Programs

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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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General

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

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General

Research summary
Neuroimaging studies of adaptive plasticity in people with sensory deficits

Key words
imaging, cognition, neurobiology

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Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We use computational and naturalistic methods to study emotional and social neurodevelopment with the larger goal of identifying neurophenotypes of depression and anxiety symptoms and risk.

Key words
depression, anxiety, infancy, social cognition, emotion, neuroimaging, preschool, neurodevelopment

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Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Our laboratory is interested in the role of platelets and leukocytes in inflammatory diseases which induce changes in hemostasis and thrombosis

Key words
thrombosis, platelets, stroke, neutrophils

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Neurosciences

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Focusing on the Neuropsychology of Parkinson disease, by combining the principles and methods of cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging

Key words
Parkinson's disease; dementia; biomarkers; functional connectivity

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Immunology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences

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We study the antigen specificity and function of CD8 T cells in the context of neurodegeneration and cancer

Key words
T cells, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, antigen specificity, cancer

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We study disease-relevant cell and organ signaling pathways in inflammatory bowel disease using molecular and cell biology, multi-omics technologies, genetic murine models, and patient samples.

Key words
inflammatory bowel disease, mucosal immunity, innate lymphoid cells, human intestinal organoids, regenerative medicine, biomarker discovery, cellular stress response, perianal fistulizing Crohn's disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, colon cancer

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Cancer Biology

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Novel genetic, microbial, and lifestyle risk factors for lung and gastrointestinal cancers leveraging large-scale clinical and population-based cohorts with deep genomic and phenotypic data

Key words
Systems and translational cancer epidemiology, microbiome, inflammation and immune-metabolic networks

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
mechanisms and treatments of chronic migraine and post-traumatic headache

Key words
ion channel, neuroimmune interaction, chronic migraine, post-traumatic headache, chronic pain and comorbidity, synaptic transmission, neuronal excitability