People
Janna Hutz
Program: Quantitative Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Howard McLeod
Thesis Title: Genetic Analysis of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling Pathway
Jeremy Huynh
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings
Thesis Title: Identification of Bhlhe40 and Irg1 as essential regulators of the inflammatory response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Katie Hyma
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Justin C. Fay
Thesis Title: Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation between Winemaking and Wild Strains of the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Laura Ibanez, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: ibanezl@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Our lab is focused on developing new, minimally invasive tools for rapid and accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases during the pre-symptomatic phases and predicting of outcomes during the acute phase of ischemic strokes.
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Omar Ibrahim
Program: Cancer Biology
Current advisor: John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Undergraduate university: Pharos University, 2014
Catherine Ifune
Program: Neural Sciences
Graduation Year: 1990
Thesis Advisor: Joseph H. Steinbach
Thesis Title: "Functional Characterization of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Expressed by the Rat Phoechromocytoma Cell Line PC12"
Nnamdi Ihuegbu
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2011
Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo
Thesis Title: Discovering conserved cis-Regulatory elements that regulate expression in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jun Ikeda
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Current advisor: Lavinia Sheets, PhD
Undergraduate university: University of Maryland-College Park, 2024
Seol Hee Im
Program: Developmental Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Paul H. Taghert
Thesis Title: The Convergence of PDF signaling and CRYPTOCHROME in the neuronal network underlying Drosophila circadian behavior.
Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: imaishin@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Research summary
Understanding the molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals
Key words
aging, longevity, hypothalamus, metabolism, NAD biosynthesis, Sirt1, NAMPT, NAD World