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 Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCD)
The Cellular and Development group is engaged in research in aging, cancer, development and neuroscience. An excellent infrastructure in, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and biotechnology serves to bind these areas together. One research sub-group is focused on the biology of cancer (Narayanan, Ayyanathan, Hartman, Kumi-Diaka). Another sub-group is focused on development and aging using functional genomic studies of Drosophila (Murphey, Binninger and Weissbach). Yet another sub-group uses plant genomics and transgenics to study a variety of issues in plant biology (Zhang, Proffitt and associate faculty at the US Horticulture Research Laboratories). The faculty from the MCD cluster are members of the Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology which is a well-equipped College-wide research center housed on the Jupiter campus in close proximity to Scripps Florida and the Max Plank Society. Many faculty are also members of the Florida Center for Excellence in Biomedical and Marine Biotechnology. The Integrative Biology Ph.D. program, which is a joint effort between the Biology and the Biomedical Science Departments, provides a focal point for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in these areas of research. Finally, the MCD group presents a superb menu of laboratory courses in related fields for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
| Faculty in Cellular & Developmental Biology |
| Name |
Rank |
Research |
| K. Ayyanathan |
Res. Assoc.
Prof |
Transcriptional
Regulation; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Cancer |
| D. Binninger |
Assoc. Prof |
Role of oxidative damage to protein in aging |
| K.Dawson-Scully |
Asst. Prof |
Neurobiology of cellular stress and neuroprotection |
| N. Esiobu |
Assoc. Prof |
Environ microbiology, drug resistance, antimicrobiosis |
| T. Godenschwege |
Assoc. Prof |
Neurological disorders and diseases, nervous system development, axonal guidance and synaptogenesis |
| J. Hartmann |
Professor |
Immunotherapy for adult chronic lymphocytic leukemia & lupus |
| C. Hughes |
Assoc. Prof |
Evolutionary genetics, and its relationship to conservation |
| K. Jia |
Asst. Prof |
Molecular regulation of aging |
| J. Kumi-Diaka |
Assoc. Prof |
Reproductive pathopysiology - oncology |
| S. Milton |
Assoc. Prof |
Vertebrate anoxia tolerance, sea turtle physiology |
| R. Murphey |
Prof & Chair |
Development and Degeneration of Synapes |
| J. Nambu |
Professor |
Nervous system development and cell death in Drosophila |
| R. Narayanan |
Professor |
Bioinformatics, cancer gene discovery, antisense |
| C. E. Proffitt |
Assoc. Professor |
Ecology of marine & estuarine macrophytes & invertebrates |
| H. Weissbach |
Dist Res. Prof |
Oxidative damage,ageing, molecular biology, biochemistry |
| X.-H. Zhang |
Assoc. Prof |
Plant molecular biology & biotechnology |
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