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The graduate faculty and a brief statement of their research interests are listed below. Many of these individual research programs are funded by awards from a variety of funding resources. Inquiries regarding space in a laboratory and availability of research support should be directed to the individual faculty member. Please click on "More Info" for additional information.

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Caroline Alexander, PhD

Caroline  Alexander, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Oncology
819 McArdle
608.265.5182
alexander@oncology.wisc.edu
Research Interests: The role of breast stem cells in tumor induction, the multiple functions of Wnt signaling in the regulation of mammary epithelial cell growth, and the changes in tumor susceptibility that are effected by alterations of normal development.
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B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, PhD

B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5605 MSC
608.262.2884
blallenh@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Keratinocytes, Cancer Biology, Extracellular Matrices
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Craig S Atwood, PhD

Craig S Atwood, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
D4219 GRECC 11G VAMC
608.256.1901 x11664
csa@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Hormonal Regulation of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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Grace Boekhoff-Falk, PhD

Grace  Boekhoff-Falk, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
264 Bardeen
608.262.1609
boekhofffalk@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Developmental Biology, Gene Expression, Hormones, Growth and Differentiation factors, and signal transduction.
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Emery Bresnick, PhD

Emery  Bresnick, PhD Professor
Department of Pharmacology
383 MSC
608.265.6446
ehbresni@wisc.edu
Research Interests: How the organization of DNA into chromatin impacts on nuclear processes and how transcriptional and signaling mechanisms control the formation of blood and blood vessels.
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Karl W. Broman, PhD

Karl W. Broman, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
6763 MSC
608.262.4633
kbroman@biostat.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Statistics and Statistical Genetics
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William Burlingham, PhD

William  Burlingham, PhD Professor
Department of Surgery
G4/702 CSC
608.263.0119
burlingham@surgery.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Acquired immunologic tolerance; graft acceptance through the study of transplant recipients who have survived even though they have stopped taking immunosuppressive drugs.
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Joshua Coon, PhD

Joshua  Coon, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
3309 Chemistry
608.263.1718
jcoon@chem.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Bioanalytical Chemistry – Mass Spectrometry.
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Cameron R. Currie, PhD

Cameron R. Currie, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Bacteriology
4305 MSB
608.265.8034
currie@bact.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Evolution of host-microbe interactions, including both pathogenic and beneficial microbes. We are particularly interested in: i) the evolution of virulence, ii) determining the factors that shape host-microbe specificity, iii) exploring factors limiting and/or facilitating broad host jumps, iv) and host-microbe coevolutionary dynamics. Our main model system is the fungus-growing ant–microbe symbiosis.
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Loren Clark Denlinger, MD, PhD

Loren Clark Denlinger, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
2590 MSC
608.261.1552
ldenling@wisc.edu
Research Interests: host-pathogen interactions, the role of macrophages in immunity to intracellular pathogens. Innate immune responses like cytokine production & microbial killing amplified by extracellular nucleotide receptor known as P2X7. Significant functional diversity for this receptor exists between cell types & human subjects. Role of P2X7 as candidate gene modulating the human innate immune responses of macrophages & airway epithelial cells to Chlamydia pneumoniae, contribution of responses of asthma.
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Arjang Djamali, MD

Arjang  Djamali, MD Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Suite B 3034 Fish Hatchery Road
608.270.5681
axd@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests:
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Zsuzsanna Fabry, PhD

Zsuzsanna  Fabry, PhD Professor, Graduate Education Committee Chair
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
6130 MSC
608.265.8716
zfabry@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Immunopathology, Neuroimmunology, Multiple Sclerosis
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John O. Fleming, MD

John O. Fleming, MD Professor
Neurology
H6/564 CSC
608.263.5421
fleming@neurology.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Multiple Sclerosis
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Andreas Friedl, MD

Andreas  Friedl, MD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
K4/812 CSC
608.265.9283
afriedl@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Heparan sulfate proteoglycans, tumor angiogenesis
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Thomas C. Friedrich, PhD

Thomas C. Friedrich, PhD Assistant Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
555 Science Dr
608.265.3381
thomasf@primate.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Viral immunity and pathogenesis
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Michael Fritsch, MD, PhD

Michael  Fritsch, MD, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5250 MSC
608.263.5351
mkfritsch@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Chromatin remodeling during early embryonic stem cell differentiation.
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Daniel S Greenspan, PhD

