CURRENT PI MEMBER LISTING

Below is a listing of the current PI's in The RNA Club (students and post-doc's welcome too!)

For more information please contact one of the following people: Mahesh Appari, Alicia Bicknell, Omid Harandi, Zhiji Ren.

 

Victor Ambros, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine, RTI
 Molecular and genetic control of animal delevelopment; microRNA regulartory mechanisms
Elliot Andropy, M.D., Department of Medicine
 Pathogenesis of papillomavirus infections
Neil Aronin, M.D., Department of Medicine    
 Huntingtons Disease, Parkinson's Disease
Vivian Bidnik, Ph.D.,

 Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Plasticity

Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D., Cancer Biology
 Cell death and autophagy
Robert Brown, M.D.,Ph.D., Department of Neurology
 Identication of Gene Defects and Neuonuscualr Disease
Lucio Castilla, Ph.D., Program in Gene Function and Expression
 Genetics of leukemia, mouse models
Silvia Corvera, M.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Cell biology of insulin action and type 2 diabetes
Michael Czech, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 RNAi-based therapeutic strategies for inflammatory and metabolic diseases
Roger Davis, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Mechanisms by which growth factors regulate cellular proliferation
Job Dekker, Ph.D., Program in Systems Biology
 Spatial Organization of Genomes
Fen-Biao Gao, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology
 Neuronal microRNA's and frontotemporal dementia
Guangping Gao, Ph.D., Gene Therapy Center
 Adeno-assiociated virus (AAV) vector mediated gene transfer for gene therapy
Paul Gardner, Ph.D., Psychiatry
 Regulation of Nicotinic Receptor Gene Expression in Addiction and Lung Cancer
Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Eurokaryotic Gene Regulation and Cancer Molecular Biology
David Guertin, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Signal transduction in development and cancer
Kirsten Hagerstrom, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Chromosome structure and segregation during cell division
Gang Han, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 Synthetic Nanomaterials for siRNA Delivery and Biomolecule Imaging
Lawrence Hayward, M.D., Ph.D., Neurology
 Misfolding of Mutant SOD1 Variants in ALS
Allan Jacobson, Ph.D., Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
 Cytoplasmic aspects of the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
Ellen Kittler, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine 
 Co- Director of The Molecular Biology Core and Deep Sequencing Core Facilities
Andrei Korostelev, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, RTI
 Structure and function of ribosome
Jeanne Lawrence, Ph.D., Cell Biology
 Genome organization and the functional relationship of DNA/RNA with nuclear structure
Nathan Lawson, Ph,D.,
 
Andrew Leiter, Ph.D.,
 
Jack Leonard, Ph.D., Physiology
 Cellar and molecular events that mediate thyroid hormone action in the brain
David Mangus, Ph.D.,
 
Craig Martin, Ph.D.,
 
Francesca Massi, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 Protein dynamics and protein function and stability using NMR spectroscopy
Craig Mello, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine, RTI
 Regulation of gene expression during early embryogenesis in C. elegans
Melissa Moore, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, RTI
 Post-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes via mechanisms involving RNA
Chris Mueller, Ph.D.,
 
Peter Newburger, M.D., Cancer Biology
 Molecular basis of phagocye function and selenoprotein biosynthesis
Jeffrey Nickerson, Ph.D.,
 
Gary Ostroff, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 
Klaus Pechhold, Ph.D.,
 
Thoru Pederson, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 RNA traffic in eukaryotic cells, RNA processing, RNA-protein interactions, siRNA
Craig Peterson, Ph.D.,
 
Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 Genomic approches to chromatin structure and function, and to epigenetic inheritance
Joel Richter, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Translational control in meiosis, mitosis, and neuronal synaptic plasticity
Alan Rosmarin, Ph.D.,
 
Sean Ryder, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 Post-transcriptional regulation of maternal mRNAs in early development
Mario Stevenson, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Pathogensis of primate lentiviruses, especially HIV
Gyongyi Szabo, Ph.D.,
 
William Theurkauf, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Regulation of mitotic chromosome segregation
Marian Walhout, Ph.D., Program in Systems Biology
 Mapping transcription regulatory circuits in nematode C. elegans
Zhipeng Weng, Ph.D., Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
 
David Weaver, Ph.D., Neurobiology
 Molecular physiology of circadian rhythms
Lan Xu, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 TGFβ signal transduction
Zuoshang Xu, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
 Mechanism and therapy of neurodegeneratice diseases
Phillip Zamore, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, RTI
 Dissecting the RNAi and miRNA pathways
Maria Zapp, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
 Regulation of retroviral and cellular mRNA transport
Robert Zimmerman, Ph.D.,
 

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