Graduate Program in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Grant, Barth
- Barth Grant
- Distinguished Professor
- Department: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Physiology & Integrative Biology
- Research Organism(s): C. elegans
- Phone: 1.8484457339
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Nelson Biology Laboratories, Room A231
- 604 Allison Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854
- Key Words: Receptor trafficking and signaling, genetics, cell biology, membranes, endocytosis, C. elegans, functional genomics
- Lab Site URL
Gunderson, Samuel I.
- Samuel I. Gunderson
- Professor
- Department: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Gene regulation, Neurological disease, RNA / ribosome biology
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell culture, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, Cell lines, in vitro, Mice
- Phone: 1.8484451016
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Division of Life Sciences
- Nelson Biology Laboratories, Room A322
- 604 Allison Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8000
- Key Words: Regulation of polyadenylation and splicing of mRN, RNA-protein interactions, bioinformatics of gene expression
- News Items: Novel RNA Research, Invention, and Startup Born at Rutgers University Receives $75 Million in Series A Funding
Guo, Jessie Yanxiang
- Jessie Yanxiang Guo
- Associate Professor
- Department: Department of Medicine
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Apoptosis / autophagy, Cancer Biology, Cell stress / Cell death, Immunology, Metabolism / Nutrition
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell culture, Genetic engineering, Metabolomics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.7322359657
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey CINJ, Room 3039
- 195 Little Albany Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- Key Words: Cancer metabolism, autophagy, oncogenes, cancer metastasis, metabolomics, lung cancer therapy
- Lab Site URL
Hu, Wenwei
- Wenwei Hu
- Professor
- Department: Department of Radiation Oncology
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Disease genetics, Metabolism / Nutrition, Signaling, Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Tissue Injury
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Humans, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.7322356169
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey CINJ, Room 3004
- 195 Little Albany Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681
- Key Words: tumor suppressor and oncogene, tumorigenesis, p53, cytokine, cancer metabolism, tumor microenvironment
- Lab Site URL
Irvine, Kenneth
- Kenneth Irvine
- Distinguished Professor
- Department: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Cytoskeleton, Developmental Biology, Gene regulation, Signaling
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetic engineering, Genetics, Imaging
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Drosophila, Humans, in vitro
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8484452332
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Room 246
- 190 Frelinghuysen Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
- Key Words: Cell-signaling, growth control, cancer, morphogenesis, mechanotransduction
- Lab Site URL
- News Items: Four Rutgers Professors Named AAAS Fellows
Jacinto, Estela
- Estela Jacinto
- Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Physiology & Integrative Biology
- Major Research Interest(s): Aging, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Metabolism / Nutrition, Signaling
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell culture, Metabolomics, Proteomics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.7322354476
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- RWJMS Research Building & School of Public Health, Room 260
- 683 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: T lymphocytes, metabolism, cancer, signal transduction, glycosylation
- Lab Site URL
Kreimer, Anat
- Anat Kreimer
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Computational Biology, Disease genetics, Epigenetics/ Chromatin, Gene regulation, Neuroscience
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Cell Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Humans
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine CABM
- 679 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: Computational Biology, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Neural development, Human variation
Kwan, Kelvin
- Kelvin Kwan
- Associate Professor
- Department: Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Computational Biology, Disease genetics, Epigenetics/ Chromatin, Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Tissue Injury
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Cell Biology, Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genetic engineering, Single Cell RNA Techniques
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Humans, in vitro, Mice, Zebrafish
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8484451781
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience
- Nelson Biology Laboratories
- 604 Allison Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8000
- Key Words: Molecular basis of inner ear regeneration
- Lab Site URL
- News Items: Gene Mutation Leading to Autism Found to Overstimulate Brain Cells, Rutgers Scientists Reveal New Evidence of Key Mechanism in Alzheimer’s
Li, Honghua
- Honghua Li
- Associate Professor
- Department: Department of Pharmacology
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Phone: 1.7322357330
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Liu, Tina
- Tina Liu
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Microbiome, RNA / ribosome biology, Signaling
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Genetics, Protein Structure / Crystallography
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, in vitro
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8484459863
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine CABM, Room 300
- 679 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: Microbial defense, CRISPR, signaling pathways, nucleic acid sensing, protein/RNA biochemistry, molecular mechanisms, microbiology, biotechnology
- Lab Site URL
Lonergan, Zachery
- Zachery Lonergan
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cell stress / Cell death, Drug Discovery, Gene regulation, Metabolism / Nutrition, Pathogenesis
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Genetics, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8489325618
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- School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- Lipman Hall, Room 120
- 76 Lipman Drive
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- Key Words: microbial stress response mechanisms; small molecule biochemistry; nitric oxide sensing and reactivity; Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis
- Lab Site URL
Maddamsetti, Rohan
- Rohan Maddamsetti
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Computational Biology, Evolution
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Genetic engineering, Genomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, in silico
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- School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- Lipman Hall, Room 217
- 76 Lipman Drive
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
- Key Words: Experimental evolution and computational genomics, synthetic biology and mathematical modeling, horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance.
