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Jorge Benach Pathogenesis of spirochetal infections and their host resonses.
James Bliska Molecular and cellular basis of bacterial-host cell interactions; pathogenesis.
Nicholas Carpino Positive and negative regulation of T cell receptor signaling.
Carol Carter Retroviral viral assembly and post-assembly events.
Edward Chan Growth factor receptors and cancer.
Howard Crawford Pancreatic Cancer
Nicholas Delihas Control of gene expression by regulatory RNAs.
Martha Furie Molecular basis of cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions.
Bruce Futcher Cancer, cell cycle, cyclins, microarrays, computational biology, yeast genetics.
Michael Hayman Signal transduction in cell growth, differentiation and cancer; role of nuclear and membrane oncoproteins.
Janet Hearing Replication and maintenance of the Epstein-Barr virus genome in tumor cells.
Patrick Hearing Adenovirus regulation of cellular proliferation and gene expression; adenovirus vectors for human gene therapy.
A. Wali Karzai Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB-SsrA quality control system.
Eugene Katz Developmental genetic studies on Dictyostelium discoideum; role of membrane sterols in cell growth and development.
James Konopka Cell growth and development in yeast; G protein signal transduction.
Janet Leatherwood Cell cycle control of DNA replication.
Christopher Lee Urologic Oncology, Tumor Immunology
Ken Marcu Immunoglobulin gene expression and recombination.
Aniko Paul Biohemical and genetic studies of poliovirus replication.
Nancy Reich Signaling switches in gene expression by hormones or viral infection.
Eric Spitzer Molecular biology of microbial pathogens.
Roy Steigbigel Treatment of HIV infection.
David Thanassi Secretion of bacterial virulence factors and their roles in pathogenesis.
Ando van der Velden The mammalian T cell response to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Eckard Wimmer Molecular biology of poliovirus replication and basis of picornaviral pathogenesis.
Wei-Xing Zong Molecular regulation of apoptotic and necrotic cell death.