Faculty

Siddhesh Aras
Siddhesh Aras works on oxidative phosphorylation, role of mitochondria in infectious diseases, transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial proteins.

Erin P. Carmany
Erin Carmany is a genetic counselor who works on genetic counseling in the Spanish speaking population, alternative genetic counseling service delivery models, patient written communication.

Tiffany Cook
Molecular genetics of eye development and disease; cell-cell communication in nervous system maintenance and degeneration; glial support mechanisms; cell-specific transcriptional regulatory mechanisms

Gerald L. Feldman
Gerald Feldman’s research is primarily directed towards clinical aspects of newborn screening and inborn errors of metabolism and the education of medical genetics and genomics residents and medical biochemical genetics fellows.

Russell L. Finley
Functional genomics and systems biology; Regulatory networks that control cell division in development and disease.

Alexander Gow
Dr. Gow focuses on generating (knockout, knockin, transgenic) and characterizing mouse models of developmental and adult-onset human CNS diseases: multiple sclerosis, leukodystrophies, cerebal palsy.

James G. Granneman
Adipose tissue cell and molecular biology and therapeutic tissue remodeling; single-cell functional genomics; lipolysis activation; co-evolution of lipid droplet binding proteins; novel therapeutic targets for metabolic disease and cancer.

Lawrence I. Grossman
Lawrence Grossman works on molecular genetics of the electron transport chain; cytochrome c oxidase; mitochondrial signaling and regulation; mitochondrial diseases.

Henry H.Q. Heng
Molecular cytogenetics and cytogenomics; genome structure, function, and stability; genome chaos-created system information and macroevolution; karyotype coding and genome architecture theory; cancer evolution and drug resistance.

Maik Hüttemann
Mitochondrial energy metabolism and apoptosis; regulation of cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase; cell signaling; noninvasive infrared light technology to treat ischemia-reperfusion injury; cancer

Stephen A. Krawetz
Gene Therapy; control of development and differentiation; expression of connective tissue genes and genes controlling spermatogenesis; computer-assisted sequence analysis.

Li Li
Regulation of smooth muscle cell dedifferentiation in response to genetic mutations and metabolic stresses during the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms and atherosclerosis.

Francesca Luca
Functional and population genomics of intermediate phenotypes. Gene-environment interactions. Functional Genomics

Roger Pique-Regi
Computational and statistical methods to study regulation of gene transcription, chromatin states, gene-environment interactions, and complex traits. Machine learning and integrative hierarchical Bayesian analysis of large genomic datasets.

Lobelia Samavati
Clinical and laboratory research in sarcoidosis and interstitial lung disease. Molecular Medicine.

Shengyi Iris Sun
Endoplasmic reticulum protein quality control and degradation, protein conformational diseases, physiology and metabolism.

Michael A. Tainsky
Cancer genetic studies of familial cancers to determine the inherited cancer genes, analyze the mechanism of their action, and factors affecting genetic penetrance of the cancer phenotype. Bioinformatics.

Angela M. Trepanier
Integrating genomics into primary care through provider education approaches; increasing access to genetic counseling; genetic counseling student admissions, education, and evaluation; genetic counselor career development.

Jeffrey Tseng
Protein structure, function, classification and evolution; Disease-associated non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphism; Geometric matching, modeling, and molecular simulation. Computational Structural Biology.

Kezhong Zhang
Intracellular stress signaling from the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria; unfolded protein response and inflammation in metabolic diseases. Cell and Molecular Biology.

Ren Zhang
The lab studies the functions of ANGPTL8 (lipasin) and NADK2 (MNADK), two metabolism regulators that the lab identified, in mediating lipid metabolism and glucose homeostasis.
Emeritus Faculty

Wayne D. Lancaster
Papillomaviruses: molecular biology, evolution, and role in human carcinogenesis; cancer cell genome instability; ovarian carcinogenesis.

Robert Skoff
Studies the role of proteolipid protein in neonatal hypoxia ischemia and research of proteins in the myelin sheath that are critical for normal human function.
313-577-1165
rskoff@med.wayne.edu
rskoff@med.wayne.edu
Secondary Faculty

Kang Chen
Mucosal Immunology, Reproductive immunology, Immunodeficiency, infection and inflammation, Cancer Immunology.
313-578-4339
kang@wayne.edu
kang@wayne.edu

Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
Maternal-Fetal Immunology, Neonatal Immunology,Single-Cell Immunology, Microbe-Host Interactions, Biomarker Discovery.
Lab Website
Lab Website
313-577-8904
ngomezlo@med.wayne.edu
ngomezlo@med.wayne.edu

Zhengqing Hu
Cell Culture, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Immunocytochemistry, Advanced Microscopy, Inner Ear Transplantation, and Functional Evaluation of Hearing.
313-577-0594
zh@med.wayne.edu
zh@med.wayne.edu

Bhanu Jena
Cellular and Molecular Processes Involved in Protein Secretion and Exocytosis. Links:
Bhanu P. Jena Ph.D. - Physiology - Wayne State University
Jena Laboratory Web
NanoBioScience Institute
Profile
NBSI 2020 Annual Report
Bhanu P. Jena Ph.D. - Physiology - Wayne State University
Jena Laboratory Web
NanoBioScience Institute
Profile

313-577-1532
bjena@med.wayne.edu
bjena@med.wayne.edu

Douglas Ruden
Toxicogenomics of heavy metal exposure using Drosophila and human embryonic stem cell models.
313-577-6688
douglasr@wayne.edu
douglasr@wayne.edu

Marianna Sadagurski
Obesity and Diabetes, Nutrient-sensing hypothalamic circuits, Neurobiology of aging, Early postnatal environment.
313-577-8637
sadagurski@wayne.edu
sadagurski@wayne.edu

Assia Shisheva
Cellular and molecular physiology: Role for phosphoinositides in controlling membrane trafficking and peptide hormone signaling.
313-577-5674
ashishev@med.wayne.edu
ashishev@med.wayne.edu
Adi L. Tarca
Perinatal systems biology, Personalized medicine, Genomics data analysis, and machine learning.

Jiemei Wang
Diabetes, Cardiovascular disorders, Angiogenesis, Endothelium, Stress signaling.
313-577-1715
jiemei.wang@wayne.edu
jiemei.wang@wayne.edu