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
						
 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
						
					 
  
  
  
  
 
 
 