Minor in Biomedical Research -- Faculty Advisory Committee

Ira Clark
John Olsen
Rafael Romero

Utpal Banerjee	(Chair) Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Ellen Carpenter	Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Michael Carey	Professor of Biological Chemistry
John Colicelli	Professor of Biological Chemistry
Albert Courey	Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Soraya de Chadarevian	Professor of History
Frank Laski	Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Aldons J. Lusis	Professor of Human Genetics
Kelsey Martin	Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Jeffery F. Miller	Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Stephen Smale	Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Yi Sun	Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Hong Wu	Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Molecular Signaling of Heart Failure

Molecular Signaling of Heart Failure

Eddy De Robertis	Molecular Biology of Development in Mice and Frogs
Mike Carey	Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Crosstalk Among Chromatin Remodeling Machines and Co-Activators
John Colicelli	Signal Transduction in Cancer and Neurobiology
David Eisenberg	Protein Structure, folding and design
Feng Guo	Molecular mechanism of miRNA biogenesis
Reid Johnson	Gene expression and chromosome biology in bacteria and yeast
Timothy Lane	Tumor genetics, microenvironment and endothelial stem cell recruitment, in breast and ovarian cancer.
Kelsey Martin	Cell Biology of Learning-related Synaptic Plasticity
Greg Payne	Genetics and cell biology of intracellular protein transport
Kathrin Plath	Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer.
Gabriel Travis	Biochemistry of Vertebrate Photoreceptors.
Gerry Weinmaster	Notch Signaling in Mammalian Cells
James Wohlschlegel	Proteomic Studies of Ubiquitin and SUMO-regulated Protein Networks
Larry Zipursky	The Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neuronal Connection Specificity

Albert Courey	Spatial Control of Transcription in Development
Yung Ya Lin	Optimization of magnetic resonance imaging of biological samples

Esteban Dell'Angelica	Genetic Disorders of Organelle Biogenesis and Protein Trafficking
Julian Martinez-Agosto	Molecular pathways in stem and progenitor cell development
Paivi Pajukanta	Genetics of cardiovascular diseases
Karen Reue	Identification of metabolic disease genes

Utpal Banerjee	Signal Transduction and transcriptional control of Neuronal and Hematopoietic Development
Jau-Nian Chen	Development of Vertebrate Cardiovascular System
Amander Clark	Molecular Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cell and Germ Cell Biology
Andrew Diener	Molecular interactions between a fungal pathogen and its plant host
Volker Hartentein	Brain Development in Drosophila
Ann Hirsch	Molecular Analysis of Plant-Microbe Interactions; Role of Flavonoids and Other Plant Compounds in Human Health
Luisa Iruela-Arispe	Vascular Biology / Angiogenesis
Steve Jacobsen	Mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation by DNA methylation
Frank Laski	Regulation of Development in Drosophila
William Lowry	Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation
Karen Lyons	Growth Factor Signaling in Mammalian Development and Disease
Hanna Mikkola	Molecular regulation of hematopoietic stem cell development
Matteo Pellegrini	Computational methods to interpret genomic data
Alvaro Sagasti	Development of complex cell shapes in zebrafish touch-sensing neurons

Innate immunity and Alzheimer's disease

Structure and function of ion transporters

Doug Black	The Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression through Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing
Ben Bonavida	Resistance and the induction of apoptosis in tumor cells
Ken Bradley	Anthrax Toxin
Peter Bradley	Host cell invasion and host-pathogen interaction in Toxoplasma gondii.
Genhong Cheng	Host Immune and Inflammatory Responses to Infections, Cancers and Metabolic Challenges
Asim Dasgupta	Molecular Biology of Small Mammalian RNA Viruses
Rob Gunsalus	Regulation of Cellular Respiratory Functions in Microorganisms
Kent Hill	Mechanism and Biology of Cell Motility in African Trypanosomes
Patricia Johnson	Evolution, pathogenesis & cell biology of a human parasite
Beth Lazazzera	Mechanisms of Multicellular Behavior in Bacteria
Benhur Lee	Viral Attachment and Entry, HIV and Emerging Viruses, Glycobiology
Aldons J. Lusis	The analysis of complex genetic diseases
Jeff F. Miller	Sensory Transduction in the Control of Bacterial Virulence
Jeffrey H. Miller	Study of Mutagenesis and Antibiotic Action
Robert Modlin	Innate and adaptive immune responses to microbial infection
April Pyle	Human Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Transformation and Cell Fate Decisions
Wenyuan Shi	Biology and Biotechnology of Bacterial Pathogenesis
Steve Smale	Transcriptional Regulation in the Immune System
Fuyu Tamanoi	Signal Transduction involving the Ras-sperfamily G-proteins, protein farnesylation and anti-cancer drugs
Jerome Zack	Pathogenic processes of HIV-1 infection

Nicholas Brecha	Neurochemical Pathways in the Vertebrate Retina
Joshua Trachtenberg	Understanding cortical plasticity from synapses to circuits

Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

Retinal biochemistry, Molecular biology, and Genetics of retinal degenerations

Estrogen signaling and bone maintenance

Richard Gatti	Molecular Genetics of Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Paul Mischel	Molecular pathogenesis of brain tumors

Ren Sun	Systems Biology of viral infection: Integration of Biology, Nanotechology and Medical Application
Yi Sun	The Molecular Control of Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation
Hong Wu	Molecular Biology of Cancer and Stem Cells

Rachelle Crosbie	Molecular Basis of Muscle Function and Muscular Dystrophy
Reggie Edgerton	Neural Control of Movement and Neuromuscular Plasticity
Stephanie White	Social influences on learning and memory

Mirella Dapretto	Neural imaging approaches to language, cognition and developmental disorders
Jennifer Labus	Pain disorders and stress neurobiology
Ellen Carpenter	Psychiatry Transcription regulators in nervous system development