All Research Programs
| Name |
Description |
| Akins, Robert |
- Animal Physiology: Development and regulation of cellular organization and function in striated muscle.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Cell:cell interactions, signaling cascades, and cell migration in tissue engineering and regenerative therapies.
- Developmental Biology: Cardiac morphogenesis and the development of congenital heart malformations.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Heterotypic cell interactions in the control of gene expression, multi-cellular organization, and contractile function in striated muscle.
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| Allen, Deborah |
- Science Education: Active and collaborative learning strategies and materials; learning communities.
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| Boman, Bruce |
- Cancer Biology: Colon cancer stem cell research.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Colon cancer stem cell research.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Colon cancer stem cell research.
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| Boyd, E. Fidelma |
- Ecology and Evolution: Molecular evolution and pathogenesis of bacteria.
- Microbiology and Virology: Molecular evolution and pathogenesis of bacteria.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Molecular evolution and pathogenesis of bacteria.
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| Cooper, Carlton |
- Cancer Biology: The role of cell adhesion in prostate cancer preferential metastasis to bone.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: The role of cell adhesion in prostate cancer preferential metastasis to bone.
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| Czymmek, Kirk |
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Fungal cell biology.
- Microbiology and Virology: Fungal cell biology.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Fungal cell biology and plant pathogenesis.
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| DeLeon, Patricia |
- Animal Physiology: Reproductive genetics, genomics, and sperm proteomics.
- Developmental Biology: Genetics of sperm maturation and function.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Reproductive genetics, genomics, and sperm proteomics.
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| Dodge, George |
- Cancer Biology: Role of extracellular matrix and their proteases in cancer, cell migration and apoptosis.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Cartilage extracellular matrix, tissue engineering of cartilage and bone substitutes.
- Developmental Biology: Extracellular matrix gene expression in development of the skeleton; cartilage development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Chondrocyte gene regulation and disease, alternative-splicing of ECM genes.
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| Duncan, Melinda |
- Animal Physiology: Eye development.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: The function of the lens capsule and the regulation of transcription by cell signaling.
- Developmental Biology: Eye development.
- Ecology and Evolution: Evolutionary origins of refractive proteins.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: The transcriptional consequences of cell signaling during development.
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| Duncan, Randall |
- Animal Physiology: Signal transduction of mechanical and hormonal stimulation in the development and maintenance of bone and cartilage.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Signal transduction of mechanical and hormonal stimulation in the development and maintenance of bone and cartilage.
- Developmental Biology: Signal transduction of mechanical and hormonal stimulation in the development and maintenance of bone and cartilage.
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| Farach-Carson, Mary |
- Animal Physiology: Molecular and cell biology of bone cells and bone extracellular matrix.
- Cancer Biology: Extracellular matrix and hormonal influences on cancer metastasis to bone.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Molecular and cell biology of bone cells and bone extracellular matrix.
- Developmental Biology: Bone and cartilage formation.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Molecular and cell biology of bone cells and bone extracellular matrix.
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| Fifield, Steven |
- Science Education: Cultural studies of science; how knowledge, meaning, and identity are enacted in science education.
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| Galileo, Deni |
- Cancer Biology: Adhesion molecules that influence glioma and breast cancer cell motility, invasiveness, and metastasis in a chick xenograft model.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Cell division, death, migration, and differentiation in early development of the vertebrate brain; cancer cell biology and interaction with ECM.
- Developmental Biology: Early vertebrate brain development.
- Microbiology and Virology: Retroviruses and their use as vectors, including lentiviruses.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Migration, survival, and differentiation of vertebrate brain and of brain tumor cells.
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| Hanson, Thomas |
- Ecology and Evolution: Evolution of autotrophy, tundra soil microbial ecology, metaproteomics/genomics.
- Microbiology and Virology: Photosynthetic metabolism, biogeochemistry, applied microbiology.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Genetic analysis of metabolism, expanding genetic toolkits in novel microbes.
