University of Georgia
Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and control of mRNA-protein dynamics by RNA helicases in normal conditions and cell stress.
The rules of microbial community formation to restore and engineer beneficial communities for crops under climate stress and human disease states.
Vector mosquito biology, malaria transmission, and vector/pathogen interactions. Novel interventions for malaria elimination.
Catalytic mechanisms and structure-function correlations of metalloenzymes; biomedically essential oxygenases
Targeted therapy and cancer chemoprevention; preclinical animal models; cancer immunotherapy; tumor microenvironment and exosomal microRNAs; biomarker of tumor metastasis.
Basic and translational research to engineer bacteria to understand and develop new treatments for neurological diseases via the gut-brain axis..
Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease.
Cellular to network mechanisms of olfaction and olfactory dysfunction in diseases including Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, traumatic or neurotoxic brain injuries.
Biosynthesis and regulation of plant cell wall synthesis and deposition, post-translational modifications, glycan imaging and dynamics.
