Mentorship Certified
Erika Waters, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: waterse@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
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
Key words
Mark Watson, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: watsonm@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
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
Max Wattenberg, MD
Assistant Professor
- Email: wattenberg@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology
Research summary
We are focused on exploiting features of the tumor microenvironment for cancer therapy. Specifically, we study stromal - tumor cell interactions in pancreatic cancer with the goal of defining clinically relevant cancer biology.
Key words
pancreatic cancer, immunotherapy, myeloid cells, tumor microenvironment, CRISPR screening
Timothy Wencewicz, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: wencewicz@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Research summary
Antibiotic drug discovery
Key words
Kristine Wylie, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: kwylie@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Host-microbe dynamics during pregnancy
Key words
virome, microbiome, pregnancy, papillomavirus, herpesvirus
Jinbin Xu, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: jinbinxu@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Research summary
Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson's disease, central nervous disorders, postmortem biomarker validation and characterization, in vivo positron emission tomography, in vitro quantitative autoradiography
Key words
Imaging, biomarkers, cancer, neuroscience, PET, quantitative autoradiography, pharmaceuticals, biological assays, human brain function and disease
Andrew Young, MD,PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: alyoung@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Key words
Cancer, Clonal Hematopoiesis, Leukemia, Aging, Stem Cell Biology, Genomics
Jeffrey Zacks, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair
- Email: jzacks@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Human behavioral and fMRI studies of perception, attention and memory
Key words
aging, attention, cognition, fMRI, modeling, perception
Guoyan Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: gzhao@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences
Research summary
Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.
Key words
computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease