Major Research Areas

Eric J. Aamodt
Major Research Interests:  Control of gene expression during development; the role of the cytoskeleton in development.

John Clifford
Major Research Interests:  Retinoid receptor function and skin cancer.

J. Nathan Davis
Major Research Interests:  Analysis of signal transduction pathways utilized by the colony stimulating factor-1 receptor; oncogenesis due the dysregulation of signal transducing molecules.

Arrigo De Benedetti
Major Research Interests: Altered protein synthesis in solid tumors; gene expression; radioresistance by the protein kinase Tousled.

Eric A. First
Major Research Interests:  Aminoacylation of tRNA, protein:nucleic acid interactions, enzyme catalysis, nuclear translocation, apoptosis.          

Tony Giordano
Major Research Interests:  The study of molecular mechanisms by which cancer cells efficiently translate RNAs, identifying small molecules that target these mechanisms as better cancer treatments, and identifying targets involved in Alzheimer’s disease progression for potential therapeutic intervention.              

Sidney R. Grimes
Major Research Interests:  Regulation of mammalian gene expression.

David S. Gross
Major Research Interests:  Chromatin structure; transcriptional regulation; heat shock; yeast genetics; oncogenes.

Shile Huang
Major Research Interest:  Cell signaling and tumorigenesis.

Sushil K. Jain
Major Research Interest:  Nutrition and free radicals; cellular damage in health and disease.

Nadejda Korneeva
Major Research Interests:  Regulation of protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells and the interactions between translation initiation factors and RNA.

Neal Mathias, Ph.D.
Major Research Interests: Regulation of SCF ubiquitin ligase complexes in yeast

Shari L. Meyers
Major Research Interests:  Leukemogenesis; transcriptional regulation of hematopoietic genes.

Brent C. Reed
Major Research Interest: Regulation of insulin receptor and glucose transporter expression.

Robert E. Rhoads
Major Research Interests:  Protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells; viral pathogenesis involving translation; messenger RNA structure and function; regulation of cell growth.

Lucy C. Robinson
Major Research Interests:  Control of cell growth and division; protein phosphorylation and vesicular trafficking; yeast genetics.

Sergey Slepenkov
Major Research Interests:  The enzymology of protein and nucleic acid unfolding. The role of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E phosphorylation in initiation of protein synthesis.

Robert L. Smith
Major Research Interests:  Structure-function studies of proteins; interactions between fibronectin and other extracellular matrix macromolecules.

Utsuki, Tadanobu
Major Research Interests: Post-transcriptional regulation in the central nervous system.

Kelly G. Tatchell
Major Research Interests:  Regulation of cell growth and cell division; yeast genetics and cell biology.

B. Jill Williams
Major Research Interests:  Molecular mechanisms of prostate and bladder cancer progression and metastasis.

Stephan N. Witt
Major Research Interests:  Mechanism of action of molecular chaperones, structure-function relations, and misfolded proteins
and human disease.