Listed below are the Rotation Faculty for the 2025-2026 academic year.

  • Ahmed, Zeeshan

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine
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    Precision medicine, Multi-Omics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • An, Steven S.

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    Professor
    Department of Pharmacology
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    GPCR, mechanotransduction, single-cell analysis, biophysics, asthma, cancer
  • Boyd, Jeff

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    Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
    1.8489325604
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    Staphylococcus aureus, metals, oxidative stress, pathogenesis, transcriptional regulation, molecular microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, environmental sensing
  • Brand, Cara

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
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  • Buettner, Christoph

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    Professor
    Department of Medicine
    1.7322357219
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  • Cai, Qian

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
    1.8484451633
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    Autophagy-lysosomal regulation in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
  • Carman, George M.

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Food Science
    1.8489320267
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    Regulation of Phospholipid Metabolism/Signaling in Yeast
  • Chundawat, Shishir

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    1.8484453678
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    Biochemical Engineering, Biomanufacturing, Biopharmaceuticals, Biofuels, Carbohydrate-Active enZymes (CAZymes), Glycans, Glycoconjugates, Glycoengineering, Glycosciences, Protein Engineering, Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy
  • Chung, Sangmi

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    Professor
    Department of Neurosurgery
    1.7322354549
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    GABAergic interneurons, epilepsy, schizophrenia, iPSCs
  • Cole, Peter

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    Professor
    Department of Pediatrics
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    Antifolates, Methotrexate, Leukemia, Neurotoxicity, Neurocognitive function, Biomarkers
  • Cuesta, Santiago

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
    1.8484443441
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    Gut-brain axis, adolescent brain maturation and addiction
  • Deaconescu, Alexandra

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    Associate Research Professor
    Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
    1.8484458102
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  • Demokritou, Philip

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    Professor
    Department of Environmental & Occupational Health & Justice
    1.8484450155
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    Nanobiology, Nanotechnology, Environmental toxicology, drug delivery
  • Ebright, Richard

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    1.8484455179
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    transcription, transcription initiation, transcription elongation, transcription termination, transcriptional regulation, antituberculosis drug discovery, antibacterial drug discovery
  • Garabedian, Mikael

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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    Biomolecular condensates, tumor suppressors, chromatin, nuclear cytoskeleton
  • Glytsou, Christina

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Chemical Biology
    1.8484454095
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    Leukemia, Blood Cancers, Mitochondria, Drug Resistance
  • Herranz, Daniel

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Pharmacology
    1.7322354064
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    leukemia; mouse models; cancer metabolism; experimental therapeutics
  • Hu, Wenwei

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    Professor
    Department of Radiation Oncology
    1.7322356169
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    tumor suppressor and oncogene, tumorigenesis, p53, cytokine, cancer metabolism, tumor microenvironment
  • Irvine, Kenneth

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
    1.8484452332
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    Cell-signaling, growth control, cancer, morphogenesis, mechanotransduction
  • Jacinto, Estela

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    Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1.7322354476
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    T lymphocytes, metabolism, cancer, signal transduction, glycosylation
  • Jain, Devanshi

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
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    gametogenesis, meiosis, gene expression, genome integrity
  • Jin, Shengkan (Victor)

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    Professor
    Department of Pharmacology
    1.7322354329
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    CRISPR Genome Editing, CRISPR Base Editing, Cancer, Gene and Cell Therapy, Drug Development, CAR-T, Genetic Diseases
  • Kaelber, Jason

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    Associate Research Professor
    Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
    1.8484455302
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    cryo-EM, virology, gene therapy, electron microscopy, nanoimaging
  • Kara, Eleanna

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Neurology
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    Neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, tissue culture, neuropathology, gene expression, genetics, cell biology.
  • Khare, Sagar

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    Professor
    Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    1.8484455143
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    computational protein design, biomolecular machine learning, enzyme design, synthetic biology, biocatalysis
  • Kreimer, Anat

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Computational Biology, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Neural development, Human variation
  • Kulczyk, Arek

