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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Biophysical mechanisms of infectious disease

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Cytokine-mediated tissue feedback loops that maintain homeostasis, and environmental factors that instigate inflammation and fibrosis.

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Neurosciences

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Cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates: structure, function, connectivity, development, and evolution

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neurobiology, vision, cerebral cortex, brain mapping, connectomics

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Understanding the metabolism of sarcomas for therapeutic development

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Cancer, Metabolism, Human in mouse Cancer Models, New Therapies, Tumor Models, Metobolomics, Mouse Genetics

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Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Cancer Biology

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The bone microenvironment for cancer and infection

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bone biology, osteoclast, cancer, metastasis, osteoporosis, microenvironment, osteoblast, osteomyelitis, infection

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Immunology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences

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We work to improve human health by understanding allergies and itch. We tackle problems in a variety of ways from leveraging clinical samples to mouse models to molecular and biochemical assays.

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itch, neuroimmunology, immunology, neuroscience, allergy, inflammation, mast cell

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Understanding DNA repair mechanisms that impact cancer etiology and responses to chemotherapies

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DNA repair and replication; Genomic instability in cancers; Oncogenes; BRCA-mutation

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Defining how ubiquitin and other post-translational modifiers contribute to cellular regulation and turnover and how the phytochrome photoreceptor system controls plant and microbial development.

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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DNA replication and repair, and the roles of these pathways on cancer initiation, progression and response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

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genome stability, DNA repair, DNA replication, chemotherapy response, cancer etiology