molecular biology

John Harada

John Harada

  • Professor
  • Department of Plant Biology
  • College of Biological Sciences
Genomic, molecular, genetic, and biochemical, dissection of embryogenesis and seed development in plants.
Aldrin Gomes

Aldrin Gomes

  • Professor
  • Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
  • College of Biological Sciences
  • Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
  • School of Medicine
Impaired protein degradation is associated with many cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases. Our laboratory is interested in investigating the signaling pathways involved in proteostasis (protein homeostasis) in cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases. Our laboratory is also interested in the side effects of commonly used drugs, such as ibuprofen, on the heart and other tissues.
Elva Diaz

Elva Diaz

  • Professor
  • Department of Pharmacology
  • School of Medicine
Elva Diaz studies molecular mechanisms of brain development, function and disease in rodent model systems. We used expression profiling as a tool to identify genes that are developmentally regulated during mouse brain development. Candidate genes are characterized with molecular and cellular techniques and transgenic mice. Currently, we have focused our efforts on molecules that function at excitatory synapses in the hippocampus, an area of the brain important for learning and memory.
Sean Burgess

Sean M. Burgess

  • Professor
  • Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • College of Biological Sciences
Sean Burgess explores the dynamic chromosome events that occur during the process of meiosis and how these processes are integrated to achieve accurate chromosome segregation. Chromosome missegregation is one of the leading causes of birth defects in humans. The Burgess lab combines the use of a wide array of tools, including genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry and live-cell imaging using budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and zebrafish Danio rerio as model systems.
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