Cellular & Molecular Faculty
| Name | Campus | Specialty | |
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| **indicates accepting students | |||
| Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena | Kent | ||
| Julie M. Aultman | NEOMED | More on Aultman | |
| Alexandru Almasan | CCF | ||
| Mohammad Ansari | NEOMED | ||
| Jianxin Bao | NEOMED | Aging, Auditory Neuroscience, Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, Presbycusis, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, Tinnitus. More on Bao | |
| Soumitra Basu | Kent | Quadraplex structures, insulin binding, gene structures and function. More on Basu | |
| Cornelia C. Bergmann | CCF | ||
| Heather K. Caldwell | Kent | Role of neuropeptides in regulating social behaviors and neuropsychiatric disorders. More on Caldwell | |
| Yeong-Renn Chen | NEOMED | Oxygen free radicals, Nitric oxide, oxidative postranslational modifications, mitochondrial biology in myocardial infarction. More on Chen | |
| John Y.L. Chiang | NEOMED | Molecular cloning expression and regulation of cytochrome P-450 isoenzymes. More on Chiang | |
| William M. Chilian | NEOMED | Angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, regulation of coronary blood flow, heart failure, stem cells, regenerative medicine. More on Chilian | |
| Chi-hua Chiu Groff | Kent | More on Chiu Groff | |
| **Wilson C. J. Chung | Kent | Neuroendocrine brain, androgens, fibroblast growth factor signaling. More on Chung | |
| Robert J. Clements | Kent | More on Clements | |
| **Lique M. Coolen | Kent | Mechanisms by which spinal cord injury affects urogenital and sexual function, neurobiology of addiction and understanding neural circuits that mediate female reproductive function and dysfunction. More on Coolen | |
| Lisa N. Cooper | NEOMED | More on Cooper | |
| John W. Crabb | CCF | ||
| Christine M. Crish | NEOMED | Glaucoma, neurodegeneration, and bone loss in Alzheimer's disease.More on Crish | |
| Samuel D. Crish | NEOMED | Glaucoma, axonal transport, structure and function. More on Crish | |
| Mark Dalman | Kent | ||
| Derek S. Damron | Kent | Cardiac myocytes, signal transduction, protein kinases, contractility, anesthetic agents, calcium, cardiovascular disease. More on Damron | |
| Bansidhar Datta | Kent | More on Datta | |
| **Dimitrios Davalos | CCF | The Dimitrios Davalos lab studies the interactions between blood vessels, neurons and microglia in health and disease. | |
| Angelo L. Delucia | NEOMED | Molecular biology of DNA tumor viruses, genetics of viral DNA replication, viral etiology of cancer. More on Delucia | |
| Jean Engohang-Ndong | Kent | ||
| Serpil C. Erzurum | CCF | ||
| **Jessica M. Ferrell | NEOMED | Long-term research interests lie in examining the pathological disruptions to bile acid physiology that contribute to alcoholic- and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We are also interested in studying the interactions between liver/gut metabolism and Alzheimer’s disease, as Type 2 diabetes, cholesterol homeostasis, and gut dysbiosis are thought to be involved in disease progression, while bile acids and their receptors may be novel therapeutic targets. | |
| Ernest J. Freeman | Kent | Neurodegeneration, vascular smooth muscle cell function, biochemistry of multiple sclerosis. More on Freeman | |
| **Alexander V. Galazyuk | NEOMED | Neuroscience of hearing. More on Galazyuk | |
| Rebecca Z. German | NEOMED | Neurophysiology and biomechanics. Regulation of feeding and pathophysiology of dysphagia. More on German | |
| Candece L. Gladson | CCF | ||
| Tariq M. Haqqi | NEOMED | ||
| James L. Hardwick | NEOMED | ||
| Elda L.Hegmann | Kent | More on Hegmann | |
| Tobin L. Hieronymus | NEOMED | Pattern and process of skeletal evolution in vertebrates. More on Hieronymus | |
| **Min-Ho Kim | Kent | Innate immunity and inflammation on wound healing and tissue repair. More on Kim | |
| Woo Yang Kim | Kent | Brain development, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Autism, intellectual disability, anxiety, depression, Neural stem cell, neuron migration. More on Kim | |
| **Edgar E. Kooijman | Kent | Biophysics protein/lipid interactions, physical chemistry of lipid structure and function, model membranes, neutral lipid storage (lipid droplets/adipocytes). More on Kooijman | |
| Gary K. Koski | Kent | Immune system and cancer, vaccines, molecular mechanisms. More on Koski | |
| Vijay B. Krishna | CCF | ||
| Manabu Kurokawa | Kent | More on Kurokawa | |
| **Sangeet Lamichhaney | Kent |
Our lab is broadly interested in understanding how an organism responds to novel environments. We integrate a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including comparative ‘omics’ (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics and Metabolomics), together with experimental physiology to uncover the molecular basis underlying the processes of adaptation. More details about the research can be found in our lab website (https://theomicslab.wordpress.com/). |
