Faculty
| Name | Primary Department or Program | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Naiara Akizu | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders and pediatric neurodegeneration |
| Montserrat Anguera | Biomedical Sciences (SVM) | X-chromosome Inactivation, Epigenetics, Female Lymphocytes |
| Zoltan Pierre Arany | Medicine (PSOM) | Metabolism, Heart, Blood Vessels, Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes |
| Will Bailis | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Novel diet and metabolite based therapies |
| Caroline Bartman | Systems Pharmacology (PSOM) | The goal of the Bartman lab is to use isotope tracing and metabolomics to identify metabolic fluxes that are altered in tumors and immune cells, and to manipulate these fluxes to treat disease. |
| Marisa Bartolomei (PI)* | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Genomic Imprinting, Epigenetics, DNA Methylation, X Inactivation |
| Greg Bashaw | Neuroscience (PSOM) | Axon Guidance, Nueronal Specification, Motor Neuron, Spinal Cord, Midline Circuits, Silt Netrin |
| Craig Bassing* | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Lymphocyte Development, Gene Regulation, DNA Recombination, DNA Repair, Epigenetics |
| Shelley Berger | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Epigenetics, Chromatin, Histone Post-Translational Modifications, p53 Tumor Suppresor |
| Kara Bernstein | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | DNA repair and recombination, DNA helicases, double-strand break repair, cancer |
| Erfei Bi | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Cell Polarity, Cytokinesis, Septin Cytoskeleton, Cdc42 Signaling, Exocytosis, Actomyosin Ring, Mammalian Cells |
| Ben Black | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | Epigenetics, Chromosomes, Inheritance, Reproduction, Molecular Structure |
| Roberto Bonasio | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Chromatin, Epigenetics, Polycomb, Noncoding RNAs |
| Nancy Bonini | Biology (SAS) | Neuroepigenetics, Neural Maintenance, Brain Degeneration, Drosophila, Genetic Screens |
| Donita Brady | Cancer Biology (PSOM) | Cancer Pharmacology, Cell Signaling |
| Igor Brodsky | Biomedical Sciences (SVM) | Bacterial pathogens, Bacteriology, Infectious Disease, Inflammasome, Innate Immune Defense, Immunology |
| Janis Burkhardt | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Cytoskeleton, Signal Transduction, Cell Migration, Mechanobiology |
| Brian Capell | Dermatology (PSOM) | Epigenetics, epitranscriptomics, transcriptional regulation, cancer, aging, cutaneous biology, ferroptosis and lipid metabolism |
| Natali Chanaday | Physiology (PSOM) | Synaptic vesicles, neurotrasmission, electrophysiology, neurotransmitter release, elndocytosis, calcium imaging, live imaging |
| Sara Cherry | Microbiology (PSOM) | Cell Biology of Viral Infection, Genetics of Viral Infection |
| Roberto Dominguez | Physiology (PSOM) | Cytoskeletal proteins, x-ray crystallography |
| Doug Epstein | Genetics (PSOM) | Gene Regulation, Brain Development, Auditory Development, Hearing Loss |
| Jon Epstein | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Cardiac Development, Neural Crest, Transcription, Hypertrophy, Pax, Nuerofibromatosis |
| Aime Franco | Pediatrics (CHOP) | Molecular biology and genetics of thyroid cancer |
| Paul Gadue | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | iPS Cells, ES cells, In Vitro Differentiation, Development, Diabetes, Hematopoiesis |
| Matthew Good | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Cell Size Sensing, Intracellular Scaling, Zygotic Genome Activation, Self-organization and Compartmentalization, Synthetic Cells |
| Mark Goulian | Biology (SAS) | Bacterial Signal Transduction and Stress Responses, Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance, Commensal Colonization |
| Michael Granato | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Geripheral Nerve Regeneration, Startle Modulation, Zebrafish |
| Roger Greenberg | Cancer Biology (PSOM) | DNA Repair, BRCA1, Telomeres, Chromatin, Cancer |
| Kathryn Hamilton | Pediatrics (CHOP) | Intestinal Regeneration, Stem Cells, Organoids, Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Elizabeth Heller | Pharmacology | Neuronal gene regulation and chromatin |
| Erika Holzbaur | Physiology (PSOM) | Microtubules, Molecular Motors, Autophagy, Mitophagy, Neurodegeneration |
| Rajan Jain | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Nuclear architecture, gene regulation, 3D genome organization, heart development, stem cell biology |
| Eric Joyce | Genetics (PSOM) | Regulation of chromatin folding |
