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Shawn Ahmed Professor Department of Genetics Department of Biology	216 Fordham Hall (919) 843-4780 email
Telomere replication and germline immortality in C. elegans. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/ahmed/

Tony Amelio Assistant Professor Department of School of Dentistry	Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Rm 3510 (919) 537-3309 email
cAMP Signaling, Gene Regulation, alternative splicing, Cancer Cell Biology, Optical Imaging https://www.ameliolab.org/ https://unclineberger.org/people/antonio-amelio

Al Baldwin Wm R Kenan, Jr Distinguished Professor Department of Biology Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	21-210 Lineberger 919-966-3884 email
Regulation of gene expression; control of oncogenesis and apoptosis. http://cancer.med.unc.edu/baldwinlab/default.htm

Victoria Bautch Professor Department of Biology Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences	416 Fordham Hall (919) 966-6797 email
Molecular genetics of blood vessel formation in mouse and zebrafish models. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Bautch/

Jonathan Berg Professor Department of Genetics	5092 Genetics Medicine (919) 966-7043 email
Clinical adult and cancer genetics. http://genetics.unc.edu/faculty/jonathan-s-berg-md-phd

Kerry Bloom Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor Department of Biology	623 Fordham Hall (919) 962-1182 email
Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in yeast; chromosome and spindle dynamics. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Bloom/

Patrick Brennwald Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology	522 Taylor Hall (919) 843-4995 email
Examination of problems in membrane trafficking and cell polarity using genetics

Scott Bultman Associate Professor Department of Genetics	5060 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 966-3359 email
Mouse models of human disease, chromatin-modifying factors, epigenetics

Mauro Calabrese Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology	4093 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-3257 email
Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation by long noncoding RNAs https://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/calabreselab

Kathleen Caron Professor and Chair Department of Cell Biology and Physiology Genetics	6340B Medical Biomolecular Research Building (919) 966-5215 email
Genetically engineered animal models in study of human disease

Frank Conlon Professor Department of Biology Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences	222 Fordham Hall (919) 843-5500 email
Heart development, mesodermal patterning, T box genes. http://www.unc.edu/~fconlon/ http://www.conlon-lab.com/

Jean Cook Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Pharmacology	3062 Genetic Medicine Bldg. (919) 843-3867 email
Regulation of DNA replication in mammalian cells. http://sites.google.com/site/cooklabgroup/home

Greg Copenhaver Professor Department of Biology Carolina Center for Genome Sciences	4161 Genome Science Building (919) 962-4457 email
Regulation of meiotic recombination in higher eukaryotes. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Copenhaver/

Blossom Damania Boshamer Distinguished Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	32-004 Lineberger (919) 843-6011 email
Viruses, Cancer Biology, Innate Immunity, Signal Transduction, Angiogenesis, and Transcription. http://www.damania.org/

Jeff Dangl HHMI Investigator; John N. Couch Professor Department of Biology	4260 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4469 email
Plant disease resistance using Arabidopsis, innate immunity and cell-death control. Plant genomics. Bacterial pathogenesis and genomics, type III secretion systems http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/dangl/ http://www.hhmi.org/scientists/jeffery-l-dangl

Ian Davis Professor Department of Pediatrics Genetics	21-244 Lineberger (919) 996-5360 email
Mechanisms of transcription factor deregulation in cancer development

Channing Der Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Pharmacology	32-012 Lineberger (919) 966-5634 email
Oncogenes; ras superfamily protein; signal transduction http://cancer.med.unc.edu/derlab/

Dirk Dittmer Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology	715 Mary Ellen Jones Building (919) 966-7962 email
Anti-lymphoma therapies http://www.med.unc.edu/microimm/dittmerlab

Jill Dowen Assistant Professor Department of Biology Integrative Program in Biological and Genome Sciences	3360 Genome Sciences Building 919 962-8132 email
Three-dimensional genome architecture and gene regulation in development and disease https://jilldowenlab.web.unc.edu/

Rob Dowen Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology Biology	321 Fordham Hall (919) 962-1240 email
Regulation of fat metabolism during development, aging, and disease http://robdowenlab.web.unc.edu/

Bob Duronio Professor Department of Biology Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences	3350 Genome Sciences (919) 962-4568 email
Gene expression and cell cycle control during development. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Duronio/Duronio_Lab_Web_Page/HOME.html

