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Key to Faculty Program Affiliations:
CBP= Cell Biology and Physiology | Cancer Biology | DB= Developmental Biology
GGR= Genetics and Gene Regulation | GTV= Gene Therapy and Vaccines | MVP= Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology

Cell and Molecular Graduate Group

CAMB programs:

Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP)
Cancer Biology
Developmental Biology (DB)
Genetics and Gene Regulation (GGR)
Gene Therapy and Vaccines (GTV)
Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology (MVP)

CAMB Faculty, by last name: S
Bruce Sachais: CBP
Platelets, Platelet Factor 4, atherosclerosis, protein interactions, murine models, transcriptional regulation.
 
Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet: DB
Control of neural crest development in Xenopus; Factors regulating inner ear specification in Xenopus.
 
Brian Salzberg: CBP
Optical measurements of membrane voltage, calcium, secretion, exocytosis.
 
Rashmin Savani: CBP
Hyaluronan and its receptors in inflammation, wound repair and organogenesis.
 
Gerhard A. Schad: MVP
Human Strongyloidiasis: Model Development and Haemonchus contortus: Neuronal Control of the Infective Process.
 
Dieter Schifferli: MVP
Bacterial pathogenesis; Bacterial adhesion; Salmonella and adhesin vaccines.
 
Alan Schreiber: CBP
Molecular and cell biology of Fc receptors: Mechanisms of function and role in phagocytosis and immune clearance.
 
Richard Schultz: DB
Egg activation and gene expression in mouse embryos.
 
Phillip Scott: MVP
T cells and cytokines in infectious disease, host-pathogen interactions, development of Th1 and Th2 cells, memory T cells.
 
Christoph Seeger: MVP
Animal viruses, viral pathogenesis, innate immunity.
 
Michael Sebert: MVP
Pneumococcal pathogenesis, regulation of bacterial virulence determinants.
 
Amita Sehgal: GGR
Molecular basis of behavior.
 
John T. Seykora: CBP
Dermatopathology, cutaneous diseases which exhibit abnormal keratinocyte differentiation; e.g. neoplasia, psoriasis, and aging.
 
Tamim Shaikh: GGR
Genome architecture, chromosomal rearrangements and genetic diseases.
 
Hao Shen: MVP
Immune surveillance of intracelluar and emerging infectious agents.
 
Eileen Shore: GGR
Genetic diseases of bone formation and development; Molecular and cell biology of bone formation and osteoblast differentiation; Transcriptional activation and regulation of bone morphogenetic protein and GNAS1 target genes.
 
James Shorter: CBP
We seek to understand the protein-folding pathways cells use to prevent, reverse, or even promote the formation of prion and amyloid fibers.


Luis J. Sigal: MVP
Viral immunology in particular the mechanisms whereby antigens are presented to T cells to initiate anti-viral T cell responses, and also in understanding the mechanisms of protective immunity following primary and secondary infections with highly pathogenic viruses.
 
Guido Silvestri: GTV
Pathogenesis of HIV infection. Development of AIDS vaccines.
 
M. Celeste Simon: Cancer Biology
Hematopoiesis, angiogenesis, tumorigenesis, and cellular responses to oxygen deprivation.
 
Anna Marie Skalka: MVP
Mechanisms of DNA replication, recombination, and repair.
Molecular biology of retroviruses.
 
Gary Smith: MVP
Epidemiology of parasitic and infectious diseases
 
Virginia Smith Shapiro: Cancer Biology
CD28 signalling in T cell activation; Role of the adaptor ALX in AML; Role of CD28 in myeloma.
 
Richard Spielman: GGR
Genetics of complex traits and diseases.
 
Nancy Spinner: GGR
Human Genetics,Notch signaling in human disease, Alagille syndrome
 
Dwight Stambolian: GTV
Gene discovery of complex and monogenic disorders.
 
Ben Stanger: Cancer Biology
Organogenesis, Stem Cells, Pancreatic Cancer, Regulation of Organ Size.
 
Hansell Stedman: GTV
Gene therapy for inherited disease of muscle.
 
Doris A. Stoffers: GGR
Transcription factors and signal transduction; Embryonic development and adult regeneration of the endocrine pancreas; Relationship of defects in these pathways to the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus, a disease caused by a deficiency in the production or action of insulin.
 
Meera Sundaram: GGR
Regulation of Ras signaling in C. elegans.
 
Tatyana Svitkina: CBP
Roles of the cytoskeleton in cell motility.
 
H. Lee Sweeney: GTV
Contractile protein function and the molecular basis of muscle disease.

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