Potential Faculty Mentors

Combining simulation and experiment to understand protein conformational changes, their role in signaling, and opportunities they present for drug design

• Email: bowman@biochem.wustl.edu

I am a biogeochemist interested the ways in which the evolution of life on Earth and the evolution of the Earth`s environment have affected one another over the course of Earth history.

• Email: abradley@eps.wustl.edu

Studies of cognitive (executive) control and prefrontal cortex function using cognitive neuroscience methods (fMRI, computational, behavioral, clinical)

• Email: tbraver@wustl.edu

Systems biology, transcriptional regulatory networks, network interference, yeast

• Email: brent@cse.wustl.edu

The molecular basis of lung diseases and drug development using structural biology tools

• Email: tbrett@wustl.edu

Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells

• Email: bridgmap@wustl.edu

Cell and molecular mechanisms of airway epithelial cell differentiation and cilia biogenesis

• Email: brodys@wustl.edu

Nerve injury, nerve regeneration, intra-operatively, mechanisms of inhibiting Wallerian degeneration, Schwann cell dedifferentiation

• Email: brogand@wustl.edu

Obesity, diabetes, skeletal muscle, metabolism, cellular stress response

• Email: rbrookheart@wustl.edu

Regulation of coagulation, hemostasis

• Email: gbroze@wustl.edu

We and collaborators seek to understand the biological pathway that controls degeneration and regeneration in these important cells.

• Email: wbuchser@wustl.edu

This laboratory is devoted to research on filarial nematode parasites that cause important diseases in animals and humans (lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis), mainly in the tropics.

• Email: pbudge@wustl.edu

Molecular Biology of DNA replication and damage response in yeast and human

• Email: burgers@wustl.edu

Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

• Email: burkhala@pcg.wustl.edu

Pharmacology and chemical biology of nuclear receptors.

• Email: burristhomas@wustl.edu

Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

• Email: harold@pcg.wustl.edu

Research falls within the category of Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology, with emphasis on the cognitive and behavioral sequelae associated with movement disorders, particularly Parkinson disease and Tourette Syndrome.

• Email: meghanc@wustl.edu

Immunotherapy, brain tumor, spinal cord tumor, high grade gliomas

• Email: jcampian@dom.wustl.edu

Ion channel, migraine, headache, chronic pain, synaptic transmission, neuronal excitability, electrophysiology

• Email: caoy@wustl.edu

plant systematics, taxonomy, floristics, phylogenomic diversification

• Email: monica.carlsen@mobot.org

We study animal communication, sensory processing, and brain evolution

• Email: carlson.bruce@wustl.edu

Network plasticity as it pertains to neurorehabilitation, particularly in recovery from stroke

• Email: ACarter22@WUSTL.EDU

understanding how oxysterols influence neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

• Email: cashikar@wustl.edu

Understanding the biological and psychological mechanisms of endogenous opioids in affect, motivation, and metabolism.

• Email: castro.d@wustl.edu

Cellular, Molecular and Epigenetic control of axon regeneration

• Email: cavalli@wustl.edu

Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons; Novel self-powered neural recording systems

• Email: shantanu@wustl.edu

Chromatin structure, development, DNA, genome rearrangements, RNA interference, transcription

• Email: dchalker@wustl.edu

Hematopoietic stem cells, Leukemia stem cells, Epigenetic modifications

• Email: gchallen@wustl.edu

pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, inflammation, CNS immune responses, myeloid cell responses

• Email: achaney@wustl.edu

molecular mechanisms of opioid receptor signaling, nanobodies, X-ray, Cryo-EM, opioid receptor signaling

• Email: taoche@wustl.edu

Personalized medicine/Pharmacogenetics, smoking cessation treatments, cross-population studies of smoking, gene-environmental interactions, and longitudinal studies

• Email: li-shiun@wustl.edu

genetic determinants and pathogenic mechanisms of urogenital diseases with the goal of improving diagnostic and therapeutic strategies targeting these diseases

• Email: fchen@wustl.edu

Combines biology, engineering, and medicine to develop ultrasound techniques for noninvasive, targeted, and personalized cancer treatment

• Email: hongchen@wustl.edu

Gene expression regulation, transcription factors, epigenetic regulators, photoreceptor development and degeneration, mouse models, gene therapy

• Email: chen@vision.wustl.edu

Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

• Email: chenshiming@wustl.edu

Understanding the function of neuromodulators and sleep through the spatiotemporal dynamics of molecular signals

• Email: yaochen@wustl.edu

I am interested in the structure and function of neuronal ligand-gated ion channels, and the mechanism of channel modulation by endogenous lipids or exogenous drugs such as general anesthetics.

• Email: wayland.cheng@wustl.edu

Understanding epigenetic and genetic mechanisms governing the cancer stem cell state

• Email: mchheda@dom.wustl.edu

The interface between systems and control engineering, neuroscience and neural medicine

• Email: shinung@WUSTL.EDU

Understanding T cells and immunoregulatory networks in GvHD and GvL for the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies

• Email: jchoi25@wustl.edu

Cell fate, transcription factors, hematopoiesis, vascular, development, regeneration, stem cells, angiogenesis, tumor

• Email: kchoi@pathology.wustl.edu

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), metabolic networks, targetable mechanisms driving fibroblast function and fibrosis

• Email: malay@wustl.edu

Tryptophan metabolism, intestinal inflammation, colitis associated cancer, colon cancer, mucositis, tryptophan, crohn, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, radiation enteritis

• Email: mciorba@wustl.edu

Alzheimer’s disease, drug and target discovery, endocytosis, in vivo microdialysis, synaptic transmission

• Email: cirritoj@neuro.wustl.edu

Bone biology, cell adhesion, signal transduction, gap junctions, cadherin

• Email: rcivitel@dom.wustl.edu

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Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification

• Email: brian.s.clark@wustl.edu

Systems biology, enhancers and gene regulatory networks, non-coding genetic variation, computational biology, genomics, quantitative genetics, thermodynamics

• Email: cohen@wustl.edu

Functional genomics, bioinformatics, pulmonary surfactant, lung development

• Email: cole@kids.wustl.edu

Batten Disease, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCL, Lysosomal Storage Disease, pathogenesis, pre-clinical therapies, enzyme replacement, gene therapy

• Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu

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NK cells, interferon gamma IFN-y, autoimmunity, STAT3, immunology, pediatric

• Email: cooper_m@wust.edu