Faculty
Ben Palanca, MD, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
- Email: palancab@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Dr. Palanca has NIH-funded investigations on acute confusion after cardiac surgery and leveraging the anesthetic propofol to modulate sleep to treat depression and cognitive impairment.
Key words
Anesthesia, delirium, sleep, surgery, electroencephalography, imaging, fMRI, consciousness, cognition, encephalopathy, depression, antidepressant
Michael Paley, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: paleym@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Neurosciences
Research summary
Mechanisms of inflammation in immune-privileged organs
Key words
Hua Pan, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: hpan@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Immunology
Research summary
https://sites.wustl.edu/panlab/
Key words
Onco-Nephrology, Cardio-Oncology, Cancer, MRI, Gene/drug delivery, Machine Learning
Sona Pandey, PhD
Assistant Member
- Email: sonapandey@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
To understand how plants perceive and respond to abiotic stress
Key words
heterotrimeric G-proteins, abscisic acid, G-proteins, molecular genetics, biochemistry, genomics, proteomics, protein-protein interactions
Thomas Papouin, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: thomas.papouin@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Mechanisms or neuron-glia interactions in health and disease
Key words
Astrocytes, Synapses, Neuromodulation, Behavior, Electrophysiology,
Rohit Pappu, PhD
Gene K Beare Distinguished Professor
- Email: pappu@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
Biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins
Key words
Huntington`s disease; Polyglutamine Aggregation; Intrinsically Disordered Proteins; Phase transitions in cell biology; Self-assembly; Transcriptional regulation; Small-scale Systems Biology & Interaction Networks;
Yikyung Park, MS/ScD
Associate Professor
- Email: yikyungpark@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Research summary
Key words
Nutrition, Cancer, Epidemiology, Risk prediction, Population health
Bhuvic Patel, MD
Assistant Professor
- Email: bhuvic.patel@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Our lab employs cutting-edge molecular biology techniques to investigate the genetic, epigenetic, and cellular alterations driving the initiation, progression, and therapeutic resistance of brain tumors.
Key words
brain tumors, systems biology, genetics, neurosurgery, neurooncology
Amit Pathak, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: pathaka@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
We combine experimental measurements and computational modeling to understand how single and grouped respond to physical heterogeneities present in their extracellular microenvironments.
Key words
Mechanobiology; tumor invasion; cell migration; epithelial-mesenchymal transition; cell-matrix interaction; cytoskeleton;
Gary Patti, PhD
Michael and Tana Powell Professor
- Email: gjpattij@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
To understand the metabolic crosstalk between cells and tissues in disease models such as cancer by using isotopes and metabolomics
Key words
metabolism, metabolomics, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, imaging, cancer, tumor microenvironment, isotope tracing