Mike Emanuele Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology	31-322 Lineberger (919) 966-8530 email
Cell cycle regulation by the ubiquitin system. http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/people/primaryfaculty/michael-j.-emanuele

Hector L. Franco Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	Marsico Hall Lab # 5118D 919-966-5269 email
Molecular, cellular and bioinformatic dissection of the formation and function of transcriptional enhancers in cancer thefrancolab.org

Jimena Giudice Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology	6340B Medical Biomolecular Research Building (919) 962-6260 email
Alternative splicing, epigenetic and intracellular trafficking in heart and skeletal muscle development and diseases http://giudicelab.web.unc.edu/

Amy Gladfelter Associate Professor Department of Biology	516 Fordham Hall 919-962-7289 email
Cell cycle control, cytokinesis, and cell shape determination from fungi to mammals http://gladfelterlab.web.unc.edu

Bob Goldstein Distinguished Professor Department of Biology	616 Fordham Hall (919) 843-8575 email
Using C. elegans to discover fundamental mechanisms in cell and developmental biology http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Goldstein/

Kacy Gordon Assistant Professor Department of Biology	316 Fordham Hall (919) 962-1379 email
Development and evolution of the germ line stem cell niche. https://www.kacygordon.com

Sarah Grant Research Associate Professor Department of Biology	4258 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4470 email
Plant-pathogen interactions with a focus on bacterial virulence http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Dangl/

Jack Griffith Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology	11-119 Lineberger (919) 966-2151 email
HIV, transcription; electron microscopy http://www.unc.edu/~jdglab/

Gaorav Gupta Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	31-303 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 919-445-4166 email
http://guptalab.web.unc.edu/

Zongchao Han Assistant Professor Department of Opthamology	2208 Marsico Hall (919) 962-4735 email
Genomic DNA transfer, drug-gene delivery and nanomedicine https://www.med.unc.edu/ophth/meet-our-faculty/people/zongchao-han-ph-d-m-d

Nate Hathaway Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Eshelman School of Pharmacy	2090 Genetic Medicine Bldg 919-445-9327 email
Mechanisms of mammalian genome regulation, chemical biology and drug discovery http://pharmacy.unc.edu/Directory/natehat

Erin Heinzen Associate Professor Department of Genetics Eshelman School of Pharmacy	1043 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-5981 email
Identification and functional characterization of highly penetrant risk factors in neurodevelopmental disorders https://pharmacy.unc.edu/research/faculty-labs/erin-heinzen/

Mark Heise Professor Department of Genetics Microbiology and Immunology	9039 Burnett Womack Building (919) 843-1492 email
Genetics of Arbovirus virulence and immune evasion

Katherine A. Hoadley Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	5212 Marsico Hall (919) 962-8416 email
Integrative genomic characterization of cancer and precancer https://unclineberger.org/people/profiles/katherine-hoadley

Folami Ideraabdullah Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Nutrition Research Institute	5076 Genetic Medicine Building (704) 250-5039 email
Genetics, toxicants and nutrition: Role of gene-environment interactions in epigenetic gene regulation during development

Corbin Jones Professor Department of Biology	3159 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4443 email
Population genetics and evolution in Drosophila http://labs.bio.unc.edu/CDJones/

Jonathan Juliano Associate Professor Department of Medicine Epidemiology	2nd Floor Bioinformatics Building (919) 843-4384 email
Malaria drug resistance, diversity and population evolution

Samir Kelada Associate Professor Department of Genetics	5072 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 962-2148 email
Genetics and genomics of environmentally-induced asthma

Joseph Kieber Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Biology	4163 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4455 email
Molecular genetic analysis of hormone signaling in Arabidopsis. http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Kieber/

William Kim Associate Professor Department of Medicine	22-020 Lineberger (919) 966-9729 email
Exploration of the role of hypoxia-inducible factor in tumorigenesis http://kimlab.web.unc.edu/

Sarah Linnstaedt Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology	350 Taylor Hall 919-576-6179 email
Genetic and transcriptional mechanisms causing increased incidence of chronic pain and PTSD in women vs men following trauma exposure https://www.med.unc.edu/anesthesiology/research/faculty-staff/faculty-1/sd-linnstaedt

Paul Maddox Associate Professor Department of Biology	4358 Genome Sciences Building 919-843-8637 email
Mitotic mechanisms and chromosome dynamics http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Maddox/Site/Welcome.html

