Faculty Members Involved:
- Kavita Arora – TGF-ß signaling in development, metamorphosis, and control of sugar homeostasis in Drosophila
- Scott Atwood – Cell fate decisions in skin cancer, skin and hair follicle development, and stem cells
- Nick Baker – ribosome biogenesis, cell competition, and cancer mechanisms
- Lee Bardwell – Cancer signaling, protein kinases, tumor suppressors, scaffold proteins, signaling specificity
- Bruce Blumberg – Epigenetic inheritance, nuclear hormone receptors, gene-environment interactions, endocrine disruptors
- Anne Calof – Feedback signaling and the regulation of proliferative control and spatial patterning in growth and development
- Aimee Edinger – Regulation of cell growth and survival by growth factors
- Dae Seok Eom – cellular and molecular mechanisms of long-range intercellular communication
- Steve Gross – biophysics, regulation of molecular motors
- Pablo Lara-Gonzalez – Molecular mechanisms of cell cycle quiescence and proliferation, coordination of cell division with cell fate specification during embryogenesis, mitosis and cancer
- Tom Schilling – Neural crest development in zebrafish
- Xiaoyu Shi – Super-resolution microscopy, spatial multiomics, spatial proteomics, cell signaling, organelle interaction, aging biology, Alzheimer’s disease, mechanisms of neuronal disorders, biomarker discovery
- Wenqi Wang– signaling networks underlying tissue homeostasis and organ size control as well as the role of their dysregulation in tumorigenesis