Faculty Members Involved:
- Scott Atwood – Cell fate decisions in skin cancer, skin and hair follicle development, and stem cells.
- Lee Bardwell – Cancer signaling, protein kinases, tumor suppressors, scaffold proteins, signaling specificity
- Anne Calof -Systems biology of stem cells and human developmental disorders
- Ken Cho – Gene regulation and signaling in embryonic development at single-cell resolution
- Fangyuan Ding – RNA biology and engineering, tool development for nucleic-acid based therapies at the single molecule level
- Dae Seok Eom – cellular and molecular mechanisms of long-range intercellular communication
- Steve Gross – biophysics, regulation of molecular motor
- Seungsoo Kim – Transcription factor regulation of stem cell and neural crest cell differentiation
- Piotr Konieczny – Immune–epithelial crosstalk, cellular adaptation to inflammation, tissue homeostasis, and repair
- Evgeny Kvon – Transcriptional regulation, cis-regulatory elements, Evo-Devo
- Ed Monuki – Regulation of cortical development and its stem cells
- Qing Nie – computational systems biology, cell fates, multiscale biology, and tools for analyzing single-cell RNA-seq data, scientific computing, and computational mathematics
- Maksim Plikus – Mechanisms of regeneration and stem cell control
- Tom Schilling – Neural crest development in zebrafish
- Sha Sun – Long noncoding RNAs in epigenetic programming, cell fate, and X-chromosome dosage regulation
- 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
- Rahul Warrior – Proteoglycans and transcriptional response to TGF-ß signaling