- Lab Site URL
Publications

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Madura, Kiran
- Kiran Madura
- Co-Director, Molecular Biosciences
- Professor
- Department: Department of Pharmacology
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Cell division / Cell cycle, DNA replication and repair
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetic engineering, Genetics
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Yeast
- Phone: 1.7322355602
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- RWJMS Research Building & School of Public Health, Room 373
- 683 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: Ubiquitin; Proteasome; Protein-turnover; Rad23
Manhart, Michael
- Michael Manhart
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Computational Biology, Evolution, Microbiome
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Biophysics, Genetic engineering, Genomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, in silico, in vitro
- Phone: 1.8484459835
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine CABM, Rm 306
- 679 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: microbial evolution, microbial ecology, systems biology, biophysics
- Lab Site URL
McKim, Kim S.
- Kim S. McKim
- Co-Director, Molecular Biosciences
- Professor
- Department: Department of Genetics
- Graduate Program(s): Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cell division / Cell cycle, Chromosome Biology, Developmental Biology, DNA replication and repair, Reproduction and Gametogenesis
- Research Techniques: Cell Biology, Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genetics, Imaging
- Research Organism(s): Drosophila
- Phone: 1.8484451164
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Room 206
- 190 Frelinghuysen Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
- Key Words: meiosis, oocyte, DNA repair, chromosome pairing, aneuploidy, kinetochore
- Lab Site URL
Montagna, Cristina
- Cristina Montagna
- Professor
- Department: Department of Radiation Oncology
- Graduate Program(s): Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Aging, Cancer Biology, Cell stress / Cell death, Chromosome Biology, DNA replication and repair
- Research Techniques: Cell culture, Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genomics, Single Cell RNA Techniques
- Research Organism(s): Humans, Mice
- Phone: 1.7322356430
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey CINJ, Rooms 3550-3551
- 195 Little Albany Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1998
- Key Words: Aneuploidy, chromosome instability, genomic instability, tumorigenesis, aging
- Lab Site URL
Morris, Alison
- Alison Morris
- Professor
- Department: Department of Medicine
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Aging, Immunology, Microbiome
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Cell culture, Clinical trials
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Humans
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine CABM
- 679 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: microbiome, HIV, pulmonary
Pato, Carlos
- Carlos Pato
- Professor
- Department: Department of Psychiatry
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Disease genetics, Learning / memory, Neurological disease, Neuroscience, Pathogenesis
- Research Techniques: Clinical trials, Genetics, Genomics
- Research Organism(s): Humans
- Phone: 1.6263991300
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- UBHC University Behavioral Healthcare
- 671 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8021
- Key Words: Psychiatric Health, Schizophrenia, Genetics, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Lab Site URL
Payne, Kyle K.
- Kyle K Payne
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Medicine
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Cell stress / Cell death, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Metabolism / Nutrition
- Research Techniques: Biochemistry, Clinical trials, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Single Cell RNA Techniques
- Research Organism(s): Cell lines, Humans, Mice
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.7322357549
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- Cancer Institute of New Jersey CINJ, Room 3041
- 195 Little Albany Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1998
- Key Words: Cancer Immunobiology; Immunotherapy; Translational science
- Lab Site URL
Rongo, Christopher
- Christopher Rongo
- Professor
- Department: Department of Genetics
- Graduate Program(s): Cell & Developmental Biology | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Aging, Apoptosis / autophagy, Gene regulation, Neuroscience, Organelle biology
- Research Techniques: Cell Biology, Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genetics, Imaging, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): C. elegans
- Phone: 1.8484450955
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- School of Arts and Sciences
- Division of Life Sciences
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Room 124
- 190 Frelinghuysen Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
- Key Words: C. elegans, mitochondria, neurons, synapses, hypoxia, ischemia, aging, ubiquitination, proteasome, proteostasis, autophagy, mitophagy
- Lab Site URL
- News Items: Five Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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