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| Herson, Diane |
- Microbiology and Virology: Physiology of organisms which carry out bioremediation, Helicobacter-pylori in water.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Physiology of organisms which carry out bioremediation, Helicobacter-pylori in water.
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| Hobson, Grace |
- Animal Physiology: Progression of diseases of myelin production in the central nervous system.
- Developmental Biology: Gene expression during brain development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Splicing mechanisms and genomic copy number variation.
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| Hodson, Robert |
- Science Education: Biology education with special emphasis on development of introductory biology laboratory investigations and computer networking.
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| Keeler, Calvin |
- Microbiology and Virology: Avian influenza and avian herpesviruses - host-pathogen interactions, vaccines, and diagnostics.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Genomic approaches to the study of the innate immune system.
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| Kirn-Safran, Catherine |
- Animal Physiology: Skeletogenesis in mice.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Osteoblast, chondrocyte, and odontoblast differentiation.
- Developmental Biology: Mineralized tissue embryogenesis.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Gene targeting by homologous recombination.
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| Laverty, Gary |
- Animal Physiology: Epithelial transport systems in cultured tissues.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Epithelial transport systems in cultured tissues.
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| Mason, Robert |
- Cancer Biology: Mechanisms of cell death in treatment of neuroblastoma.
- Developmental Biology: Role of lysosomal proteases in placental development.
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| McDonald, John |
- Ecology and Evolution: Effects of natural selection on nuclear genes.
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| McLane, Mary Ann |
- Cancer Biology: Molecular mechanisms involved in cancer metastasis.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Molecular mechanisms involved in cancer metastasis.
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| Molloy, George |
- Developmental Biology: Transcriptional and translational control in brain development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Control of animal cell growth and differentiation related to neuronal and brain glial cells.
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| Moore, Michael |
- Animal Physiology: Neuroendocrine control of reproductive behavior and aggression, stress physiology and maternal influences on offspring phenotype.
- Ecology and Evolution: Ecological immunology and the tradeoffs between immune and reproductive systems.
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| Morgan, Robin |
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Molecular biology of Marek's disease.
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| Naik, Ulhas |
- Animal Physiology: Role of adhesion molecules in vascular biology.
- Cancer Biology: Tumor angiogenesis and tumor metastasis using animal models, focusing on breast and prostate cancer.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Signaling through adhesion molecules during angiogenesis and platelet aggregation.
- Developmental Biology: Cardiac development and hypertrophy.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Signaling cross-talk between growth factor receptors and adhesion molecules: use of transgenic and knockout mice.
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| Nohe, Anja |
- Animal Physiology: Role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) during skeletal development and maintenance.
- Cancer Biology: Role of vitamin D and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) in breast cancer.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and vitamin D during mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.
- Developmental Biology: Mechanisms of skeletal development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Utilizing genetic mouse models of peak bone density to determine the mechanism underlying peak bone mass.
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| Parcells, Mark |
- Cancer Biology: Cancer vaccines and tumor immunology.
- Ecology and Evolution: The evolution of herpesvirus virulence.
- Microbiology and Virology: Molecular virology of Marek's disease virus (MDV), an oncogenic herpesvirus of chickens.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Functional analysis of Marek's disease virus (MDV) gene products.
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| Parent, Michelle |
- Microbiology and Virology: Yersinia - host-pathogen interaction.
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| Rajasekaran, Ayyappan |
- Animal Physiology: Regulation of epithelial junctional complexes by ion transporters and cell adhesion molecules.
- Cancer Biology: Molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of epithelial to mesenchymal and mesenchymal to epithelial transitions.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Modulation of tumor microenvironment by cell adhesion molecules.
- Developmental Biology: Role of epithelial junctional complexes and ion transporters in development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Role of Na,K-ATPase in cell signaling.
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| Rajasekaran, Sigrid |
- Animal Physiology: Link between obesity and cancer.
