Faculty

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

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Molecular Mechanisms of Nervous System Longevity and Rejuvenation

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epigenetics, nervous system, DNA repair, aging, rejuvenation

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

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Computational chemistry, protein engineering, theoretical protein structure and folding

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molecular modeling, protein structure, computational chemistry, molecular dynamics simulation, protein engineering

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General

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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My lab studies the molecular mechanisms of migraine chronicity, with an emphasis on opioid receptors

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Opioids, pain, migraine, mouse models, neuroplasticity, addiction

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Mathematical development of new statistical genetics methodology for complex traits

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biostatistics, genetic epidemiology, human genetics, mathematical modeling, statistical genetics, systems biology

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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The neuroscience of ASD, social cognition and comparative cognition

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fcMRI, fMRI, infant, autism, face perception, visual attention, psychophysics, social cognition, comparative cognition

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Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

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Understanding the role of tumor heterogeneity in cancer biology, including its contributions to cancer development, growth, metastasis, and treatment resistance mechanisms, in order to translate these insights into new diagnostics and novel therapeutics

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tumor heterogeneity; single cell; spatial transcriptomics; head and neck cancer; signaling

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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The evolution of sociality, cooperation, and cheating in a eukaryotic microbe, using experimental evolution, genomics, and other approaches

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social interactions, evolution, microbiology, social amoebae, kin selection, moleuclar evolution, multicellularity, development, genomics

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Molecular Cell Biology

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Understanding the early molecular mechanisms that orchestrate changes in knee joint after injury and lead to the development of osteoarthritis.

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