Cells and Disease

Cellular mechanisms of Cancer, Alzheimer’s, aniridia, lysosomal storage disease, Chagas disease, alcoholism and addiction, schistosomiasis, immunopathology.

Personnel

Daniel G. Colley

Daniel G. Colley

Professor and Director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Grobal Diseases

Immunobiology of human schistosomiasis. Immunoregulation and resistance to reinfection

Marcus Fechheimer

Marcus Fechheimer

Emeritus University Professor

Molecular cell biology of the Actin Cytoskeleton; Alzheimer's Disease; Aging; Hirano bodies

Daichi Kamiyama

Assistant Professor

Neuroscience; the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural circuit assembly

Edward T. Kipreos

Professor

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

Dennis Kyle

Professor of Infectious Diseases and Cellular Biology, CTEGD Director, GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery, Cellular Biology Department Head

Drug discovery for malaria and brain-eating amoebae; antimalarial resistance mechanisms

James D. Lauderdale

James D. Lauderdale

Associate Professor

Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development

Karl F. Lechtreck

Professor

Vasant Muralidharan

Associate Professor

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

Walter K. Schmidt, Jr.

Professor

Molecular and biochemical analyses of enzymes required for the production of isoprenylated proteins.

Cordula Schulz

Associate Professor, Associate Head of Cellular Biology

Tissue replenishment from stem cells, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, germ cell tumor, stem cell self-renewal

Ping Shen

Ping Shen

Professor

Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Genetics, Decisions and Motivated Responses to Reward and Stress in Drosophila

Rick L. Tarleton

Regents Professor

Immunoparasitology; immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease; vaccine development

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