Douglas M. Anderson, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Physiology (SMD)
Research Interest:
LncRNA control of heart development and disease; Discovery and function of micropeptides encoded by putative lncRNAs; Genome-editing by RNA-guided nucleases.
Jeevisha Bajaj, Ph.D.
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Research Interest:
Role of cancer stem cell interactions with their microenvironment in disease progression.
Dmitri N. Ermolenko, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor - Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (SMD)
Research Interest:
Structural dynamics of the ribosome and ribosomal ligands during proteins synthesis, regulation of protein synthesis by mRNA structure in normal and diseased cells, and mechanisms of antibiotic action.
Elizabeth Grayhack, Ph.D.
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Research Interest:
Research Interest: Role of the genetic code in regulating protein synthesis and mRNA metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Amanda Larracuente
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Research Interest:
Research Interest: Role of the genetic code in regulating protein synthesis and mRNA metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Xin Zhiguo Li, Ph.D.
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Investigation of the germ cell genome, the only genome carrying the duty of integrating new information with genetic history, enabling reproduction and evolution—the key difference between life and non-life.
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Research Interest:
The molecular basis of human diseases, including but not limited to the most common single-gene cause of intellectual disability and autism, Fragile X Syndrome, and the development of therapeutics.
David H. Mathews, M.D., Ph.D.
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Research Interest:
The molecular basis of human diseases, including but not limited to the most common single-gene cause of intellectual disability and autism, Fragile X Syndrome, and the development of therapeutics.
Stephano Spano Mello, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Understanding how nuclear proteins and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulate gene transcription in pancreatic preneoplastic lesions, gaining knowledge of the process of cellular transformation and tumor initiation.
Mitchell R. O'Connell, Ph.D.
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Professor, Pediatrics
Research Interest:
Biochemical mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene regulation; RNA-targeting CRISPR tool development.
Peng Yao, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Department of Medicine , Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Interest:
Pathophysiological function and molecular mechanism of new non-coding RNAs (and RBPs) and new modes of gene regulation in cardiac system and cardiovascular disease.
Eric M. Phizicky, Ph.D.
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Professor - Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (SMD)
Research Interest:
tRNA biogenesis, function and quality control; intellectual disability due to deficiencies in tRNA modifications.
Douglas Stuart Portman, Ph.D.
| Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics (SMD), Department of Biology RC (RC), Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Neural circuit development and function; Genetic control of behavior; Sex differences in neurobiology.
Christoph Proschel, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Astrocyte development in normal and pathological conditions, role of astrocytes in modulating response to injury or stress, utility of glial precursor cells and their astrocytic progeny for cell transplantation therapy.
Marlies P. Rossmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Interest: Elucidate the metabolic origins of a variety of diseases, facilitate novel metabolism-centered differentiation therapies for hematological malignancies, and combat the decline in lymphoid cell production by the aging hematopoietic system.
Eric Small, Ph.D.
| Associate Professor, Medicine, Pharmacology & Physiology, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of heart development, disease, and regeneration; Transcriptional regulation of fibroblast plasticity and cardiac fibrosis.
Harold C. Smith, Ph.D.
| Professor (Part-Time) - Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (SMD)
Charles A. Thornton, M.D.
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Professor, Department of Neurology, Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research - Department of Neurology (SMD), Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Neurogenetics, experimental therapeutics, repeat expansion diseases.
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