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Paula Q. Barrett, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Pharmacology

Research Interests:
Regulation of low-voltage activated T-type Ca2+ channel activity by kinases and heterotrimeric G-proteins and their roles in physiological responses.

Timothy P. Bender, Ph. D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Regulation of gene expression during lymphocyte development

Ann L. Beyer, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Ribosomal RNA transcription & processing

George S. Bloom, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Cellular Morphogenesis and Motility; Cell Biology of Alzheimer's Disease

Thomas J. Braciale, M.D., Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:
T Lymphocyte Responses To Virus Infection

David S. Cafiso, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms for Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling

J. David Castle, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Regulation of Membrane Recycling and Protein Secretion

Barry G. Condron, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Regulation and Function Serotonergic Neurons During Development

Jeffrey T. Corwin, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Neuroscience

Research Interests:
Regeneration and Developmental Biology of the Hearing and Balance Organs in the Vertebrate Ear.

Douglas W. DeSimone, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Cell Adhesion and Adhesion-Dependent Cell Signaling in Vertebrate Morphogenesis

Noelle D. Dwyer, Ph.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Development of the cerebral cortex

James C. Garrison, II, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Pharmacology

Research Interests:
Role of the G protein &alpha and &beta&gamma Subunits in Cell Signaling

Adam N. Goldfarb, M.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:
Hematopathology and Understanding the Molecular Basis of Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis

R. Ariel Gomez, M.D. [more information]
Professor of Pediatrics

Research Interests:
Ontogeny of renin-angiotensis system, differentiation of the JG cell.

Richard L. Guerrant, M.D. [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health

Research Interests:
Recognition, Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, Impact, Treatment and Prevention of Enteric Infections; Global Health and Tropical Infectious Diseases

Barry M. Gumbiner, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor and Chair of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Cell Adhesion and Morphogenesis; Wnt Signaling; Cadherins and Catenins; Development and Cancer

Young S. Hahn, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Immune Suppression by Hepatitis C Virus

John C. Herr, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Differential Gene Expression During Spermiogenesis and Oogenesis in Application to Contraceptive Drug and Vaccine Development

Barry T. Hinton, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Cell And Molecular Biology of Epididymal Function

Alan F. "Rick" Horwitz, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Synapse Formation and Cell Migration in Normal and Pathobiology-Adhesion, Signaling, Imaging and Proteomics

Isa M. Hussaini, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:
The Roles of PKC-eta and LRP in Glioblastoma Invasive Growth

Brant Isakson, Ph.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Intercellular communication in normal and disease state vasculature.

Adam J. Katz, M.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery

Research Interests:
Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Raymond E. Keller, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of morphogenesis

Susanna R. Keller, M.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Research Interests:
Insulin-regulated Membrane Trafficking and Modification of Cell Surface Function

Keith G. Kozminski, Ph.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biology

Research Interests:
Regulation of Polarized Morphogenesis by Small G Proteins

Kevin S. Lee, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience

Research Interests:
Neuronal Vulnerability: A Study of Cellular Mechanism

Ian G. Macara, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Cell Polarity Establishment and Nuclear Transport

Mani S. Mahadevan, M.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms of Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy

James W. Mandell, M.D., Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Brain Astroglial Activation in Neural Injury

Barbara J. Mann, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health

Research Interests:
Pathogenicity of Francisella tularensis and the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica, vaccines

Suzanne M. Moenter, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Research Interests:
Understanding How the Central Nervous System Controls Fertility through Study of Gonodotropin-realeasing Hormone Neurons

Bryce M. Paschal, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Nuclear Transport, Signaling, and Cancer

Lucy F. Pemberton, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Nuclear Transport in Chromatin Assembly and Transcriptional Regulation

K. Kevin Pfister, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Structure, Function, and Regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein: Its Role in Intracellular Microtubule-based Transport, Membrane Bounded Organelle Trafficking, Axonal Transport and Mitosis

David M. Rekosh, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Human Immunodeficiency; Virus Gene Expression

Julianne J. Sando, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Anesthesiology

Research Interests:
Structure and Activation of Protein Kinase C (PKC) Isozymes and Roles of PKCs in Signal Transaduction

Heidi Scrable, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Research Interests:
Novel Strategies to Model Human Diseases in the Laboratory Mouse

Corinne M. Silva, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Research Interests:
STAT5b signaling in tyrosine kinase-dependent and anti-estrogen resistant breast cancers

Jeffrey S. Smith, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Transcriptional Silencing and Aging in Yeast

Avril V. Somlyo, Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Signaling pathways that regulate contractility in smooth muscle tissues and migrating cells in normal and disease states such an coronary artery disease, asthma and hypertension. Structure function studies of the intercalated disk in the heart.

Robert M. Strieter, M.D., FCCP, FACP [more information]
Professor and Chair of Medicine

Research Interests:
Cytokine and Chemokine Biology As Related to Human Diseases

P. Todd Stukenberg, Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of mitotic regulation

Dan Theodorescu, M.D., Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Urology

Research Interests:
Cell Signaling in Tumor Invasion and Metastasis, Metastasis Suppressor genes, Biomarkers, Translational Research in Prostate and Bladder Cancer.