Cell Structure and Function

Cytoskeleton and cell motility, cell division and cell cycle control, chromatin and gene expression, organelle biogenesis, endosymbiosis and cell evolution, neurobiology, cellular metabolism, hormone action.

Personnel

Developmental gene regulation via epigenetic modification of genome and chromatin structure

Metabolic pathways of trypanosomatids and malaria parasites

Biogenesis of microtubule-based organelles including cilia, organelle compartmentalization, intracellular pattern formation.

Brain Development and Function in Health and Diseases

Cellular biology; molecular genetics; regulation of cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans

Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites. Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.

Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum