There are a large number of possible placements. What follows is an abbreviated list of faculty mentors, but this list is only a sampling of the possible placements.
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Dr. Parker Antin
Cell Biology & Anatomy, BIO5 Institute |
Molecular regulation of vertebrate development, cardiovascular development and disease, network modeling | pba@email.arizona.edu 318 Medical Research Building 626-6382 |
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Dr. Jennifer K. Barton
Biomedical Engineering, BIO5 Institute |
Development and application of optical imaging systems to animal models of cancer and imaging of human patients. Design of laser therapy for congenital vascular malformations. | barton@email.arizona.edu Keating 131B 520-621-4416 |
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Dr. Giovanni Bosco
Molecular & Cellular Biology, BIO5 Institute |
The role of tumor suppressor genes in cell cycle regulation and development in Drosophila. | gbosco@email.arizona.edu Arizona Cancer Center 0977A 626-1401 |
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Dr. Heddwen Brooks
Physiology, BIO5 Institute |
My research interests focus on an integrative approach that combines the use of classical animal models of renal disease, such as diabetes, with extensive molecular analysis. | brooksh@email.arizona.edu AHSC 4109 626-7702 |
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Dr. Vicki Chandler
BIO5 Institute, Plant Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
My lab studies the regulation of gene expression; specifically we are investigating mechanisms of gene silencing. We are interested in paramutation, a process in which one parental gene communicates a change to the other parental copy of the gene. This change is remembered in the progeny, even those progeny that do not inherit the parental copy originally directing the change. Gene interactions in parents that affect gene function in progeny could contribute to unexpected inheritance patterns that would complicate identifying the genes involved in complex human diseases. For the past 20 years we have studied maize (corn), but more recently we are expanding our approaches to animal and human cells. We have demonstrated that communication between genes is mediated by unique tandem repeats (identical or nearly identical adjacent strands of DNA) through a RNA-directed mechanism that reduces gene expression, but does not involve changes in the genes DNA sequence. Key Words: genetics, molecular biology, genomics, epigenetics | chandler@ag.arizona.edu Keating 102 626-4272 |
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Dr. Thomas A. Christensen
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences |
My research interests have recently shifted to the study of the human brain and how it processes language - the ultimate form of animal communication. Using state-of-the-art brain-mapping methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), my research focuses on the neuroanatomical and functional organization of speech perception. Research projects involve the cognitive modulation of primary language processing by attention and memory networks, effects of attention type and cognitive load on language perception, and the roles of cortical-subcortical interactions in serving these cognitive processes. Current experiments are a prelude to studying clinical populations with brain disorders that may disrupt language, verbal memory, attention, or any combination of these skills. | tac1@email.arizona.edu SLHS 515 621-8618 |
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Dr. Carol Dieckmann
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics |
Nuclearly encoded proteins involved in mitochondrial metabolism. Eyespot placement and assembly in Chlamydomonas. | dieckmann@u.arizona.edu Life Sciences South 454 621-3569/1418 |
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Dr. Bentley A. Fane
Plant Sciences, BIO5 Institute |
The morphogenesis and atomic structure of icosahedral virions, with an emphasis on the molecular functions of viral scaffolding proteins. | bfane@email.arizona.edu Bio 5; Keating Building Rm 219 626-6634 |
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Dr. Hanna (Johnny) Fares
Molecular & Cellular Biology |
Genetic and cellular analysis of endocytosis and of polarized secretion using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system. | fares@email.arizona.edu Life Sciences South 531 626-5996 |
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Dr. Carol Gregorio
Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program; Cell Biology & Anatomy, BIO5 Institute |
Identifying the molecular components and signaling mechanisms that regulate cytoskeletal protein interactions during heart muscle development and disease. | gregorio@email.arizona.edu Medical Research Building 315 626-5209/8113 |
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Dr. John Hildebrand
ARL-Neurobiology |
Various projects, including both laboratory and field work, dealing with: [A] chemical ecology, olfactory neurobiology, and behavior underlying insect-hostplant interactions, principally focusing on the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta and its local hostplants; and [B] behavioral and physiological studies of local triatomine (kissing) bugs. | jgh@neurobio.arizona.edu Gould-Simpson 603 621-6626 |
