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Jason Yi, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: jasonyi@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
Understanding the mechanisms of nervous system construction and dysfunction.
Key words
Wayne Yokoyama, MD
Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Professor
- Email: yokoyama@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Research summary
Host innate immune responses to tumors and pathogens
Key words
cancer, immunology, innate immunity, NK cells, tumor biology, virology
Andrew Yoo, PhD
Professor
- Email: yooa@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Research summary
Generation of human neurons by direct cell fate reprogramming and modeling late-onset neurodegenerative disorders
Key words
neurodegeneration, neurogenesis, microRNA, cellular reprogramming, disease modeling, chromatin, regenerative medicine
Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: takeshi@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Development and function of the visual system in vertebrates
Key words
Vision, Retina, Development, Zebrafish, Lizard
Zhongsheng You, PhD
Professor
- Email: zyou@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Research summary
DNA and RNA surveillance mechanisms and their relation to cancer formation and treatment
Key words
cancer, replication stress response, DNA damage response, nonsense-mediated RNA decay, genetically-encoded reporters, cell imaging
Peng Yuan, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: yuanp@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Research summary
Molecular mechanisms of membrane transport
Key words
Cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, electrophysiology, membrane proteins, ion channels, ion transporters
Jeffrey Zacks, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair
- Email: jzacks@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Human behavioral and fMRI studies of perception, attention and memory
Key words
aging, attention, cognition, fMRI, modeling, perception
Hani Zaher, PhD
Professor
- Email: hzaher@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Research summary
Mechanism of translational fidelity and its impact on cellular fitness and codon evolution
Key words
Translation, Ribosome, RNA, Fidelity, peptide-bond formation, pre-steady state kinetics, translational regulation
Mohamed Zayed, MD,PhD
Professor
- Email: zayedm@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
The mechanisms that influence arterial collateral formation and peripheral arterial atheroprogression in the setting of diabetes
Key words
Jennifer Zellers, PT, DPT, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: jzellers@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
General
Research summary
Key words
Shen Zeng, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: s.zeng@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
General
Research summary
The broad area of systems and control theory
Key words
Bo Aber Zhang
Assistant Professor
- Email: bzhang29@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Research summary
Key words
Bioinformatics, epigenetics
Fuzhong Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: fzhang29@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
Synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.
Key words
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, biomaterials
Jin Zhang, PhD, MPHS
Associate Professor
- Email: jin.zhang@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Deep learning; AI; Multi-omics; Translational cancer research; Cancer; Genomics; Imaging
Key words
RNA-seq, WGS, genomics, sequencing, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI, bioinformatics, computational biology, algorithm, multi-omics, cancer, HPV, radiation, PET, MRI, image
Linying Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: linyingz@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
My research integrates causal modeling and machine learning to improve the reliability of real-world evidence generation and to improve the trustworthiness of AI-based clinical algorithms.
Key words
causal inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, clinical informatics
Ru Zhang, PhD
Assistant Member
- Email: rzhang33@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models
Key words
Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis
Rui Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: zhangrui@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Research summary
Cryo-EM study of native macromolecular complexes related to microtubule and cilia
Key words
Ting Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: zting@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Research summary
We use a multidisciplinary discovery pipeline that consists of next generation sequencing, bacterial genetics, host genetics and metabolomics to characterize how infection-stimulated bile components regulate intestinal functions
Key words
Metabolite, Bacterial pathogen, host pathogen interaction
Guoyan Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: gzhao@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences
Research summary
Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.
Key words
computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease
Xuehua Zhong, PhD
Professor
- Email: xuehuazhong@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation
Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing