Faculty
Primary Faculty
![Sameer Bajikar](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2024/07/ssb2v-100x100.jpeg)
Bajikar, Sameer Subhash
Systems biology approaches to study gene dosage in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders
![James Casanova](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/01/jec9e.jpeg)
Casanova, James E.
Role of Arf family GTPases in vesicular transport and cytoskeleton assembly.
Cell Biology of bacterial pathogenesis.
The innate immune response to bacterial infection.
![Douglas DeSimone](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2024/06/dwd3m-100x100.jpeg)
DeSimone, Douglas W.
Cell Adhesion and Adhesion-Dependent Cell Signaling in Vertebrate Morphogenesis
![Karen Hirschi](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/01/kkh4yy-100x113.jpeg)
Hirschi, Karen Kemper
Understanding Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Leading to Blood Vessel Formation
![Saurabh Kulkarni](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/09/sk4xq-100x150.jpeg)
Kulkarni, Saurabh
Precision medicine, translational science, regeneration, organoids, high resolution imaging, computational modeling
![Xiaowei Lu](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/01/xl6f-100x99.jpeg)
Lu, Xiaowei
Wnt/PCP signaling in inner ear development Mouse models for human deafness Wnt/PCP signaling in neural tube closure
![Elias Spiliotis](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/04/dkg4jc-100x133.jpeg)
Spiliotis, Elias T
Spatial Cell Biology. Neuronal Morphogenesis and Disease. Cancer Migration and Invasion.
![Bettina Winckler](https://med.virginia.edu/cell-biology/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2023/01/bw5h-100x121.jpeg)
Winckler, Bettina
Endosomal function and dysfunction in neurons. Development of the nervous system: cytoskeleton and membrane traffic in axon and dendrite growth.