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| Zoltan Pierre Arany | 26Cardiovascular metabolism | 8
| Will Bailis | 23Immune Cell Metabolism | 8
| Joseph A. Baur | 2aMolecular mechanisms of aging | 8
| Joshua Dunaief | 45Retinal iron trafficking and its role in retinal disease | 8
| J. Kevin Foskett | 3eIon channels, calcium signaling, cystic fibrosis. | 8
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| Thomas Jongens | 59Modeling Fragile X Mental Retardation in Drosophila; Germ Cell Specification | 8
| Daniel Kelly | caTranscriptional and epigenetic control of mitochondrial function; nuclear receptor signaling in the developing and diseased heart; molecular mechanisms controlling muscle metabolic fitness. | 8
| Mitchell Lazar | 57Regulation of gene expression and metabolism by nuclear hormone receptors. | 8
| Robert Lee | fcEpithelial ion and fluid transport, calcium/cAMP/nitric oxide signaling, extra-oral taste receptors, respiratory mucociliary transport and innate immunity, respiratory physiology and pathophysiology, chronic rhinosinusitis, cystic fibrosis | 8
| Virginia Lee | ebTau, a-synuclein and amyloid beta precursor protein (APP), and their roles in the pathobiology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and frontotemporal dementias (FTD). | 8
| Fanxin Long | 5dEnergy metabolism in skeletal cell types under normal or pathological conditions | 8
| Damaris Lorenzo | 63Cytoskeleton and membrane adaptors in metabolic processes using cell and mouse models. | 8
| Benjamin L. Prosser | 80Cardiac electrophysiology; excitation-contraction coupling; calcium signaling; mechanotransduction; redox signaling | 8
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| Erfei Bi | 56Development of cell polarity and control of cytokinesis in budding yeast. | 8
| Janis Burkhardt | a3Cytoskeletal control of immune cell function, leukocyte adhesion and motility, cell mechanics, membrane-cortex attachment, TCR and integrin signaling. | 8
| Dennis Discher | 101Cell and nuclear membrane structure-function; Adhesion mechanisms and responses of cells; Phagocyte recognition processes; Membrane skeleton and cytoskeleton; Diseases ranging from muscular dystrophy to anemias to athersclerosis; Drug delivery. | 8
| Jonathan Edwards | 53Right ventricular heart failure, pediatric heart Failure, proteostasis | 8
| Yale Goldman | ddRelating the structural changes to enzymatic reactions and mechanical steps of the energy transduction mechanism by mapping the real-time domain motions of the motor proteins and ribosomal elongation factors. | 8
| Ekaterina L. Grishchuk | 4cMechanisms that drive and control chromosome motions in mitosis | 8
| Wei Guo | 84The molecular basis for polarized exocytosis and how exocytosis contributes to polarized cell growth and morphogenesis. | 8
| Erika L. Holzbaur | 28Microtubule-based motility. | 8
| Paul Janmey | 47Cytoskeleton, phosphoinositide signalling, cell mechanics. | 8
| Thomas Jongens | 59Modeling Fragile X Mental Retardation in Drosophila; Germ Cell Specification | 8
| Anna S. Kashina | 73Protein modifications, mouse genetics, cancer, cytoskeleton, cardiovascular development, angiogenesis. | 8
| Michael Lampson | 69Cell division, selfish centromeres and centromere evolution, germline epigenetic inheritance | 8
| Damaris Lorenzo | 54Cytoskeleton and membrane adaptors in cellular and organism metabolism. | 8
| Frank Luca | deYeast and mammalian cell cycle regulation; Cytokinesis. Daughter cell-specific gene expression; Polarized growth. Mitotic Exit Network (MEN); Regulation of Ace2-dependent transcription and Morphogenesis (RAM). | 8
| Guilherme Nader | 4fNuclear mechanosensing pathways during cell migration and invasion | 8
| Michael Ostap | 33Molecular mechanisms of cell motility. | 8
| Benjamin Prosser | 27Mechano-signaling in heart | 8
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| Tatyana Svitkina | 38Roles of the cytoskeleton in cell motility. | 8
| Phong Tran | 3dThe cytoskeleton and cellular pattern formation. | 8
| John W. Weisel | 94Intermolecular and cellular interactions in blood clotting, fibrinolysis, and atherosclerosis studied by molecular biophysical methods. | 8
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| Zoltan Pierre Arany | 26Cardiovascular metabolism | 8
| Yair Argon | 8cFunctions of molecular chaperones in the immune system - modulation of antigen receptors expression and of peptide presentation | 8
| Joseph A. Baur | 2aMolecular mechanisms of aging | 8
