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Karina Serban

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director of Alpha-1 Research Laboratory

Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Innate lung immunity
  • Complement
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • Emphysema
  • alveolar epithelial cells
  • metabolism
  • cigarette smoke

Advanced Concentrations:

Artem Nemudryi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • CRISPR technologies
  • bacterial immune systems
  • RNA editing
  • RNA repair

Advanced Concentrations:

Chen Zhao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • membrane protein
  • cryo-EM
  • structural biology
  • ion channel
  • GPCR

Advanced Concentrations:

Safder Ganaie, PhD

Assistant Professor

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Emerging & Re-emerging RNA Viruses
  • Viral entry and infection
  • Viral Pathogenesis
  • Arboviruses
  • Genome-wide CRSIPR Screens

Advanced Concentrations:

Jose Francisco Abisambra

Associate Professor

Neuroscience

Topics of Interest:

  • tauopathy
  • head injury
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • molecular mechanisms of learning & memory
  • Unfolded protein response

Advanced Concentrations:

Jacqueline Abranches, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Oral Biology

Topics of Interest:

  • bacterial pathogenesis
  • biofilms
  • translational research
  • microbial physiology

Advanced Concentrations:

Reem S. Abu-Rustum, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Topics of Interest:

  • heart biology/disease
  • fetal alcohol syndrome

Advanced Concentrations:

Abdel Alli, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology

Topics of Interest:

  • essential hypertension
  • diabetes associated hypertension
  • extracellular vesicles
  • diabetic nephropathy
  • protease

Advanced Concentrations:

Karina Alvina, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Neuroscience

Topics of Interest:

  • neurodegenerative diseases
  • stress
  • learning and memory
  • neuroinflammation

Advanced Concentrations:

Allison M Andrews, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Blood-brain barrier
  • drugs of abuse
  • HIV
  • neuroinflammation
  • traumatic brain injury
  • vasculature
  • immune-endothelial interactions

Advanced Concentrations:

Stephen Anton, PhD

Professor

Physiology and Aging

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • aging
  • physiology
  • biomedical engineering

Advanced Concentrations:

Patrick J. Antonelli, M.D., M.S.

Professor

Otolaryngology

Topics of Interest:

  • hearing loss
  • facial paralysis

Advanced Concentrations:

John P. Aris, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Anatomy & Cell Biology

Topics of Interest:

  • cell biology
  • tissue biology
  • 3D models

Advanced Concentrations:

Mark Atkinson, Ph.D.

Professor & Eminent Scholar

American Diabetes Association, Eminent Scholar Chair

Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine

Topics of Interest:

  • cellular immunology
  • diabetes
  • cell regeneration
  • autoimmunity
  • transplantation

Advanced Concentrations:

Abbas Babajani-Feremi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Director, Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Lab

Neurology

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Electrophysiology
  • Epilepsy
  • Alzheimer's disease and dementia
  • Language mapping
  • BCI for speech decoding
  • Brain connectomics

Advanced Concentrations:

Elisabeth Barton, PhD

Professor

Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Health and Human Performance

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • skeletal muscle
  • neuromuscular diseases
  • aging

Advanced Concentrations:

Allison Bayer, PhD

Associate Professor

Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Diabetes
  • Transplantation
  • Autoimmunity
  • Tolerance
  • T regulatory cells
  • Natural killer cells

Advanced Concentrations:

Angelina V. Bernier, M.D.

Associate Professor

Pediatrics

Topics of Interest:

Advanced Concentrations:

Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Pediatrics

Topics of Interest:

  • Tumor Virology
  • Lytic Cycle
  • oncolytic therapy
  • DNA Damage Response
  • DNA repair

Advanced Concentrations:

Jonathan Bird, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • Cytoskeleton
  • Molecular Motors
  • Actin
  • Sensory Biology
  • Single Molecule
  • Neurodegeneration

Advanced Concentrations:

Jennifer L. Bizon, Ph.D.

Professor

Neuroscience

Topics of Interest:

  • memory
  • decision making prefrontal cortex
  • optogenetics
  • interneurons

Advanced Concentrations:

David C. Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor & Chair

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Accepting Students

Topics of Interest:

  • herpesviruses
  • viral pathogenesis
  • epigenetics
  • gene therapy
  • viral vectors

Advanced Concentrations:

Linda B. Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Topics of Interest:

  • DNA replication & repair
  • cancer
  • enzymology
  • ATPase
  • genome stabilty & evolution

Advanced Concentrations:

Donald Bolser, Ph.D.

Professor

Associate Chair

Physiological Sciences

Topics of Interest:

  • neurobiology
  • lung biology/disease
  • spinal cord
  • neurotransmitters
  • cough

Advanced Concentrations:

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