- Cancer Biology: Link between obesity and cancer.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Therapeutic and diagnostic potential of intracellular sodium.
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| Schanen, N. Carolyn |
- Animal Physiology: Cellular mechanisms regulating expression and function of chromatin proteins in nerve and bone cells.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Genetics of autism and speech disorders, epigenetic regulation of gene expression by DNA methylation, chromosomal rearrangements.
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| Schmidt, Carl |
- Microbiology and Virology: Pathogenesis of oncogenic herpes viruses.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Bioinformatics and avian genomics.
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| Schmieg, Florence |
- Science Education: The effect of Problem-Based-Learning (PBL) strategies on educational outcomes.
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| Selva, Erica |
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Genetic and molecular control of signal transduction during Drosophila development.
- Developmental Biology: Control of Wnt and hedgehog signaling in Drosophila development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Genetic and molecular control of signal transduction during Drosophila development.
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| Sherrier, D. Janine |
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Modification of the plant cell wall during interactions with microbes.
- Developmental Biology: Development of nitrogen-fixing root nodules; development of pathogenic root knots.
- Microbiology and Virology: The role of bacterial LPS in nitrogen-fixing root nodule development.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Analysis of the small RNA transcriptome of Medicago truncatula.
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| Sikes, Robert |
- Animal Physiology: Mouse prostate development and the development and progression of human prostate cancer.
- Cancer Biology: Human prostate cancer progression, metastatic cell interaction with bone and therapeutic intervention.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Mouse prostate development and the development and progression of human prostate cancer.
- Developmental Biology: Development of the prostate gland.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Mouse prostate development and the development and progression of human prostate cancer.
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| Simmons, Daniel |
- Cancer Biology: Malignant transformation by papovaviruses.
- Microbiology and Virology: Mechanism of DNA replication.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Mechanism of DNA replication.
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| Smith, David |
- Ecology and Evolution: Sulfur and nitrogen cycles in bacteria residing in salt marsh environments.
- Microbiology and Virology: Sulfur and nitrogen cycles in bacteria residing in salt marsh environments.
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| Sol-Church, Katia |
- Cancer Biology: Mechanisms of chemotherapeutic resistance in osteosarcoma.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Genetics of Costelo Syndrome.
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| Tallamy, Douglas |
- Ecology and Evolution: Luperine chrysomelid beetle interactions with toxic cucurbitacin triterpenes.
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| Twiss, Jeffery |
- Animal Physiology: Effects of neuronal activity and environmental stimuli on nerve regeneration and neural repair.
- Developmental Biology: Axon growth mechanisms and neuronal survival/signaling.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Subcellular localization of neuronal mRNAs and translational control.
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| Usher, David |
- Animal Physiology: The relationship of obesity to metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
- Developmental Biology: Development of adipose tissue.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: The relationship of obesity to metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
- Science Education: Affect of undergraduate research on educational outcomes; recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in the sciences.
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| van Golen, Kenneth |
- Cancer Biology: Role of RhoC GTPase in conferring a metastatic phenotype to aggressive cancers.
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| Wagner, Roger |
- Animal Physiology: The role of pericytes and endothelial cells in the function of microvessels and capillaries.
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| Wang, Wenlan |
- Animal Physiology: Cell death in a pediatric motor neuron disorder.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Cell death in a pediatric motor neuron disorder.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Cell death in a pediatric motor neuron disorder.
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| Wommack, K. Eric |
- Microbiology and Virology: Viruses and their impact on microbial communities.
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| Wu, Cathy |
- Cancer Biology: Bioinformatics and computation biology of cancer biology.
- Cell and Extracellular Matrix Biology: Bioinformatics and computation biology of cell and extracellular matrix biology.
- Microbiology and Virology: Bioinformatics and computation biology of microbiology and virology.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics: Bioinformatics and computation biology of molecular biology and genetics.
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