Faculty: all

Alnawaz Rehemtulla

Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology
Research Interests:
Genetic basis of therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma and identification of therapeutic targets that reverses resistance to standard of care therapies.
Mark Russell

Mark Russell, MD

Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Research Interests:
Dr. Russell is studying mechanisms of cardiac and skeletal myofibril assembly, alignment and structural support.

Russell Ryan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pathology
Accepting Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Mature B-cell lymphoma, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, enhancers, transcriptional regulation, chromatin
Audrey Seasholtz

Audrey Seasholtz, Ph.D.

Biological Chemistry
Research Interests:
Molecular mediators of stress and anxiety; regulation and role of CRH, the CRH receptors and CRH-binding protein in stress; mechanisms of transcriptional regulation; transgenic mice.
Randy Seeley

Randy Seeley, Ph.D.

HK Ransom Endowed Professor
Surgery
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests
Gut-brain axis, obesity, type 2 diabetes, nutrition

JoAnn Sekiguchi, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Our lab studies mechanisms of DNA repair and how aberrant repair processes affect genomic stability, predisposition to cancer and immune system development.
Yatrik Shah

Yatrik Shah, Ph.D.

Molec & Integrative Physiology
Research Interests
The major goal of our research program is to determine the molecular mechanisms by which oxygen sensing transcription factors regulate gastrointestinal homeostasis, inflammation and cancer.
Jordan Shavit

Jordan Shavit, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics
Henry and Mala Dorfman Family Professor
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
hematology, zebrafish, genome editing, genetics, modifier genes
Kanakadurga Singer

Kanakadurga Singer, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Accepting new students?
Possibly
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Change It Up!, Intercultural Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Research in the Singer lab is focused on understanding the influence of diet-induced obesity on hematopoiesis and the generation of activated macrophages that lead to metabolic disease.
Janet Smith

Janet Smith, Ph.D.

Department of Biological Chemistry
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
protein structure-function, antiviral proteins, virulence factors, biosynthetic enzymes
Alen Smrcka

Alan Smrcka, Ph.D.

Professor
Pharmacology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Anti-Racism Training, Intercultural Training, Disability Awareness Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
G protein coupled receptor signal transduction in physiology and disease.
Soleimanpour, Asash

Scott Soleimanpour, MD

Internal Medicine
Research Interests
All forms of diabetes share the common etiology of insufficient insulin release from pancreatic islet beta cells to meet peripheral insulin demand.
Lauren Surface

Lauren Surface, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
School of Dentistry
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Molecular responses of osteogenic cells, drug mechanisms of action, endocrinology
Andrew Tai

Andrew Tai, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Accepting New Students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Bystander Training
Research Interests:
virus-cell interaction, positive-strand RNA viruses, flaviviruses, cell biology of RNA virus infeciton
Greg Tall

Gregory Tall, Ph.D.

Pharmacology
Research Interests:
G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) activate heterotrimeric G proteins to control myriad signaling pathways and physiological processes.
Peter Todd

Peter Todd, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, member, DEI recruitment and retention committee, Neurology
Research Interests:
Nucleotide Repeat expansions; protein translation; neurodegeneration; RNA biology; ALS/FTD; Ataxia.
Ray Trievel

Ray Trievel, Ph.D.

Biological Chemistry
Research Interests:
Our laboratory is interested in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying chromatin modifications that regulate gene expression and other chromatin-associated functions.
Matthias Truttmann

Matthias Truttmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Intercultural Training
Research Interests:
The Truttmann laboratory studies molecular chaperone functions in the context of proteostasis, aging and aging-associated diseases
Billy Tsai

Billy Tsai, Ph.D.

Corydon Ford Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Virus-host interactions, protein quality control, endoplasmic reticulum.
Sarah Veatch

Sarah Veatch

Professor, Biophysics
Research Interest
Cell membranes, single molecule imaging, cell signaling, phase separation
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Venneti Sriram

Sriram Venneti, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology-Department of Pathology
Research Interests
The aims of our research are to understand the core mechanisms that drive brain cancers such as diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas( DIPG) and ependymomas in children, as well as gliomas in adults.
Kristen Verhey

Kristen Verhey, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Cytoskeleton, intracellular trafficking, microtubules, kinesin motor proteins, cilia
Niles Walter

Nils Walter, Ph.D.

Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Biophysics & Biological Chemistry
Founding Co-Director, Center for RNA Biomedicine
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Intercultural Training, Bystander Training
Research Interests:
The Walter group studies the cellular and molecular biology of ubiquitous non-coding RNAs
Zhong Wang

Zhong Wang, Ph.D.

Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Everyday Bias in Healthcare (through OHEI), Department DEI committee member; NIH and AHA DEI training
Research Interests:
Heart regeneration using a combination of stem cells, small molecules, bioengineering, and large animal models.
Chase Weidmann

Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
RNA structure, noncoding RNA, RNA-binding proteins, regulation of gene expression
Lois Weisman

Lois Weisman, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
We seek to understand essential cellular processes — using cultured neurons, cell lines and yeast — in order to shed new light on neurodegeneration, cancer and other diseases.
Stephen Weiss

Stephen Weiss, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Normal as well as neoplastic cell populations remodel the extracellular matrix by regulating the expression of complex gene programs that control cell motility, proteolytic activity, proliferation.
Megan Weivoda

Megan Weivoda, PhD

Periodontics and Oral Medicine
Research Interests:
The mechanisms by which multi-nucleated osteoclasts stimulate osteoblastic bone formation in order to identify therapeutic targets to promote bone formation in aging and cancer-induced bone disease.
Margaret Westfall

Margaret Westfall, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Accepting new students?
No
Research Interests:
Cardiac myocyte; Sarcomere; Post-translational Modifications; Protein kinase
Max Wicha

Max Wicha, MD

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Effects of extracellular matrix components on cell growth and differentiation. Cancer stem cells.
Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology
Faculty Director, Advanced Genomics Core
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
DNA repair, mutagenesis, transcription, genomics, bioinformatics.
Wobus, Christiane

Christiane Wobus, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Bystander Training, Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
virus-host interactions in the intestine, norovirus, astrovirus, human intestinal organoids
Matthias Wolf Headshot

Matthias Wolf

Associate Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Training and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Foreign Medical Graduate

Pages