Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB) Faculty

  • Allewell, Norma (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; and Interim Vice President for Research)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Andrews, Norma (Professor and Chair)
    Research Interests: host-pathogen interactions, host pathogen interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Beckett, Dorothy (Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Biophysics
  • Belov, George (Assistant Professor, Virology, VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine; Affiliate Faculty)
    Research Interests: Replication of positive strand RNA viruses, picornaviruses, virus-cell interaction, remodeling of cellular membranous organelles into viral replication complexes
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Bely, Alexandra (Associate Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: regeneration; evolution; asexual reproduction; development; invertebrate; animal body plan evolution; evolutionary developmental biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Benson, Spencer (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Master of Chemical & Life Sciences Online
  • Bentley, William (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: Protein Expression, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, RNAi, Quorum Sensing, Biofabrication
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Briken, Volker (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Apoptosis, Lipid and Protein Antigen Presentation, Virulence Genes, Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Cao, Kan (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, normal aging, laminopathies
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Carr, Catherine (Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: auditory, temporal coding, birds, reptiles, evolutionary developmental biology, neuroscience
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS)
  • Chang, Caren (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: plant biology, Arabidopsis thaliana, ethylene, signal transduction, molecular genetics, functional genomics, proteomics
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Colombini, Marco (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Biology and Affiliate of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
    Research Interests: apoptosis, ceramide, sphingolipids, mitochondria, mitochondrion, VDAC, channel, membrane, outer membrane, regulation, allosteric, sphingosine, planar membranes, BLM, electrophysiology, biophysics, biochemistry, flux, transport, kinetics, electron microscopy, fluorescence, phytoceramide, Bax, Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, Bid, VDAC1, VDAC2, VDAC3, aluminum, gallium, indium, dextran sulfate, voltage dependence, selectivity, G3139, avicin, actin, liposome, liposomes, bilayer, lipid bilayer, conductance, current, self-assembly, nanopore, cooperativity, synergism, polyanion, Koenig, ultra-steep, auto-directed, insertion, large channel theory, LCT
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Biophysics
  • Colwell, Rita (Professor Emerita and Distinguished University Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: cholera, global infectious diseases, water, health
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Culver, James (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: Virology, Plant Biology, Nanotechnology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Darden, Lindley (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: Conceptual issues in evolutionary theory and ecology, intelligent systems in molecular biology, computational biological discoveries, history and philosophy of genetics and molecular biology, reasoning in discovering biological mechanisms, philosophy of biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Dayie, Kwaku (Associate Professor)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Delwiche, Charles (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; Affiliate of Department of Biology and CBCB)
    Research Interests: plant biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • DeStefano, Jeffrey (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Virology, Host-Pathogen Interactions and Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Dinman, Jonathan (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; Affiliate, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
    Research Interests: Virus, Ribosome, Translation, mRNA, rRNA, Structure, Frameshifting, Virology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Chemistry
  • El-Sayed, Najib (Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: Comparative genomics, functional genomics, host-pathogen interactions, protein interaction networks, host pathogen interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Fenselau, Catherine (Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Frauwirth, Kenneth (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: T cell, anergy, lymphocyte, tolerance, metabolism, host-pathogen interactions and host pathogen interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Fredericksen, Brenda (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Virology, Host-Pathogen Interactions and Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Freed, Eric (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: HIV, virology, retrovirus, virus assembly
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Gantt, Elisabeth (Professor Emerita and Distinguished University Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Plant cell and molecular biology, plant physiology, regulation of isoprenoid biosynthesis in plants
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Glass, John (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: Synthetic biology, synthetic genomics, infectious diseases, genomics, microbial evolution, mycoplasma, ureaplasma, bioenergy, vaccines, synthetic life
