Faculty

RNA Center Members

Faculty Member	Research Area
Kristian Baker, PhD	Mechanisms of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
Mark Cameron, PhD	Role of interferon signaling genes and the inflammasome in regulating innate and adaptive immune responses.
Jeffrey Deiuliis, PhD	Faculty-related research aims have expanded to study human cardiometabolic disease by examining tissues and fluids from healthy and disease patients using high throughput techniques and bioinformatic approaches to identify pathway abnormalities.
J. Alan Diehl, PhD	Cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation; integrated stress response and ncRNAs in regulation of the circadian clock and tumorigenesis.
Mitchell Drumm, PhD	Explores gene editing, metabolism, and disease severity focusing on genetic disorders inspired by the CF approach.
Paul Fox, PhD	Signal transduction pathways that lead to activation of the GAIT system and the in vivo function of the pathway.
Jonatha M. Gott, PhD	Mechanistic studies of RNA editing in Physarum mitochondria.
Maria Hatzoglou, PhD	Molecular mechanisms of the cellular response to stresses, including inflammation and diabetes.
Nathan Howell, PhD	tRNA modifications and their essential role in cellular translation.
	Protein synthesis, protein folding and translational control of gene expression in eukaryotic cells.
Xiao Li, PhD	RNA systems biology in precision medicine.
Hua Lou, PhD	Understand alternative pre-mRNA splicing in mammals.
Joseph M. Luna, PhD	Systems biology of RNA virus infections, RNA sensing and metabolism
	Post-transcriptional regulation, Inflammation, Atherosclerosis, Virology, Macrophage, Monocyte, Translational regulation
Alex Miron, PhD	Biomarker discovery, transcription, signal transduction, genomics (technology development and automation) and proteomics
William C. Merrick, PhD	Mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic protein biosynthesis.
	Mechanisms of post-transcriptional RNA processing, particularly pre-mRNA splicing.
Ashleigh Schaffer, PhD	Unique functions of ubiquitously expressed proteins in human brain development and pediatric neurological disease.
Derek J. Taylor, PhD	Structure and molecular mechanisms of macromolecular machines involved in DNA maintenance and RNA maturation and biogenesis.
John 'Chip' Tilton, MD	Ability of nanoPODs loaded with therapeutic proteins to treat a variety of diseases from cancer to inborn errors of metabolism.
Saba Valadkhan, PhD	Role of the mammalian long non-coding RNAs in neurogenesis and cancer.
Michelle Longworth, PhD (CCF)	Identify the mechanisms by which the organization and positioning of the global chromatin structure regulates transcription during development and in response to biological stress.

RNA Center Members

Faculty Member

Research Area

Mechanisms of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.

Role of interferon signaling genes and the inflammasome in regulating innate and adaptive immune responses.

Faculty-related research aims have expanded to study human cardiometabolic disease by examining tissues and fluids from healthy and disease patients using high throughput techniques and bioinformatic approaches to identify pathway abnormalities.

Cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation; integrated stress response and ncRNAs in regulation of the circadian clock and tumorigenesis.

Explores gene editing, metabolism, and disease severity focusing on genetic disorders inspired by the CF approach.

Signal transduction pathways that lead to activation of the GAIT system and the in vivo function of the pathway.

Mechanistic studies of RNA editing in Physarum mitochondria.

Molecular mechanisms of the cellular response to stresses, including inflammation and diabetes.

tRNA modifications and their essential role in cellular translation.

Protein synthesis, protein folding and translational control of gene expression in eukaryotic cells.

RNA systems biology in precision medicine.

Understand alternative pre-mRNA splicing in mammals.

Systems biology of RNA virus infections, RNA sensing and metabolism

Post-transcriptional regulation, Inflammation, Atherosclerosis, Virology, Macrophage, Monocyte, Translational regulation

Biomarker discovery, transcription, signal transduction, genomics (technology development and automation) and proteomics

Mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic protein biosynthesis.

Mechanisms of post-transcriptional RNA processing, particularly pre-mRNA splicing.

Unique functions of ubiquitously expressed proteins in human brain development and pediatric neurological disease.

Structure and molecular mechanisms of macromolecular machines involved in DNA maintenance and RNA maturation and biogenesis.

Ability of nanoPODs loaded with therapeutic proteins to treat a variety of diseases from cancer to inborn errors of metabolism.

Role of the mammalian long non-coding RNAs in neurogenesis and cancer.

Identify the mechanisms by which the organization and positioning of the global chromatin structure regulates transcription during development and in response to biological stress.