Daniel S Greenspan, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5675 MSC
608.262.4676
dsgreens@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Extracellular controls of cell behavior
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Anne Griep, PhD

Anne  Griep, PhD Professor
Department of Anatomy
353 Bardeen
608.262.8988
aegriep@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Genetic and molecular regulation of mouse eye development and disease.
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Jeff Hardin, PhD

Jeff  Hardin, PhD Professor
Department of Zoology
327 Zoology
608.262.9634
jdhardin@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Morphogenesis and pattern formation during early development.
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Peiman Hematti, MD

Peiman  Hematti, MD Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
H4/534 CSC
608.265.0106
pxh@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Characterization and study of mesenchymal stromal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and development of a pre-clinical rhesus macaque model.
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Anna Huttenlocher, MD

Anna  Huttenlocher, MD Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
4205 MSB
608.265.4642
huttenlocher@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Cell migration and chemotaxis, adhesive mechanisms that regulate cell migration and the role of integrin signaling.
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Nizar Jarjour, MD

Nizar  Jarjour, MD Professor
Department of Medicine
K4/926 CSC
608.263.9344
nnj@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests:
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Juan Carlos Jaume, MD

Juan Carlos Jaume, MD Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
H4/522 CSC
608.262.6123
jcj@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Endocrine Autoimmunity, Type 1 diabetes and thyroid diseases.
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Shannon Kenney, MD

Shannon  Kenney, MD Professor
Department of Medicine
611a McArdle
608.265.0533
Kenney@oncology.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Epstein-Barr virus pathogenesis and treatment
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Bruce Klein, MD

Bruce  Klein, MD Professor
Department of Pediatrics
K4/434 CSC
608.263.9217
bsklein@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, with emphasis on fungi. Microbial pathogenesis. Microbial Immunity.
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Youngsook Lee, PhD

Youngsook  Lee, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
321 SMI
608.265.6352
youngsooklee@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Transcriptional control of cardiovascular development and mechanisms of cardiac-specific gene regulation.
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Gary Lyons, PhD

Gary  Lyons, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
319 SMI
608.262.3327
gelyons@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Identification and characterization of novel developmentally-regulated genes in the mouse cardiovascular system using gene trapping in embryonic stem cells.
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James Malter, MD

James  Malter, MD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
T509 Waisman
608.262.8888
jsmalter@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Post-transcriptional gene regulation; signaling in the immune and nervous systems; neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disease.
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Albee Messing, VMD, PhD

Albee  Messing, VMD, PhD Professor
Department of Comparitive Biosciences
715 Waisman
608.263.9191
messing@waisman.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Transgenic mice; developmental neuropathology; molecular neurobiology.
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Deane Mosher, MD

Deane  Mosher, MD Professor
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
4285 MSC
608.262.1576
dfm1@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Extracellular matrix and cell adhesion.
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Terry Oberley, MD, PhD

Terry  Oberley, MD, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
K4/814 CSC
608.265.6068
toberley@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Reactive oxygen species metabolism
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David O'Connor, PhD

David  O'Connor, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5440 University Research Park
608.261.1855
doconnor@primate.wisc.edu
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS pathogenesis
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Julie K. Olson, PhD

Julie K. Olson, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
4640 MSC
608.265.9431
j.olson@neurosurg.wisc.edu
Research Interests:
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Donna Peters, PhD

Donna  Peters, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
6590 MSC
608.262.4626
dmpeter2@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Cell-matrix signaling in the human eye, Glaucoma
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Alan C. Rapraeger, PhD

Alan C. Rapraeger, PhD Professor, Vice Chair (Education)
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
6459 MSC
608.262.7577
acraprae@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Mechanisms by which the syndecan family of cell surface receptors regulate cell growth, adhesion and migration
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Matyas Sandor, PhD

Matyas  Sandor, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5468 MSC
608.265.8715
msandor@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Immune responses to infectious disease
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Chris Seroogy, MD

Chris  Seroogy, MD Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
H4/474 CSC
608.263.2652
cmseroogy@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Biological role of a novel E3 ubiquitin ligase called GRAIL in T cell function and hematopoietic tissue development.
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John Sheehan, MD

John  Sheehan, MD Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
2468 MSC
608.262.1964
jps@medicine.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Molecular regulation of the coagulation serine proteases; novel therapeutic targets for antithrombotic therapy; developing the zebrafish as a genetic model for vertebrate hemostasis.
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Nader Sheibani, PhD