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Green, Kim (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: norovirus, calicivirus, vaccines, replication, viruses, virology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Haag, Eric S. (Associate Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: evolution, development, germ line biology, sex determination, nematodes, C. elegans, Caenorhabditis, comparative genomics, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary developmental biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Hamza, Iqbal (Affiliate Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: Nutrition, metals, trafficking, genomics, micronutrients, heme, iron metabolism, anemia, C. elegans, nematodes, worms, helminths, cell biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Hannenhalli, Sridhar (Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: Gene regulation, molecular evolution
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Herzberg, Osnat (Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    Research Interests: Structural Biology, X-ray crystallography, Structural enzymology, Structure-based drug development
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Hooks, Cerruti R.R. (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Entomology)
    Research Interests: nematodes, insects, mites, biological control, soil community ecology, plant viruses, vector ecology, ecological pest management
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Hutcheson, Steven (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Jeffery, William R. (Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: evolutionary developmental biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Jose, Antony (Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Movement of RNA between animal cells and across generations
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Julin, Douglas (Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Kahn, Jason (Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Chemistry; Biochemistry
  • Kwak, June M. (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: plant biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • LaRonde-LeBlanc, Nicole (Assistant Professor)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Lee, Chi-Hon (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: neuroscience, neural circuit, neurodevelopment, visual system, behavior, Drosophila, development
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Lee, Vincent (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Biofilm, c-di-GMP signaling, Host-Pathogen Interactions and Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Lei, Elissa (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: drosophila, chromatin, RNA, gene expression, transcription, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, molecular, cell biology, RNA silencing, RNAi, insulator, heterochromatin, high throughput screening model organism
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Li, Shuwei (Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry)
    Research Interests: Proteomics, chemical biology, mass spectrometry, protein tyrosine phosphatase
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Liu, Zhongchi (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: plant biology, cell biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Marino, John (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: RNA, protein, GPCR, G-protein, biomolecular NMR, fluorescence, biophysical methods, structure, dynamics, interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Mariuzza, Roy (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Host-Pathogen Interactions, Structural Immunology, Antibodies, T Cell Receptors, Autoimmune Diseases, Tumor Immunology, X-ray Crystallography
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Mather, Ian (Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences; Affiliate, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Milk-lipid secretion; lactation; membrane traffic; mammary gland biology; live-cell imaging; membrane dynamics of milk secretion; butyrophilin gene family; multiple sclerosis; autoimmunity, cell biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • McBride, Alison (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: HPV, papillomavirus, virus, virology, replication, mitosis, chromatin, transcription
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • McIver, Kevin S. (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Bacterial Pathogenesis, Virulence Regulation, Signal Transduction, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Infectious Disease, Microbiology, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute (MPRI), Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Moss, Bernard (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: virology, molecular biology, gene expression, protein interactions, infectious disease, virus assembly, membrane fusion, DNA replication
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Mosser, David (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Macrophage, immunology, pathogens, host defense, inflammation, host-pathogen interactions, host pathogen interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Moult, John (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Computational Structural Biology, Genetic variation and Disease
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Mount, Steve (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; Affiliate of Biology and CBCB)
    Research Interests: bioinformatics, RNA, pre-mRNA splicing, genomics, Arabidopsis, Drosophila, model organisms, molecular evolution, plant biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Muro, Silvia (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Cell Biology, Endocytosis, Vesicular Transport, Drug Delivery, Therapy, Cell Culture, Animal Models, Microscopy
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Nelson, Daniel (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: host-pathogen interaction, novel antimicrobials, antibiotic development, bacteriophage, lysins, microbiology, structure-function studies, protein engineering
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Nuss, Donald (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics [and Director, IBBR])
    Research Interests: Virology, Virus-host interactions, RNA silencing antivirus response, Fungal viruses, Virus-based control of fungal diseases
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • O'Brochta, David (Professor, Entomology)
    Research Interests: molecular genetics transposable element transposon vector parasite pathogen malaria insect mosquito Drosophila
