Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
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.
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Program Faculty
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Abbas, Tarek A.
The Ubiquitin System and Human Cancer
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Auble, David T.
Molecular Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation
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Bekiranov, Stefan
Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks
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Civelek, Mete
Systems Genetics Approaches to Understand Cardiometabolic Traits
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Egelman, Edward H.
Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy
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Engel, Michael
Pediatric Medicine, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Pediatric Cancer
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Farber, Charles R.
Systems Genetics of Skeletal Development and Maintenance
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Garrett-Bakelman, Francine
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: molecular and cellular biology events which mediate aberrant epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms during disease establishment and progression
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Janes, Kevin
Systems-biology approaches to cancer biology and virology
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Jiang, Hao
Regulation of stem cell function and tumorigenicity by epigenetics and biomolecular condensation
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Kashatus, David F
The Role of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Tumorigenesis
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Li, Hui
Gene regulation in cancer, RNA processing; Epigenetic modification; Stem cell and development
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Loughran, Jr., Thomas P
Hematologic malignancies; bone marrow disorders; leukemia; large granular lymphocyte (LGL)
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Lynch, Kevin R.
Chemical biology of sphingosine 1-phosphate
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Manichaikul, Ani W.
Statistical Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Network analysis
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Mayo, Marty W.
Transcriptional Regulation by NFKB
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Miller, Clint L.
Genetic variation, Complex diseases, Coronary artery disease, Genomics, Epigenomics, Regulatory mechanisms, Vascular biology, Pharmacology and Physiology
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Mohi, Golam
Cell signaling, hematopoietic stem cell biology, molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of leukemia.
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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
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Paschal, Bryce M.
Nuclear Transport, Signaling, and Cancer
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Pearson, William R.
Protein Evolution; Computational Biology
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Purow, Benjamin W.
Novel therapeutic approaches to brain cancers and to other neurologic diseases
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Ratan, Aakrosh
Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Algorithm Design and Analysis
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Rich, Stephen S.
Genetic basis of common human disease, including type 1 diabetes, diabetic complications, ischemic stroke, atherosclerosis
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Sheffield, Nathan
computational biology & bioinformatics; high performance computing; epigenomics & chromatin; pediatric cancer; computational regulatory genomics; machine learning
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Shi, Weibin
Cellular and genetic determinants of atherosclerosis and restenosis.
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Shin, Jung-Bum
Auditory Neurobiology
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Smith, Jeffrey S.
Transcriptional Silencing and Aging in Yeast
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Stukenberg, P. Todd
Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in Mitosis and generation of Chromosomal Instability in tumors
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Walsh, Kenneth
The role of clonal hematopoiesis in cardio-metabolic disease processes
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Wang, Yuh-Hwa
Genome instability in human disease
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Wotton, David
Regulation of Gene Expression, Development and Tumor Progression by TGF beta Signaling
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Zang, Chongzhi
Bioinformatics methodology development; Epigenetics and chromatin biology; Transcriptional regulation; Cancer genomics and epigenomics; Statistical methods for biomedical data integration; Theoretical and computational biophysics