Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program Members

Joyce L. Hamlin, Ph.D., Program Leader

Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Chromosome replication, gene amplification, S-phase damage-sensing checkpoints

Paul N. Adler, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Genetics of cell polarity and relationship to tissue structure and uncontrolled growth

David T. Auble, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Chromatin remodeling and DNA repair in cancer

Stefan Bekiranov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks 

Ann L. Beyer, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology

Ribosome biogenesis and its up-regulation in cancer; action of camptothecin on rRNA synthesis

Daniel J. Burke, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

The mitotic spindle checkpoint and its deregulation in cancer

Patrick J. Concannon, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Cellular DNA damage responses; Breast cancer genetics; Genetics of type 1 diabetes

Anindya Dutta, Ph.D.

Harry Flood Byrd Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

G1-S transition in cancer cells and mis-regulation in cancer; regulation of chromosomal replication.

Dan A. Engel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology

Function of the adenovirus E1A oncoprotein

Daniel R. Foltz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Assembly and Function of Centromeric Chromatin 

Patrick A. Grant, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Covalent histone modifications and deregulation in cancer

Ira M. Hall, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Structural Genome Variation & Evolution; Genomic Instability; Epigenetic Inheritance 

Marie-Louise Hammarskjold, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology

Post-translational regulation of RNA expression and derangement in cancer

Melissa A. Henriksen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology

Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, Cancer Stem Cells; Molecular Mechanisms of Gene Expression, STAT Signaling Pathway.

Mani S. Mahadevan, M.D.

Professor of Pathology

Trinucleotide repeats and genetic instability

Marty W. Mayo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Role of the transcription factor NF-κB in the inhibition of apoptosis

William R. Pearson, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Computational algorithms for analyzing genome and protein sequence data

Jeffrey S. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Chromatin modifications, silencing, aging, and apoptosis

M. Mitchell Smith, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology

DNA damage, chromosome instability, altered gene expression, and cancer

P. Todd Stukenberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Chromosome segregation, aneuploidy, and tumorogenesis

David Wotton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Cell cycle regulation and dis-regulation by TGF-b

Member list current as of October 2009