Faculty

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Biophysical studies of transcription initiation in Eukaryotes and Mycobacterial tuberculosis

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biophysics, kinetics, optical and magnetic trapping, transcription, fluorescence

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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Understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate reactive astrocytes and their neurotoxicity in
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, by utilizing a combination of biochemistry, molecular biology, cellular models of inflammation and mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Mechanistic studies of DNA motor proteins; single Molecule Biochemistry

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General

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My research investigates neonatal immune responses after surgery and their connection to congenital heart disease. Clinical trial to study immune responses in pediatric pulmonary valve transplant recipients, both living and cryopreserved.

Key words
congenital heart disease, viral infection, immune responses, transcriptomic, biomarkers, immunophenotyping

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Quantitative proteomics for understanding protein and proteome modifications

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology

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Translational research in the intersection of computational breast imaging, artificial intelligence, and informatics towards improving breast cancer screening

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breast cancer, computational imaging analytics, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, big data, data science, precision medicine

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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Neurosciences

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Elucidating and understanding molecular mechanisms of axonal degeneration and regeneration in neuropathies

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

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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

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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