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Ms. Lanette Flagge
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Ronald Balczon, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies
BMS Graduate Program
MSB 3030
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
(251)460-6153
lflagge@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
rbalczon@usouthal.edu
Structural biology and drug discovery.
Michael Chinkers, Ph.D.
Role of protein phosphorylation in receptor folding, activation, and trafficking.
Kai-Ming Chou, Ph.D.
The roles of DNA replication/repair mechanisms on anticancer/antiviral compounds.
Robert B. Chronister, Ph.D.
Cellular and molecular events in neurons and glial cells with aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Joseph H. Coggin, Jr., Ph.D.
Immunologic assessments of cancer induction; role of T-lymphocyte subclasses and their interaction in anti-tumor immunobiology.
Brian W. Fouty, M.D.
Control of cell cycle and proliferation in Tsc2-/- mice.
John W. Foster, Ph.D.
Response of bacterial pathogens to stress.
Jane D. Funkhouser, Ph.D.
Regulation of lung epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation.
Anthony L. Gard, Ph.D.
Regulation of CNS cell differentation.
James W. Gaubatz, Ph.D.
Dietary mutagens in cancer.
Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Novel pharmacologic targets in antineoplastic therapy; regulation of p-glycoprotein and the multiple drug resistance phenotype.
Richard E. Honkanen, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of tumor promotion and carcinogenesis: Determining the roles of protein phosphatases in the regulation of normal and aberrant cellular proliferation.
Jingfang Ju, Ph.D.
Novel technologies for genomic and functional genomic research, discovery of predictive and prognostic markers for various human cancers, molecular and cellular mechanisms of translationally-regulated genes related to tumor progression and drug resistance.
Susan P. LeDoux, Ph.D.
Role of environmental agents in the etiology of cancer; cellular responses to DNA damage; mechanisms of DNA damage and repair.
Thomas M. Lincoln, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms regulating protein kinase G expression in vascular smooth muscle.
David J. McGee, Ph.D.
Helicobacter pylori and pathogen-induced carcinogenesis.
Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.
James W. Rohrer, Ph.D.
Role of oncofetal antigen/immature laminin receptor protein in metastasis; ability of antibody and T lymphocyte immunity to OFA/iLRP to inhibit tumorgenesis/metastasis.
Rajeev Samant, Ph.D.
Role of transcription regulatory proteins and complexes in metastasis.
Lalita Shevde-Samant, Ph.D.
Regulation of metastasis-related genes by epigenetic modification, identification of promoter elements involved in metastasis.
Jonathan G. Scammell, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance; characterization of neuroendocrine phenotype of cancer cells.
Troy Stevens, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.
Glenn L. Wilson, Ph.D.
DNA damage and repair in the initiation and promotion of cancer and the role of these processes in the toxic actions of chemotherapeutic agents.
Herbert H. Winkler, Ph. D.
Bacterial physiology; mechanisms of ricketsial infection and growth.
David O. Wood, Ph.D.
Molecular genetics.
Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of liver regeneration, role of metabolic derangement of lipids in the development of obesity and/or diabetes.
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