Amy Maddox Associate Professor Department of Biology	408 Fordham Hall 919-843-3228 email
the mechanisms of cell shape change http://asmlab.web.unc.edu

Nobuyo Maeda Robert H. Wagner Distinguished Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	710 Brinkhous-Bullitt (919) 966-6914 email
Genetics modeling of atheroscierosis in mice

Terry Magnuson Sarah Graham Kenan Professor Department of Genetics Biomedical Engineering	5016 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-6475 email
Mammalian genetics; epigenetics; genomics

William Marzluff William Rand Kenan Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Biology	208 Fordham Hall (919) 962-8920 email
Regulation of RNA metabolism in animal cells http://www.unc.edu/depts/marzluff/Marzluff/Home.html

Greg Matera Professor Department of Biology Genetics	3352 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4567 email
Mouse and fruitfly models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Matera/MateraLab/Homepage.html

Daniel McKay Assistant Professor Department of Biology Genetics	3358 Genome Sciences Building 919-843-2064 email
developmental genomics; regulation of gene expression http://mckaylab.web.unc.edu/ http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/mckay-daniel-j/

Justin Milner Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	email
Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of T cell differentiation during infection and cancer. https://unclineberger.org/milnerlab/

Karen Mohlke Professor Department of Genetics	5096 Genetic Medicine Bldg. (919) 966-2913 email
Human genetics and genomics; diabetes; complex diseases. http://mohlke.web.unc.edu

Zach Nimchuk Assistant Professor Department of Biology	4155 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4460 email
Plant developmental genetics and stem cell regulation http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/nimchuk-zack/

Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena Professor and Chair Department of Genetics	5046 Genetic Medicine Bldg. (919) 843-5403 email
Systems genetics, genetics of complex traits, meiotic drive. http://genetics.unc.edu/faculty/pardo-manuel

Chad Pecot Assistant Professor Department of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	Linerberger Comprehensive Cancer Center email
the biology of metastatic disease, which is responsible for the death of nearly all cancer patients http://www.nccancerhospital.org/members/chad-pecot

Mark Peifer Hooker Distinguished Professor Department of Biology	521 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2271 email
Cell adhesion; signal transduction and cancer. http://peiferlab.web.unc.edu/

Chuck Perou Distinguished Professor Department of Genetics	12-046 Lineberger (919) 843-5740 email
Genomic and molecular classification of human tumors to guide therapy http://peroulab.med.unc.edu/

Doug Phanstiel Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology Thurston Arthritis Research Center	4019A Thurston Bowles Building 608-609-8377 email
Characterization and functional studies of dynamic DNA looping during monocyte differentiation in healthy individuals and in human disease, using genomics, genome editing, and bioinformatics. http://phanstiel-lab.med.unc.edu/

Jeremy Purvis Assiociate Professor Department of Genetics	5061 Genetic Medicine Building 919-962-4923 email
Signal transduction in cancer and stem cells http://genetics.unc.edu/purvislab

Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	11-113 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (919) 962-8296 email
Immunomodulatory mechanisms in pancreatic cancer and metastasis. http://www.pylayeva-gupta-lab.com/

Jesse Raab Assistant Professor Department of Genetics	Genetic Medicine Building email
Regulation and function of altered chromatin remodeling complex activity. http://raablab.web.unc.edu/

Dale Ramsden Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics	32-044 Lineberger (919) 966-9839 email
V(D)J recombination; DNA double strand break repair https://sites.google.com/site/ramsdenlab/

Christoph Rau Assistant Professor Department of Computational Medicine	11004B Mary Ellen Jones Building (919) 962-5641 email
The Rau lab utilizes populations of mice to study the transcriptomic and epigenomic landscape underlying cardiovascular disorders using a combination of wet and dry-lab techniques https://raulab.web.unc.edu/

Jason Reed Associate Professor Department of Biology	104 Coker Hall (919) 962-5699 email
Plant development; auxin signaling; light responses http://www.unc.edu/~jbreed/

Steve Rogers Associate Professor Department of Biology	422 Fordham Hall (919) 843-7342 email
Functional genomics of cytoskeletal organization http://www.unc.edu/~steverog/

Aziz Sancar Distinguished Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics	3073 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 962-0115 email
Structure and function of DNA repair enzymes; biological clock http://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/asancar-lab

