Genetics and Cell Biology
Paul Babitzke's Research Interest:
Regulation of gene expression by
RNA structure and RNA-binding proteins.
Lu Bai's Research Interest: Chromatin structure and
its role in gene regulation.
Marina Feric's Research Interest:
Biophysical mechanisms by which cells maintain their
organization over the course of aging.
Ying Gu's Research Interest:
The utilization of biochemical, molecular genetics, and
spectroscopic approaches to decipher mechanisms of
cellulose biosynthesis.
Michael Hanna's Research Interest:
We study how cells protect themselves from damaged or
dysfunctional lysosomes, the primary degradative compartment
in most eukaryotic cells. We are especially interested in the
mechanisms that repair damaged lysosomes and restore their critical
signaling functions.
Wendy Hanna-Rose's Research Interest:
We use genetic and metabolomics approaches in C. elegans
to model inborn errors of metabolism and probe
the molecular links between metabolic
perturbations and animal behavior and physiology.
Teh-hui Kao's Research Interest:
We use Petunia inflata as a model to study biochemical,
molecular, and structural bases of a self/non-self
recognition mechanism between pollen and pistil
adopted by flowering plants to prevent in breeding
and promote outcrossing.
Zhi-chun Lai's Research Interest:
Growth Control and Cancer Genetics.
Melanie McReynold's Research Interest:
The understanding of the biochemistry behind aging,
and its intersection with stress, with the long-term
goal of identifying strategies that promote healthier aging.
Tim Miyashiro's Research Interest:
We use microbial genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology
approaches to determine the molecular mechanisms that enable
bacteria to establish symbiosis with a eukaryotic host.
The model system is the symbiosis formed between the
bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri
and the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes.
Our primary interests in this system include quorum sensing,
contact-dependent killing mechanisms, and sulfur metabolism.
C. Denise Okafor's Research Interest:
The structural mechanisms of signaling and regulation
in protein complexes.
Robert F. Paulson's Research Interest:
The mechanism of tissue regeneration using the response
to anemia as a model system.
Melissa Rolls' Research Interest:
The Rolls lab aims to understand how neurons generate axons
and dendrites with different microtubule organization, and
how neurons respond to injury. Current projects focus on
mechanisms that control microtubule polarity and dynamics
and mechanisms that promote neuronal regeneration.
Lorraine Santy's Research Interest:
We study the signal transduction and vesicular
trafficking processes that promote migration in
epithelial cells. We seek to understand the role
of these processes in normal homeostasis and in
pathological processes.
Scott B. Selleck's Research Interest:
Nervous system development and molecular mechanisms of
neurodegenerative disorders.