| Erfei Bi | 55Development of cell polarity and control of cytokinesis in budding yeast | 8
| Janis Burkhardt | a2Cytoskeletal control of immune cell function, leukocyte adhesion and motility, cell mechanics, membrane-cortex attachment, TCR and integrin signaling | 8
| Natali Chanaday | 3bMolecular mechanisms of neuronal communication | 8
| Margaret Chou | 84Mechanisms of malignant transformation; signaling by small GTPases; regulation of vesicular trafficking; ubiquitination | 8
| Andy Dancis | 80Iron transport into mitochondria, Heme synthesis, Fe-S cluster biogenesis, Yeast genetics, and Sideroblastic anemia | 8
| Carol Deutsch | 4fFunction and assembly of potassium channels in human T lymphocytes | 8
| Robert Doms | 4fHIV; Emerging viral pathogens; Cell biology of Alzheimer's disease | 8
| J. Kevin Foskett | 44Ion channels, calcium signaling, cystic fibrosis. | 8
| Yale Goldman | ddRelating the structural changes to enzymatic reactions and mechanical steps of the energy transduction mechanism by mapping the real-time domain motions of the motor proteins and ribosomal elongation factors. | 8
| Wei Guo | 84The molecular basis for polarized exocytosis and how exocytosis contributes to polarized cell growth and morphogenesis. | 8
| Erika L. Holzbaur | 28Microtubule-based motility. | 8
| Paul Janmey | 46Cytoskeleton, phosphoinositide signaling, cell mechanics. | 8
| Thomas Jongens | 59Modeling Fragile X Mental Retardation in Drosophila; Germ Cell Specification | 8
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| Anna S. Kashina | 73Protein modifications, mouse genetics, cancer, cytoskeleton, cardiovascular development, angiogenesis. | 8
| Damaris Lorenzo | 54Cytoskeleton and membrane adaptors in cellular and organism metabolism. | 8
| Frank Luca | deYeast and mammalian cell cycle regulation; Cytokinesis. Daughter cell-specific gene expression; Polarized growth. Mitotic Exit Network (MEN); Regulation of Ace2-dependent transcription and Morphogenesis (RAM). | 8
| Michael S. Marks | 61Regulation and diseases of intracellular protein transport and organelle biogenesis. | 8
| Michael Ostap | 33Molecular mechanisms of cell motility. | 8
| Mechthild Pohlschroder | 4cProkaryotic protein translocation across hydrophobic membranes. | 8
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| Josuha Dunaief | 45Retinal iron trafficking and its role in retinal disease | 8
| J. Kevin Foskett | 3eIon channels, calcium signaling, cystic fibrosis. | 8
| Robert Lee | fcEpithelial ion and fluid transport, calcium/cAMP/nitric oxide signaling, extra-oral taste receptors, respiratory mucociliary transport and innate immunity, respiratory physiology and pathophysiology, chronic rhinosinusitis, cystic fibrosis | 8
| Damaris Lorenzo | 54Cytoskeleton and membrane adaptors in cellular and organism metabolism. | 8
| Zhe Lu | 42Molecular and biophysical mechanisms of ion channels. | 8
| Minghong Ma | 2fNeurobiology of the sense of smell | 8
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| Lawrence F. Brass | 26Mechanisms of thrombosis. | 8
| Janis Burkhardt | a2Cytoskeletal control of immune cell function, leukocyte adhesion and motility, cell mechanics, membrane-cortex attachment, TCR and integrin signaling | 8
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| Dennis Discher | 101Cell and nuclear membrane structure-function; Adhesion mechanisms and responses of cells; Phagocyte recognition processes; Membrane skeleton and cytoskeleton; Diseases ranging from muscular dystrophy to anemias to athersclerosis; Drug delivery. | 8
| Jonathan Edwards | 53Right ventricular heart failure, pediatric heart Failure, proteostasis | 8
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| Mark Kahn | 3fSignaling pathways in angiogenesis and hemostasis. | 8
| Michael Lampson | 6bMitotic kinase signaling, chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis, kinetochore function. | 8
| Robert Lee | fcEpithelial ion and fluid transport, calcium/cAMP/nitric oxide signaling, extra-oral taste receptors, respiratory mucociliary transport and innate immunity, respiratory physiology and pathophysiology, chronic rhinosinusitis, cystic fibrosis | 8
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| Paul Titchenell | 4dMolecular mechanisms of insulin signaling and insulin resistance | 8
| Stefano Rivella | 5fMolecular mechanisms that control erythropoiesis, iron metabolism and inflammation | 8
| Rebecca Wells | 57TGF-ß receptor biology; Hepatic stellate cell function in liver fibrosis. | 8
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