Board
of Scientific Counselors
Scientific
Director’s Preface
Workshops
Bone and Extracellular Matrix
Branch
Connective Tissue Disorders: Joan Marini
Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch
Protein Sorting in the Endosomal-Lysosomal System: Juan Bonifacino
Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biogenesis: Ramanujan Hegde
Regulation of Membrane Dynamics and Protein Transport by the Sec7 Domain
Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors: Catherine Jackson
Cell Cycle Regulation during Oogenesis: Mary Lilly
Dynamics of Secretory Membrane Trafficking, Sorting and Compartmentalization:
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Regulation of Intracellular Iron Metabolism:Tracey Rouault
Microbial Responses to Oxidative Stress and Noncoding
RNAs: Gisela Storz
Developmental Endocrinology Branch
Neuroendocrinology of Stress: Greti Aguilera
Regulation of Skeletal Growth: Jeffrey Baron
Genes or Hormones? Gender-Specific Differences
in Disease Susceptibility: Carolyn Bondy
The Menstrual Cycle and Human Reproduction: Lawrence
Nelson
Molecular Genetics of Adrenocortical Tumors and Related Disorders: Constantine
Stratakis
Physiology, Psychology and Genetics of Obesity: Jack Yanovski
Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch
Phosphoinositide-Calcium
Signaling in Cell Regulation: Tamás Balla
Peptide Hormone Receptors and Signal Transduction: Kevin Catt
Structure and Function of Peptide and Protein
Hormones: Hao-Chia Chen
Gonadal Receptors and Mechanism of Action of Peptide Hormones in Steroidogenic
Cells: Maria Dufau
Signal Transduction In Synaptic Transmission
and Plasticity: Kuo-Ping Huang
Calcium Signalling and Calcium-Controlled Cellular Functions: Stanko Stojilkovic
The Biotransformation of Endobiotics by Sulfonation: Charles Strott
Heritable Disorders Branch
Molecular Genetics of Heritable Human Disorders: Janice Chou
Heritable Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Disorders:
Anil Mukherjee
Molecular Biology, Regulation, and Biochemistry
of UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase Isozymes: Ida Owens
Dysmorphic Syndromes and Birth Defects: Forbes Porter
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
Protein-Mediated Remodeling of Membrane Lipid
Bilayers: Leonid Chernomordik
Advances in the Methodology of Electrophoretic Separation: Andreas Chrambach
Microbial Pathogens in Human Lymphoid Tissue:
Leonid Margolis
Applications of Mass Spectrometry to Biophysics,
Biochemistry and Medicine: Alfred Yergey
Membrane Remodeling During Pathogenesis and the Mechanism of Exocytosis:
Joshua Zimmerberg
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology
Structure and Function of Glutamate Receptors: Mark Mayer
Laboratory of Cellular and Synaptic Neurophysiology
Potassium Channels and Dendritic Function in
Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons: Dax Hoffman
Neurotrophic Regulation of Synapse Development
and Plasticity: Bai Lu
Hippocampal Interneurons and their Role in Controlling
Excitability: Chris Mcbain
Olfactory Coding and Decoding by Ensembles of Neurons: Mark Stopfer
Laboratory of Clinical Genomics
Clinical Genomics: Owen Rennert
Bridging the Gap between Monogenic Traits and Complex Inherited Disorders
of Childhood: Stephen Kaler
Laboratory of Comparative Ethology
Child and Family Development in the First Two Decades of Life: Marc Bornstein
Child Development in Context: Michael Lamb
Mechanisms Regulating Auditory Communication and Social Behavior in Primates:
John Newman
Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Primate
Biobehavioural Development: Stephen Suomi
Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity
Vaccines Against Human Pathogenic Bacteria: John Robbins
Human Immune Response to Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccines: Rachel
Schneerson
Laboratory of Developmental
Neurobiology
Developmental Regulation of Neuronal and Muscle Plasticity: Andres Buonanno
Regulation of Pineal Function: The Pineal Gland:
David Klein
