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Graça Almeida-Porada,M.D.,Ph.D. Stem cell biology and tissue engineering. Stem cell expansion and modulation.
Patricia Berninsone, Ph.D. Cell biology and genetics of protein glycosylation
Gary
J. Blomquist. Biochemistry and endocrine regulation of insect sex pheromones; cuticular lipid biochemistry of insects.
Dean J. Burkin, Ph.D.. Role of integrins and integrin signaling in neuromuscular development and disease. Role of integrin signaling in vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity. Director of the Nevada Transgenic Center.
Iain
L.O. Buxton. Receptor-signal transduction in cardiac and smooth
muscle. cells. Role of receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism;
agonist-specific regulation of cyclic nucleotide action; role of
adenyl purines in myometrial function and hormonal regulation of
endothelial cell contractile factors.
Scott Clark, PhD. Biology
William
E. Courchesne. Molecular regulation of signal transduction and
cell cycle control in the yeast, S. cerevisiae.
Grant
R. Cramer. Elucidating salinity, drought and cold tolerance
mechanisms at the whole plant and molecular levels including
functional genomics of Arabidopsis and wine grapes; helping to
establish a wine industry in northern Nevada.
Christine
Cremo. The
structural changes that proteins undergo and how those changes are
related to protein function.
John Cushman. Molecular
genetics of Crassulacean acid metabolism; molecular mechanisms of
signal transduction and adaptive responses to salinity and drought
stress in plants; functional genomics of salinity and drought stress
tolerance.
Mark
R. Hall. Molecular
biology of human papilloma viruses and bovine Tritrichomonas;
molecular biochemical approaches to vaccine development.
Dorothy
Hudig. Molecular
mechanisms of lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity; role of serine
proteases in granule-mediated lysis.
Kenneth
Hunter.
Immunoregulation in cancer, infectious and autoimmune diseases;
biosensors and gene microarray technology.
Thomas
R. Kozel. Molecular immunology of surface carbohydrate antigens on opportunistic
fungal pathogens and biothreat agents
David
A. Lightner. Molecular recognition; mechanisms of binding,
transport, conjugation and hepatic excretion of bilirubin and its
photoisomers.
David
M. Lupan. Regulation of iron transport in pathogenic fungi;
interaction of yeasts with mammalian iron-binding proteins.
Cynthia
Mastick. Molecular
mechanisms underlying specificity in signal transduction.
Grant
Mastick. Genetic regulation of embryonic brain development; axon
guidance, neuron specification, and transcriptional regulation.
Sergey
P. Morzunov. Genetic
diversity and evolution of hantaviruses and their rodent hosts.
William J. Murphy Immunobiology of Bone Marrow Transplantation.
Violeta Mutafova-Yambolieva, M.D., Ph.D. the delineation of mechanisms of neural control of blood vessels and other smooth muscles.
Chi-Yun Pai, Ph.D. Biology
Mihalis I. Panagiotidis, PhD Environmental & Occupational Health
Gregory
Pari Molecular mechanisms of herpesvirus DNA replication.
Brian A. Perrino, Ph.D. .
Characterization of smooth muscle CaMKII; characterization of physiological
substrates and NFAT activation by calcineurin isoforms.
Christopher D. Porada, Ph.D. In Utero Gene Therapy and In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation
Chris A. Pritsos Characterization of the molecular mechanism of action of anticancer xenobiotics; effects of side-stream smoke on health.
Dave
Shintani. Engineering of food crops with increased nutritive value.
Stephen St. Jeor Molecular biology of cytomegalovirus; application of recombinant DNA technology to study gene expression; DNA analysis of genetic diseases: epidemiology of the hantaviruses.
John L.
Sutko. Regulation of differentiation and phenotype
selection during development of embryonic skeletal muscle and nerve
William Welch. Relationship of macromolecular structure and function; role of cations and anions in modulating protein conformation and enzymic activity.
Esmail D. Zanjani Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology and Transdifferentiation, In Utero
Gene Therapy, In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation, Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology.
Department of Microbiology
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Reno, Nevada 89557-0046
Phone: (775) 784-4824
Fax: (775) 784-1620
Dr. Greg Pari, Director