People
Laura Bierut, MD
Professor
- Email: laura@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
Family and genetic studies of psychiatric illnesses and substance dependence (alcoholism, smoking, and cocaine dependence)
Key words
alcoholism, genetics, substance abuse
Tarin Bigley, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: bigley@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
General
Research summary
The Bigley lab studies the role of viruses in autoimmunity
Key words
Autoimmunity, Virology, Herpes
Janine Bijsterbosch, PhD
Associate Professor
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Computational neuroimaging using big data to study brain organization and mental health
Key words
mental health, fMRI, connectivity, big data, psychiatry, computational models
Natasha Bilkey
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit
Thesis Title: Investigation into the Mechanisms and Consequences of Microtubule-Based Symmetry Breaking in Plant
Joyce Bischoff
Program: Molecular Biology
Graduation Year: 1985
Thesis Advisor: Rosalind R. Kornfeld
Thesis Title: "Identification and Characterization of an Alpha- Mannosidase in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Rat Liver"
Derron Bishop
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2001
Thesis Advisor: Jeff J. Lichtman
Thesis Title: "Ultrastructural Modifications During Naturally Occurring Synapse Elimination"
Hirak Biswas
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore
Thesis Title: Role of SNAIL1 in cardiac fibrosis
Erica Biven
Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Current advisor: Jennifer Wang, PhD
Undergraduate university: Kansas State University, 2023
Keith Bjornson
Program: Biophysics
Graduation Year: 1996
Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman
Thesis Title: Kinetic Studies on the Mechanisms of DNA Binding and DNA Unwinding of the Escherichia Coli Rep Helicase
Magnus Bjursell
Program: Computational Biology
Graduation Year: 2006
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon
Thesis Title: Functional Genomic and Metabolic Studies of how Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Establishes itself in the Distal Gut Microbiota