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Jennifer Duncan, MD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Transgenerational impact of nutrition on metabolism and mitochondrial function.

Key words
diabetes, lipid metabolism, metabolic programming, mitochondria, epigenetics

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Victoria Fernandez, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Understanding the genetic and molecular causes of Alzheimer Disease and related dementias so as to provide palliative treatments to the affected population

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Carl Frieden, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Protein structure/function relationships

Key words
apoE lipoproteins,, intrinsically disordered proteins, amyloid-beta, Alzheimer’s Disease, bacterial infection, curli proteins

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Gayle Fritz, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Analysis of archeological plant remains; evolution of agricultural societies; subsistence and cultural change

Key words
plant biology, ecology, paleoethnobotany, archaeology, agricultural origins

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Mathieu Garand, PhD

Instructor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
My research investigates neonatal immune responses after surgery and their connection to congenital heart disease. Clinical trial to study immune responses in pediatric pulmonary valve transplant recipients, both living and cryopreserved.

Key words
congenital heart disease, viral infection, immune responses, transcriptomic, biomarkers, immunophenotyping

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John Heuser, MD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Electron microscopy of cells and molecules

Key words
cell membrane, cytoskeleton, endocytosis, electron microscopy, extracellular matrix

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Andrew Huang, MD, MPH

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Corneal epithelial wound healing, neovascularization and stromal dystrophies

Key words
amyloid, epithelial cells, protein folding, siRNA, stem cells, vision

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Reyka Jayasinghe, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary

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Emma Johnson, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Using statistical and population genomics approaches to better understand the genetic architecture of complex traits, with a focus on substance use disorders.

Key words
behavioral genetics; genomics; statistical genetics; evolutionary genetics; population genetics; substance use disorders; cannabis; schizophrenia; complex traits; psychiatric disorders

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Allan Larson, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Molecular population genetics and phylogenetics of amphibians and reptiles

Key words
DNA, evolution, genome analysis, population biology, systematics