Faculty

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Interfaces and adhesions in physiology and nature

Key words
mechanics, physics, interfaces, adhesion, mechanobiology, strain mapping, viscoelasticity

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, preclinical and translational research

Key words
pain, optogenetics, ion channel, synaptic transmission, signal transduction, electrophysiology, in vivo imaging, genetics

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Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms of chronic kidney disease progression, treatment options to halt kidney disease progression

Key words

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Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Our research focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying substrate specificity and degradation by AAA proteolytic machines and their associated adaptor proteins, utilizing structural biology, biochemistry, and cellular assays in both bacteria and human mitochondria.

Key words
AAA proteases, cryo-EM, biochemistry, mass spectrometry, structural biology, microbiology, mitochondria

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
We study host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions in the female reproductive and urinary tracts, with a focus on the vaginal microbiome and UTIs

Key words
urinary tract infection, vaginal microbiome, women's health, host-pathogen interactions, mucosal immunology

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Immunology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Development of a breast cancer vaccine

Key words
antigen presentation, breast cancer, translational research, T cells, vaccine

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Our laboratory develops and uses novel neuroanatomical and neuroimaging computerized brain mapping methods to study the structure, function, connectivity, parcellation, development, and evolution of cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates in health and disease.

Key words
Neuroanatomy Connectomics Neuroimaging Neuroradiology Medical Image Analysis

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Biochemistry of malaria

Key words
biochemistry, metabolism, parasitology, malaria, protease, heme, aspartic

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Computational mass spectrometry and proteomics

Key words
Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, Bioinformatics

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Skeletal growth and regeneration in zebrafish

Key words
development, genetics, growth, regeneration, skeleton, bone, zebrafish