Cell Biology & Genetics, Cancer Biology

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Cells are the fundamental unit of life. Thus the cellular structure, organization, and function, and cellular communication is at the very heart of all biological processes. Most diseases result from the failure or malfunction of normal cellular processes. Research in this area explores a wide variety of basic aspects of cell function and communication, leading to a better understanding of many diseases. Research interests include cellular neurobiology, cell transport, cell physiology and toxicology, virology, immunology, molecular neurobiology, gene expression and regulation, and cellular signal transduction.

Cellular & Molecular Basis of Disease Training Grant

Oncogenesis & Developmental Biology Training Program

Faculty List

	Ravi Allada, PhD Email: r-allada@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
	Luis Nunes Amaral, PhD Email: amaral@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
	Joseph Bass, PhD Email: j-bass@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Cell biology of diabetes mellitus
	Greg Beitel, PhD Email: beitel@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular genetics of organ morphogenesis
	Thomas Bozza, PhD Email: bozza@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Olfaction
	Jason Brickner, PhD Email: j-brickner@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Cell biology of transcription
	Richard Carthew, PhD Email: r-carthew@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Cell differentiation and morphogenesis of Drosophila development
	Peter Dallos, PhD Email: p-dallos@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Biophysics and neurobiology of the cochlea
	Richard F. Gaber, PhD Email: r-gaber@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Nutrient sensing and molecular chaperones
	Bartosz A. Grzybowski, PhD Email: grzybor@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Self-assembly in dynamic and biological systems, interactions between cells/biomolecules and nanostructured materials, cell motility and cytoskeletal dynamics, and biomimetic chemical systems
	Brian M. Hoffman, PhD Email: bmh@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Long-range interprotein electron transfer
	Robert A. Holmgren, PhD Email: r-holmgren@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Cell-fate specification during development
	Curt Horvath, PhD Email: horvath@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Signal transduction and gene regulation in innate immune responses to cancer and viruses
	William L. Klein, PhD Email: wklein@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
	Carole LaBonne, PhD Email: clabonne@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Development of the vertebrate neural crest
	Robert A. Lamb, PhD Email: ralamb@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Viral glycoproteins, ion channels, and RNA-binding proteins
	Joshua Leonard, PhD Email: j-leonard@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Engineering cellular systems and biomolecules for immunotherapy, synthetic biology, and biotechnology
	John F. Marko, PhD Email: john-marko@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions; chromosome structure and dynamics; single-molecule biophysics
	Andreas Matouschek, PhD Email: matouschek@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
	Kelly E. Mayo, PhD Email: k-mayo@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
	William M. Miller, PhD Email: wmmiller@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Expansion and controlled differentiation of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells
	Alfonso Mondragón, PhD Email: a- mondragon@northwestern.edu Research Interests: DNA topoisomerases, catalytic RNA molecules, and the molecular basis of spectrin flexibility
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD Email: t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Metalloregulatory proteins
	Raphael Pinaud, PhD Email: pinaud@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Neural mechanisms of sensory processing and plasticity
	Heather Pinkett, PhD Email: h-pinkett@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Membrane proteins with emphasis on the structure and function of membrane-embedded transporters and their mechanisms of regulation
	Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD Email: i-radhakrishnan@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Structure, function and dynamics of proteins involved in eukaryotic gene regulation
	Amy C. Rosenzweig, PhD Email: amyr@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Structural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake, transport and storage, oxygen activation by metalloenzymes, biological methane oxidation, membrane protein crystallography
	Lonnie Shea, PhD Email: l-shea@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD Email: erik@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
	Fred W. Turek, PhD Email: fturek@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Sleep and circadian rhythms, seasonal reproductive cycles
	Olke Uhlenbeck, PhD Email: o-uhlenbeck@northwestern.edu Research Interests: RNA biochemistry
	Vinzenz Unger, PhD Email: v-unger@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Transport of transition metals; structure and function of membrane associated synaptic scaffolds; methods development for membrane protein crystallization and single particle approaches
	Xiaozhong (Alec) Wang, PhD Email: awang@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Genetic analysis of protocadherin diversity in the central nervous system
	Eric Weiss, PhD Email: elweiss@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Spatially and temporally coordinated cell growth and cell division
	Sadie M. Wignall, PhD Email: s-wignall@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Spindle assembly and chromosome segregation during cell division
	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Email: tkw@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth
	Catherine S. Woolley, PhD Email: cwoolley@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology