Molecular Basis of Disease

Aseem Z Ansari - email
Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry, biology and genomics

Alan D Attie - email
Molecular genetics of type 2 diabetes

Margaret Clagett-Dame - email
Molecular mechanism of action of vitamin A in embryonic development, vitamin A and neuronal survival and differentiation, retinoids in chemoprevention and chemotherapy

Elizabeth A Craig - email
Protein folding in the cell - the function of molecular chaperones in facilitating protein folding and protein translocation across membrane

Hector F DeLuca - email
Molecular function of vitamins and hormones, metabolism of vitamins A and D

Paul D Friesen - email
Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons

Colleen E Hayes - email
Molecular mechanisms that regulate immune responses

Ann C Palmenberg - email
Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses; protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis; viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based sequence analysis

George N Phillips - email
Structure and dynamics of proteins, computational biology

J Wesley Pike - email
Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skeleton

Douglas B. Weibel - email
Microbial biochemistry; biological engineering; chemical biology

Christiane Wiese - email
Molecular mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and microtubule nucleation; cell-cycle dependent regulation of spindle assembly proteins; centrosome structure and function