Faculty Highlights

To elucidate how defective brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling in the brain leads to diminished appetite control and the emergence of affective disorders.

I love discovering something completely new and surprising and making connections between molecules and processes that were previously unknown.

To develop therapies for diseases that cause specific forms of blindness, including Retinitis Pigmentosa and Age Related Macular Degeneration.

My ultimate goal is to follow the breadcrumbs and hopefully discover something fundamentally conserved about immune regulation across multiple organ systems.

Research in my laboratory is focused primarily on pattern formation - the developmental processes that determine the morphological features and cell types of tissues, organs and entire organisms.

Our ultimate goal is to design strategies for optimal treatment of arthritis.

The goal of our work is to better understand how aberrant regulation of cell death contributes to human disease.

Our research is focused on how stress triggers neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, ranging from epilepsy to depression.

The ultimate goal of our research is to ameliorate aging-associated defects in the hematopoietic (I.e. blood and immune) system.