Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences

Research summary
Generation of human neurons by direct cell fate reprogramming and modeling late-onset neurodegenerative disorders

Key words
neurodegeneration, neurogenesis, microRNA, cellular reprogramming, disease modeling, chromatin, regenerative medicine

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary

Key words
Cancer, Clonal Hematopoiesis, Leukemia, Aging, Stem Cell Biology, Genomics

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

Research summary
Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models

Key words
Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis

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

Research summary
Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.

Key words
computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation

Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Human susceptibility to infectious diseases, virology, primary immunodeficiency disorders.

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