Faculty

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To provide a supportive learning environment for our trainees, many DBBS-affiliated faculty have completed eight or more hours of CIMER-based mentorship training with a trained facilitator, as indicated below with a profile badge.

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M. Catalina Camacho, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We use computational and naturalistic methods to study emotional and social neurodevelopment with the larger goal of identifying neurophenotypes of depression and anxiety symptoms and risk.

Key words
depression, anxiety, infancy, social cognition, emotion, neuroimaging, preschool, neurodevelopment

Meghan Campbell, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Focusing on the Neuropsychology of Movement Disorders, particularly Parkinson disease, by combining the principles and methods of cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging

Key words

Robert Campbell, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Our laboratory is interested in the role of platelets and leukocytes in inflammatory diseases which induce changes in hemostasis and thrombosis

Key words
thrombosis, platelets, stroke, neutrophils

Laura Campisi, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
We study the antigen specificity and function of CD8 T cells in the context of neurodegeneration and cancer

Key words
T cells, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, antigen specificity, cancer

Siyan Cao, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We study disease-relevant cell and organ signaling pathways in inflammatory bowel disease using molecular and cell biology, multi-omics technologies, genetic murine models, and patient samples.

Key words
inflammatory bowel disease, mucosal immunity, innate lymphoid cells, human intestinal organoids, regenerative medicine, biomarker discovery, cellular stress response, perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, colon cancer

Yin Cao, ScD, MPH

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Novel genetic, microbial, and lifestyle risk factors for lung and gastrointestinal cancers leveraging large-scale clinical and population-based cohorts with deep genomic and phenotypic data

Key words
Systems and translational cancer epidemiology, microbiome, inflammation and immune-metabolic networks

Yu-Qing Cao, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
mechanisms and treatments of chronic migraine and post-traumatic headache

Key words
ion channel, neuroimmune interaction, chronic migraine, post-traumatic headache, chronic pain and comorbidity, synaptic transmission, neuronal excitability

Michael Caparon, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Genetics and virulence of the pathogenetic streptococci

Key words
bacteriology, gene expression, inflammation, microbial pathogenesis, toxin

Bruce Carlson, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Sensory and Evolutionary Neuroscience

Key words
neural circuits, neurophysiology, sensory systems, behavior, evolution, mathematical modeling

James Carrington, PhD

President

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Focus on the biogenesis, functions, and evolutionof small RNA-directed silencing pathways in multicellular eukaryotes

Key words
genomics, functional genomics, biogenesis, systems biology, silencing pathways, plant biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, RNA pathways

Alexandre Carter, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Network plasticity as it pertains to neurorehabilitation, particularly in recovery from stroke

Key words
stroke, resting state connectivity, brain

Daniel Castro, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Understanding the role of endogenous opioids in affective neuroscience and metabolic homeostasis

Key words
reward, valence, opioid, motivation, metabolism, diabetes

Valeria Cavalli, PhD

Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Professor of Biomedical Research

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Cellular, Molecular and Epigenetic control of axon regeneration

Key words
axon regeneration, nerve injury, epigenetic, transcription, glia biology, neuroimmune mechanisms, spinal cord injury, optic nerve injury

Shantanu Chakrabartty, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons; Novel self-powered neural recording systems

Key words

Douglas Chalker, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Genetic and epigenetic regulation of developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements of Tetrahymena, control of intercellular patterning

Key words
chromatin structure, development, DNA, genome rearrangements, RNA interference, cellular patterning, cell biology

Grant Challen, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understanding the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate normal and leukemic stem cells

Key words
Hematopoietic stem cells, Leukemia stem cells, Epigenetic modifications

Alexander Chamessian, MD PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary

Key words

Baron Chanda, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms and Design Principles of Ion Channel Function and Gating

Key words

Aisling Chaney, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
My research focuses on investigating system biological immune responses in neurodegenerative disease. Using various PET radiotracers, the lab works to detect brain and whole-body inflammation and links these imaging biomarkers to underlying blood and tissue cellular and molecular readouts using appropriate techniques.

Key words
Molecular imaging, neuroimmune interactions, translational research, myeloid cell responses, neurological and neurodegenerative diseases

Su-Hsin Chang, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Health and economic burden of obesity and surgical treatments of obesity, transplant outcomes, multiple myeloma prevention and control, and health disparities.

Key words

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