Faculty

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Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Understanding factors that regulate host immune responses to infectious and sterile triggers of severe inflammation

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General

Research summary

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fungi, bioinformatics, copper, mentoring, inclusion,

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Bone remodeling cell and molecular events of osteoclast activity and development

Key words
extracellular matrix, bone biology, development, aging, osteoclast

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
My research program aims to understand the neural circuits that underlie vocal communication processing and investigate how these circuits are disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Key words
Auditory System, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Mouse Models, Communication Processing, Development

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Mechanisms of reproductive cell regeneration and development

Key words
germline, reproduction, stem cells, regeneration, imaging, scRNAseq

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Cancer Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Neurosciences

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Neurobiology of economic decisions

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decision making, neuroeconomics, neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, prefrontal cortex

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
We seek to understand the cellular and biochemical underpinnings of mitochondrial dysfunction in human diseases. Our work integrates large-scale methodologies with traditional biochemistry and cell biology to investigate the modulation, adaptation, and basic metabolic function of mitochondria.

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Mitochondria, Protein biochemistry, Genetic screening, Metabolism, Biosynthesis, Orphan protein function, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Kinases and phosphates, Metabolic disease, Systems biochemistry

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General

Research summary
High-throughput drug discovery using C. elegans models of protein aggregation disorders

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Systems and Synthetic Biology of photosynthetic organisms

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Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology, synthetic biology