| Kellie Jurado | Microbiology (PSOM) | Viral Pathogenesis, Reproductive Immunology, Antiviral Cytokines, Emerging Viruses |
| Yana Kamberov | Genetics (PSOM) | Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling the development and evolution of skin appendage traits |
| Rahul Kohli | Infectious Diseases (PSOM) | DNA Modifying Enzymes, DNA Demethylation, Enzyme Mechanisms, Mutation, Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance |
| Erika Korb | Genetics (PSOM) | Epigenetic regulation, neuroscience |
| Melike Lakadamyali | Physiology (PSOM) | Advanced microscopy methods, macro-molecular macheneries of the cell |
| Mike Lampson* | Biology (SAS) | Cell Division, Centromere, Kinetochore, Mitosis, Meiosis, Oocyte, Meiotic Drive |
| Christopher Lengner | Biomedical Sciences (SVM) | Stem Cells, Functional Genetics, Intestine, Colorectal Cancer |
| Mia Levine | Biology (SAS) | Chromatin Protein Evolution, Chromosome Segregation, Telomere Integrity, Genome Defense |
| Maayan Levy | Microbiology (PSOM) | Microbiome-derived metabolites |
| Damaris Lorenzo | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Genetics, cellular and molecular mechanisms of diseases of the nervous system and metabolic disorders |
| Kristen Lynch | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | Alternative Splicing, RNA Processing, Gene Expression in T Cells, Influenza Virus |
| Michael Marks* | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Intracellular Membrane Trafficking, Organelle Biogenesis, Pigmentation, Hemostasis, Innate Immaturity, Inflammation |
| Mustafa Mir | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Advanced light microscopy technologies, biophysical modeling, optogenetics, gene editing, genomics |
| Andrew Modzelewski | Biomedical Sciences (SVM) | Retrotransposon activity, proteomics, genetics, bioinformatics, CRISR/Cas9 genome editing technologies, Transposons, Endogenous Retroviruses CRISPR-EZ |
| Kahlilia Morris-Blanco | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Epigenetics, non-coding RNAs, molecular mechnaisms in neuroprotection after stroke |
| Ed Morrisey | Medicine (PSOM) | Lung Development, Tissue Regeneration |
| Guilherme Nader | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Nuclear mechanosensing, DNA damage, cell migration, nuclear deformation, microfabrication |
| Michael Ostap | Physiology (PSOM) | Cytoskeleton, Cell Motility, Molecular Motors, Single Molecule Biophysics, Muscle |
| Mechthild Pohlschroder | Biology (SAS) | Cell Surface Biogenesis, Biofilm Formation, Glycsoylation, Archaea, Type IV Pili |
| Ben Prosser | Physiology (PSOM) | Mechanobiology, Cardiovascular Biology, Cytoskeleton |
| Bushra Raj | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Neurogenesis, single-cell genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics |
| Patrick Seale | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Adipocyte Development, Cell Differentiation, Metabolism, Insulin Resistance, Obesity |
| Amita Sehgal | Neuroscience (PSOM) | Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, Clock Genes, Drosophila, Behavior, Metabolism |
| Sydney Shaffer | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Biomedical engineering, Systems Biology, tissue engineering, microfludics, diagnostics |
| Sunny Shin | Microbiology (PSOM) | Cell Signaling, Gene Expression, Immune Response, Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens |
| Celeste Simon | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Cancer Biology, Metabolism, Hypoxia, Tumor Microenvironment, Metastasis |
| Nancy Speck | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia using mouse models |
| Joseph St. Geme III | Pediatrics (CHOP) | Bacterial Pathogenesis, Bacterial Colonization, Haemophilus Influence Virulence |
| Tatyana Svitkina | Biology (SAS) | Cytoskeleton, Cell Motility, Actin, Myosin |
| Conelius Taabazuing | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | Molecular mechanisms of cell death |
| Andrew Vaughan | Biomedical Sciences (SVM) | Notch, Wnt, and BMP pathways, Regeneration |
| Matthew Weitzman | PA-COP Pathology (CHOP) | Virology, Virus Replication, DNA Damage and Repair, Genome Instability, Viral Vectors |
| Kathryn Wellen* | Cancer Biology (PSOM) | Tumor Metabolism, Metabolism and Epigenetics, Metabolic Signaling Mechanisms |
| Joseph Zackular | PA-CHOP Pathology (CHOP) | Bacterial pathogenesis, host-microbe interactions, microbiome, Clostridium difficile infection, colorectal cancer |
*denotes membership in Training Grant Executive Committee
CHOP = Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
PSOM = Perelman School of Medicine
SAS = School of Arts & Sciences
SEAS = School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SVM - School of Veterinary Medicine