Programs

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Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Our research focuses on employing multi-omics strategies to elucidate mechanisms of immune tolerance, identify novel targets for immunosuppression and develop precision approaches to immunosuppression management in advanced lung disease and lung transplantation.

Key words
immunology, genetics, T cell, neutrophil, transplant, pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, immunogenetics, immunogenomics, clonal hematopoiesis, senescence, immune aging

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Cancer-Stroma interactions in metastasis

Key words
cancer metastasis; tumor microenvironment, cancer immunology, CRISPR screen, quantitative biology

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
The biological regulation of skeletal matrix quality

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Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Metabolism analysis and metabolic engineering of environmental microorganisms for biofuel/chemical production

Key words
Metabolic flux analysis, bioenergy, metabolic engineering, algal bioprocess, bioremediation, kinetic modeling

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Pathogenic interactions between microbes and the gut

Key words
bacteriology, evolution, genome analysis, inflammation, microbial pathogenesis

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Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Applying concepts and methods from statistical physics and mathematics to the study of the brain

Key words
theoretical and computational neuroscience, statistical physics

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Structure-activity relationships in UV mutagenesis; nucleic acid-based chemotherapeutic and imaging agents

Key words
cancer, drug delivery, imaging, mutagenesis, nanotechnology, telomere

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Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics & Genomics

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Study of biodiversity, particularly on macroecology, metacommunity ecology, biogeography and spatial ecology

Key words
Biodiversity, community ecology, macroecology, metacommunities, metapopulations, spatial ecology,null models, computer simulation models

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Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Immunology

Research summary
Naive pluripotency, trophoblast development, and stem-cell-based embryo models

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