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
Protistan evolution; cellular evolution; endosymbiosis
Molecular cell biology of the Actin Cytoskeleton; Alzheimer's Disease; Aging; Hirano bodies
Biogenesis of microtubule-based organelles including cilia, organelle compartmentalization, intracellular pattern formation.
Neuroscience; the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural circuit assembly
Cellular biology; molecular genetics; regulation of cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans
Chemical biology; parasitology; signal transduction; drug discovery
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
Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Genetics, Decisions and Motivated Responses to Reward and Stress in Drosophila