Cellular mechanisms of Cancer, Alzheimer’s, aniridia, lysosomal storage disease, Chagas disease, alcoholism and addiction, schistosomiasis, immunopathology.
Personnel
Immunobiology of human schistosomiasis. Immunoregulation and resistance to reinfection
Molecular cell biology of the Actin Cytoskeleton; Alzheimer's Disease; Aging; Hirano bodies
Neuroscience; the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural circuit assembly
Cellular biology; molecular genetics; regulation of cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans
Drug discovery for malaria and brain-eating amoebae; antimalarial resistance mechanisms
Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development
Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
Molecular and biochemical analyses of proteases required for the maturation of isoprenylated signaling molecules
Tissue replenishment from stem cells, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, germ cell tumor, stem cell self-renewal
Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Genetics, Decisions and Motivated Responses to Reward and Stress in Drosophila
Immunoparasitology; immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease; vaccine development