Faculty

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Immunology

Research summary
Pathogenesis and therapeutics in tissue-specific autoimmunity

Key words
Autoimmunity Neoantigens Tolerance Diabetes T cells Dendritic cells Macrophages

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Viruses

Key words
microbial pathogenesis, functional genomics, virology, genome analysis, computational biology

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Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
We study how the major microtubule organizing center of animal cells, the centrosome, is formed and regulated to enable cell division and signaling

Key words
Centrosomes, cilia, microtubules, cytoskeleton, organelles, subcellular organization, cell dynamics, mitosis, cell cycle, cell biology, biochemistry

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

Research summary
We use mouse genetics to study signaling networks that control eye development and homeostasis

Key words
lens, lacrimal gland, signaling, FGF, mTOR

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Understanding the neural mechanisms and neural computations underlying cognition and social behavior

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
Epigenome evolution and epigenetic determinants of cell fate

Key words
DNA methylation, transposable elements, epigenomics, evolution, genomics, systems biology

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms of development, injury and repair in the vertebrate auditory system

Key words
hearing, vestibular, sensory, development, regeneration, macrophage, microglia

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Identification of tumor specific mutant antigens recognized by the immune system as foreign that serve as the target of a T-cell response against tumors

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understand how people think about health risks and how those thoughts influence their health-related decisions and behavior

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Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
Detection and molecular classification of rare tumor cells to predict and mitigate cancer metastases

Key words
cancer, functional genomics, gene expression, pathogenesis, breast cancer