Faculty Directory

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Gabriella D'Arcangelo - Associate Professor- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience - Rutgers

Molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, differentiation and migration

Kiron M. Das- Professor- Department of Medicine- UMDNJ

Immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease

Robin L. Davis-  Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Sensory signaling and ontogeny, as related to molecular mechanisms that regulate auditory function

 Lisa K. Denzin -  Associate Professor- Department of Pediatrics - UMDNJ

Antigen presentation; MHC class II; dendritic cells; autoimmunity; Type 1 diabetes; germinal centers; hematopoietic stem cells; cancer stem cells

Rong Di -  Assistant Research Professor- Department of Plant Biology & Pathology - Rutgers

Mechanisms of cytotoxicity of ribosome inactivating proteins

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom -  Professor- Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology/Pediatrics - UMDNJ

Regulation of developmental and adult neurogenesis, cell cycle mechanisms

Dessislava Dimova - Assistant Professor- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry - Rutgers

The E2F/RB pathway - Study of transcriptional regulatory networks through genomics

G. Charles Dismukes - Professor- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Microbial metabolism and renewable energy production

Juan Dong - Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology & Pathology - Rutgers

Cell polarity, asymmetric cell division, stomatal development and patterning, plant cell and development, molecular genetics

Hugo K. Dooner- Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers

Meiotic recombination and transposons in plants

Joseph P. Dougherty - Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology- UMDNJ

Retroviral replication and gene transfer

Cheryl Dreyfus - Professor- Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology - UMDNJ

The role of the trophic factors and glial cells

Monica Driscoll - Professor- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry- Rutgers

Developmental neurogenetics, molecular genetics of neuronal cell death, mechanosensory transduction in touch and feeling, molecular mechanisms of aging

Siobain Duffy - Assistant Professor- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources - Rutgers

Emerging viruses, experimental evolution, bioinformatics, bacteriophage - Visit the Duffy Lab


Richard H. Ebright- Professor- Department of Chemistry - Rutgers

 Bacterial transcription complexes: structure, mechanism, and regulation. Antituberculosis and antibacterial drug discovery     Visit the Ebright Lab

Isaac Edery-  Professor- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry- Rutgers

Circadian clocks, photic signal transduction, Drosophila behavior, seasonal adaptation, pre-mRNA splicing, protein phosphorylation and degradation

Douglas E. Eveleigh- Professor- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology- Rutgers

Industrial microbiology and microbial ecology


Paul G. Falkowski - Professor II- Department of Geological Sciences & Marine & Coastal Sciences- Rutgers

Biogeochemical cycles, photosynthesis, biological oceanography, molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics, physiological adaptation, plant physiology, evolution, mathematical modeling, symbiosis

Huizhou Fan - Associate Professor- Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

Pathogenesis and intervention of sexually transmitted infections

Zhaohui Feng -  Assistant Professor- Department of Radiation Oncology & Pharmacology - UMDNJ

p53, tumor suppression, energy metabolism and aging

Bonnie Firestein-  Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Targeting of neuronal proteins

Joseph Fondell - Associate Professor- Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

Regulation of gene expression by nuclear hormone receptors

Dunne Fong- Associate Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Molecular cell biology

David Foran - Professor- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine- UMDNJ

Computer-assited diagnostics, medical imaging, machine learning, data mining, medical informatics- Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics

Ramsey Foty - Associate Professor- Department of Surgery - UMDNJ

The biophysical and biomolecular basis of prostate cancer progression to metastasis