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Rosemary Braun

Rosemary Braun

Affiliation(s): Molecular Biosciences

rbraun@northwestern.edu
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The Braun Lab develops and applies powerful mathematical and computational techniques to investigate living systems at multiple scales — from the atomic level, to the gene level, to the systems level, to the tissue/organismal level, and finally to the population level — and apply these methods in close collaboration with experimentalists and clinicians to address pressing biomedical questions, from circadian disruption to cancer.

Daniel Foltz

Daniel Foltz

Affiliation(s): Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

dfoltz@northwestern.edu
Lab Website

The Foltz lab is broadly interested in epigenetic inheritance, and how histone chaperones and histone posttranslational modifications contribute to identification and inheritance of epigenetic domains within chromatin. We seek to understand the basic mechanistic steps involved in the process of epigenetic inheritance of centromeres.
Vladimir I. Gelfand

Vladimir I. Gelfand

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology


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The Gelfand lab uses Drosophila genetics, mammalian and Drosophila cell culture, live cell and tissue imaging to understand how microtubules and other cytoskeletal polymers work together with molecular motors to define cell shape, cell differentiation and drive intracellular transport and organization of the cytoplasm.

Cara Gottardi

Cara Gottardi

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology

c-gottardi@northwestern.edu
Lab Website

The Gottardi lab is interested in how cells stick to each other, what constitutes dynamic versus static adhesion at the molecular level, and how the state of cell-cell adhesion is interpreted by the nucleus to control gene expression and cellular differentiation.
Yogesh Goyal

Yogesh Goyal

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology

yogesh.goyal@northwestern.edu
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The Goyal lab combines theory, computation, and single-cell resolved experiments to track and control cellular plasticity and fate choices in health and disease, particularly cancer.

Kathleen J. Green

Kathleen J. Green

Affiliation(s): Pathology

kgreen@northwestern.edu
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The Green group studies how cells physically stick together to provide mechanical strength to tissues and how adhesion molecules convert mechanical and other environmental cues into signals that drive individual and collective cell behaviors in development, differentiation and disease. 

Carol LaBonne

Carol LaBonne

Affiliation(s): Molecular Biosciences

clabonne@northwestern.edu
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Work in the LaBonne lab has addressed four central questions: 1) what directs the formation of this stem cell population and controls how longs it retains it stem cell properties? 2) what controls when these cells will begin migrating? 3) how are neural crest cells eventually instructed to form one specialized derivative cell type out of the range of possibilities open to them? and 4) How does the misregulation of neural crest regulatory factors contribute to tumor formation and metastasis?

Brian J. Mitchell

Brian J. Mitchell

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology

brian-mitchell@northwestern.edu
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The goal of the Mitchell Lab is to understand the integration of signaling and cytoskeletal dynamics on diverse developmental processes including centriole amplification, cell migration and cell polarity.

Ertuğrul Özbudak

Ertuğrul Özbudak

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology

ozbudak@northwestern.edu
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The Özbudak Lab’s overriding interest is to achieve a systems-level understanding of embryonic development and pattern formation by integrating quantitative experiments with computational modeling.

Clara Peek

Clara Peek

Affiliation(s): Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

c-peek@northwestern.edu
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The Peek lab aims to uncover the physiological impact of the circadian clock on nutrient-responsive regulatory pathways, including oxygen-sensing transcriptional networks

Ali Shilatifard

Ali Shilatifard

Affiliation(s): Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

ash@northwestern.edu
Lab Website

The Shilatifard lab investigates the molecular mechanisms that regulate transcriptional and epigenetic processes to control eukaryotic gene expression.

Vipul Shukla

Vipul Shukla

Affiliation(s): Cell and Developmental Biology

vipul.shukla@northwestern.edu
Lab Website

The broad goal of the Skukla lab is to elucidate the epigenetic and metabolic control of immune responses and how perturbations in these pathways lead to immune cell-derived pathologies, such as cancers and autoimmunity.