Molecular Genetics & Genomics

Elizabeth A. Kellogg, PhD

We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity.

Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD

Malignant brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme, neural stem cells, nervous system development

Jonathan Kipnis, PhD

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

S. Kerry Kornfeld, MD, PhD

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

Attila Kovacs, MD

Echocardiographic analysis of small animal models of disease

John Krais, PhD

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

Barbara N. Kunkel, PhD

Plant-pathogen interactions, bacterial pathogenesis, virulence mechanisms, auxin, genetics, regulation of gene expression

Michael Landis, PhD

Statistical phylogenetics, Bayesian inference, historical biogeography, phenotypic evolution

Amanda L. Lewis, PhD

Bacterial pathogenesis, reproductive and perinatal infection

Timothy Ley, MD

cancer genomics, leukemia, oncogene

Tristan Qingyun Li, PhD

microglia, neuroimmunology, development, aging, neurodegeneration, single cell

Yang (Eric) Li, PhD

Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Genomics, Gene Regulation, Brain tumor, Neuroscience

Irfan J. Lodhi, PhD

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

Kiran Mahajan

Epigenetics, prostate cancer, transcriptomics, small molecule therapeutics, radioresistance, DNA damage signaling, and tumor-immune dynamics

Christopher Maher, PhD

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

Andrew Malone, MD

Kidney Transplant Single Cell RNAseq

Muhammad Faraz Masood, MD

Endocarditis, heart failure, surgery, medicine, clinical

Michael Meers, PhD

Epigenetics, Chromatin, Genomics, Gene Regulation, Cell fate, Transcription Factors

Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD

Functional genomics, metabolism, mitochondria, diabetic neuropathy, neurodegeneration, transcriptional networks, Alzheimer’s disease, Schwann cell

Rob Mitra, PhD

DNA methylation, epigenetic code, Transcriptional networks that control vertebrate development

Mayssa Mokalled, PhD

Mechanisms of neural regeneration using zebrafish and mouse model systems

Indira U. Mysorekar, PhD

Autophagy, host-pathogen interactions, infection, tissue regeneration, placenta, ZIKA virus, preterm birth, estrogen

Michael L. Nonet, PhD

Synapse biology, genetics, Zebrafish, C. elegans, exocytosis

Stephen Oh, MD, PhD

Cancer biology, mass cytometry, CyTOF, signal transduction, JAK2, genomics, leukemia, hematopoiesis, stem cells

Eugene M. Oltz, PhD

Cancer, chromatin, epigenetics, genome rearrangements, lymphocytes, transcriptional regulation

Himadri B. Pakrasi, PhD

Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology

Jacqueline Elise Payton, MD, PhD

Epigenomics, lncRNA, cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, chromatin, genomics, gene regulation

David H. Perlmutter, MD

α1-antitrypsin deficiency, protein secretion, protein degradation, autophagy, proteostasis, autophagy enhancer drugs

Tim R. Peterson, PhD

Genomics, Metabolomics, Aging, Mental Health, CRISPR, Quantified Self, Programming, Systems Biology, Computational Biology, High-Throughput Sequencing

Lee Ratner, MD, PhD

Lymphocytes, virology, AIDS, leukemia, HIV, HTLV, NF kB

Lawrence B. Salkoff, PhD

Neurobiology, genome analysis, development, behavior, physiology

Linda Sandell, PhD

Gene regulation of extracellular matrix proteins, transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of regulation of protein expression, mesenchymal cell phenotypes

Mark S. Sands, PhD

Lysosomal storage diseases, Neurodegenerative disorders, Gene therapy, Enzyme replacement, Hematopoiesis, Bone marrow transplantation

Narendra Sankpal, PhD

Cancer cell Signaling, EMT, Breast cancer, Lung cancer, membrane proteins, Gene targeting, Antibody therapy, Cancer cell targeting, cancer diagnostics

Tim B. Schedl, PhD

Germ cells, C. elegans, genetics, development, functional genomics, modeling human disease gene-variants in C. elegans

Christopher Shaffer, PhD

Genome assembly, analysis, and functional annotation of phage genomes

Paul J. Shaw, PhD

Neurobiology, genetics, sleep, gene expression, memory, plasticity, Alzheimer’s disease,

Alan Shiels, PhD

Cataract, genetics, mouse models, pathogenesis, vision

David Sibley, PhD

Cell-signaling, kinases, transcription, chromatin, pathogenesis, genetics, genomics, chemical biology, innate immunity

Jessica Silva-Fisher, PhD

Long non-coding RNAs and RNA modifications in cancer metastasis and relapse

James B. Skeath, PhD

Development, neurobiology, cell signaling

Sheila A. Stewart, PhD

Aging, cancer, microenvironment, RNAi, senescence, telomere

Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD

We try understand the inherited basis underlying cardiovascular disease and leverage insights from our work to improve patient care

Stephen Stone, MD

Dr. Stone studies the role of Fibroblast Growth Factors in Severe Insulin Resistance Syndromes.

Cristina de Guzman Strong, PhD

Epigenetics, genetics, genomics, chromatin, enhancer, skin, transcriptional regulation, disease, translational research

Christopher M. Sturgeon, PhD

Stem cell, embryonic, iPSC, hematopoiesis, HSC, hESC, development

Laneshia Karee Tague, MD, MSCI

Our lab investigates immunogenetics and pharmacogenetics in advanced lung disease and lung transplantation

Rui Tang, PhD

cancer metastasis; tumor microenvironment, cancer immunology, CRISPR screen, quantitative biology

Heather L. True-Krob, PhD

Amyloid, chaperones, epigenetics, neurodegeneration, prion, yeast

Aayushi Uberoi, PhD

skin microbiome, skinomics, metagenomics, host-microbial genetics