Our Faculty

Daniel Cifuentes, Assistant Professor

Embryonic programming, developmental biology

Catherine Costello, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry

Biopolymer structural studies based on development and application of mass spectral methods

Stephen R. Farmer, Professor

Growth and differentiation of cells, adipose tissue biology

David A. Harris, Professor
Chair of Biochemistry

Alzheimer’s disease and Prion diseases

Nelson Lau, Associate Professor
Director, Genome Science Institute (GSI)

Transposable element regulation, RNAi, regulatory RNAs, gene silencing

Matthew D. Layne, Associate Professor

Genetic basis for connective tissue disease, mechanotransduction, mechanisms of tissue fibrosis

Shawn Lyons, Assistant Professor

RNA metabolism during stress

Mohsan Saeed, Assistant Professor
Investigator, NEIDL

Role of viral proteases in shaping virus-host interactions

Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas, Associate Professor

Stem Cells, Cancer biology, Organ development, Hippo pathway signaling