Primary Faculty

Pierre Coulombe

G. Carl Huber Professor

Department Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Dermatology

Research Focus: Epithelia, skin, cell differentiation, tissue homeostasis, tissue repair, genetic diseases, cancer, intermediate filament, keratin, nucleus

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734-615-7509

Coulombe Lab

Ben Allen

James Douglas Engel Collegiate Professor

Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Director, University of Michigan Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program

Associate Director, Cellular & Molecular Biology Graduate Program

Associate Director, Center for Cell Plasticity & Organ Design

Faculty Advisor, Developing Future Biologists

Research Focus: Hedgehog Signaling, Vertebrate Embryogenesis, Cancer, Stem Cell Biology, Adult Tissue Homeostasis, Renewal and Regeneration

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734-615-7512

Allen Lab

Scott Barolo

Director, Program in Biomedical Sciences

Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Focus: Gene regulation and signal transduction in development, structure and function of transcriptional enhancers, and enhancer evolution

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734-764-7295

Barolo Lab

Dawen Cai

Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Associate Professor, Biophysics

Research Focus: Neuronal stem cell, single-cell transcriptome, Neural circuit formation, plasticity

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734-763-7336

Cai Lab

Mara Duncan

Associate Chair, Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Community, Cell & Developmental Biology

Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Focus: Intracellular traffic, cell polarity & organelle functions in stem cells and yeast

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734-763-4106

Duncan Lab

Doug Engel

Elizabeth C. Crosby Collegiate Professor

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Focus: hematopoiesis, erythropoiesis, T cell development, hematopoietic stem cells, transcription

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734-615-7509

Diane Fingar

Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Director, Graduate Studies, Cell & Development Biology

Research Focus: Cell signaling; growth factors; nutrients; protein kinases; mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR); mTORC1; mTORC2; cell growth; cell proliferation; cell survival

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734-763-7541

Roman Giger

Dr. Richard Mark Newman Research Professor

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Neurology

Research Focus: Nervous system regeneration, sciatic nerve, optic nerve, axon growth, neuroinflammation, axon-glia interaction, myelination, mouse genetics

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734-647-2090

Giger Lab

Idse Heemskerk

Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Assistant Professor, Physics

Research Focus: stem cells, mammalian development, signaling & patterning dynamics, morphogenesis, mathematical modeling, biological physics

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734-936-0186

Heemskerk Lab

Michael Hortsch

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Learning Health Sciences

Research Focus: Medical education, histology, e-learning, educational technology, virtual microscopy

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734-647-2720

Ajit Joglekar

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Biophysics

Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Research Focus: Cell division, genome stability, signal transduction and signaling, bioengineering, cancer cell biology

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734-764-2474

Joglekar Lab

Jiandie Lin

Bradley M. Patten Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Research Focus: nutrient signaling, interorgan crosstalk, metabolic disease, tissue microenvironment, transcription, liver cancer, single-cell biology

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734-615-3512

Lin Lab

Changyang Linghu

Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Member, Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program

Affiliate, Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Research Focus: Biotechnology, Signaling Network Dynamics, Gene Expression Histories, Mechanobiology, Biomedical and Optical Imaging, Protein Engineering, Biosensors and Bioactuators, Neuroscience

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Spatial Biodynamics Lab

Shyamal Mosalaganti

Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Assistant Professor, Biophysics

Research Focus: Cryo-electron tomography, in-situ structural biology, lysosomal membrane proteins, organelle contact sites, neurons

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(734) 647-5557

Mosalaganti Lab

Sue O'Shea

Crosby-Kahn Collegiate Professor

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Professor, Psychiatry

Research Focus: Pluripotent stem cells, nervous system development, bipolar disorder

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734-763-2550

Stem Cell Core Lab

Melanie Ohi

Rowena G. Matthews Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Research Focus: Single particle electron microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy, spliceosome, pre-mRNA splicing, S. pombe, structure biology, yeast genetics, bacterial pathogenesis, membrane proteins

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734-763-6493

Melanie Ohi Lab