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Vernon Carruthers, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training. First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
ESCRT, endocytosis, autophagy, genetics, infection
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Marilia Cascalho, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Intercultural Training, URM- and Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
B cell responses to Transplantation. Co-evolution of TNFRSF13B polymorphisms with microbial adaptations. Immunotherapies. Mutable vaccines
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Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Accepting Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Systems Biology, Drug discovery, Metabolism, Machine Learning, Infectious disease
Trainings:
MORE Mentorship Training
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Mark Chiang, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
T-cell leukemia, T-cell development, Notch, transcriptional genomics, protein-protein interactions
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Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, Ph.D.
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
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Michael Cianfrocco, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
microtubule, motor proteins, cryo-EM
Eleanor "Josie" Clowney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Bystander Training, HHMI Inclusive Mentoring Training
Research Interests:
development, olfaction, neural circuits, genome evolution, sexual dimorphism
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Kathleen Collins, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
pathogen/trafficking/drug development/virus/immunology
Trainings and Identities:
Mentor/Admissions Cmte Member, NIH PREP; Speaker, NIH Bridging the Gap; PI/Mentor, NIH diversity supplements; Member, ASCI DEI Committee; Advisor, MSTP SMART and INSPIRE; Advisor, MSTP DEI Cmte
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Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Research Interests
cellular - molecular - developmental neuroscience
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Create Trust by Asking Questions: The Art of Humble Inquiry
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Pierre A. Coulombe, Ph.D.
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Leading the department I chair, CDB, regarding DEI and climate issues., first-generation-identified (college grad)
Research Interests:
Tissue homeostasis, cell differentiation, genetic skin diseases, cancer, nucleus
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