Faculty

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Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
The Han lab investigates microglia and brain macrophage phenotypes in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative contexts through the lens of epigenomics and transcriptomics. 

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microglia, neurodevelopment, epigenetics, transcriptomics, neurodegeneration

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Learning-related hippocampal network activation

Key words
Learning, memory, behavior, virtual reality, in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, in vivo electrophysiology, systems neuroscience

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

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Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology

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Studying effects of dysregulated nutrients in the tumor microenvironment on anti-tumor immunity.

Key words
immunometabolism, tumor immunology, polyamine transport

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Neurosciences

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Dr. Haroutounian studies neuropathic pain with a focus on determining individual predictors of treatment response to analgesic pharmacotherapy.

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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The ecology and ethnobotany of mountain ecosystems

Key words
ecology, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, phenology, plant science

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

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Understand the impact of time as a biological variable in the development of critical illness such as sepsis, respiratory failure and chronic inflammatory lung disease

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Cancer Biology
Immunology

Molecular Cell Biology

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Advancing knowledge of the mechanisms responsible for colorectal tumor progression, with a specific focus on Stress and its influence on the Tumor Microenvironment.

Key words
Tumor Microenvironment, Stress

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Neurosciences

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Cognitive neuroscience of aging

Key words
aging, Alzheimer’s disease, cognition, imaging, structure-function relations

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and methodological research in genetic epidemiology

Key words
substance abuse, development, modeling, psychiatry, quantitative genetics