Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
About
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics offers a comprehensive personalized program of study that incorporates both didactic and practical training leading to the Doctorate in Biochemistry. The goal is to instill a thorough knowledge of modern biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and biophysics, while at the same time awakening the student’s imagination to the diverse and exciting research areas represented by our faculty. For more information click here
Program Faculty
Abbas, Tarek A.
The Ubiquitin System and Human Cancer
Bekiranov, Stefan
Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Precision Medicine; Machine Learning/AI; Quantum Computing
Bielinsky, Anja Katrin
Genome instability syndromes in cancer and immune deficiencies
Civelek, Mete
Systems Genetics Approaches to Understand Cardiometabolic Traits
Egelman, Edward H.
Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy
Engel, Michael
Pediatric Medicine, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Pediatric Cancer
Fallahi-Sichani, Mohammad
Cancer systems biology, Single-cell quantitative biology, Computational modeling
Farber, Charles R.
Systems Genetics of Skeletal Development and Maintenance
Garrett-Bakelman, Francine E.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: molecular and cellular biology events which mediate aberrant epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms during disease establishment and progression
Hammarskjold, Marie-Louise
Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses
Hendrickson, Eric A
Hematology & Oncology
Janes, Kevin A.
Systems-biology approaches to cancer biology and virology.
Jiang, Hao
Regulation of stem cell function and tumorigenesis by epigenetics and biomolecular condensation (phase separation)
Jomaa, Ahmad
Localisation of nascent proteins to sub-cellular compartments
Kashatus, David F
The Role of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Tumorigenesis.
Kaya, Alaattin
Metabolic and Genetic Regulation of Aging, Redox Biology, DNA Repair, Comparative and Functional Genomics, Stress Resistance, Drug Discovery, Evolutionary Biology, Synthetic and Systems Biology for Evolutionary Engineering, Adaptive Evolution, Mitochondrial Signaling, Neurodegenerative Diseases
Kuyumcu-Martinez, Muge N
RNA regulatory networks and RNA binding proteins during cardiovascular development and in cardiovascular disease
Lafita Navarro, MariCarmen
Molecular and metabolic adaptations of cancer cells.
Li, Hui
Gene regulation in cancer, RNA processing; Epigenetic modification; Stem cell and development
Liu, Wenpeng
Genetic and Epigenetic stability in human cancer
Loughran, Jr., Thomas P
Hematologic malignancies; bone marrow disorders; leukemia; large granular lymphocyte (LGL)
Lynch, Kevin R.
Chemical biology of sphingosine 1-phosphate
Manichaikul, Ani W.
Statistical Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Network analysis
Mayo, Marty W.
Transcriptional Regulation by NFKB
Miller, Clint L.
Genetic variation, Complex diseases, Coronary artery disease, Genomics, Epigenomics, Regulatory mechanisms, Vascular biology, Pharmacology and Physiology
Mohi, Golam
Cell signaling, stem cell biology, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of blood and breast cancers
Owens, Gary K.
Identification of Factors and Mechanisms that Regulate the Stability of Late Stage Atherosclerotic Lesions and the Probability of Thromboembolic Events Including a Heart Attack or Stroke
Papin, Jason
Systems biology, infectious disease, cancer, toxicology, metabolic engineering
Paschal, Bryce M.
Nuclear Transport, Signaling, and Cancer
Platig, John
Gene regulatory networks, Systems genetics, Multi-omic data integration, Network science
Purow, Benjamin W.
Novel therapeutic approaches to brain cancers and to other neurologic diseases
Ratan, Aakrosh
Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Algorithm Design and Analysis
Rekosh, David M.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Gene Expression; Human Endogenous Viruses; SARS-CoV-2 Protein Trafficking; Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation
Rich, Stephen S.
Genetic basis of common human disease, including type 1 diabetes, diabetic complications, ischemic stroke, atherosclerosis
Saucerman, Jeffrey J.
Roles of complex signaling networks involved in the regulation of cardiovascular function and disease
Sheffield, Nathan
computational biology & bioinformatics; high performance computing; epigenomics & chromatin; pediatric cancer; computational regulatory genomics; machine learning
Sheynkman, Gloria M.
Proteoform Systems Biology: proteogenomic approaches to uncover the role of proteomic variation in human disease
Shi, Weibin
Molecular and genetic determinants of atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic disorders.
Shin, Jung-Bum
Auditory Neurobiology
Smith, Jeffrey S.
Transcriptional Silencing and Aging in Yeast
Stukenberg, P. Todd
Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in Mitosis and generation of Chromosomal Instability in tumors
Tang, Shangming
Complex Genome Rearrangements
Walsh, Kenneth
Clonal hematopoiesis: A new mechanism of cardiovascular disease
Wang, Yuh-Hwa
Genome instability in cancer and repeat expansion diseases
Weaver, Tyler M.
Mechanisms of DNA repair in chromatin
Wotton, David
Regulation of Gene Expression, Development and Tumor Progression by TGF beta Signaling
Yang, Jie
Structural mechanisms of macromolecular complexes, Cryo-EM, Mitochondrial stress, Endoplasmic reticulum stress, Cellular stress response
Yang, Yaohua
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology; Cancer; Human Microbiome
Zang, Chongzhi
Bioinformatics methodology development; Epigenetics and chromatin biology; Transcriptional regulation; Cancer genomics and epigenomics; Statistical methods for biomedical data integration; Advanced machine learning; Theoretical and computational biophysics
Zhang, Tian
Integrating high-throughput proteomic, chemical, genetic and computational tools for target identification and drug discovery in cancer biology
Zhang, Tianpeng
MD-RONC Radiation Oncology
Zhou, Anny Xiaobo
Genetics, Functional Genomics, Epigenetics, Lung repair/regeneration, Metabolic regulation, Alveolar stem cells, Chromatin interaction, Innate immune response, Live-cell imaging