Mentorship Certified

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Small‑molecule strategies to reprogram leukemia cells and improve therapy response

Key words
Leukemia, Transcription factors, PU.1, Pharmacology, chemoprotection, hematopoiesis

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Theoretical physics of ecology and evolution; quantitative modeling; analysis of sequencing data

Key words
Theoretical biophysics; Evolution; Microbiome; High-diversity ecology

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of phenotypes by propagation of prions in yeast

Key words
amyloid, chaperones, epigenetics, neurodegeneration, prion, yeast

Program affiliation
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

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

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

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

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Antibiotic drug discovery

Key words
Organic Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Natural Products, Antibiotics, Biosynthesis, Enzymes, Enzyme Inhibitors, Drug Delivery, Anticancer Agents, Diversity-Oriented Synthesis

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

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