Faculty Research
Research Faculty in Biomedical Sciences
Our program includes over 35 distinguished faculty with diverse research interests in: cancer, receptor biology, developmental disorders, drug design, chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease, vaccine development, parasitology, physiology, neurodegeneration, microbiology, biophysics and bioengineering.
Anvari, Bahman: Nanoelectromechanical characteristics of cell membranes, of outer hair cells within the cochlea, exogenous chromophores to enhance optical diagnosis and therapy of tissue malformations.
Atkinson, Peter: Developing transposons as human gene therapy agents, effects of chromatin structure (with lessons learned from invertebrate models).
Binder, Devin: Working to understand epilepsy, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury with specific focus on glial cell roles in nervous system disease, astrocyte biology and translational neurophotonics
Byus, Craig V: Molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation, particularly as this process relates to cancer.
Carson, Monica J: The role of microglia in the healthy and diseased central nervous system.
Disease focuses: multiple sclerosis, autism and CNS diseases of neuroinflammation and aging
Chair of Graduate Program and Graduate Advisor for Enrolled Students
Curras, Margarita C. : Glutamate receptors in the mammalian central nervous system: expression, function, and plasticity
Currie, Scott: Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of sensory motor processing in the spinal cord
Defea, Kathryn: How different G-protein coupled receptors can utilize protein scaffolding complexes to direct the subcellular localization, and thus the downstream effects, of MAPK activation.
Eastmond, David A: Mechanisms involved in the toxicology and carcinogenesis of environmental chemicals; use of molecular cytogenic techniques to detect chromosomal alterations in human populations exposed to chemicals
Ethell, Iryna: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of synapse development and plasticity.
Graduate Advisor for Admissions and Recruitment
Garland, Ted: Exercise physiology and metabolism from comparative, evolutionary, and genetic perspectives.
Huffman, Kelly: My research is focused on the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex. In my laboratory, I investigate the mechanisms involved in the development of the neocortex, specifically the establishment of discrete neocortical areas and the ‘wiring’ of the brain.
Johnson, David A: The development and the use of quantitative fluorescence spectroscopic methods to understand at a molecular level how drugs and proteins work.
Korzus, Edward: Spatiotemporal dynamics of neural information processing using genetic model systems in conjunction with functional imaging, biochemical, electrophysiological and behavioral analytic techniques
Larive, Cindy: Research interests are mainly in the area of bioanalytical chemistry with a focus on understanding ligand-protein interactions, tissue-targeted metabonomics and the development and application of hyphenated NMR experiments.
Le Roch, Karine: Understanding cell cycle and life cycle progression of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, throughout ubiquitin regulations.
Liao, Jiayu: High-throughput screening systems for novel G-protein coupled receptors, drug candidates for obesity and diabetes
Liu, Xuan: Mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription regulation, molecular basis of cell growth and cancer.
Lo, David: Study of the basic developmental biology of mucosal immune tissue, CD4 T cell homeostatic regulation, and the role of relB in the regulation of NF-kappaB activity and cellular differentiation.
Lytle, Christian Y.: Gastrointestinal fluid and electrolyte transport in health and disease.
Maduro, Morris: How different cells acquire different fates during development.
Martinez, Ernest: Characterization of the factors and molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene transcription by RNA polymerase II.
Martins-Green, Manuela: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of growth regulation in tumor development and wound healing.
Morikis, Dimitrios: Biomolecular Modeling and Design Lab, Immunophysics, complement and drug design
Pedra, Joao: The mechanisms of immunity and pathogenesis triggered by the tick-borne pathogen A. phagocytophilum.
Pirrung, Michael: The long-term goal of his research is to establish paradigms for the development of small molecule ligands for growth factor receptors and in so doing to develop orally active insulin mimetic drugs, based on the lead compound demethylasterriquinone B1 (DAQ B1).
Quinton, Paul: Abnormalities of fluid transport expressed in the genetic disease, cystic fibrosis.
Razak, Khaleel: Development of auditory and visual systems, traumatic brain injury.
Rodgers, Victor G. J.: Biomedical Engineering: Mathematical analysis of the transport phenomena and reaction kinetics of biological systems.
Saltzman, Wendy: Neuroendocrine causes and consequences of social behavior.
Sato, Noboru: Stem cell biology: focus on defining mechanism of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells and following nuclear somatic transfer in reprogramed adult cells
Schiller, Neal L.: Analysis of the microbial physiology, genetics, immunobiology and pathogenesis of several bacterial agents.
Schutz, Jerome: Biosensors; transport processes in tissues; pharmacokinetics; immobilized enzymes.
Shyy, John: To elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which fluid shear stress and mechanical stretch activate gene expression in cells in the cardiovascular system.
Stanley, B. Glenn: Brain mechanisms regulating eating behavior.
Straus, Daniel S.: Molecular mechanisms for regulation of mammalian gene expression.
Walker, Ameae: Growth factor activities of the hormone prolactin.
Wilson, Emma: Toxoplasma gondii: host-pathogen defense interactions in CNS and gastrointestinal disorders
Zanello, Laura: Steroid-regulated exocytosis in osteoblasts: Signaling pathways in bone formation.
