Faculty M-Z
Dario Marchetti, Ph.D., Department of Pathology. Cancer invasion and metastasis; brain metastasis; angiogenic mechanisms in cancer and other pathologies
Graeme Mardon, Ph.D., Department of Pathology. Molecular mechanisms controlling neural development.
Anthony W. Maresso, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Pathogenesis of bacterial infections.
Susan Marriott, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Cellular transformation mediated by human retroviruses.
Estela E. Medrano, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Molecular biology of aging and transformation in human melanocytes.
Michael L. Metzker, Ph.D. Department of Molecular & Human Genetics. DNA sequencing technology development; genetic variation studies in diabetes, HIV-1 transmission studies.
P. Read Montague, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience. Computational Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Neural economics.
David D. Moore, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Function of nuclear hormone receptors.
David L. Nelson, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Human Genetics. Human genetics disorders; Fragile X syndrome; unstable DNA and neurodegeneration.
Hoang Nguyen, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Skin Epithelial Stem Cell Fate Maintenance and Lineage Determination.
Jeffrey L. Noebels, MD, Ph.D., Department of Neurology. Gene control of neuronal excitability.
Steffi Oesterreich, Ph.D., Department of Medicine. Molecular mechanism and clinical relevance of endocrine response in breast cancer.
Bert W. O'Malley, M.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Steroid receptors and coactivators regulate gene expression.
Paul Overbeek, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Cell fate determination
Timothy G. Palzkill, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Protein structure-function; protein-protein interactions.
Steen E. Pedersen, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics. Ion channel function and structure.
Fred A. Pereira, Ph.D., Huffington Center on Aging. Signaling pathways in auditory development, aging and cancer.
Sharon E. Plon, M.D., Ph.D.Department of Pediatrics. Control of genomic stability in response to DNA damage, and syndromes that result in an inherited predisposition to cancer.
Henry Pownall, Ph.D., Department of Medicine. Identification of the molecular basis of disorders associated with atherosclerosis, obesity, alcoholic hepatitis, and hypertriglyceridemia; dietary studies in human subjects and in animal models; cell culture and gene regulation.
B.V. Venkataram Prasad, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Structural biology of viruses and viral proteins.
Jun Qin, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Network analysis proteomics.
Florante A. Quiocho, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Protein structure, molecular recognition and function. Structural Biophysics and Biology: X-Ray Crystallography of Proteins.
Robert F. (Frank) Ramig, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Genetics, replication, and pathogenesis of Reoviridae.
JoAnne S. Richards, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Ovarian Cell Differentiation, Ovulation and Cancer.
Jeffrey M. Rosen, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Mammary gland development and breast cancer.
Susan M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Human Genetics. Genome Instability in Evolution, Cancer, and Antibiotic Resistance.
David R. Rowley, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Reactive Stroma in Cancer Progression.
Shelley Sazer, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Eukaryotic cell-cycle control.
Gad Shaulsky, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Human Genetics. Developmental genetics in Dictyostelium; intercellular communication during development; functional genomics; microarray analysis of gene expression; evolution of sociality.
Richard N. Sifers, Ph.D., Department of Pathology. Glycobiology; post-translational disease modifiers; conformational disease.
Betty L. Slagle, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Hepatitis B Virus Pathogenesis.
Zhou Songyang, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction.
David M. Spencer, Ph.D., Department of Immunology. Prostate cancer progression and immunotherapy; gene therapy.
Tse-Hua Tan, Ph.D., Department of Immunology. Signal Transduction Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Apoptosis.
Kimberley R. Tolias, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience. Molecular signaling pathways in structural development and plasticity of dendrites and synapses.
Francis T.F. Tsai, D. Phil., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Structural and functional studies of protein complexes and macromolecular assemblies.
Ming-Jer Tsai, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology. Role of transcription factors in development and diseases.
James Versalovic, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pathology. The intestinal microbiome; probiotics, innate immunity, and intestinal inflammation.
Salih Wakil, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Mechanism and regulation of fatty acid metabolism.
Jin Wang , Ph.D., Department of Immunology. Apoptosis and autophagy in the regulation of immune responses and cancer.
Jue D. (Jade) Wang, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. Elongation of DNA replication and implications for genomic stability.
Xander H.T. Wehrens, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Regulation of cardiac ion channels in normal and diseased hearts.
Theodore G. Wensel, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. G-protein signaling in neurons.
Thomas Westbrook, Ph.D., Department of Biomchemistry & Molecular Biology. RNAi-based strategies to cancer gene discovery; REST tumor suppressor pathway.
John H. Wilson, Ph.D., Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular & Human Genetics. Instability of trinucleotide repeats; knock-in mouse models for retinitis pigmentosa; gene therapy of dominant rhodopsin mutations.
Matthew H. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medicine. Transposons and kidney gene therapy.
Li Xin, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Prostate Stem Cells and Cells-of-origin for Prostate Cancer.
Laising Yen, Ph.D., Department of Pathology. RNA-based molecular switches and biosensors; Cancer biomarker discovery.
Li-Yuan Yu-Lee, Ph.D., Department of Medicine. Signaling pathways in immune and inflammatory responses and cancer.
Lynn Zechiedrich, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology. Protein-DNA interactions, genomic instability, and antibiotic resistance.
Pumin Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics. Cell cycle regulation in development and disease.
Biao Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Immunology Somatic Genetics and Development of Immune Responses; Immunosenescence; Autoimmunity.
Hui Zheng, Ph.D., Department of Molecular & Human Genetics. Molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease and age-related disorders.
Zheng Zhou, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Molecular Genetic Studies of Clearance of Apoptotic Cells in C. elegans.
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., Department of Pediatrics. Molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Thomas P. Zwaka, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Understanding the foundations of mammalian cellular diversity.