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General

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Complex systems and organizational study approaches to the study of health information exchange, health information technology use in health services, and healthcare equity

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Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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A computational and experimental lab studying bacterial colonization and transmission at the boundary of built and natural environments and exploring microbiomes as environmental sensors and public health sentinels

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences

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Structure-function studies of Slo family K+ channels

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ion channel, protein structure, neurobiology, physiology, cell signaling

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Cancer Biology
Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

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Regulation of normal and malignant hematopoiesis

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Leukemia, clonal hematopoiesis, stem cells, niche, ribosome, cancer metabolism, neutrophils, genomics

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Molecular Cell Biology

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The role of bioactive lipid signaling and bioelectricity in the physiology of the inverted epithelia of the brain and retina. Physiology and pathophysiology of steroid signaling in reproduction, aging and neurodegeneration.

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Focused on AI modeling, analysis of high dimensional omics (epigenetics and microbiome) data, subgroup identification, medical cost data, and joint models of multi-outcome data

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Biostatistics, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, precision medicine, omics study

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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The biology of itch

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somatosensation, itch, primary sensory neurons, G protein-coupled receptors

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Understanding how host genetics and environmental factors interact to shape gut metabolism leading to inflammation

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Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

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We seek to understand how specialized lipid pathways regulate thermogenesis, energy balance, and metabolic health, and how disruption of these pathways contributes to obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, and cardiovascular disease.

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Adipose tissue, brown fat, diabetes, obesity, lipid metabolism, peroxisomes, mitochondria