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Owens, Robert (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: viroids, host-pathogen interaction, molecular virology, virology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Pal, Utpal (Associate Professor, Affiliate Faculty)
    Research Interests: Lyme disease, Leptospirosis, vector biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Paukstelis, Paul (Assistant Professor)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Payne, Richard (Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: membrane biophysics
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS)
  • Perez, Daniel (Affiliate Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: influenza, transmission, pathogenesis, vaccines, RNA viruses, animal models, infectious diseases
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Pick, Leslie (Associate Professor, Entomology)
    Research Interests: evolutionary developmental biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS); Entomology
  • Pop, Mihai (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Genomics, Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, Genome assembly, Genome sequencing, Host-Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Porter, Tom (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: Development, embryology, endocrinology, genomics, cell biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS)
  • Pukazhenthi, Budhan (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: comparative reproduction, sperm, oocyte, testis, ovary
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Quinlan, Elizabeth (Associate Professor, Biology)
    Research Interests: synaptic plasticity, mammalian cortex, development, aging
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS)
  • Simon, Anne (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Virology Molecular Biology RNA Biochemistry Plant Biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Song, Jiuzhou (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Genetics, Epigenetics, Computational Biology, Statistical Genomics, Environmental Genomics and Disease Resistance
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG); BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
  • Song, Wenxia (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: host-pathogen interactions and host pathogen interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • St. Leger, Raymond John (Professor, Entomology)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Entomology
  • Stein, Daniel (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Host-Pathogen interactions, Immunology, Cell Biology, Genomics, Molecular, Microbiology, Microbial, Pathogenesis, Host Pathogen Interactions
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Stewart, Richard (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: bacteria, chemotaxis, motility, signal transduction, kinase
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Straney, David (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Sukharev, Sergei (Professor, Biology [and Affiliate of Chemistry & Biochemistry])
    Research Interests: membrane biophysics
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Physiological Systems (PSYS); BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Biophysics
  • Sze, Heven (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Plant Biology, cell & molecular biology, pollen, transport, ion homeostasis
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Taneyhill, Lisa (Affiliate Faculty [Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources])
    Research Interests: development, neural crest, cancer, disease, EMT, metastasis, chick embryo, embryonic patterning, nervous system, gene regulation, signaling, Wnt, signal transduction, transcription factors, cell migration, differentiation, induction, cell biology, embryology, developmental biology, genomics, molecular biology, biochemistry, microscopy, gene expression, cell adhesion, neuroscience
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Vakharia, Vikram (Affiliate Professor)
    Research Interests: molecular virology, RNA viruses, pathogenesis, virulence, reverse genetics, recombinant viral vaccines
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Walsh, Scott (Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: structural biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Wang, Jian (Assistant Professor, Entomology)
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
    Other Graduate Program Affiliations: Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS); Entomology
  • Wickner, Reed (Adjunct Faculty)
    Research Interests: prion, virology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Winkler, Wade (Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: RNA-based regulation of gene expression in bacteria.
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Wolniak, Stephen (Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: plant biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Wu, Louisa (Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
    Research Interests: Pathobiology, Genome Sciences, Host defense against pathogens; signal transduction and cell-cell signaling in the innate immune response in insects
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Xiao, Shunyuan (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Plant disease resistance, innate immunity, host-pathogen interaction, protein trafficking, programmed cell death, sphingolipid, cell biology, plant biology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Yarwood, Stephanie (Affiliate Assistant Professor)
    Research Interests: Environmental microbiology
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB); BISI-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
  • Yu, Liqing (Affiliate Associate Professor, Affiliate Faculty)
    Research Interests: Metabolic Diseases
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • Zhu, Xiaoping (Affiliate Associate Professor)
    Research Interests: Immunology, molecular and cellular immunology, Immunity, Mucosal immunity, Host Pathogen Interaction, Inflammation, Allergy, Infectious Diseases
    BISI Graduate Program Concentration Areas: BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)