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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

Dept of Bioengineering

computational biology, molecular biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

Robert Tjian Jacket

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities

Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome

Anders Naar in lab setting

Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition

gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies

photo of Donald Rio

Donald Rio

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host

Lu Chen, MD, PhD, FARVO

School of Optometry

lymph and blood vascular biology, corneal inflammation, transplantation immunity, glaucoma

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Richard Harland

Richard Harland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular biology, early vertebrate development, Xenopus, embryo development