Cell Signaling & Cell/Environment Interactions

Cell biology disciplines studied by faculty in students in MCB range from understanding cell signaling pathways to examining cell interactions in development and disease.

Signaling Mechanisms in Excitable Cells
Signal Transduction from the Cell Membrane to the Nucleus
Metabolic Flexibility in Biology

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Mechanisms of neuromodulation; genetic incompatibility
high-throughput technologies and computational biology
Molecular biomechanics of mitosis and the cytoskeleton
Molecular regulation of synaptic structure and function
synaptic vesicle modulation of neurotransmitter release
cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases
Functional genomics of patterning and morphogenesis
Linking Signal Transduction to Gene Expression
Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Inflammation
Signal transduction in the nervous system
yeast cell cycle and quiescence
Study of cone photoreceptor biology.
Molecular mechanisms of human genetic disorders
Synapse formation
keratinocyte migration and transformation
Ion Channel Structure, Function, and Regulation
Enjoy the study of molecular development.
calcium regulation of leukemia cell proliferation
Regulation of neuron migration and cancer
Biochemistry, genetics and biophysics of chromosome segregat
Genetic and molecular studies of oncogenesis.
non-lymphoid elements of the thymic environment
environmental toxicity
regulation of protein function through post-translational mo
enzymatic processes of medical significance
tissue engineering and regeneration
Membrane lipid regulation of ion channels
Using yeast to study the aging process.
Molecular basis of bacterial social behavior
cellular mechanotransduction
Signaling, ion channels, G-protein coupled receptors
Mitochondrial control of apoptosis
Seasonal measurement and circadian clocks in plants
Molecular mechanisms of aging
Early embryonic zebrafish development
Electrophysiological properties of ESC-derived cardiomyocyte
Regulation of gap junctional communication, Cancer biomarker
methanogenic Archaea
viral-host interactions in assembly and restriction
Molecular signaling and transcription control
cAMP and PKA signaling in brain and heart
Organelle biogenesis and architecture; membrane traffic.
Responses to hydrogen sulfide and hypoxia
Stem cell biology, regeneration, Wnts
signal transduction in excitable cells
logic of cell circuits controlling plant growth
Drosophila models of neurodegenerative disorders
Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and Wound Repair in Drosophila
matrix metalloproteinases
cell biology of protozoan parasites
human phenotypic variation
embryogenesis and germ cell development
queitsch c hsp90
Metabolic Flexibility and Suspended Animation
stem cells in development and disease, muscular dystrophy
gene repair applications in inherited immune deficiencies
acute lung injury and repair, fibrosis
Protein kinases
quantitative study of evolving biological systems
Our lab is interested in the molecular and cellular basis of
regulation of mitochondrial function and cell metabolism
stem cell, receptor signaling, and patterning in plants
Cell polarity and cell adhesion in mammalian development and
cell signaling and proteomics
regulation of transcription
Proteomics: cell signaling roles in phenotype and disease.
Parkinson's disease Neural stem cell biology
Stem cells in skeletal muscle.
Ion channel molecular structure and function