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| Yoon-Kwang Lee | NEOMED | Structure and regulation of nuclear hormone receptors. More on Lee | |
| Laura G. Leff | Kent | Molecular ecology of bacteria, bacterial enumeration and identification. More on Leff | |
| **William P. Lynch | NEOMED | Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, CNS gene therapy, RNA tumor virus assembly and pathogenesis, microglial developmental biology. More on Lynch | |
| **Hanbin Mao | Kent | More on Mao | |
| **Ryota Matsuoka | CCF |
Developmental neuroscience, brain barriers, brain-blood communications, brain vascular cell heterogeneity, neurovascular morphogenesis, and cerebrovascular diseases. More on Matsuoka |
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| **Jennifer A. McDonough | Kent | Regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. More on McDonough | |
| **Jeffrey G. Mellott | NEOMED | Age-related changes to inhibitory circuitry in the auditory pathways. More on Mellott | |
| Michael Model | Kent | Apoptosis, cell water and volume regulation, membrane potential. More on Model | |
| Xiaozhen Mou | Kent | Metatranscriptomics of bacteria, pathogens in ecosystem. More on Mou | |
| Devin Mueller | Kent | Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller | |
| **Colleen Novak | Kent | Neural and endocrine mechanisms of activity thermogenesis in obesity. More on Novak | |
| Christine M. O'Connor | CCF | ||
| Vahagn Ohanyan | NEOMED | ||
| Moses O. Oyewumi | NEOMED | Drug delivery, nanotechnology, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases. More on Oyewumi | |
| **Richard Piet | Kent | Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet | |
| **Helen Piontkivska | Kent | Comparative and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution. More on Piontkivska | |
| Priya Raman | NEOMED | Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular complications associated with diabetes and obesity; atherosclerosis; leptin; Thrombospondin-1. More on Raman | |
| Erin Reed-Geaghan |
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NEOMED | My lab is interested in the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Specifically, we seek to understand the ways in which the brain’s resident immune cells, microglia, contribute to the neuroinflammatory processes driving neurodegeneration. We believe microglia from men and women respond differently in AD, contributing to the sex differences in disease onset and progression, and we’re working on identifying the reasons for these differences. We are also interested in how these cells communicate with the circulating peripheral immune system, and the ways in which these interactions affect disease progression |
| **Merri J. Rosen | NEOMED | Neural correlates of auditory perception: effects of hearing loss and experience during development. More on Rosen | |
| Mary Russell | Kent | Intermediate filament protein synemin, heart, protein kinases. More on Russell | |
| Prabodh Sadana | NEOMED | Hormonal regulation of lipid metabolism. More on Sadana | |
| Fayez F. Safadi | NEOMED | Osteoblast development and function, effects of hormones and growth factors. More on Safadi | |
| Thorsten-Lars Schmidt | Kent | DNA nanotechnology-based tools and materials for single-molecule biophysics and nanomedicine. More on Schmidt | |
| **Brett R. Schofield | NEOMED | Functional anatomy of auditory pathways. More on Schofield | |
| **Woo-Shik Shin (Austin) | NEOMED |
Novel combination antibacterial therapy against drug resistance ESKAPE pathogens. Drug repurposing and combinational approach to block abnormal protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease. |
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| Robert H. Silverman | CCF | ||
| J.G.M. Thewissen | NEOMED | Mammalian anatomy and evolution, morphological adaptations such as those for swimming and flight. More on Thewissen | |
| Anthony Tosi | Kent | More on Tosi | |
| Bruce Trapp | CCF | ||
| Sean Veney | Kent | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, sexual differentiation of the brain, syrinx anatomy, neuroethology of birdsong. More on Veney | |
| Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan | Kent | Signal transduction, sperm physiology, fertilization, contraception. More on Vijayaraghavan | |
| **Jeffrey J. Wenstrup | NEOMED | Neural mechanisms of hearing, acoustic communication, including emotional responses to sound. More on Wenstrup | |
| Jessica L. Williams | CCF | ||
| **Bradley D. Winters | NEOMED | Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears. More on Winters | |
| **Liya Yin | NEOMED | More on Yin | |
| **Jesse W. Young | NEOMED | Comparative and developmental biomechanics of locomotion. More on Young | |
| Ping Zhang | NEOMED | More on P. Zhang | |
| Yanqiao Zhang | NEOMED | Regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism under normal and disease conditions. More on Zhang |