Faculty

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Neurosciences

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The study of basal ganglia circuits and how their function changes in disease states such as obesity, addiction, and anxiety disorders

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Neurosciences

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circadian system influence on the limbic system during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis and aging

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Alzheimer's Disease, Circadian System, Hippocampal Physiology, Neurodegeneration

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

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Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of neural development and its dysregulation to cause neurodevelopmental disorders

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human pluripotent stem cell, autism, neuron, neurodevelopmental disorders, cerebral organoid, epigenetic regulation, transcriptional regulation, neurobiology, embryonic stem cell, neural stem cell, transcription, gene regulatory network, chromatin, embryo

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Modulating the complement system to mitigate pneumonia and acute lung injury

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complement, pneumonia, lung injury, transplant, ICU, translational

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Neurosciences

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Understanding the mechanisms underlying neuronal trauma and neurodegeneration during and following acute brain injury

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traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer disease, microsscopy, imaging, microdialysis, MRI, diffusion tensor imaging

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Molecular genetic analysis of disease development in Pseudomonas syringae-Arabidopsis interactions

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plant-microbe interactions, bacterial pathogenesis, auxin, IAA, Type III effector protein, genetics, plant biology

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

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Human immunodeficiency virus-host interactions

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Dr. Kwon performs clinical and translational research focused on the microbial ecology of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), and their relationship to the fecal microbiome and the microbiome of the built environment.

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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HIV latency and reservoir maintenance

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