Secretory Protein Trafficking and Granule Biogenesis
in Neuroendocrine Cells: Peng Loh
Tetanus and Botulinum Neurotoxins and Neuronal
Cell Biology: Elaine Neale
Mechanisms of Neurodevelopment in Health and Disease: Phillip Nelson
Laboratory of Gene Regulation
and Development
Mitotic Regulation in Higher Eukaryotes by Ran and SUMO-1: Mary Dasso
Mechanism and Regulation of Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis: Thomas Dever
Transcriptional and Translational Control Mechanisms in Nutrient Regulation
of Gene Expression: Alan Hinnebusch
Epigenetic Gene Silencing: Rohinton Kamakaka
Molecular Mechanism of Neuronal Connectivity: Chi-Hon Lee
Retrotransposons as Models for the Replication of Retroviruses: Henry Levin
Molecular Mechanism of Frog Metamorphosis: Yun-Bo Shi
Control of Chromosome Transmission Fidelity by the SMC Protein Complexes:
Alexander Strunnikov
Laboratory of Genomic Integrity
Studies on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis in Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic
Cells: Roger Woodgate
Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics
Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics: Peter Basser
Medical Biophysics: Robert Bonner
Applications of Photon Migration to Tissue Tomography and Spectroscopy:
Amir Gandjbakhche
Cell Biophysics: Ralph Nossal
Laboratory of Mammalian
Genes and Development
Signals Regulating T Cell Development: Paul Love
Molecular Genetics of an Imprinted Gene Cluster on Mouse Distal Chromosome
7: Karl Pfeifer
Mammalian Developmental Genetics: Heiner Westphal
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
Nutrient Control of Bacterial Gene Expression: Michael Cashel
Patterning Neurogenesis in the Zebrafish Embryo: Ajay Chitnis
Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Genetic Events of Recognition
and Resolution of RNA-DNA Hybrids: Robert Crouch
Molecular Genetics of Embryogenesis in Xenopus
and Zebrafish:
Igor Dawid
Control of Gene Expression During Development: Judith Kassis
Regulation of Homeotic Genes in Drosophila:
James Kennison
Molecular Genetics of Mammalian Retrovirus Replication: Judith Levin
Control of Ectodermal Development in Xenopus:
Thomas Sargent
Organogenesis of the Zebrafish Vasculature: Brant Weinstein
Mechanisms for Controlling Gene Expression in Bacteria and Bacteriophage:
Robert Weisberg
Laboratory of Molecular
Growth Regulation
Regulation of DNA Replication and Gene Expression During Animal Development:
Melvin DePamphilis
Mapping Higher Order Chromatin Structures: Bruce Howard
Mechanisms of Eukaryotic RNA Expression and Functions of the Human La Antigen:
Richard Maraia
Developmental Gene Regulation of the Immune System: Keiko Ozato
Gene Activation in Yeast:Targeted Histone Acetylation and Remodeled Chromatin
Domains: David Clark
The Laboratory of Physical
and Structural Biology
Biophysics of Large Membrane Channels: Sergey Bezrukov
Physical Forces Organizing Biomolecules: Adrian Parsegian
Intermolecular Forces, Recognition, and Dynamics: Donald Rau
Pediatric and Reproductive
Endocrinology Branch
The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis: Its Endocrine Disorders and Its
Interactions with the Immune System: George Chrousos
Hypercortiolism and Reproductive Disorders: Lynnette Nieman
Diagnosis, Pathophysiology, and Molecular Biology of Pheochromocytoma:
Karel Pacak
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: James Segars
Perinatology Research Branch
Pathophysiology of Premature Labor and Complications of Prematurity and
Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Anomalies: Roberto Romero
Physical Disabilities Branch
Research in Physical Disabilities: Steven Stanhope
Section on Physical Biochemistry
Physical Principles of Biomolecular Recognition, Self-Assembly, and Regulation:
Sergey Leikin
Section on Nervous System Development and Plasticity
Nervous System Development and Plasticity: Douglas
Fields
Section on Cell Biology and
Signal Transduction
Calcium-Based Excitability in Glial Cells: James Russell |