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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
Mitochondrial DNA and oxidative damage in vascular endothelium, vascular morphogenesis.
Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.
Mechanotransduction in vascular endothelial cells.
Nathan N. Aronson, Jr., Ph.D.
Role of an oncogene-induced chitin-binding protein in normal involution and cancer of the mammary gland.
Ronald D. Balczon, Ph.D.
The microtubule cytoskeleton, centrosomes, microtubule motors, and the regulation of cell proliferation and mitosis.
Stephen T. Ballard, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of airway epithelial ion transport and mucociliary clearance; cystic fibrosis.
Sailen Barik, Ph.D.
Mechanism of activation of NF-kappa B by viruses and parasites; signal transduction pathways and reversible protein phosphorylation in primitive eukaryotes.
Michael Chinkers, Ph.D.
Role of protein phosphorylation in receptor folding, activation, and trafficking.
Michael V. Cohen, M.D.
Cardiac physiology; mechanisms of myocardial preconditioning.
Stuart D. Critz, Ph.D.
Role of P38 MAPK during myocardial ischemia and hypoxia.
James M. Downey, Ph.D.
Cardiac physiology; mechanisms of myocardial preconditioning.
Brian W. Fouty, M.D.
Neutrophils and regulation of acute lung injury.
Anthony L. Gard, Ph.D.
Regulation of CNS cell differentation.
Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Pulmonary hypertension and molecular signaling mechanisms in pulmonary smooth muscle.
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.
Roger S. Lane, Ph.D.
Regulation of metabolism.
Robert N. Lausch, Ph.D.
Cytokine/chemokine responses to ocular tumors.
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 Lincoln, Ph.D.
Cyclic GMP and regulation of vascular smooth muscle.
David J. McGee, Ph.D.
Helicobacter pylori and pathogen-induced carcinogenesis.
John E. Oakes, Ph.D.
Role of immune responses in host protection against tumors of the eye.
Solomon Ofori-Acquah, Ph.D.
Role of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) and p38 mitogen activating protein kinase signalling pathways in g globin regulation
Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.
James C. Parker, Ph.D.
Role of stretch-activated cation channels in acute lung endothelial injury.
Jonathan G. Scammell, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance; characterization of neuroendocrine phenotype of cancer cells.
Stephen W. Schaffer, Ph.D.
Molecular consequences of diabetes on cardiomyocyte function.
Kane L. Schaphorst, M.D.
Regulation of lung endothelial barrier function.
Troy Stevens, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.
Samuel J. Strada, Ph.D.
Role of phosphodiesterase isozymes in regulation of cyclic nucleotide metabolism; impact of phosphodiesterases in normal tissue and in pathophysiological models of disease.
Aubrey E. Taylor, Ph.D.
Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury; mathematical modeling of capillary transport.
Mark S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Regulation of vascular tone, including roles for sensitivity of the contractile apparatus to Ca2+, phosphodiesterases and cyclic nucleotide dependent protein kinases, and SK3-dependent hyperpolarization.
Mary I. Townsley, Ph.D.
Role of P450-derived arachidonic acid metabolites in regulation of lung endothelial permeability.
David S. Weber, Ph.D.
Role of reactive oxygen species in vascular smooth muscle migration.
Richard M. Whitehurst, M.D.
Neonatal cardiac development.
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.
Songwei Wu, Ph.D.
Regulation of lung endothelial calcium entry.
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