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Jorge Di Paola, MD

Professor/Division Chief

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
The genetics of bleeding and thrombotic disorders and mechanisms of platelet activation

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Siyuan Ding, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Understanding how rotavirus (RV), an important enteric viral pathogen, interacts with the host innate immune system in the small intestine

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Naomi Dirckx, PhD

Assistant Professor

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

Research summary

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Abhinav Diwan, MD, FACC, FAHA

Charlie W. Shaeffer, MD, Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Transcriptional regulation of lysosome machinery under stress

Key words
Lysosomes, Ischemia-reperfusion, cell death, autophagy, transcriptional regulation, metabolism

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Ram Dixit, PhD

Professor and Biology Department Chair

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Molecular mechanisms of cytoskeleton organization and function

Key words
cytoskeleton, molecular motors, cell morphogenesis, cell wall biogenesis, plant biology

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Sergej Djuranovic, PhD

Professor

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

Research summary
Molecular mechanisms of translational control

Key words
biochemistry, miRNA, RNA, Ribosome, translation, gene expression, translational control, cancer, malaria

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Tamara Doering, MD, PhD

Alumni Endowed Professor

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

Research summary
Biology and pathogenesis of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Key words
biochemistry, biosynthetic pathways, cell biology, eukaryotic pathogen, gene regulation, genomic variants, glycobiology, host-pathogen interactions, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenic fungi, sterol transport, yeast

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Gerald Dorn, II, MD

Philip & Sima K Needleman Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
Cellular, Molecular, And Genetic Studies Of Cardiac Hypertrophy And Heart Failure

Key words
cell death, cell signaling, genetic epidemiology, heart failure

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Susan Dutcher, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary

Key words
centrioles, cilia, signal transduction, cytoskeleton,

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Gabor Egervari, PhD

Assistant Professor

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

Research summary
We aim to understand how metabolism influences epigenetics, gene expression and behavior, particularly in the context of substance use disorders and neurodegeneration

Key words
Metabolism, epigenetics, alcohol, addiction, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s