The Research Institute for Children

Faculty

Welcome to our faculty pages.

Title Areas of interest
Seth Pincus, M.D.

Interaction of antibody with infectious agents including HIV and group B streptococci.

Jim Cutler, Ph.D.

Candida albicans cell wall structure and physiology; role of cell wall in adhesion to host tissues; cell wall as a vaccine.

Mary B. Breslin, Ph.D.

Gene regulation in small cell lung carcinoma.

Yang Cai, Ph.D.

Proteomics, functional genomics, bioinformatics.

Bonny L. Dickinson, Ph.D.

Regulation of Dendritic Cell Chemotaxis.

Michael J. Ferris, Ph.D.

Molecular microbial ecology.

Deborah S. Fox, Ph.D.

Molecular mechanisms of cell wall biogenesis in Cryptococcus neoformans.

Jim Hempe, Ph.D.

Glucose metabolism, diabetes complications and Hemoglobinomics

Michael S. Lan, Ph.D.

Gene regulation, pancreatic endocrine cell growth and differentiation, genetic and cellular replacement therapy of diabetes mellitus.

Ye-Qi Liu, Ph.D.

Islet biology and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Halina Sadowska-Krowicka, M.D., Ph.D.

HIV pathogenesis.

Christopher Summa, Ph.D.

Macromolecular Structure Prediction and Refinement, Large Scale Analysis of Known Macromolecule Structures and De Novo Protein Design

Christopher Taylor, Ph.D.

Algorithms, Computational Biology, DNA Sequence Analysis, Microarray and Sequencing Technology.

Ping Wang, Ph.D.

Signal transduction in fungal development and pathogenesis. 

Stephen Winters-Hilt, Ph.D.

Cheminformatics and single molecule biophysics using pore forming bacterial toxins, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Dongxiao Zhu, Ph.D.

Computational biology and statistical genomics/genetics.