Molecular and Cell

Faculty research in cell and molecular biology is ongoing, with current work on cell nucleus import and export in oncogenes; bacterial pathogenesis; environmental virology; protein modification and chromosome segregation in yeast cells; molecular genetics of nerve cell determination; gametogenesis and germ cell sex determination; and the molecular biology of rainbow trout immune cells.

Liz Allison Professor Ph.D. University of Washington.	Molecular and cellular biology: Mechanisms of nuclear import and export; nuclear hormonereceptor and oncogene expression.
Eric Bradley Professor Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara	Biomedical Imaging; invivo monitoring of cell-molecular processes in mammary tumor development. Mechanisms of reproductive inhibition; role of the endocrine system in maintaining reversible infertility.
Mark Forsyth Associate Professor Ph.D. University of Connecticut	Microbiology; Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. .
John Griffin Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University	Neurophysiology: Hypothalamic control of thermoregulation and the generation of a fever in response to infection.
Shantá Hinton Assistant Professor Ph.D., Howard University	Cellular and molecular biology,protein tyrosine phosphorylation, pseudophosphatase roles in signal transduction, protein-protein interactions.
Oliver Kerscher Associate Professor Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Yeast Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Study of proteins and protein modifiers that regulate chromosome segregation and genome integrity in the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cereviasiae.
M. Drew LaMar Assistant Professor Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin	Mathematical modeling and simulation of metabolic pathways in aorta endothelial cells; neural network structure and it’s effects on synchronization.
Margaret Saha Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia	Developmental neurobiology; molecular genetics of cell determination and patterning in the developing vertebrate nervous system, particularly genes regulating brain and vascular development
Diane C. Shakes Professor Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University	Cell and developmental biology; the interplay between cell cycle progression and cell differentiation during C. elegans gametogenesis
Matthew Wawersik Associate Professor Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Cell and developmental biology; molecular genetic analysis of germ cell sex determination and germline stem cell establishment
Kurt Williamson Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Delaware	Soil microbial ecology. Environmental virology.
Patty Zwollo Professor Ph.D., University of Utrecht The Netherlands	Molecular Immunology; molecular biology of the B-cell immune response in the rainbow trout. Structure and function of developmentally regulated transcription factors expressed in B-cells.

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