Gene Regulation, Epigenomics and Transcriptomics (GREAT)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
John Adams
Vitamin D and steroid hormones
Patrick Allard*
aims to dissect the genetic and epigenetic pathways that connect environmental cues to health effects across the lifespan and across generations
Valerie A. Arboleda*
Epigenetics, Genomics, Rare Disease, Computational Medicine
Aparna Bhaduri*
human brain development, as well as how these trajectories are hijacked in brain cancer such as glioblastoma
Douglas Black*
Regulation of gene expression through pre-mRNA splicing
Paul Boutros*
create biomarkers to maximize cure and minimize morbidities
Michael Carey
Mechanisms of eukaryotic gene transcription
Guillaume Chanfreau*
RNA Processing, Degradation and Quality Control
Genhong Cheng
Host immune responses to infections, cancers and metabolic challenges
Hilary Coller*
Molecular basis of cellular quiescence
Luis De La Torre-Ubieta
Mechanisms of gene regulation in neocortical development and neuropsychiatric disease
Jason Ernst*
Machine learning methods to analyze high-throughput data
Oliver Fregoso*
Molecular and evolutionary approaches to understand virus-host interactions of HIV
Robert Goldberg
Gene regulatory networks required for seed development
Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development
Oliver Hankinson
Carcinogenesis, chemoprevention and hypoxia
Alexander Hoffmann*
Systems biology approaches to understand immune responses
Steven Jacobsen
Mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation by DNA methylation
Tracy Johnson*
Pre-messenger RNA splicing and processing; chromatin modification
Siavash Kurdistani*
Epigenetics in biology and disease
Chentao Lin
Signal Transduction of plant photoreceptors
Jeffrey Long
Chromatin modifiers regulating plant stem cells
Bill Lowry
Cell fate decisions in development and cancer
Chongyuan Luo*
Genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders
Hanna Mikkola*
Molecular regulation of hematopoietic stem cell development
Jeffery F. Miller*
Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and immunity
Lachezar Nikolov*
Genetic and developmental basis of plant secretory structures, single-cell transcriptomics and gene regulatory networks driving floral development
Bennett Novitch*
Mechanisms of differentiation of neural stem cells into defined lineages
Kathrin Plath*
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer
Dinesh Rao*
Physiology and pathology of non-coding RNA in hematopoiesis
Tamer Sallam*
Contributions of long non-coding RNAs in cardiometabolic disease
Stephen Smale*
Gene regulation mechanisms controlling inflammatory responses
Elizabeth Tarling
investigate how protein aggregation affects cancer development and progression in order to identify novel therapeutic targets and develop peptide drugs with anti-cancer capabilities
Peter Tontonoz
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear hormone receptors
Thomas Vallim*
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism
Claudio Villanueva*
molecular mechanisms that underly the cellular plasticity of adipocytes
Thomas Vondriska*
Epigenomic regulation of the cardiovascular system
Cun-Yu Wang
Molecular regulation of dental stem cell property
Joanne Weidhaas*
impact of microRNAs and germline mutations that disrupt their function on oncogenesis as well as the stress response to all types of cancer therapies, including radiation and immune therapy
James Wohlschlegel
Dissecting Ubiquitin-regulated Signaling Networks
Xinshu Grace Xiao*
Genomics and bioinformatics of post-transcriptional gene regulation in biology & disease
Xian-Jie Yang
Development of the vertebrate central nervous system
Jesse Zamudio*
Functional RNAs in Human Development and Disease
Xianghong (Jasmine) Zhou
developing computational and experimental methods on non-invasive cancer diagnosis and monitoring using circulating free DNA (cfDNA) and other materials released by tumor in blood
