Our Faculty

Below is a list of faculty involved in the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, along with their department affiliation and a description of their current research. Click on each faculty member's name to find contact information and learn more about their interests and research.

Faculty Member		Department	Research Focus
	Elaine T. Alarid	Oncology	Molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone action
	Kurt Amann	Zoology	A molecular understanding of the mechanisms underlying cell structure and motility
	Richard A. Anderson	Administration	Molecular mechanisms regulating cell migration, proliferation, and differentiation; Implications for cancer
	Anjon Audhya	Biomolecular Chemistry	Molecular mechanisms that regulate membrane trafficking during development
	Ravi Balijepalli	Cardiology	Compartmentalized regulation of cardiac ion channels and signaling, Cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms, Hypertrophy and Heart Failure
	David Beebe	Biomedical Engineering	Exploring a variety of engineered in vitro microenvironments to probe the nature of cell interactions that regulate cell behavior.
	William Bement	Zoology	Cytoskeleton controls over cell division and wound healing
	Emery H. Bresnick	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Stem Cell Biology, Molecular Hematology, and Vascular Biology: From Fundamental Mechanisms to Translational Medicine
	Mark Burkard	Medicine	Targeted therapy directed at protein kinases
	Baron Chanda	Neuroscience	Mechanisms of modulation of voltage-dependent gating in ion channels
	Edwin R. Chapman	Neuroscience	Molecular Mechanisms that Underlie Neuronal Exocytosis
	Lara Collier	Pharmacy	Genetics of tumor initiation, progression and therapy resistance
	Vincent Cryns	Medicine	Abnormalities in cell death contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer and obesity and in translating these insights into improved therapies
	Cynthia Czajkowski	Neuroscience	Structure and Function of Neurotransmitter Receptors
	John Denu	Biomolecular Chemistry	Mechanism and biological function of reversible protein modifications involved in modulating signal transduction, chromatin dynamics and gene activation
	Ying Ge	Cell and Regenerative Biology	Cardiac Systems Biology; Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Heart Failure; Cardiac Regenerative Biology and Medicine
	Michael N. Gould	Oncology	Basic and Translational Research in Breast Cancer
	Daniel S. Greenspan	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Modulation of BMP signaling and formation of the extracellular matrix scaffolding in development and tissue remodeling.
	Jeffrey D. Hardin	Zoology	Epithelial migration and embryonic development
	Melissa Harrison	Biomolecular Chemistry	Molecular mechanisms driving the initial wave of gene expression in the totipotent cells of the early embryo.
	Troy Hornberger	Comparative Biosciences	Skeletal muscles sense mechanical information and convert this stimulus into the molecular events that regulate changes in muscle mass
	Anna Huttenlocher	Medical Microbiology	Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate Cell Migration; Implications to Tumor Invasion and Metastasis and Inflammation
	Meyer B. Jackson	Neuroscience	Synaptic Transmission in Central Nervous Systems
	Colin R. Jefcoate	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Physiological Mechanisms Associated with P450 Cytochromes
	Jeffrey Johnson	Pharmacy	Molecular Neuropharmacology/Neurotoxicology
	Robert Kalejta	Oncology and Molecular Virology	Mechanisms of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) replication and pathogenesis
	Ned Kalin	Psychiatry	Neurobiological basis of fear, anxiety, and depression at preclinical and clinical levels
	Timothy J. Kamp	Medicine	Cardiac ion channels and embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyoctyes
	Patricia J. Keely	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Integrin and small GTPase signaling events in Differentiation and Transformation
	Judith Kimble	Biochemistry	Germline stemcells (GSCs) and their regulation in the nematode C. elegans
	Michelle Kimple	Medicine (Diabetes/ Metabolism)	Guanine Nucleotide Binding Proteins, pancreatic beta-cell biology, insulin secretion, diabetes pathophysiology