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
    1.8484454553
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    Structural Biology, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cancer, Neurological Disorders, DNA replication, DNA repair, Basement Membranes, Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM), Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET), Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM), Single-Molecule Methods, Fluorescent Microscopy, Structure Determination, Drug Development
  • Lee, KiBum

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    1.8484452081
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    Chemical biology, Nanotechnology, Drug/Gene Delivery, Biomaterials/Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell Biology, Molecular Imaging, Synthetic Biology, and Functional Genomics
  • Liu, Tina

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
    1.8484459863
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    Microbial defense, CRISPR, signaling pathways, nucleic acid sensing, protein/RNA biochemistry, molecular mechanisms, microbiology, biotechnology
  • Lonergan, Zachery

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
    1.8489325618
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    microbial stress response mechanisms; small molecule biochemistry; nitric oxide sensing and reactivity; Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis
  • Maddamsetti, Rohan

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
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    Experimental evolution and computational genomics, synthetic biology and mathematical modeling, horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance.
  • Madireddy, Advaitha

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pediatrics
    1.7322353451
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    Genomic instability, DNA replication, DNA repair, Fanconi anemia, Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and fragile sites
  • Manhart, Michael

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1.8484459835
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    microbial evolution, microbial ecology, systems biology, biophysics
  • Margolis, David

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
    1.8484459533
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    Neuroscience, neural circuits, in vivo imaging, electrophysiology, synaptic function, learning and memory
  • McBride, Matthew J.

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Chemical Biology
    1.8484455716
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    Quantitative metabolism, cancer, nutrition, metabolomics, stable isotope tracing
  • McClenaghan, Conor

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pharmacology
    1.8484459865
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    Ion channels and disease
  • Mickolajczyk, Keith

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1.7322355888
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    Ribosome biogenesis, motor proteins, mechanobiology, single-molecule biophysics
  • Nakamura, Tetsuya

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
    1.8484457191
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    Functional genomics, vertebrate evolution
  • O'Brown, Natasha

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
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    blood-brain barrier, zebrafish, neurovascular, glia
  • Patel, Smita S.

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1.7322353372
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    viral RNA sensors, innate immune receptors, Cryo-EM, single molecule enzymology, human mitochondrial transcription and replication
  • Sampath, Harini

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Nutritional Sciences
    1.8489320266
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    Lipids, nutrition, diet, cancer, intestinal health
  • Shmarakov, Igor

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Animal Sciences
    1.8489325617
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    Retinoids, Lipids, Metabolism, Inflammation, Acute Lung Injury
  • Singson, Andrew

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    Professor
    Department of Genetics
    1.8484450836
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    Reproductive biology and Fertility Gene Discovery with the C. elegans model system
  • Snyder, Elizabeth (Beth)

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Animal Science
    1.8489326377
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    Structural and nucleotide-level RNA variants, proteome composition, cellular development
  • Sun, Jennifer

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
    1.8489325638
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    Microbial symbiosis; Insect behavior; Chemosensation; Interkingdom communication
  • Valvezan, Alexander

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pharmacology
    1.8484459895
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    Signaling, metabolism, cell cycle control of cellular metabolism, targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer, mTOR
  • Verzi, Michael

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    Professor
    Department of Genetics
    1.8484459578
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    intestinal regeneration, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, transcriptional mechanisms, epigenetics, omics
  • Woychik, Nancy

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    Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    1.7322354534
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    Bacterial pathogenesis, antibiotic resistance, antibiotic development, non-coding RNAs, bacterial infectious diseases
  • Xie, Ping

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
    1.8484450802
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    Molecular mechanisms of immune regulation and cancer pathogenesis
  • Yadavalli, Srujana Samhita

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
    1.8484450251
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    Bacterial stress response, antimicrobial resistance, biology of small proteins
  • Yang, Jiekun (Jackie)

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    Assistant Professor
    Department of Genetics
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    Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, Cancer Biology, Obesity Biology
  • Yang, Qi

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    Associate Professor
    Department of Pediatrics
    1.7322354501
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    neuroimmunology, immune cell-neuron interaction
  • Zong, Wei-Xing

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    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Chemical Biology
    1.8484454940
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    Cancer metabolism, growth signaling, tumor suppressors, cell death, autophagy, ROS