Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Cardiovascular mechanics, how the heart and blood vessels respond to mechanical forces

Key words
biomechanics, artery, elastin, matrix

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

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

Research summary
Antibiotic drug discovery

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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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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

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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

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We develop various light-wave based technologies, such as novel sensors, spectroscopy and imaging systems, for biological and medical applications.

Key words
nanotechnology, photonics, material physics, biosensing, spectroscopy, imaging

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Understanding the mechanisms of nervous system construction and dysfunction.

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

Research summary
DNA and RNA surveillance mechanisms and their relation to cancer formation and treatment

Key words
cancer, replication stress response, DNA damage response, nonsense-mediated RNA decay, genetically-encoded reporters, cell imaging

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Molecular mechanisms of membrane transport

Key words
Cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, electrophysiology, membrane proteins, ion channels, ion transporters