MOLECULAR GENETICS, CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
 
The next horizon for cell and developmental biologists is to understand how proteins and sets of proteins are assembled and integrated to produce function. Research carried out by the Molecular Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology faculty explores the molecular mechanisms of cell function at the organismal level (morphogenesis and global gene expression) to the subcellular (signaling, cytoskeletal dynamics and trafficking). Fundamental questions of how cells function within tissues, interact with their environments, avoid pathogens and become diseased are addressed using genetic, cellular, biochemical, structural, bioinformatic and high-throughput functional genomic approaches. Close collaborations with faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to integrate discoveries in biology with development of new therapeutics and applications.

 




 
  FACULTY MEMBERS (and their research groups)
       
  Paul Adler 
      DeSean Thom (lab staff)
Raymond Keller
              David Shook (postdoc)
     Paul Skoglund (postdoc)
 



 
  George Bloom Robert Kretsinger
       Xiaolan Fang (postdoc)
     Lloyd McMahon (lab staff)
 
       Matthew Seward (grad) Sarah Kucenas
       Antonia Silva (postdoc)      Silvia Barrett (lab staff)
       Eric Swanson (grad)      Jenna Eckardt (grad)
       Horst Wallrabe  (lab staff)      Jessica Kennett (postdoc)
             Pam Neff (lab staff)
         
  Claire Cronmiller  Lei Li
               Xiaozeng Yang (grad)
          Hiuyong Zhang (postdoc)
 
 
  Christopher Deppmann     Dorothy Schafer  
        Pamela Neff (lab staff)       Manisha Menon (grad) 
        Kanchana Gamage (grad)
      Kazusa Edamura (grad)
      Richard Smindak (grad)
 
      
      




Reginald Garrett Michael Timko
          Bhavani Gowda (postdoc)
  Robert Grainger       Kan Huang (postdoc)
        Matthew Etzell (grad)       Tatyana Kotova (lab staff)
        Margaret Fish (grad)       Karolina Lis (grad)
        Marilyn Fisher (postdoc)       Vikram Misra (grad)
        Takuya Nakayama (postdoc)       Rohan Rajapakse (postdoc)
        Rollin Reeder (lab staff)       Michael Wolkowicz (postdoc)
        Amy Stepanic (lab staff)       
         
 
Melissa Henriksen
 
Michael Wormington
        Shaili Shah (grad)       Jennifer Kefauver (grad)
   


 
   Keith Kozminski 
      Shubha Dighe (lab staff)
Herman Wijnen
 
      Tadahiro Goda (postdoc)
      Karolina Mirowska (grad)
      Neethi Rao (grad)
      Brandi Sharp (grad)
   
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