Research Faculty, Topics, and Techniques
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Faculty Research Interest
- Kwang-Jin Cho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Characterization of Ras signaling and lipid trafficking - Michael Craig, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
microRNA in cancer, mechanisms of drug resistance, biomarker identification - Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., Professor
Characterization of p63 and p73 regulated genes in cancer using microarray technology - Michael Leffak, Ph.D., Professor
DNA sequences and proteins at eucaryotic replication origins, replication-dependent DNA damage and repair - Weiwen Long, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Protein kinase signaling and post-translational modifications - Michael Markey, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
Genomics of disease - John V. Paietta, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Riboswitches and gene regulation in Neurospora - Oleg Paliy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Role of intestinal microbes in human health and disease - Hongmei Ren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Lipid metabolism in mitochondrial and metabolic diseases
Topics
Cancer
- Kwang-Jin Cho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Developing and characterizing chemical compounds for targeting pancreatic, lung and colon cancers - Michael Craig, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
microRNA in cancer, mechanisms of drug resistance, biomarker identification - Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., Professor
Characterization of p63 and p73 regulated genes in cancer using microarray technology - Weiwen Long, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Protein kinase signaling in cancer progression and drug resistance - Michael Markey, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor
Molecular genetics of cancer, genomics-based approaches to gene expression and association studies - Hongmei Ren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Lipid metabolism in mitochondrial and metabolic diseases - Michael A. Schmidt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Plant secondary metabolites and soil biochemistry
DNA Replication and Repair
- Michael Leffak, Ph.D., Professor
DNA sequences and proteins at eucaryotic replication origins, replication-dependent DNA damage and repair
Host-Microbial/Pathogen Interactions
- Oleg Paliy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Role of intestinal microbes in human health and disease
Metabolomics/Metabolism
- Oleg Paliy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Metabolomes of human gut microbes and their effects on the host
Nuclear Receptors
- Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., Professor
Characterization of p63 and p73 regulated genes in cancer using microarray technology
Protein Structure Function
- Michael Leffak, Ph.D., Professor
DNA sequences and proteins at eucaryotic replication origins, replication-dependent DNA damage and repair - Michael A. Schmidt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Kinetics of soil enzymes involved in redox cycling
Riboswitches
- John V. Paietta, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Riboswitches and gene regulation in Neurospora
Signal Transduction
- Kwang-Jin Cho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Characterization of Ras signaling and lipid trafficking - Michael Craig, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
microRNA as biomarkers and signaling in response to exercise and in cancer - Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., Professor
Characterization of p63 and p73 regulated genes in cancer using microarray technology - Weiwen Long, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Protein kinase signaling and post-translational modifications - Michael Markey, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor
Genomics of disease - Stanley Dean Rider Jr., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor
Chromatin remodeling and regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes
Techniques
Bioinformatics / Computational biology
- Multivariate statistics
- Ordination analyses
- Data mining
- Database query
- Data clustering
- Disease prediction
- Sequence annotation
Cell / Tissue Imaging
- Immunofluroescence
- Live cell imaging
- Immunohistochemistry
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
- Molecular colocalization
- Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC)
- Fluorescent proteins
- Cell sorting
Gene Regulation
- RNA isolation
- Northern blotting
- Plasmid reporter assays
- qRT-PCR
- RNA interference
- EMSA / gel shifts
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- microRNAs
- Molecular Cloning
- Oligonucleotide microarray
- High-throughput sequencing
- SNP detection
Microbiology
- Aerobic and anaerobic culturing
- In vitro fermentation
- Clinical microbiology
- Phylogenetic analysis
- Microbial community analysis
- Microbial identification
Molecular Genetics
- Neurospora
- Yeast
- Transgenic mice
- Mutant Screens
- Animal cell culture
- Xenopus egg extracts
- PCR
- Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
Omics techniques
- High throughput sequencing (NGS)
- Microarrays
- Genome sequencing and annotation
- Mass spectrometry
Protein Biochemistry
- Protein purification
- SDS-PAGE
- Western Blotting
- Ligand binding
- Circular Dichroism (CD)
- Enzymatic reactions
- Kinetics
- Mass spectrometry
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
- HPLC
- Liposome characterization
