Current Training Faculty
Backus, Keriann – Developing chemical tools to manipulate the human immune system.
Black, Douglas – Posttranscriptional Gene Regulation, RNA biology.
Bradley, Peter – Host-pathogen interactions in Toxoplasma gondii.
Braybrook, Siobhan – Mechanobiology; Growth physiology; Matrix-organism biology.
Butler, Samantha – Regenerating damaged or diseased neural circuitry by co-opting the mechanisms that establish the nervous system during development.
Butte, Manish – Mechanobiology and regulation of the immune system in autoimmunity, cancer, and infection.
Chanfreau, Guillaume – The regulation of eukaryotic gene expression.
Chen, Yvonne – Engineering tumor-targeting T cells with low off-tumor toxicity for cancer immunotherapy applications.
Clark, Amander – Understanding the cell and molecular basis of germline cell differentiation and epigenetic reprogramming.
Clarke, Steven – Biochemistry of aging and posttranslational modifications of proteins.
Clubb, Robert – Structural biology of bacterial pathogenesis.
Correa, Stephanie – Neuroendocrine regulation of energy balance and thermoregulation.
Covarrubias, Anthony – Immunometabolic dysregulation in macrophages during aging.
De la Torre-Ubieta, Luis – Gene expression patterns, gene regulatory mechanisms, and histogenetic processes of the developing human brain.
Fregoso, Oliver – Understanding the role of the DNA damage response in the lentiviral lifecycle.
Goldstein, Andrew – Defining mechanisms that drive the initiation and progression of human prostate cancer.
Gomperts, Brigitte – Understanding the normal repair processes in the airway and what goes awry to cause lung diseases.
Hallem, Elissa – The neural basis of olfcaction in free-living and parasitic nematodes.
Hsiao, Elaine – The role of gut microbes in the development and function of the mammalian brain.
Johnson, Tracy – Pre-messenger RNA Splicing and Processing.
Li, Melody – Understanding the molecular basis of virus replication and pathogenesis.
Lusis, A. Jake – The analysis of complex genetic diseases.
Plath, Kathrin – Epigenetic mechanisms underlying pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming.
Pyle, April – Stem cells, pediatric muscle diseases, rare diseases, muscle, induced pluripotent stem cells.
Quijada, Pearl – Cell and molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis during cardiovascular development and ischemic heart disease.
Quinlan, Margot – Dynamics of the Actin Cytoskeleton.
Rodriguez, Jose – High resolution analysis of the complex architecture of biological systems.
Rowat, Amy – Cellular mechanobiology.
Sagasti, Alvaro – Morphogenesis of somatosensory neurons and skin cells from genetic and biomechanical perspectives.
Shah, Pavak – Mechanisms shaping neuronal circuits that form during development.
Spencer, Melissa – Mechanism of and treatment for the genetically inherited muscular dystrophies.
Su, Maureen – The genetics and causes of autoimmune diseases.
Tang, Yi – Natural product biosynthesis (polyketides, nonribosomal peptides) and biocatalysis (enzyme engineering).
Torres, Jorge – Mitotic spindle formation during cell division and its misregulation in human diseases.
Vallim, Thomas – Lipid metabolism.
Villanueva, Claudio – Basic mechanisms of gene regulation by transcriptional coregulators.