Vesa Kaartinen, Ph.D.
Biologic and Materials Sciences
Research Interests:
We study molecular mechanisms that regulate craniofacial and cardiac development.
Faculty: all
Sundeep Kalantry, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Human Genetics
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Epigenetics, chromatin modifications, dosage compensation, embryology, and stem cell biology.
Evan Keller, DVM, Ph.D.
Professor of Urology, Director of Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program
Accepting new students?
No
Research Interests:
Tumor microenvironment, metastasis, bone, spatial analysis
Rami Khoriaty, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
hematopoiesis; erythropoiesis; globin switching, secretory pathway, CRISPR screens
Celina Kleer, MD
Pathology
Research Interests:
mechanism by which overepression of EZH2 and down-regulation of CCN6 (WISP3) promote breast cancer invasion and metastasis, and their utility as novel tissue biomarkers of prognosis.
Nicole Koropatkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, PIBS Associate Director
Accepting New Students?
No
Program Involvement:
CMB Program Committee, CMB 850 Faculty Evaluators, CMB 850 Student Seminar Coordination, CMB Faculty Review Committee
Research Interests:
microbiome, structural biology, glycoside hydrolases, Bacteroides, starch
Anuj Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests
Genomics and proteomics to study signaling networks regulating yeast cell growth, cell polarity and cell cycle progression.
Steven Kunkel, Ph.D.
Pathology
Experimental research activities directed at understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cytokine networks that are operative in different immune/inflammatory reactions and host defenses
Ken Kwan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Human Genetics / MNI
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Genetic mechanisms and chromatin regulation of cortical development, neural circuit wiring, and developmental brain disorders
Training and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Adam Lauring, MD, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests
The rapid evolution of RNA viruses makes them particularly challenging targets for vaccines and antiviral drugs.
Daniel Lawrence, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Ischemic stroke, neurodegenerative disease, vascular biology of the CNS, fibrotic disease
Kyoung Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Understand how pancreatic cancer develops in complex tissue environments, with particular interest in hypoxia and immune cells as critical tumor microenvironment components
Tzumin Lee
Professor, Life Sciences Institute, MCDB/LSA
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Cell lineage, Cell fate, Single-cell genomics, Brain development
Scott Leiser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Aging, metabolism, stress response, neurobiology, genetics
Jiahe Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Microbial engineering, synthetic biology, living therapeutics, drug delivery and immunotherapy
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Jun Li, Ph.D.
Human Genetics
Research Interests
My group studies the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Current areas include genetic and genomic analyses of mental disorders, somatic DNA alterations in cancer, and human population genetics.
Ming Li
Associate Professor
Peng Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Life Sciences Institute/Biologic and Materials Science
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Neurobiology, Physiology
Qing Li, MD, Ph.D.
Internal Medicine - Hematology/Oncology
Research Interests:
Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms underlying leukemic stem cell transformation.
Andrew Lieberman, MD, Ph.D.
Pathology
Research Interests:
Study of the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in CAG/polyglutamine disorders and Niemann- Pick C using mouse and cellular models.
Jiandie Lin, Ph.D.
Bradley M. Patten Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences
Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Research Interests:
Nutrient signaling, interorgan crosstalk, metabolic disease, liver cancer, single-cell biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Xiaoxia "Nina" Lin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Microbial communities, microbiome, microfluidics, synthetic biology, biochemical production
Changyang Linghu
Assistant Professor
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Biosensors and Bioactuators, Biomedical and Optical Imaging, Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Mechanobiology.
Allen Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training
Research Interests:
Mechanobiology and mechanotransduction, cell migration, clathrin-mediated endocytosis, cytoskeleton, bottom-up synthetic biology
Training and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training
Mats Ljungman, Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in normal physiology and in cancer and neurological disease.
Isabelle Lombaert , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biologic and Materials Science
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training
Research Interests:
stem cells, regeneration, gene therapy, cancer
David Lorberbaum
Assistant Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Training and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, First Generation
Agnieszka Lukaszewicz
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests
meiotic recombination, germine mutagenesis, genome integrity
Carey Lumeng, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training
Research Interests:
obesity, inflammation
Costas A. Lyssiotis, Ph.D.
Maisel Research Professor of Oncology
Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Director, Graduate Program in Cancer Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
tumor metabolism, immunometabolism, metabolomics, pancreatic cancer
Ormond MacDougald, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, John A Faulkner Professor of Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
Adipocytes, Adipose Tissue, Diabetes, Bone, Obesity
David Markovitz, MD
Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Interaction between retroviruses and human cellular proteins. Mechanism of action of the DEK oncoprotein. Role of vimentin in immunity and cancer. Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
Donna Martin, MD, Ph.D.
Human Genetics
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of transcription factor mediated neuronal development; gene targeting; studies of human and mouse developmental disorders.
Brett McCray
Assistant Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Training and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training
Hayley McLoughlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
neurodegeneration; ataxia; oligodendrocyte biology; gene therapy/silencing approaches
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training