Genomic approaches to identifying causes and understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune and infectious neuroinflammatory conditions including encephalitis, meningitis and multiple sclerosis, and developing cell-based therapies for treatment.
Investigate how complex biological networks regulate precise cellular behaviors and how dis-regulation leads to disease.
Mentorship Development:
4/26/19 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) with Sharon Milgram (Mission Bay)
2/16/21 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
We seek to identify the key neuron(s) within pace breathing and to determine how they are innately and volitionally “turned on” or “off” to speed up or stop breathing.
We develop new approaches to decipher communication between the brain and immune system. We study what these messages mean, how they’re regulated, and how they impact brain health.
Our multi-disciplinary team works on identifying and characterizing novel oncogenes and tumor suppressors in melanocytic neoplasia and understanding their biology.
We study signaling between neural tissues and bodily fluids, with a focus on specialized interfaces near brain ventricles to uncover their roles in health, disease, and therapeutic applications.