	Kevin Kozak	Oncology	Identifying molecular, cellular and organ-level barriers to effective anti-neoplastic therapy and developing methods to overcome them
	Pamela Kreeger	Biomedical Engineering	Systems biology to identify treatment approaches for ovarian cancer and endometriosis
	Youngsook Lee	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Molecular mechanisms regulating cardiovascular development and disease.
	Bo Liu	Surgery	Molecular mechanism underlying vascular inflammation, molecular mechanism underlying occlusive vascular diseases, and development of new materials for biomedical applications
	Xuelin Lou	Neuroscience	Development and function of central nerve terminals and neural circuits
	Thomas F.J. Martin	Biochemistry	Molecular Approach to Exocytosis of Neurotransmitters
	Kristyn Masters	Biomedical Engineering	Issues in cell-material interactions in order to create 'smarter', bioactive materials that are capable of directing cell function
	Shigeki Miyamoto	Oncology	Rel/NF-kB Transcription Factors
	Deane F. Mosher	Biomolecular Chemistry	Biochemistry of Cell Adhesion and Movement
	William F. Murphy	Biomedical Engineering	Bioinspired Non-Covalent Assembly of Materials
	David Pagliarini	Biochemistry	Mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism; cell signaling; proteomics
	J. Wesley Pike	Biochemistry	Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skelton
	Luigi Puglielli	Medicine	Lipid signaling in the aging brain and molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
	Ron Raines	Biochemistry	Chemical biology, protein design and engineering, enzymology
	Alan C. Rapraeger	Human Oncology	Syndecan regulation of cell adhesion and growth factor signaling
	Avtar Roopra	Neuroscience	Understand the epigenetic mechanisms behind transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure
	Arnold E. Ruoho	Pharmacology	Molecular mechanisms which underlie neurotransmitter release, receptor activation and actions of drugs of abuse
	Linda Schuler	Comparative Biosciences	Physiologic growth, differentiation and functional activity of the breast.
	Nathan Sherer	Virology & Oncology	HIV-1 assembly and spread; host-pathogen interactions; retroviral gene regulation; virus trafficking; cell-cell communication; live cell imaging
	Vladimir Spiegelman	Dermatology	Molecular mechanism of cancer development and progression
	Rupa Sridharan	Cell and Regenerative Biology	Epigenetics of cell fate change
	Robert Striker	Medical Microbiology & Immunology	Working on naturally occurring and lab generated mutants in the polymerase affects fidelity, replication, and processivity.
	John Svaren	Comparative Biosciences	Role of EGR and NAB proteins in peripheral nerve myelination
	James A. Thomson	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Focusing on understanding how a cell can maintain or change identity,and how a cell chooses between self-renewal and the initial decision to differentiate, among other cell related potentials.
	Randal S. Tibbetts	Human Oncology	Genome Surveillance; DNA Damage-Induced Signal Transduction
	David A. Wassarman	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Transcriptional regulation by histone modifying complexes in Drosophila
	Beth A. Weaver	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Regulation of chromosome segregation during mitosis
	Derric Wheeler	Oncology	Mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies
	Yongna Xing	Oncology	Cell signaling pathways related to cancer
	Wei Xu	Oncology	Transcriptional regulation of estrogen receptor (ER) signaling pathways
	Jay Yang	Anesthesiology	Basic mechanisms of clinically relevant problems such as pathological pain, heart failure (diabetic cardiomyopathy), and sepsis using cellular, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques.
	Jerry Yin	Genetics (Medicine)	Molecular genetics of learning and memory formation in Drosophila and mice (molecular neurobiology, nervous system function and dysfunction)
	Su-Chun Zhang	Anatomy Neurology	Working on how functionally diversified neuronal and glial subtypes are born in the making of our human brain.
	Xinyu Zhao	Neuroscience	Focusing on understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate neural stem cells and neurodevelopment with the goal of applying this knowledge in the treatment of neurological disorders and injuries