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Steven Bassnett, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Ocular cell biology

Key words
ophthalmology, cataract, glaucoma, myopia, microfibrils, imaging, stem cells, Marfan syndrome, fibrillin, modeling, AFM

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Stephen M. Beverley, PhD

Ernest St. John Simms Distinguished Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Molecular genetics of protozoan parasites - virulence and their viruses

Key words
parasites, viruses, microbial pathogenesis, macrophage, virulence, glycobiology, vaccination

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Tarin Bigley, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
The Bigley lab studies the role of viruses in autoimmunity. We utilize animal models and human samples to explore the interplay between viruses, especially herpesviruses, and development of the immune system.

Key words
Autoimmunity, Virology, Herpesviruses

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Irving Boime, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Placental and pituitary hormone genes

Key words
biochemistry, carbohydrate, protein structure, signal transduction, intracellular trafficking

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Nicholas C. Borcherding, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
My research has focused on developing computational approaches to distilling and deciphering adaptive immune receptor sequences and tracking immune cell interaction through intracellular mitochondria transfer.

Key words
T Cell Receptor, TCR, B Cell Receptor, BCR, Computational Immunology, Adaptive Immunology, Machine Learning

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Paul C. Bridgman, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells

Key words
neurobiology, development, imaging, axon, cytoskeleton

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Rita Thomas Brookheart, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
We focus on the intersection of metabolism and stress responses in human health and disease. We use basic and translational approaches to identify and investigate key metabolic regulators in both physiologic and pathophysiologic contexts including obesity and diabetes.

Key words
Metabolism, skeletal muscle, ER stress, calcium, mitochondria, SREBP, obesity, diabetes

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Jeremy D. Buhler, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Developing algorithms and architectures for large-scale biosequence comparison, genome annotation, and metagenomics

Key words
annotation, bioinformatics, computational biology, genome analysis, metagenomics

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Andreas H. Burkhalter, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

Key words
neurobiology, vision, physiology, development, synapse biology

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Carey-Ann Dawn Burnham, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
The transmission and epidemiology of multi-drug resistant bacteria

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