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K. Ulrich Bayer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1996, Heinrich-Pette-Institute
Molecular memory mechanisms in cellular signal transduction and neuronal function; CaMKII and Ca2+ signaling. |
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Mair E.A. Churchill
Professor
Ph.D., 1987, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Structure and mechanism in gene regulation; biophysical and structural studies of protein-nucleic acid and protein-protein complexes in chromatin and bacterial pathogenesis. |
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Scott D. Cramer
Professor
Ph.D., 1992, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
The molecular dissection of signaling pathways in prostatic cells, the identification of prostate progenitor or stem cells, and understanding epithelial-stromal interactions in normal and abnormal ductal morphogenesis. |
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Mark L. Dell'Acqua
Professor and Vice Chairman
Ph.D., 1995, Harvard Univ.
Organization of signaling complexes by protein kinase and phosphatase anchoring proteins; mechanisms regulating neuronal second messenger signaling in synaptic plasticity. |
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Heide L. Ford
Professor
Ph.D., 1995, Univ. of Rochester
My laboratory studies the parallels between normal development and tumorigenesis/metastasis with a focus on the role of the Six1/Eya transcriptional complex in TGF-beta signaling, epithelial to mesenchymal transition, cancer stem cells, and metastasis. |
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Kim A. Heidenreich
Professor
Ph.D., 1979, Univ. of Vermont
Signal transduction pathways that regulate neuronal survival and apoptosis. |
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Paula L. Hoffman
Professor
Ph.D., 1974, City Univ. of New York
Neuropharmacology; mechanisms of alcohol tolerance, dependence, and craving; genetic aspects of alcohol dependence and affective disorders; biochemical/molecular biological/genetic analysis of CNS receptors and signal transduction systems. |
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Lawrence E. Hunter
Professor
Ph.D., 1989, Yale Univ.
Computational biology, bioinformatics, gene expression array analysis, natural language processing, biomedical ontologies, machine learning. |
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David N.M. Jones
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1989, Univ. of Cambridge
Molecular mechanism of alcohols and anesthetic actions; structure and function of biomolecules; NMR spectroscopy, x-ray crystallography, biophysics and molecular biology. |
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Matthew J. Kennedy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2003, Univ. of Washington
Molecular mechanisms of activity-triggered synaptic remodeling. |
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Tataiana G. Kutateladze
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1988, Moscow State Univ.
Epigenetics, phosphoinositide signaling, structural biology, NMR and crystal structures of proteins implicated in cancer, structure based drug design. |
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Robert C. Murphy
University Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., 1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pharmacology and biochemistry of leukotrienes and bioactive lipids, lipid mediators of cellular response using biochemical mass spectrometry. |
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Laura Saba
Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D., 2007, Univ. of Colorado, UCDHSC
Statistical genetics and gene expression regulation. |
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William A. Sather
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1988, Univ. of Washington
Signaling through calcium channels in neurons. |
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Boris Tabakoff
Professor
Ph.D., 1970, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Molecular pharmacology; pharmacogenetics; neuroadaptation and neurotransmitter metabolism/enzymology; CNS receptor molecular pharmacology and genetics/genomics of addiction. |
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Andrew M. Thorburn
Professor and Chairman
D.Phil., 1990, Univ. of Oxford
Understanding the signaling mechanisms that control apoptosis in cancer development and during the response of tumor cells to cancer therapeutics. |
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Richard J. Traystman
University Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research
Ph.D., 1971, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Neuroscience, cerebrovascular physiology, stroke, cardiac arrest/CPR, respiration, cardiopulmonary physiology. |
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Chandra L. Tucker
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 1999, Univ. of Washington
Study and manipulation of protein homeostasis and signaling pathways in live cells, optogenetic tools for controlling protein interactions, synthetic biology, cytosolic protein misfolding, yeast genetics/genomics |
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Nancy R. Zahniser
Professor and School of Medicine Associate Dean for Research Education
Ph.D., 1977, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Mechanisms involved in dopamine transporter trafficking; cocaine's differential actions among individuals; brain neurotransmitter receptor regulation. |