Gregory Scherrer Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology Neurosciences Center	Mary Ellen Jones Building, Room 6008B 919-843-8624 email
Genetic and molecular mechanisms of pain perception and opioid receptor function https://www.scherrerlab.com/

Jeff Sekelsky Professor Department of Biology Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences	303 Fordham Hall (919) 843-9400 email
Mechanisms of mitotic and meiotic recombination, double-strand break repair. http://sekelsky.bio.unc.edu

Shehzad Sheikh Associate Professor Department of Genetics Medicine	7340B MBRB 919-966-0745 email
Genetics responses of immune cells to the gut microbiome; inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis http://sheikhlab.web.unc.edu/

Celia Shiau Assistant Professor Department of Biology	4352 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-7010 email
Function and development of macrophages and brain microglia; regulation of inflammation and innate immune activation; genetic, genomic, cellular, and imaging approaches. https://shiaulab.org

Karl Shpargel Assistant Professor Department of Genetics	5023 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 771-7005 email
Roles of chromatin-modifying enzymes in developmental epigenetics and disease http://shpargellab.web.unc.edu/

Kevin Slep Associate Professor Department of Biology	402 Fordham Hall (919) 962-4858 email
Regulators of cytoskeletal dynamics

Jason Stein Assistant Professor Department of Genetics UNC Neuroscience Center	8109C Neuroscience Research Building (919) 843-5541 email
Genetic influences on brain structure and development https://www.steinlab.org/

Brian Strahl Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics	3060 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-3896 email
Histone modifications and gene regulation http://www.med.unc.edu/~bstrahl/

Lishan Su Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology	22-048 Linberger (919) 966-6654 email
T cells during normal and pathogenic hematolymphopoiesis

Ron Swanstrom Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Microbiology and Immunology	22-006 Lineberger (919) 966-5710 email
Retroviruses; molecular biology of AIDS virus http://swanstrom.web.unc.edu/

Lisa Tarantino Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry	1012 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-7292 email
Genetic mapping of complex behavioral traits

Jenny Ting Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology	207 Lineberger Cancer Center (919) 966-5538 email
Transcriptional regulation; inflammation and apoptosis; functional genomics; immunologic and neurologic diseases; chemotherapy; signal transduction and cell death https://unctinglab.wixsite.com/tinglab

Ageliki Tsagaratou Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	8001-B Burnett Womack Building (919) 962-5440 email
Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in T cell differentiation, function and disease. https://tsagaratou.web.unc.edu/

Cyrus Vaziri Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	614A Brinkhous-Bullitt (919) 843-9639 email
Integration of DNA replication and repair https://www.med.unc.edu/vazirilab/

Greg Wang Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	31-327 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 919-966-5952 email
epigenetics, gene regulation, and disease, notably hematopoietic malignancies http://www.unclineberger.org/members/greg-wang http://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/wang

Ellen Weiss Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology	516B Taylor Hall (919) 966-7683 email
Regulation of G-protein-coupled receptor signal transduction pathways http://www.med.unc.edu/cellbiophysio/faculty/weiss

Buddy Weissman Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	32 048 Lineberger (919) 966-7533 email
Tumor suppressor genes; cancer genetics

Jason Whitmire Associate Professor Department of Genetics Microbiology and Immunology	5062 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 843-7081 email
Genetic regulation of T cell responses to virus infection. https://www.med.unc.edu/genetics/directory/jason-whitmire-phd/

Scott Williams Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	605 Brinkhous-Bullitt Building 919-966-2737 email
asymmetric cell division in development and disease, epithelial differentiation https://www.med.unc.edu/pathology/faculty/dplm-faculty-profiles-2014-dr-williams

Hyejung Won Assistant Professor Department of Genetics	7202B Mary Ellen Jones Building, 116 Manning Dr. (919) 966-4069 email
Genetic risk factors for neuropsychiatric illnesses & neurological mechanisms; genome folding in human brain by Hi-C http://www.wonlab.org/

Anthony Zannas Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Psychiatry	438 Taylor Hall 919-962-4918 email
Our lab seeks to uncover the epigenetic mechanisms linking psychosocial stress with disease risk. http://www.zannaslab.org/

Yanping Zhang Professor Department of Radiation Oncology	31-321 Linberger 919-966-7713 email
Genetics and mechanisms of cancer cell growth and division http://cancer.med.unc.edu/zhanglab/