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Banes-Berceli, Amy : Physiology of hypertension and cell signaling, with a particular focus on JAK/STAT pathway; involvement of JAK/STAT in diabetes mellitus and ANG-induced hypertension.

Berven, Keith A.: Amphibian population biology and evolution of life history patterns.

Chaudhry, G : Human embryonic stem cell research - molecular mechanisms of cell differentiation and applications in tissue engineering; molecular genetics of developmental, degradative, and virulent genes.

Dvir, Arik : The biochemistry of gene expression, rate-limiting steps in gene transcription by RNA polymerase II.

Gordon, Sheldon R.: Cytoskeleton regulation of cell migration and cell cycle progression. Interactions between the basement membrane and cytoskeleton during wound repair.

Govind, Chhabi : Eukaryotic transcription; recruitment and functional analysis of histone modifying and chromatin remodeling complexes.

Hansen, Fay M.: Angiogenesis: Cell biology, growth, and differentiation of microcirculatory vessels; hypertension.

Hitt, Anne : Cellular and molecular biology of the membrane skeleton of amoeboid cells, membrane protein structure and function.

Jiang, Lan : Mechanisms of biological tube formation in Drosophila tracheal system

Lal, Shailesh : Mechanism and regulation of pre-mRNA processing in plants.

Lindemann, Charles B.: Physiology and biophysics of mammalian sperm motility, causal factors involved in the maintenance of and cessation of sperm motility.

Liu, Zijuan : Molecular mechanisms of metalloid transport in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Madlambayan, Gerard : Defining the biological mechanisms underlying primary stem cell function in different cancers; applying these findings towards developing clinically relevant drugs and drug delivery strategies to treat these diseases.

Moudgil, Virinder K.: Mechanism of action of steroid hormones; biology of aging, hormones and cancer.

Shastry, Barkur : Characterization of genetic abnormality associated with human hereditary disorders; biology of mutant genes.

Suvas, Susmit : To understand the immunobiology of chronic inflammation induced in response to viral infections and advancing age.

Tiegs, Scott : Stream and river ecology; River restoration; Resource subsidies; Organic matter decomposition; Human impacts to riverine ecosystems; Stream-watershed interactions; Roles of species in ecosystems.

Walia, Satish K.: Molecular microbiology; ecology, epidemiology and mechanism of bacterial antibiotic resistance and virulence genes. Biotechnological approaches for sensitive assay development and engineering of hybrid catabolic pathways for bioremediation of toxic substituted organic chemicals.

Wendell, Douglas L.: Mechanisms of growth control; genetics of complex traits; genetic mapping and molecular cloning of tumor growth genes.