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Research Description |
Areas of Research |
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Leon J. Carlock
313-577-1013
lcarlock@genetics.wayne.edu
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Molecular neurobiology; Huntington disease; neuron-specific gene expression; demyelinating disease. |
Neurosciences |
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Gerald Feldman
313-577-9139
gfeldman@med.wayne.edu
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Use of molecular technologies in the diagnosis of genetic diseases, clinical genetics, and dysmorphology; educational programs in medical genetics residency training. |
Genetics
Genetics Counseling
Medical Genetics |
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Russell L. Finley, Jr.
313-577-7845
rfinley@wayne.edu
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Regulatory networks that control cell proliferation; cell cycle regulation during development; high throughput technologies to study protein interaction networks. |
Cancer Biology
Cell & Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology Genetics.
Proteomics |
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James Y. Garbern
313-577-2648
jgarbern@genetics.wayne.edu
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Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and other inherited myelin diseases; metabolism of myelin lipids; magnetic resonance imaging techniques; neurofibromatosis; clinical neurogenetics. |
Medical Genetics
Neuroscience |
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Morris Goodman
313-577-1138
mgoodwayne@aol.com
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Molecular evolution, with emphasis on globin genes and primate phylogeny. |
Molecular Evolution |
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Alexander Gow
313-577-9401
agow@med.wayne.edu
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Role of unfolded protein response in neurodegenerative diseases; molecular characterization of the regulation of axoglial junction assembly in CNS myelin; molecular characterization of the claudin family of integral membrane tight junction proteins during development in brain, testes, and inner ear using transgenic and homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells. |
Cell & Molecualar Biology
Developmental Biology
Genomics
Medical Genetics
Neurosciences
Proteomics |
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Anne E. Greb
313-577-3492
agreb@med.wayne.edu
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Educational programs in human genetics and genetics counseling; multicultural issues related to genetic counseling and the provision of clinical genetics services. |
Genetics Counseling |
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Lawrence I. Grossman
313-577-5326
l.grossman@wayne.edu
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Molecular Genetics and evolution of the electron transport chain; cytochrome c oxidase; mitochondria and mitochondrial diseases. |
Cell & Molecular Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Molecular Evolution
Neurosciences |
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Henry H.Q. Heng
313-577-9544
hheng@genetics.wayne.edu
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Molecular cytogenetics; genome structure and function; genomic instability and cancer progression. |
Cancer Biology
Chromatin Structure & Function
Genomics |
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Maik Hüttemann
313-577-9150
maik@genetics.wayne.edu
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Function of cytochrome c oxidase isoforms, oxygen sensing, and role of mitochondria in cancer. |
Cancer Biology
Cell & Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology Genetics
Medical genetics
Neurosciences
Proteomics |
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John A. Kamholz
313-577-0925
jkamholz@genetics.wayne.edu
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Regulation of myelination; molecular pathophysiology of demyelinating disease. |
Neurosciences |
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Gregory Kapatos
313-577-5965
gkapato@med.wayne.edu
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Cellular and molecular biology of monoamine neurotransmitter secreting neurons. |
Neurosciences |
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Stephen A. Krawetz
313-577-6770
steve@compbio.med.wayne.edu
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Gene Therapy; control of development and differentiation; expression of connective tissue genes and genes controlling spermatogenesis; computer-assisted sequence analysis. |
Bioinformatics
Cell & Molecular Biology
Chromatin Structure & Function
Developmental Biology
Gene Therapy
Genetics
Genomics
Medical Genetics |
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Markku Kurkinen
313-577-1027
markku@genetics.wayne.edu
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Extracellular matrix; metalloproteinases; gene regulation; development. |
Genetics |
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Wayne D. Lancaster
313-577-0028
lancaster@wayne.edu
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Papillomaviruses: molecular biology, evolution, and role in human carcinogenesis; cancer cell genome instability; ovarian carcinogenesis. |
Cancer Biology
Cell & Molecular Biology
Medical Genetics |
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Susan Land
313-577-9605
sland@med.wayne.edu
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Genomics |
Cancer Biology Genetics
Medical Genetics
Neurosciences |
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Li Li
313-577-8749
lili@med.wayne.edu
|
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Gene regulation during cardiovascular and hematopoietic development. |
Cell & Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology |
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Leonard Lipovich
313-577-9683
llipovich@med.wayne.edu
|
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Genomic complexity; bioinformatics and functional genomics of long noncoding-RNA transcripts; primate- specific genes; computing the genomic basis of species phenotypic uniqueness.
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Bioinformatics
Genetics
Genomics |
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Jeffrey A. Loeb
313-577-9827
jloeb@med.wayne.edu
|
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Developmental neuroscience; molecular mechanisms in synapse formation; neuroregulins and neurotrophins in synaptic development; functional genomic study of the pathogenesis of epilepsy. |
Bioinformatics
Cell & Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Genomics
Medical Genetics
Neurosciences |
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Michael E. Shy
313-577-6903
mshy@genetics.wayne.edu
|
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Molecular biology of Schwann cell axonal interactions; gene therapy in the peripheral nervous system |
Neurosciences |
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Michael Tainsky
313-578-4340
tainskym@karmanos.org
|
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Cancer genetic studies of familial cancers to determine the inherited cancer genes, analyze the mechanism of their action, and factors affecting genetic penetrance of the cancer phenotype. |
Bioinformatics
cancer Biology
Cell & Molecualr Biology
Genetic Counseling
Genetics
Genomics
Proteomics |
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Angela M. Trepanier
313-577-3425
atrepani@med.wayne.edu
|
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Educational programs in human genetics and genetic counseling; cancer genetics. |
Genetic Counseling
Medical Genetics |
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Derek E. Wildman
313-577-1253
dwildman@genetics.wayne.edu
|
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Molecular Evolution of Birth and Reproduction; Comparative Genomics; Aerobic Metabolism; Molecular Anthropology; Primate Evolution; Phylogeography; Mammalian Systematics. |
Bioinformatics
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Molecular Evolution |
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Kezhong Zhang
313-577-2669
kzhang@med.wayne.edu |
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Intracellular stress signaling from the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria; unfolded protein response and inflammation in metabolic diseases. |
Cell and molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Immunology
Signal Transduction |
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Fei Song
313-577-1375
fsong@med.wayne.edu
|
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Immunomodulation, immunothereapy, molecular signal pathway and targeted therapeutics in human neurological disorder diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as well as their animal models. |
Neurosciences
Medical Genetics
Cellular and Molecular Immunology |
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Carin Lea Yates
313-577-9138
clyates@med.wayne.edu |
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Medical genetics education, genetic counseling, genetics of infertility. |
Genetic Counseling
Medical Genetics |
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Abdul B. Abou-Samra
313-745-4008
asamra@med.wayne.edu
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Intracellular signaling and hormone-receptor interaction. |
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