Faculty

All of the faculty associated with the DSCB graduate program are listed below. Click on a faculty name to view a detailed description of an individual research program, contact information, recent publications and links to other relevant websites.
 

Todd Nystul, PhD

Co-Director, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
Research Summary: 
Epithelial stem cells and cancer

Michael Oldham, PhD

Assoc Professor in Residence
Department of Neurological Surgery
Research Summary: 
We develop and apply novel experimental and computational strategies for studying the cellular and molecular organization of the developing and adult human brain in health and disease

Barbara Panning, PhD

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Summary: 
The Panning lab studies mammalian stem cell epigenetics, focusing on X-inactivation and chromatin modifiers.

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD

Assoc Professor in Residence
Neurology
Research Summary: 
Studying cortical development to understand the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric conditions, such as epilepsy and brain malformations.

Tien Peng, MD

Associate Professor In Res
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division
Research Summary: 
Contribution of mesenchymal niche to homeostasis, repair, and aging

Matija Peterlin, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research Summary: 
Transcriptional regulation of HIV, immune response genes and AIRE. HIV latency and reactivation. CTD kinases that regulate transcription elongation and co-transcriptional processing as well as growth, proliferation and differentiation of cells.

Xianhua Piao, MD, PhD

Professor in Residence
Pediatrics
Research Summary: 
Neuro-immune interplay in brain development and disease.

Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Neurology
Research Summary: 
Control of Neural Stem Cell Fate and Migration in the Cortex

Alex Pollen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Neurology
Research Summary: 
We study how genetic changes that accumulated over the last 6 million years of human evolution influence specialized features of brain development using single cell genomics, cerebral organoid models of ape brain development, and genome engineering.

Jason Pomerantz, MD

Professor in Residence
Department of Surgery
Research Summary: 
Mesenchymal tissue regeneration

Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Summary: 
Signaling at the Primary Cilium, the Cell's Antenna

Jeroen Roose

Professor
Anatomy
Research Summary: 
Our goal is to understand the fitness and potential of stem cells to fuel various cell lineages in different organs. We use organoids to understand how cues from different stem cell niches impact that fitness and potential.

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