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Dr. Ronald M. Lynch
Physiology, Pharmacology, BIO5 Institute |
Research in the Lynch lab is focused on how energy metabolism is integrated with function in nutrient sensing cells, and cells of the vasculature. These studies relate directly to understanding the development of Diabetes and its cardiovascular complications. Unique microscopic imaging and spectroscopy approaches to study cell and tissue function. | rlynch@U.Arizona.EDU Medical Research Bldg 111 626-2472 |
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Dr. Megan McEvoy
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, BIO5 Institute |
Focus is on determining the structures of proteins in order to understand how they assemble into macromolecular complexes. Various biophysical techniques are used to determine the structures of the proteins of interest, in order to understand how structure dictates function. Key Words: biochemistry, structural biology, developmental biology | mcevoy@email.arizona.edu Bio Sciences West 531A 621-3489 |
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Dr. Roger Miesfeld
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, BIO5 Institute |
Molecular genetics of eukaryotic cell signaling and metabolic regulation. We are currently investigating molecular mechanisms of blood meal digestion in mosquito species that function as insect vectors of human disease. | rlm@email.arizona.edu BioSci. West 518A 626-2342 |
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Dr. Michael Nachman
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute |
Population and evolutionary genetics, genetic aspects of speciation, mammalian molecular and chromosomal evolution. | nachman@u.arizona.edu BioSciences West 334 626-4595/4747 |
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Dr. Alan Nighorn
ARL-Neurobiology |
My lab is focused on understanding the molecular neurobiology of the olfactory system particularly focusing on the role of the nitric oxide and Eph receptor/ephrin signaling systems. | nighorn@neurobio.arizona.edu Gould-Simpson 626 626-6482 |
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Dr. Marc J. Orbach
Plant Sciences, BIO5 Institute |
Fungal genomics and fungal pathogen-host interactions. Our focus is on interactions between fungal pathogens and their hosts. We work with Magnaporthe grisea, a pathogen of rice, and Coccidioides immitis, the Valley fever fungus. We are taking a whole genome approach to identify and characterize pathogen genes important for infection and disease. Key Words: genetics, genomics, host-pathogen interactions | orbachmj@ag.arizona.edu Marley 341B 621-3764 |
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Dr. Roy Parker
Molecular & Cellular Biology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Anatomy, BIO5 Institute, Arizona Cancer Center |
Regulation of mRNA stability. | rrparker@email.arizona.edu Life Sci. South 533A 621-3442 |
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Dr. Christopher Rensing
Soil, Water, & Environmental Science |
Environmental Microbiology, structure and function of metal transport proteins. | rensingc@ag.arizona.edu FCR 314 626-8482 |
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Dr. Karen S. Schumaker
Plant Sciences, BIO5 Institute |
Understanding mechanisms controlling calcium-mediated plant growth and development, identifying mechanisms controlling plant adaptation to abiotic stress and identifying transcriptional regulatory networks controlling female gametophyte development | schumake@ag.arizona.edu Marley 441B 621-9635 (O); 621-8910 (L) |
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Dr. Elizabeth Vierling
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, BIO5 Institute |
Molecular biology and genetics, protein biochemistry, microarrays, transgenic plants-we use all these approaches to study the function of molecular chaperones and the response of organisms, in particular plants, to stress. Key Words: Arabidopsis, protein folding disease, recombinant DNA, gene expression, protein function | vierling@u.arizona.edu Life Sciences South 352 621-1601/3977 |
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Dr. Ramin Yadegari
Plant Sciences, Molecular & Cellular Biology, BIO5 Institute |
Molecular Genetics of Developmental Regulatory Pathways in Arabidopsis. We are interested in understanding the gene-regulatory processes that mediate fertilization and initiation of seed development. The plant life cycle alternates between a diploid sporophyte generation and a haploid gametophyte generation. The angiosperm female gametophyte is critical to the reproductive process. It is the structure within which egg cell production and fertilization take place. We are using a combination of expression-based analyses and genetic resources of Arabidopsis to identify major gene-regulatory networks involved in differentiation of the female gametophyte cell types. Similarly, using biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches, we are identifying components of the Polycomb-group complexes that mediate epigenetic repression of gene expression before fertilization. | yadegari@ag.arizona.edu Marley 441D 621-1616 |