Molecular Cell Biology

Biochemistry, metabolism, parasitology, malaria, protease, heme

• Email: dgoldberg@wustl.edu

Maternal-Fetal Immunology; Immunology of pregnancy; Placental Immunology; Neonatal Immunology

• Email: nardhy@wustl.edu

Maternal-Fetal Immunology, Immunology of pregnancy, Placental Immunology, Neonatal Immunology, Obstetrical disorders, Preterm birth, Parturition

• Email: nardhy@wustl.edu

Ion channel, cell signaling, calcium signaling, secretory cell, epithelial physiology, inflammation, spinal cord, chronic pain

• Email: gonzalez-perez.v@wustl.edu

Metabolism of cancer, targeting tumor metabolism by blocking metabolic pathways

• Email: matthewlgoodwin@wustl.edu

identify factors within DNA damage response signaling pathways that represent therapeutic vulnerabilities in order to develop new treatment options for children with cancer

• Email: abby.green@wustl.edu

Myosin, actin, single molecule, optical trapping, muscle, cardiac, stem cells, engineered tissue, molecular motors, mechanosensing, cytoskeleton

• Email: greenberg@biochem.wustl.edu

Epigenetics, Transgenerational, Imprinting, Evolution, Multicellularity, Cancer, Tumorigenesis, Epitranscriptomics

• Email: ericg@wustl.edu

Bioinformatics, clinical statistics, machine learning, biomarkers, cancer, sequencing, software, databases, genomics, personalized medicine

• Email: obigriffith@wustl.edu

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osteoarthritis, obesity, mechanobiology and mechanisms of mechanical signal transduction in cartilage, stem-cell therapy

• Email: guilak@wustl.edu

Brain cancer, brain development, iPSCs, neural stem cells, glia, genetically-engineered mouse models, learning and behavior, iPSCs, signal transduction, sexual dimorphism

• Email: gutmannd@neuro.wustl.edu

Understand the impact of time as a biological variable in the development of critical illness such as sepsis, respiratory failure and chronic inflammatory lung disease

• Email: jhaspel@dom.wustl.edu

Bioinformatics, Proteomic data analysis, Systems biology, Protein redox regulation and structural dynamics

• Email: jheld@wustl.edu

Neurobiology, physiology, behavior, imaging, circadian rhythm, olfaction, gliotransmission, brain cancer, potassium channels, computational modeling

• Email: herzog@wustl.edu

cell membrane, cytoskeleton, endocytosis, electron microscopy, extracellular matrix

• Email: jheuser@wustl.edu

Retina, Retinal Degenerations, and Neovascularization (Cell Biology)

• Email: hodzicd@vision.wustl.edu

Amyloid, tau, antibodies, apolipoprotein E, Alzheimer’s disease, neurodegeneration, neurobiology

• Email: holtzman@neuro.wustl.edu

Innate immunity, macrophages, innate lymphocytes, dendritic cells, epithelial cells, interferon signal transduction, paramyxoviruses, picornaviruses, asthma, drug discovery

• Email: holtzmanm@wustl.edu

Biochemistry, biophysics, hypertension, ion channel, molecular medicine, transgenic

• Email: jhou@wustl.edu

Chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) syndrome

Neuroimmune mechanisms of sensory processing at barrier surfaces

• Email: hhu24@wustl.edu

Voltage imaging, computational modeling, learning system, memory processing, Drosophila melanogaster

• Email: huang.cheng@wustl.edu

Stem cells, differentiation, synapse biology, receptor, ion channel

• Email: jhuettner@wustl.edu

Understanding the molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals

• Email: imaishin@wustl.edu

protein engineering, systems neuroscience, optical molecular tools, neurological disorders

• Email: inoue.m@wustl.edu

cancer, metabolism, imaging, sex differences, glioblastoma

• Email: ippolitoj@wustl.edu

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Protein folding and misfolding, and the engineering and application of protein disaggregases to reverse misfolding

• Email: mjackrel@wustl.edu

Actin cytoskeleton, microtubule, single molecule, live cell imaging, protein transport, Golgi, confocal microscopy, total internal reflection microscopy

• Email: silvia.jansen@wustl.edu

Hematopoietic stem cells, Multipotent progenitor, Cell fate decision, Lineage specification

• Email: yoonakang@wustl.edu

Cancer, Targeted therapy, Antibodies, Cell signaling, antibody-drug conjugates, drug resistance

• Email: vkapoor@wustl.edu

Neurodegeneration, neurogenetics, Alzheimer`s disease, frontotemporal dementia, tau, amyloid precursor protein, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), cell and molecular biology, molecular mechanisms

• Email: karchc@wustl.edu

Imaging, mathematical modeling, neurobiology, physiology, synapse biology, vision

• Email: kerschensteinerd@vision.wustl.edu

understand how neural circuits compute behaviorally relevant information: identify the principles and mechanisms that guide the assembly of neural circuits; develop strategies to preserve and restore circuit functions disrupted by disease

• Email: kerschensteinerd@wustl.edu

We study complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems in health and disease.

• Email: kipnis@wustl.edu

Understanding the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms that underlie reproductive tract function and its pathology

• Email: kommagani@wustl.edu

Aging, metals, zinc, development, sperm activation, signal transduction, homeostasis

• Email: kornfeld@wustl.edu

Lipid metabolism, mouse models, neurodegeneration, pathogenesis, phospholipase A2, Parkinson disease

• Email: kotzbauerp@wustl.edu

DNA damage response and how to apply new discoveries to the treatment of cancer

• Email: krais@wustl.edu

Epigenetic, neurobiology, embryonic stem cell, neural stem cell, transcription, gene regulatory network, cancer, cell cycle, chromatin, embryo

• Email: kkroll@wustl.edu

Modulating the complement system to mitigate pneumonia and acute lung injury

• Email: hkulkarn@wustl.edu

Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, cell size, bacteriology

• Email: plevin@wustl.edu

Genomics, hematopoiesis, microenvironment, MicroRNA, neutrophil, stem cells

• Email: dlink@wustl.edu

The biology of itch

• Email: QLiu28@WUSTL.EDU

Adipose tissue, brown fat, diabetes, obesity, cancer, lipogenesis, lipid metabolism, peroxisomes

• Email: ilodhi@dom.wustl.edu

Cell motility, cancer metastasis, cell adhesion, signal transduction

• Email: glongmor@dom.wustl.edu

Synaptic function and retinal neurobiology

• Email: lukasiewicz@vision.wustl.edu

Homeodomain Proteins in Epithelial Differentiation

• Email: lima@im.wustl.edu

Non-coding RNAs, lncRNAs, cancer genomics, transcriptome, bioinformatics, computational biology, epigenetics, cancer

• Email: cmaher@wustl.edu

proteomics, functional genomics, lung cancer, signal transduction, WNT, oxidative stress

• Email: bmajor@wustl.edu

prognosis and response to radiation therapy, therapeutic targets for cervical and anal cancers

• Email: smarkovina@wustl.edu