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Dr. Andres Aguilar - Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Population genetics, molecular evolution and conservation genetics. Current research interests include the evolution of MHC genes, the study of adaptation at the molecular level and the genetics of declining populations.
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Dr. Keith E. Alley - Ph.D. University of Illinois
Developmental neuroscience focusing on cellular mechanisms that assure scaling of neuronal populations with the targets they innervate neuromuscular maturation and plasticity.
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Dr. David Ardell - Ph.D. Stanford University, California
Developing and applying novel bioinformatic approaches to comparative and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics of protein and RNAs, and other techniques of computational biology to better understand how genes and genomes function and coevolve with gene expression mechanisms, particularly in translation.
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Dr. Miriam Barlow - Ph.D. University of Rochester
Bacteria evolution, predicting antibiotic resistance evolution, testing evolutionary theory.
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Dr. Michael Beman - Ph.D. Stanford University
Develop an integrative and predictive understanding of microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling in a changing ocean.
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Dr. Jinah Choi - Ph.D. University of Southern California
Molecular characterization of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which causes liver diseases. Study of HCV proteins produced by translational frame shifting, how HCV interacts with the host to facilitate its replicaton and induces pathogenesism and the role of oxidative stress in viral infection.
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Dr. Michael Cleary - Ph.D Stanford University
How Drosophila neural stem cells (neuroblasts) produce the diversity of cell types found in the nervous system. Primary research aims to understand: how cell fate decisions are temporally regulated so distinct cell types are made at specific times during development; how mitotic activity is regulated so that neuroblasts stop and start dividing at the proper time and how cell fate information is passed down from a neuroblast to its progeny.
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Dr. Michael Colvin - Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Mathematical and computational methods are used to model biological processes. Current projects include modeling the activity of anticancer drugs, chemical analogs of DNA, proteins in the nuclear pore complex and populations of differentiating cells.
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Dr. Michael N Dawson - Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles
Origins, maintenance and loss of biodiversity from molecular to ecosystem levels. Also, how molecular variation explains and causes differences between individuals, populations, species, and higher taxa, and how the environment shapes genetic, organismal, population and community variation.
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Dr. Benoit Dayrat - Ph.D. University of Paris VII, France
Research focuses on the systematics and evolution of invertebrates with an emphasis on mollusks, and theory, history and philosophy of systematic and evolutionary biology. Current projects include the evolution and biodiversity of pulmonate and opisthobranch gastropods.
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Dr. Henry Jay Forman - Ph.D. Columbia University
How free radicals and other reactive species in air pollution and tobacco smoke after lung cell function. These agents affect signal transduction leading to gene expression that allows adaptation to stress but also to lung injury through inflammation. Our goal: to find ways to tip the balance towards lung protection from oxidative stress.
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Dr. Carolin Frank - Ph.D. Uppsala University, Sweden
Genome- and community dynamics of bacteria associated with eukaryotes, especially corals and plants. Structure, organization and evolution of bacterial genomes. Metagenomics.
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Dr. Marcos Garcia-Ojeda - Ph.D. Stanford University
How microenvironmental and genetic signals are required for stem cell function and lymphocyte development. Projects include the role of the transcription factor GATA-3 in the commitment and differentiation of lymphocytes, the elucidation of the hematopoietic stem cell and lymphocyte progenitor niche.
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Dr. Ajay Gopinathan - Ph.D. University of Chicago, Chicago
Problems in biophysics, soft condensed matter phyics and the interface between the two fields. Theoretical and computational methods from statistical mechanics and polymer physics are used to address issues such as cell motility, including force generationa nd membrane dynamics, macromolecule transport across membrane pores, cytoskeletal network dynamics, structure of biopolymer aggregates, intracellular transport, chemotaxis and drug design.
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Dr. Stephen C. Hart - Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Understanding biological controls regulating the structure and function of managed and wildland ecosystems. Works include evaluating the impacts of climatic change, ecological restoration, fire and land management on terrestrial ecosystems, particularly the interactions between plants and soil microorganisms.
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Dr. Linda Hirst - Ph.D. Manchester University
Experimental soft condensed matter physics, with interests in both biophysics and liquid crystal materia
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Dr. Masashi Kitazawa - Ph.D. Iowa State University
- Neuroscience, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammation, mouse models
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Dr. Andy LiWang - Ph.D. University of Washington
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is used to elucidate the structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids. Graduate students develop and apply new NMR experiments to study temporal interactions between circadian clock proteins as well as the hydrogen bonds of DNA and RNA.
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Dr. Patricia LiWang - Ph.D. Harvard
Biochemistry, structural biology and biophysics. Most of the lab's work involves the study of small immune system proteins called chemokines, some of which have the ability to inhibit infection by HIV. Current research involves working on anti-HIV microbicides and chemokine-binding proteins that could inhibit inflammation.
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Dr. Gabriela Loots - Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Understanding limb and skeletal development, genetics of bone metabolism, and transcriptional regulatory networks in vertebrates.
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Dr. Jennifer Manilay - Ph.D. Harvard University
Developmental immunology and mechanisms that control cell fate decisions during T-cell development. Current projects focus on the roles of ADAM-10 and ADAM-17 proteases in the regulation of notch signaling and thymocyte migration, and the quantiative measurement of signals involved in T lineage commitment.
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Dr. Monica Medina - Ph.D. University of Miami
Phylogenetics and organelle genome evolution of marine invertebrates and the genomics of coral-zooxanthellae symbioses in Caribbean reefs.
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Dr. David Ojcius - Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, California
The study of Chlamydia, whose species represent the world's leading cause of preventable blindness and is a common cause of respiratory and sexually-transmitted infections in humans. Current projects focus on how the bacteria modify signal-transduction pathways that affect programmed cell death (apoptosis) and metabolism of the host cell.
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Dr. Rudy Ortiz - Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz
The role of aldosterone in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, specifically, looking at signaling mechanisms of inflammation and mechanisms of renal electrolyte handling. We also study the role of angiotensin ll in hypertension, obesity and diabetes.
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Dr. Nestor Oviedo - Ph.D. IVIC/University of Utah
Understand the mechanisms of stem cell regulation related to tissue regeneration, cancer, and degenerative diseases, using the remarkably versatile planarian animal model.
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Dr. Meng-Lin Tsao - Ph.D. Ohio State University
Development of systematic methods to generate biocatalysts for desired organic reactions, site-specific incorporation of unique organic molecules into proteins to create proteins with enhanced or new properties, and study of polypeptde molecules for disease curing.
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Dr. Fred Wolf - Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Genetic and neural circuit coding mechanisms of simple behaviors in drosophila.
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