MRM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
     
  Director  
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Barry Gumbiner, PhD Chair, Department of Cell Biology
  Cell Adhesion and Morphogenesis  
Co-Director  
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Ray Keller, PhD Department of Biology
  Cellular and molecular mechanisms of morphogenesis
Associate Director  
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Douglas DeSimone, PhD Department of Cell Biology
    Cell Adhesion and Adhesion-Dependent Cell Signaling in Vertebrate Morphogenesis
  Ian Macara, PhD Department of Microbiology, Center for Cell Signaling
 
  Department of Neuroscience
 
  Department of Biology
    Planar signaling, polarity and morphogenesis
  Judith White, PhD Department of Cell Biology
    ADAMs in Cell Migration, Virus Entry Into Cells
     
  REPRESENTATIVE MRM FACULTY
     
  Department of Cell Biology
 
  Department of Cell Biology
    Development of the cerebral cortex
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Erik Fernandez, PhD Department of Chemical Engineering
    Adsorption & Aggregation of Proteins, Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease
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Department of Chemistry
 
Department of Pediatrics
Vice President, UVA Research and Public Service
    Ontogeny of renin-angiotensin system, differentiation of the juxtaglomerular cell
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Robert Grainger, PhD Department of Biology
    Molecular embryology--gene regulation in cells committed to specific developmental lineages
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Carla Green, PhD Department of Biology
 
Department of Cell Biology
Director, Cell Migration Consortium
    Synapse Formation and Cell Migration; Adhesion, Signaling, Imaging and Proteomics
Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD
University Professor
Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
 
Department of Neuroscience
 
 
    Transcriptional Regulation of B-cell Differentiation
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Victoria Norwood, MD Department of Pediatrics
    Cyclooxygenase and eicosanoid regulation of kidney development and maldevelopment
Martin Schwartz, PhD Department of Microbiology and the Cardiovascular Research Center
    Integrin Signaling and Its Relevance to Mechanotransduction, Cancer and Vascular Disease
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Thomas Skalak, PhD Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Vascular and Molecular Engineering
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Avril Somlyo, PhD Department of Molecular, Physiological, and Biological Physics
    Signaling pathways that regulate cell contractility, studies of the intercalated disk in the heart
   
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2002-2003 Planning Committee Members


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