molecules (e.g., AKAPs and Dishevelleds)
McKinnon, David    BIO 487   T88   NEURO    How do cellular electrophysiological systems evolve. To what extent does homeostatic regulation control ion channel expression in the adult
Miller, Todd    BIO 487   T89   PNB    Structure and function of enzymes involved in signal transduction 
Moll, Ute    BIO 487   T90   PATHOL    Tumor suppressor genes, the role of the p53/p73/p63 gene family in human cancer, transcription-independent mitochondrial apoptosis program of p53
Matmati, Nabil   BIO 487   T91   CANCER    CANCER CENTER
Gersch, Robert   BIO 487   T92   SURG    Studies elucidating the process of arteriogenesis and vessel formation in response to vessel blockage with specific focus on the role of the early growth response (Egr-1) gene as a master switch for this process in both mouse and rat in vivo. We continue to generate evidence demonstrating the necessity of this gene to overcoming occlusion in the arterial network, and are now embarking on novel preliminary studies relevant to this protocol.
    BIO 487   T93       TBD 
Sampson, Nicole   BIO 487   T94   CHEM    Relationship between protein structure and protein function and synthesizing chemical tools to probe and control biological function 
Scarlata, Suzanne   BIO 487   T95   PNB    Mechanisms through which G proteins activate effectors 
Spitzer, Eric   BIO 487   T96   PATHOL    Molecular biology of microbial pathogens
Steigbigel, Roy   BIO 487   T97    MEDIC    Mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocyte functions; macrophage function in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
 Bliska, James   BIO 487   T98    MICRO    Molecular mechanisms that underlie pathogenesis or host protection during host-microbe cell interactions. In particular, the activities of virulence factors that promote pathogenesis as well as trigger protective host innate and adaptive immune responses

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