6/17/2025
Research in my lab focuses on advancing knowledge of how the human immune system responds to environmental triggers that worsen lung disease. The prevalence of asthma has risen dramatically in…
6/17/2025
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small , non-coding RNAs that post- transcriptionally control gene expression by directing either the degradation or translational repression of target mRNAs. miRNAs potentially regulate as many as…
6/17/2025
Analysis of the role of TGIFs during development. TGIF proteins are transcriptional repressors, which regulate TGFβ signaling and have been suggested to repress retinoid regulated gene expression. Mutations in human TGIF…
6/17/2025
6/17/2025
Our research seeks to understand how cells detect, integrate, and adapt to stress at the molecular level. We combine cryo-electron microscopy, structural biology, biochemistry, cell biology, and protein engineering to…
6/17/2025
Our lab has worked in several areas involving viral pathogenesis, host responses to infection, understanding immunogenicity, the control of viral gene expression and viral latency, and vaccine development. Recently, the…
6/17/2025
Under certain conditions, all essential biopolymers, such as polypeptides, nucleic acids and polysaccharides, have to cross at least one membrane to reach their final destinations. Examples include the secretion of…
