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FACULTY MENTORS
The following are faculty mentors who have hosted undergraduate students in their labs in past years.
Erin Adams - Assistant Professor, Structure and biochemistry of proteins involved in immunological recognition. Characterization of gamma delta T cell receptors and their ligands and activating and inhibitory receptors involved in the innate immune response.
Joy Bergenson - Professor, the ecology and evolution of plant-enemy interactions
Sean Crosson - Assistant Professor, Deciphering the Structure, Function, and Topology of Microbial Signaling Systems
Eileen Dolan - Professor, Modulation of DNA repair to enhance chemotherapy
Rick Fehon - Professor, Regulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development
Godfrey Getz, Donald N. Pritzker Distinguished Srvc. Prof., Structure and function of apolipoproteins in lipoprotein assembly, and in atherosclerosis and Alzheimers disease pathogenesis
Shannon Hackett - Lecturer, Associate Curator Dept Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History , Systematics and biogeography of birds
Robert Keenan - Assistant Professor, Structural biology and directed evolution.
Shohei Koide - Associate Professor, Protein engineering,design and folding. Structure/dynamics/function relationship of proteins in signaling. NMR spectroscopy.
Anthony Kossiakoff - Professor, Structure and function of hormone-receptor interactions, enzyme-inhibitor interfaces, and synthetic proteins.
Piers Nash - Assistant Professor, Modular protein interaction domains in signal transduction and the cell cycle
Olufunmilayo Olopade - Professor, Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, tumor suppressor genes, mechanisms of oncogene amplification.
Marcus Peter - Professor, Aspects of the signal transduction of the apoptosis inducing death receptors with special emphasis on the CD95 receptor and the function of DED proteins.
Tao Pan - Associate Professor, RNA folding, RNA genomics
Louis H. Philipson - Professor, the study of ion changels, metabolism, and mitochondria that regulate intracellular calcium concentration and energy production and regulates insulin secretion in pancreatic islet β-cells.
Joe Piccirilli - Associate Professor, Chemistry/biochemistry of nucleic acids; structure and mechanism of ribozymes (catalytic RNA); bioorganic chemistry.
Victoria Prince - Associate Professor, Molecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.
Phoebe Rice - Associate Professor, Structure and function of protein-DNA complexes involved in genetic recombination.
Olaf Schneewind - Professor, Bacterial pathogenesis and protein targeting.
Nancy Schwartz - Professor, Transcriptional control of ECM expression during chondrogenesis and neurogenesis, regulation of sulfate activation; skeletal dysplasias.
Stuart Schwartz - Professor, A Variety of cytological phenomena and chromosome structure and function including: Formation of chromosomal aberrations, a correlation of phenotype and karyotype and a study of centromere structure and function
Wei-Jen Tang - Associate Professor, Elucidating the molecular basis of cell communication; the biology of bacterial adenylyl cyclase toxins
Gopal Thinakaran - Associate Professor, Cellular and molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease.
Paul Vezina - Professor, Basal ganglia neuropharmacology and the generation of appetitive behaviors
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