Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.

Orkun Akin*
Role of neural activity in sculpting the connectome

Amjad Askary*
Lineage and cell fate specification in the mammalian retina

Douglas Black*
Regulation of gene expression through pre-mRNA splicing

Mehdi Bouhaddou*
Decoding Viral Control of Host Signaling to Design Multi-Virus Therapeutic Strategies

Peter Bradley*
Host-pathogen interactions in Toxoplasma gondii

Siobhan Braybrook*
Investigating host polysaccharide and microbiome interactions in plants and algae

Samantha Butler*
Development and regeneration of spinal neural circuits

Jau-Nian Chen*
Normal and abnormal development cardiovascular development

Amander Clark*
Stem cell biology, infertility and cancer

Daniel Cohn*
Molecular basis of skeletal dysplasias

Hilary Coller*
Molecular basis of cellular quiescence

Gay Crooks*
Human hematopoietic stem cells, lymphopoiesis and transplantation

Rachelle Crosbie*
Cell-matrix interactions in neuromuscular disease

Lydia Daboussi*
Molecular Mechanisms of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

David Dawson*
Molecular alterations responsible for pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Arjun Deb
Activating heart stem cells to generate new heart muscle

Sophie X. Deng*
Improve current treatments for patients with limbal stem cell deficiency

Lars Dreier
Synapse formation and regulation of neurotransmitter receptors

David Eisenberg*
Protein Structure, folding and design

Jason Ernst*
Machine learning methods to analyze high-throughput data

Alison Frand
Molting cycle of the model nematode C. elegans

Brigitte Gomperts
Role of adult stem cells in repair and regeneration of the lungs

Ming Guo*
Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Elissa Hallem*
Sensory neurobiology of parasitic and free-living nematodes

Volker Hartenstein
Brain development in the genetic model system, Drosophila melanogaster

Tikvah Hayes
Understanding protein kinase variant functionality and resistance to targeted therapies in cancer

Kent Hill*
Motility and Signaling Functions of the Trypanosome Cilium

Alexander Hoffmann*
Systems biology approaches to understand immune responses

Jimmy Hu*
Signaling pathway and biomechanical regulation of morphogenesis and epithelial stem cells

Jing Huang*
Structure and function of protein networks in the cell

Steven Jacobsen
Mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation by DNA methylation

Tracy Johnson*
Pre-messenger RNA splicing and processing; chromatin modification

Carla Koehler*
Mitochondrial biogenesis- protein translocation into mitochondria

Harley Kornblum*
Growth Factors in brain development and plasticity

Deborah Krakow
Genes and mechanisms that lead to inherited osteochondrodysplasia

Siavash Kurdistani*
Epigenetics in biology and disease

Gerald Lipshutz*
Gene therapy approaches for treating metabolic disorders

Jeffrey Long*
Chromatin modifiers regulating plant stem cells

Bill Lowry*
Cell fate decisions in development and cancer

Julia Mack
Vascular biology, endothelial cell mechanotransduction and signaling

Julian Martinez-Agosto*
Genetics of growth signals in development, cancer and syndromes

Sanaz Memarzadeh
Overcoming mechanisms of therapy resistance in human carcinomas

M. Carrie Miceli
T Cell activation and inactivation

Hanna Mikkola*
Molecular regulation of hematopoietic stem cell development

Atsushi (Austin) Nakano
Stem cell and developmental biology of the heart

Bennett Novitch*
Mechanisms of differentiation of neural stem cells into defined lineages

Tim O’Sullivan*
Tissue-resident innate immune responses during infection, cancer, and obesity

Frank Pajonk
Cancer stem cells, proteasomes and radiation biology

Matteo Pellegrini*
Development and application of tools to interpret genomic and epigenomic data

Yirong Peng*
Molecular mechanism that underlies the development of the visual system

Kathrin Plath*
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer

April Pyle*
Biology of pluripotent stem cells, skeletal muscle and disease

Margot Quinlan*
Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton

Amy Rowat
Physical properties, structure and function of cells and the nucleus

Alvaro Sagasti*
Growth of sensory axon arbors in the peripheral nervous system

Felix Schweizer
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release

Philip Scumpia*
Understanding immunity and developing immunotherapies for skin diseases.

Karen Sears*
Evolution and development of mammals

Pavak Shah*
Synaptogenesis and neural circuit development

Melissa Spencer*
Mechanisms, pathogenesis and therapy of muscular dystrophies

Elizabeth Tarling*
Molecular mechanisms that maintain cholesterol trafficking and homeostasis in immune cells in metabolic and cardiopulmonary diseases.

Jorge Torres*
Mitotic spindle formation during cell division and its misregulation in human diseases like cancer

Marlin Touma*
Epigenetics, Genomics, Rare Disease, Computational Medicine

Alexander van der Bliek
Mechanisms of mitochondrial membrane dynamics

Thomas Vondriska*
Epigenomic regulation of the cardiovascular system

David Walker
Role of mitochondrial energy metabolism in aging

David Williams*
Intracellular transport of organelles and ciliary proteins

Lili Yang*
Next-generation immune checkpoint blockade therapy & off-the-shelf CAR-iNKT cell therapy for cancer

Xian-Jie Yang
Development of the vertebrate central nervous system

Jesse Zamudio*
Functional RNAs in Human Development and Disease

Ye Zhang*
Astrocyte development and neurological disorders

Jie Zheng*
Therapeutic development in ophthalmology and Wnt signaling pathways

Hong Zhou*
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes

S. Larry Zipursky
Identifying and manipulating neuronal connections