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F A C UL T Y & R E S E A R C H
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Cell
Biology is a broad discipline that seeks to describe how components
within cells are organized and function to allow cells to proliferate
and carry out specialized roles in organisms. Knowledge of how cell
structure is regulated is critical to understanding a variety of
biological processes such as cell division and development and is
important to the design of pharmaceutical agents.
Cell
biologists in our Department take advantage of the tools provided
by many different areas of biology including microscopy, molecular
biology, biochemistry and physiology to examine processes at the
level of single molecules to individual cells within tissues. This
multi-technique approach to research problems affords students the
opportunity to interact with a variety of research groups and develop
a wide repertoire of scientific skills.
Specific
areas of focus within the Department presently include membrane
protein structure and function, cell signaling, regulation and organization
of multi-protein complexes within cells and the development of pharmacological
agents.
| Brian R. Calvi |
Cell cycle control of DNA replication and genome stability |
| Scott
E. Erdman |
Eucaryotic cellular organization and differentiation; functional
genomics in fungal systems |
| Thomas
P. Fondy |
Cancer chemotherapeutic drug development |
| Richard
L. Hallberg |
Protein phosphatases and the cell cycle in yeast; role of molecular
chaperones in mitochondrial DNA replication |
| Melissa
Pepling |
Regulation of mouse oocyte development; Hormone signaling in oocyte differentiation. |
| John
M. Russell |
Ion transport: regulation and roles in cellular processes |
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