Current PI Member Listing

Below is a listing of the current PI's in The RNA Club (students and postdocs welcome too!)

• Victor Ambros, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Molecular and genetic control of animal development; microRNA regulatory mechanisms
  
  
• Neil Aronin, M.D., Department of Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute 
  Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease
  
  
• Vivian Budnik, Ph.D., Neurobiology
  Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Plasticity
  
  
• Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D., Cancer Biology 
  Cell death and autophagy
  
  
• Robert Brown, M.D.,Ph.D., Department of Neurology
  Identification of Gene Defects and Neuromuscular Disease
  
  
• Lucio Castilla, Ph.D., Program in Gene Function and Expression
  Genetics of leukemia, mouse models
  
  
• Silvia Corvera, M.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Cell biology of insulin action and type 2 diabetes
  
  
• Michael Czech, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  RNAi-based therapeutic strategies for inflammatory and metabolic diseases
  
  
• Roger Davis, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Mechanisms by which growth factors regulate cellular proliferation
  
  
• Job Dekker, Ph.D., Program in Systems Biology
  Spatial Organization of Genomes
  
  
• Fen-Biao Gao, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology 
  Neuronal microRNA's and frontotemporal dementia
  
  
• Guangping Gao, Ph.D., Gene Therapy Center
  Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector mediated gene transfer for gene therapy
  
  
• Paul Gardner, Ph.D., Psychiatry
  Regulation of Nicotinic Receptor Gene Expression in Addiction and Lung Cancer
  
  
• Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Cancer Molecular Biology
  
  
• David Guertin, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Signal transduction in development and cancer
  
  
• Gang Han, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  Synthetic Nanomaterials for siRNA Delivery and Biomolecule Imaging
  
  
• Lawrence Hayward, M.D., Ph.D.,Neurology
  Misfolding of Mutant SOD1 Variants in ALS
  
  
• Allan Jacobson, Ph.D., Microbiology & Physiological Systems
  Cytoplasmic aspects of the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
  
  
• Ellen Kittler, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine 
  Co- Director of The Molecular Biology Core and Deep Sequencing Core Facilities
  
  
• Anastasia Khvorova, Ph.D., RNA Therapeutics Institute
  Development of novel oligonucleotide-based therapeutics and drug development
  
  
• Andrei Korostelev, Ph.D., RNA Therapeutics Institute
  Structure and function of ribosome
  
  
• Jeanne Lawrence, Ph.D., Cell Biology
  Genome organization and the functional relationship of DNA/RNA with nuclear structure
  
  
• Nathan Lawson, Ph,D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Determining the signals responsible for blood vessel development using zebrafish
  
  
• Andrew Leiter, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine 
  
  
• Jack Leonard, Ph.D., Microbiology & Physiological Systems
  Cellular and molecular events that mediate thyroid hormone action in the brain
  
  
• Francesca Massi, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  Protein dynamics and protein function and stability using NMR spectroscopy
  
  
• Craig Mello,Ph.D., RNA Therapeutics Institute
  Regulation of gene expression during early embryogenesis in C. elegans
  
  
• Chris Mueller, M.D., Anesthesiology
  
  
• Peter Newburger, M.D., Cancer Biology
  Molecular basis of phagocyte function and selenoprotein biosynthesis
  
  
• Jeffrey A. Nickerson, Ph.D., Cell Biology
  Nuclear architecture and gene expression
  
  
• Gary Ostroff, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  
  
• Klaus Pechhold, Ph.D., Medicine
  Characterizing the homeostasis of islet beta cells, to identify therapeutic targets for regenerative medicine
  
  
• Thoru Pederson, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  RNA traffic in eukaryotic cells, RNA processing, RNA-protein interactions, siRNA
  
  
• Craig Peterson, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  How chromosome structure influences nuclear processes
  
  
• Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  Genomic approaches to chromatin structure and function, and to epigenetic inheritance
  
  
• Joel Richter, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Translational control in meiosis, mitosis, and neuronal synaptic plasticity
  
  
• Alan Rosmarin, M.D., Medicine
  Regulation of gene transcription in myeloid cells by the ets-related transcription factor, GA-Binding Protein (GABP)
  
  
• Sean Ryder, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology 
  Post-transcriptional regulation of maternal mRNAs in early development
  
  
• Gyongyi Szabo, Ph.D., Medicine
  Immune alterations induced by acute alcohol consumption
  
  
• William Theurkauf, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Regulation of mitotic chromosome segregation
  
  
• Marian Walhout, Ph.D., Program in Systems Biology
  Mapping transcription regulatory circuits in nematode C. elegans
  
  
• Jonathan Watts, Ph.D. RNA Therapeutics Institute
  Nucleic acid chemical biology

• Zhiping Weng Ph.D., Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
  Bioinformatics and computational genomics
  
  
• David Weaver, Ph.D., Neurobiology
  Molecular physiology of circadian rhythms
  
  
• Zuoshang Xu, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  Mechanism and therapy of neurodegenerative diseases
  
  
• Wen Xue, Ph.D., RNA Therapeutics Institute
  CRISPR-mediated genome editing to identify novel cancer genes
  
  
• Phillip Zamore, Ph.D., RNA Therapeutics Institute
  Dissecting the RNAi and miRNA pathways
  
  
• Maria Zapp, Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine
  Regulation of retroviral and cellular mRNA transport