Faculty
Muriah Wheelock, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: mdwheelock@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
Elucidating the biological pathways underlying cognition, emotion, and behavior, determining developmental deviations and degenerative processes in these pathways
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Sean Whelan, PhD
Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology
- Email: spjwhelan@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Research summary
The Whelan laboratory studies the biology of negative-strand (NS) RNA viruses, divided between two major areas of focus: viral gene expression and viral-host cell interactions.
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Michael White, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: mawhite@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
General
Research summary
My research focuses on learning cis-regulatory grammars using massivley parallel functional assays and machine learning
Key words
computational biology, gene regulation, genomics, deep learning, technology development
Adam Wilcox, PhD
Professor
- Email: a.wilcox@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
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Philip Williams, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: prwillia@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Research summary
Strategies to improve outcomes of nervous system injury and disease, regeneration and preservation
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Jon Willie, MD, PhD, FAANS
Associate Professor
- Email: jontwillie@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Characterizing the function of brain circuits that control memory and arousal in normal and disease states
Key words
memory, attention, arousal, sleep, narcolepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, brain mapping, brain circuits
David Wilson, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: wilson_d@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
Role of transcription factors in differentiation and development
Key words
embryonic development, lung development, mouse models, transcriptional regulation
Dean Wong, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: dfwong@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
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Michael Wong, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: wong_m@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Mechanisms of epileptogenesis and seizure-induced brain injury
Key words
epilepsy, glia, imaging, multi-photon microscopy, neurophysiology
Matthew Wood, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: woodmd@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Research summary
Repair and regeneration following nerve injury and soft tissue injury
Key words
Plastic Surgery, Peripheral nerve, Regeneration, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials