Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology Faculty

Understanding sphingolipid functions and their interaction networks

Cell Fate Specification

Autophagy in cell survival and cell death

Regulation of Cell Growth and Division

Cell Death (Apoptosis), Cell Competition, and Compensatory Proliferation in Drosophila

Neuronal Cell Fate Specification

Hereditary Cancer Syndromes and DNA repair

Mechanisms of leukemia development and targeted therapies

Regulation of Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression in Stem Cells

Molecular Biology of HIV-1

Discovery of Therapeutically Targetable Pathways in Cancer and Other Human Diseases

Adaptations to mitochondrial dysfunction: The mitochondrial UPR

Cancer epidemiology; prenatal origin of cancer 

Assembly and Function of Eukaryotic Chromosomes; Fungal pathogenesis

Apoptosis and cancer

Cancer metabolism and metabolic toxicity

Modeling vascular development and disease in the zebrafish

Molecular dissection of hepatic and pancreatic tumorigenesis

Signaling pathways in development and cancer

Molecular Cell Biology of Aggressive Carcinomas

Signaling pathways in tumor metastasis

Tumor Suppressors and Cancer Models

Epigenetic and cell cycle mechanisms in erythroid cell fate decisions

Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of the Aging Process

Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division

Molecular Pathogenesis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy

Brown fat development and browning of white fat

Developing Precise and Efficient Genome Editing Technologies

Molecular Mechanism of Autophagy in Multicellular Organisms

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics