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Gautam Dantas, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
(1) Dynamics, ecology, and evolution of antibiotic resistance, (2) Engineering enhanced probiotics to treat GI disorders, (3) Engineering microbial biofuel catalysts

Key words
anibiotic resistance, synthetic biology, bioenergy, human microbiome, metagenomics, microbial ecology and biodiversity

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Li Ding, PhD

David English Smith Distinguished Professor

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

Research summary
Cancer Proteogenomics and Cancer Models

Key words

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Joseph Dougherty, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
Human Psychiatric Genetics, Mouse Models, Cell Type Specific Gene Expression Profiling, Translation, Astrocytes.

Key words
autism, gene expression profiling, genetics, genomics, mouse models, neurobiology, astrocytes, translation regulation

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John Edwards, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
We develop new computational and experimental approaches to understand the roles of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in neurodevelopment and cancer

Key words
bioinformatics, cancer, cancer genomics, epigenetics, epigenomics, neurodevelopment, transcriptional regulation

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Bahaa Elgendy, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Medicinal chemistry with a broad goal of drug design and organic synthesis

Key words

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Jennifer Foltz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
My research interests lie in integrating and applying novel computational biology techniques with mechanistic experimental immunology to understand drivers of response and resistance to NK cell therapies for cancer

Key words
natural killer cells, computational biology, single-cell sequencing, immunotherapy, nk cells

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Tom Foutz, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary

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Aliereza Ghanbarpour, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Our research focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying substrate specificity and degradation by AAA proteolytic machines and their associated adaptor proteins, utilizing structural biology, biochemistry, and cellular assays in both bacteria and human mitochondria.

Key words
AAA proteases, cryo-EM, biochemistry, mass spectrometry, structural biology, microbiology, mitochondria

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Dennis Goldfarb, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Computational mass spectrometry and proteomics

Key words
Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, Bioinformatics

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Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Our research is dedicated to investigating the immunobiological pathways that underlie such pregnancy complications, with a special emphasis on preterm birth.

Key words
Immunology of Pregnancy, Maternal-fetal Immunology, In utero Inflammation, Preterm Birth