6/17/2025
Humans are colonized with trillions of microorganisms, collectively termed the microbiota. Aside from providing a first line of defense to invading pathogens or aiding in digestion and metabolism, commensal microbes…
6/17/2025
Understanding how gene expression is regulated in response to signals from both inside and outside the body plays a critical role in allowing us to adapt to changes in the…
6/17/2025
My research is at the interface of computation and biology, drawing on techniques in computer science, data science, bioinformatics, and statistics, and applying them to biological questions in cancer, epigenetics,…
6/17/2025
Glial cells support normal brain function by maintaining ion and neurotransmitter homeostasis, by regulating local blood flow and by stabilizing the blood brain barrier. Many diseases present with an impairment…
6/17/2025
We are interested in understanding how neurons and epithelia develop the asymmetric shapes and subcellular organization, which enable their physiological functions. We focus on cytoskeleton-based mechanisms, and how they malfunction…
6/17/2025
Defects in chromosome segregation can generate aneuploidy, a condition that is found in almost all human tumors and is the major cause of miscarriages and birth defects. The complex process…
6/17/2025
Summary: Nano-electromagnetics (NEMS)--Signaling at the nano/bio interface: The measurement, analysis and propagation of electrical, magnetic and optical signals with nanoscale spatial resolution is of interest within biomolecular sensing, morphogenesis, tissue regeneration,…
6/17/2025
The Tang laboratory applies a wide range of approaches such as live-cell imaging, single-cell genomics, and biochemistry to study the mechanisms of complex genome rearrangements in cancers, developmental disorders, and…
6/17/2025
