6/17/2025
Dr. Abbate and his team collaborate on, develop, and execute bench-to-bedside research exploring the impact of innate immunity and its role in cardiovascular disease and injury (ischemia, reperfusion, infection, heart…
6/17/2025
Our goal is to understand how the brain integrates sensory feedback to control specific autonomic responses that restore physiologic balance. We are also interested in the cross-talk between cardiorespiratory physiology…
6/17/2025
The Ai lab specializes in protein engineering and employs interdisciplinary approaches, including biophysics, bioanalytical chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, and optical imaging. One of our main areas of focus is the…
6/17/2025
6/17/2025
The Chalfant Laboratory has historically focused on two major, but diverse areas of basic science in regard to Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology. Specifically, the Chalfant Laboratory studies mechanisms of…
6/17/2025
The Coutinho-Budd lab is interested in the cellular and molecular aspects of glial cell development and function. Glia are critical components of the nervous system—almost everything that neurons do requires…
6/17/2025
In every human cell, dynamic cytoskeletal networks drive or enable critical processes such as cell division, motility, and secretion. Cytoskeletal dysregulation consequently results in cellular malfunction and several pathologies, ranging…
6/17/2025
Obesity, hyperlipidemia, and type 2 diabetes are all metabolic disorders associated with cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Our lab is interested in understanding how changes in metabolism, either in the…
6/17/2025
We aim to understand how eukaryotic cells control chromatin structure. Knowledge of chromatin-structure at the level of its nucleosome subunits inside cells will give far-reaching mechanistic insight into gene regulation,…
6/17/2025
As Paleolithic hunter gatherers, the human diet was relatively low in fats and simple carbohydrates. Technological advances, beginning with the agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago and culminating with the mechanization…
