Cells and Disease

Cellular mechanisms of Cancer, Alzheimer’s, aniridia, lysosomal storage disease, Chagas disease, alcoholism and addiction, schistosomiasis, immunopathology.

Personnel

Daichi Kamiyama

Associate Professor

Brain Development and Function in Health and Diseases

Edward T. Kipreos

Professor

Cellular biology; molecular genetics; regulation of cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans

Dennis Kyle

Professor of Infectious Diseases and Cellular Biology, Director, Center for Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases, GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery

Drug discovery for malaria and brain-eating amoebae; antimalarial resistance mechanisms

James D. Lauderdale

Cellular Biology Department Head, Associate Professor

Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development

Karl F. Lechtreck

Professor

Vasant Muralidharan

Associate Professor

Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

Walter K. Schmidt, Jr.

Adjunct Professor

Molecular and biochemical analyses of enzymes required for the production of isoprenylated proteins.

Cordula Schulz

Associate Professor, Associate Head of Cellular Biology

Tissue replenishment from stem cells, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, germ cell tumor, stem cell self-renewal

Rick L. Tarleton

Regents Professor

Immunoparasitology; immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease; vaccine development

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Contact Us!

Associate Head: 
Dr. Cordula Schulz, 706-542-3515

Main office phone: 706-542-3310
 

Head of the Department: Dr. James Lauderdale