Our Faculty

Michael Blower

Professor
Director, Biochemistry & Cell Biology Graduate Program

Mitosis, transcription, chromatin structure

Daniel Cifuentes

Associate Professor

RNA regulation, developmental biology, virology

Catherine Costello

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

Biopolymer structural studies; development of mass spectral methods

Stephen Farmer

Professor

Growth and differentiation of cells, adipose tissue biology

Mikel Garcia-Marcos

Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Professor of Biology

G protein signaling circuits in the molecular basis of disease

Alla Grishok

Associate Professor

Gene regulation by RNA and chromatin

David A. Harris

Edgar Minas Housepian Professor
Chair of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Alzheimer’s disease and Prion diseases

Stefan Isaac

Assistant Professor

Mitochondrial genome packaging and regulation

Nelson C. Lau

Associate Professor
Director, Genome Science Institute (GSI)

Transposable element regulation, RNAi, regulatory RNAs, gene silencing

Matthew D. Layne

Associate Professor
Assistant Dean of Research

Adipose tissue fibrosis, mechanotransduction, & EDS syndrome

Shawn Lyons

Assistant Professor

RNA metabolism during stress

Valentina Perissi

Associate Professor

Genomic Regulation of Metabolism, Nuclear-Mitochondria Communication

Mohsan Saeed

Associate Professor
Investigator, NEIDL

Role of viral proteases in shaping virus-host interactions

Vickery Trinkaus-Randall

Professor

purinoreceptors, EGFR receptors, confocal imaging, wound repair, cell communication and migration

Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas

Professor

Hippo-YAP/TAZ Signaling, Lung Epithelial Biology, Cancer Biology, Tissue Regeneration and Fibrosis, Immune Cell Functions

Joseph Zaia

Professor

Glycomics
Glycoproteomics
Neurological diseases
Viral diseases