Nader  Sheibani, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
K6/458 CSC
608.263.3345
nsheibanikar@wisc.edu
Research Interests: The role of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in vascular development and neovascularization.
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Igor Slukvin, MD, PhD

Igor  Slukvin, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Room 102 Primate
608.263.0058
islukvin@wisc.edu
Research Interests: • Hematopoietic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells
• Immune-privileged properties of embryonic and fetal tissues
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Judith A. Smith, MD, PhD

Judith A. Smith, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
H4/472 CSC
608.263.1251
jsmith27@pediatrics.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Regulation of type I IFN production in macrophages
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Paul Sondel, MD, PhD

Paul  Sondel, MD, PhD Professor
Department of Pediatrics
K4/448 CSC
608.263.9069
pmsondel@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Immune mediated recognition and destruction of neoplasms.
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Gary Splitter, DVM, PhD

Gary  Splitter, DVM, PhD Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
203 AHABS
608.262.3177
splitter@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of host defense and pathogen survival strategies.
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Dandan Sun, MD, PhD

Dandan  Sun, MD, PhD Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
H4/332 CSC
608.263.4060
sun@neurosurg.wisc.edu
Research Interests: The role of Na+ - K+ - 2Cl- cotransporter in ion homeostasis and cell volume regulation in the central nervous system.
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M Suresh, DVM, MVSc, PhD

M  Suresh, DVM, MVSc, PhD Associate Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
3172 Vet Med
608.265.9791
sureshm@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Basis of T Cell Memory; CD8+ T Cell Responses in Chronic Viral Infections.
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Adel M Talaat, MVSc, PhD

Adel M Talaat, MVSc, PhD Assistant Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
303 AHABS
608.262.2861
talaat@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Research Interests: Genomic and functional analyses of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis to understand pathogenesis and develop novel vaccines.
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David Watkins, PhD

David  Watkins, PhD Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University Research Park
608.265.3380
watkins@primate.wisc.edu
Research Interests: HIV vaccine development, SIV pathogenesis
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Jon P. Woods, MD, PhD

Jon P. Woods, MD, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
420 SMI
608.265.6292
jpwoods@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Histoplasma capsulatum molecular pathogenesis and host interactions
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Weixiong Zhong, MD, PhD

Weixiong  Zhong, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
K4/868 CSC
608.265.6069
wzhong3@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Redox effects of selenium in prostate cancer chemoprevention
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Focus Groups

Immunology/Immunopathology: Chris Seroogy (leader)

Karl W. Broman, Will Burlingham, Cameron R. Currie, Loren Denlinger, Zsuzsa Fabry, John Fleming, Thomas Friedrich, Anna Huttenlocher, Nizar Jarjour, Juan Jaume, Bruce Klein, Dave O’Connor, Julie Olson, Matyas Sandor, Judith A. Smith, Paul Sondel, Gary Splitter, M Suresh, Adel Talaat, David Watkins, Jon Woods
Subspecialty: Arjang Djamali, Shannon Kenney, Igor Slukvin

Cancer Biology:  Andreas Friedl (leader)

Caroline Alexander, Joshua Coon, Mike Fritsch, Shannon Kenney, Terry Oberley, Nader Sheibani, Weixiong Zhong
Subspecialty: Emery Bresnick, Loren Denlinger, Dan Greenspan, Jeff Hardin, Peiman Hematti, Anna Huttenlocher, Juan Jaume, Deane Mosher, Donna Peters, Alan Rapraeger, Paul Sondel, Gary Splitter

Neuroscience/Neuropathology: Jim Malter (leader)

Craig Atwood, Grace Boekhoff-Falk, Gary Lyons, Albee Messing, Dandan Sun
Subspecialty: Zsuzsa Fabry, Julie Olson, Nader Sheibani

Growth Factor/Matrix Biology/Developmental Pathology/Biology: Donna Peters (leader)

Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, Emery Bresnick, Arjang Djamali, Dan Greenspan, Anne Griep, Jeff Hardin, Peiman Hematti, Youngsook Lee, Deane Mosher, Alan Rapraeger, John Sheehan, Igor Slukvin
Subspecialty: Caroline Alexander, Craig Atwood, Andreas Friedl, Nizar Jarjour, Jim Malter, Nader Sheibani, Jon Woods, Weixiong Zhong

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