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Faculty DirectoryJ through LEstela Jacinto - Assistant Professor - Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ Signal transduction, growth control, actin cytoskeleton, nutrient sensing Shengkan (Victor) Jin - Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ Tumor suppressor genes, programmed cell death, tumorigenesis William Johnson - Professor - Department of Neurology - UMDNJ Human genetics, nervious system traits & diseases, linkage mapping, genomic markers, microsatellite polymorphisms, positional cloning Frank Jordan- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers Bioorganic and biophysical chemistry, enzymology, protein folding Peter C. Kahn - Professor- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology- Rutgers Protein folding, subunit assembly, ligand interactions, hydration, dioxins and related compounds Charalampos Kalodimos - Assistant Professor- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Rutgers Structural biology. NMR spectroscopy. Allostery and dynamics. Protein trafficking. Cell signaling. Gene regulation. Protein secretion. DNA & RNA helicases. Barton A. Kamen - Professor- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology- UMDNJ Pediatric oncology, folate metabolism, anti-folates, clinical pharmacology and drug development Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth - Assistant Professor- Department of Medicine- UMDNJ Breast cancer progression and treatment, autophagy, apoptosis, beclin1 Lee Kerkhof- Associate Professor- Department of Marine Sciences- Rutgers Marine microbiology, molecular ecology, microbial population dynamics Randall Kerstetter - Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology- Rutgers Molecular genetics of leaf development, dorsal-ventral polarity in Arabidopsis, tools for manipulating plant gene expression Megerditch Kiledjian - Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, determinants of mRNA stability, RNA-protein interactions Isaac Yi Kim - Assistant Professor- Department of Surgery - UMDNJ Roles of transforming growth factor- β and bone morphongenetic proteins in prostate cancer cells Terri Goss Kinzy - Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology- UMDNJ Regulation of gene expression, mechanisms of protein synthesis and G-Protein regulation Joachim B. Kohn- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers Biocompatibility of medical implant materials, artificial biopolymer Ah-Ng Tony Kong-Professor- Department of Pharmaceutics- Rutgers MAP Kinases and caspases signaling in cell life and cell death, Nrf2 transcription factor, cancer chemopreventitive compounds and environmental agents Mary Konsolaki - Associate Research Professor- Department of Genetics - Rutgers Analysis of toxicity associated with Alzheimer’s beta-amyloid, using Drosophila as a model system Marilyn Kozak- Professor- Department of Biochemistry - UMDNJ Translation, mRNA structure, gene expression Sunita Gupta Kramer - Assistant Professor- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - UMDNJ Cell migration and signaling, extracellular matrix, muscle and heart development Jerome J. Kukor- Associate Professor- Department of Environmental Science - Rutgers Microbial biodegradation of xenobiotics, microbial biochemistry; regulation of gene expression Casimir A. Kulikowski- Professor- Department of Computer Science- Rutgers Intelligent systems and machine learning in molecular biology Thomas Kusch - Assistant Professor- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry- Rutgers Epigenetic mechanisms of gene expression and genome stability, Multiprotein complexes modulating chromatin structure, Histone variants Eric Lam - Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers Gene expression, transcription factors, signal transduction, leaf morphogenesis, pattern formation Structure and function of interferons and interferon receptors; development of Type I IFN antagonists; role of IFNs in autoimmune diseases such as lupus Debra L. Laskin- Professor- Department of Toxicology - Rutgers Immunology, macrophages, nitric oxide, inflammation Jeffrey D. Laskin- Professor- Department of Environmental and Community Medicine - UMDNJ Cancer research, oncogene expression and growth factor mediated signal transduction, tyrosine kinases, immunobiology of inflammation, nitric oxide Edmund C. Lattime - Professor- Department of Surgery - UMDNJ Tumor immunology, immune mechanisms, genetically-based vaccine strategies Michael A. Lawton- Associate Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers Plant defense responses, signal transduction Jeehiun Katherine Lee - Professor- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology - Rutgers Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis Epigenetic regulation of viral gene expression in yeast, RNA targeted therapeutics, molecular pharmacology Thomas Leustek- Professor- Department of Plant Science -Rutgers Biochemistry, physiology Ronald Levy- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers Computer modeling of protein structure and dynamics Honghua Li- Associate Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ Genome-scale understanding the genetic basis of breast cancer, understanding the mechanisms underlying human immunoglobulin VH gene complex diversification Alice Y.-C. Liu- Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers Stress, aging, and molecular chaperones Fang Liu- Associate Professor- Department of Chemical Biology - Rutgers Signal transduction and gene regulation, growth and differentiation control Leroy F. Liu- Professor- Department of Pharmacology- UMDNJ Cancer biology, cancer pharmacology, DNA conformation dynamics, DNA damage and repair Peter Lobel - Professor - Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, functional genomics, lysosomes, protein targeting |