Mentors in Chromatin Structure and Gene Activity

Last Name Index (A - Z ) A B D E F G H K L O P S T W 
David  T.  Auble,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription Initiation and DNA Repair
Stefan  Bekiranov,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks
Ann  L.  Beyer,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Ribosomal RNA transcription & processing
Anindya  Dutta,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
DNA Replication and Genomic Instability in Cancer Cells
Daniel  A.  Engel,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Drug discovery and molecular biology of influenza; Adenovirus transcriptional regulation.
Charles  R.  Farber,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Research Interests:
Genetics of complex disease, with an emphasis on osteoporosis and obesity; Genetics of gene expression; Systems biology of complex disease; Mouse models of complex disease
Daniel  R.  Foltz,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Assembly and Function of Centromeric Chromatin
Patrick  A.  Grant,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Transcription; Chromatin Modifications
Joyce  L.  Hamlin,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Control of Mammalian Chromosomal DNA Replication, and DNA Damage, Repair and Genetic Instability in Cancer
Melissa  A.  Henriksen,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, Cancer Stem Cells; Molecular Mechanisms of Gene Expression, STAT Signaling Pathway.
Joel  W.  Hockensmith,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Chemistry and Biology of Nucleic Acids; DNA-Dependent ATPase Mechanisms; DNA-Protein Interactions
Sepideh  Khorasanizadeh,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Biophysical Characterization of Epigenetic Signaling
Jae  K.  Lee,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences

Research Interests:
Genomic expression-based personalized chemotherapeutic response prediction; Integrative pathway modeling on atherosclerosis and cancer immunogenicity; Discovery of chemosensitivity biomarkers and novel chemotherapeutic compounds.
Gary  K.  Owens,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Molecular Control of Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation
William  R.  Pearson,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Glutathione S-Transferases; Protein Evolution; Computational Biology
Lucy  F.  Pemberton,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Nuclear Transport in Chromatin Assembly and Transcriptional Regulation
Ira  G.  Schulman,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Research Interests:
Regulation of transcription by nuclear hormone receptors, transcriptional control of metabolism, atherosclerosis, Small molecule approaches to drug discovery.
Jeffrey  S.  Smith,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Transcriptional Silencing and Aging in Yeast
M.  Mitchell  Smith,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Functional Genomics of Histones, Chromatin, and Protein Acetylation Signaling in Cancer and the Cell Cycle
Michael  P.  Timko,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Gene regulation during host-parasite interaction
W.  Michael  Wormington,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Regulation of miRNA Processing and Function During Oogenesis and Embryogenesis
David  Wotton,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Regulation of Gene Expression and Development by Transcriptional Repressors