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My main research interests are focused on regulation of immune and inflammatory responses. Inflammation can be initiated by a variety of noxious conditions, including infections, cellular stress and ...

Don Ganem is a virologist and infectious diseases specialist whose research has focused on (i) the replicative and pathogenetic mechanisms of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Kaposi?s sarcoma-associated ...

My research centers on genomics and its broad implications to understanding cellular function, evolution, medicine and the environment. I founded three not-for-profit research institutes that cover ...

A hydrologist and fluid mechanicist by training, Rinaldo studies fundamental hydrologic controls on biota by mathematical methods, field observations and laboratory experiments. Examples include the ...

Dr. Angelaki is the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor & Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer ...

In my lab I use C. elegans molecular genetics and genomics to study problems in developmental biology and physiology. I have have studied the pathways by which microRNAs and other small RNAs regulate ...

Emily A. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.