Faculty
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Professor of Surgery (Research), Department of Surgery
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Professor, Department of Neuroscience
+1 401 863-3126
Research Area(s): Development; NeurogeneticsResearch interests: Molecular biology and mouse genetics in the mapping and characterization of neuronal circuits used by the brain for the processing of olfactory information
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Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
401-863-6341
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Host-Pathogen InteractionsResearch Interests: Biology of the human pathogen Candida albicans; mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis
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Professor, Department of Orthopedics
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch interests: Cartilage and bone development; orthopedics.
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Professor of Medical Science (Research), Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development -
Associate Professor, Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Her group studies cell biophysical properties that regulate cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in cancer. Her current work is largely focused on studying the role of aging and therapy induced changes in the tumor microenvironment on cancer progression.
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Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Gaining insight into the functions of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), an enzyme that performs important roles in phosphorylation circuits governing growth, morphogenesis and cell fate.
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Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Understanding mechanisms of neonatal lung injury and repair
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Professor of Medical Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Fundamental mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in mammalian development and human disease.
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Research)
Kilguss Research Institute Room 108
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Development; Protein DynamicsResearch Interests: Ovarian development and function, female reproductive health, oncofertility
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Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological disease, sensory signaling, sleep, and fatigue.
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Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Understanding the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying aging and longevity using the model system, Drosophila melanogaster.
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Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain wiring
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Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Mark's laboratory is focused on understanding the molecular basis for cellular communication. They focus on flowering plant reproduction because this process is essential for agricultural productivity and because it relies on an elaborate dialogue between experimentally tractable cells.
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Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research Area(s): Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: We investigate how memories for appetitive stimuli are encoded in the brain and how drugs of abuse affect the molecular pathways in these circuits to result in aberrant motivational response. We combine genetics, behavior, in vivo imaging in behaving animals, molecular biology and biochemistry to address this.
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Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: My research program is aimed at the understanding of the pathogenesis of cardiac arrhythmias.
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Associate Professor (Research), Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development -
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Director, Computational Biology Graduate Program
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Computational Biology; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Sex differences in aging, coordinated regulation of synaptic genes, computational biology
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Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; Host-Pathogen InteractionsResearch Interest: My role in basic and clinical research has largely derived from my position as Director of the Molecular Biology Core in the Section of Pulmonary Medicine.
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Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Basic and translational research on pediatric epilepsy
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Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Sidney Frank Hall 168/171
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus on autism.
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Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Mechanisms of immune-mediate vascular remodeling focusing of areas where macrophages direct the biologic processes of arteriogenesis, vascular calcification, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Mencoff Family Professor of Biology , Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Professor of Brain Science, Carney Institute for Brain Science
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: Normal molecular mechanisms of brain development, and genetic perturbations that underlie disorders of human cognitive development.
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Professor of Biomedicine, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Development; Protein DynamicsResearch Interests: RNA; Development; RNA-protein dynamics
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Associate Professor of Medical Science, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Understanding signal transduction events using fluorescent microscopy in living cells.
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Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: How neurons build synaptic connections that reliably control behavior while maintaining the ability to modulate their function over a lifetime of new experiences and environments.
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Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; DevelopmentResearch Interests: How the mitochondrial genome and its interactions with the nuclear genome influence animal performance, evolutionary fitness, and aging; how thermal selection influences the genetic composition of populations.
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Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: We are interested in evolution of brain function and behavior. Our primary model system is Drosophila, the fruit fly, for its powerful traditional and molecular genetics. Our main question is - how do genomes encode and regulate proteins involved in rapid electrical and chemical signaling in the brain, normally and in disease?
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Professor of Biology, DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR, CELLULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Understanding the biology of aging at the cellular level: the epigenetic regulation of cellular senescence, genome-wide surveillance of transposable elements, and the role of c-Myc in aging.
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Professor (Research), Department of Pediatrics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Area(s): DevelopmentResearch Interest: Human and pre-clinical models and therapeutic options for pregnancy complications.
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Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Genetic analysis of Drosophila to understand how insulin/IGF signals and lipid hormones regulate aging, and how these endocrine signals interact with nutrition.
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Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Reproduction
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Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Development; NeurogeneticsResearch Interests: How signaling molecules facilitate the communication between cells.
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Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research)
Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; DevelopmentResearch Interests: The functional contributions of germ line molecules in the somatic lineages during the process of developmental reprogramming and regeneration.