Cancer, Cell and Developmental Biology
Cancer, Cell and Developmental Biology - CCDB
Research related to the regulation of development, including processes dysregulated in cancer, such as control of cell cycle, cell survival and cell death; the role of innate and adaptive immunity in cancer and immunotherapy, molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer initiation and pathogenesis; metabolic dysregulation in cancer, lymphatics in cancer progression; and design and application of mouse models of human cancer.
Faculty
Vytas Bankaitis, PhD
vytas@tamu.edu | 979.436.0757 | Office: REYNOLDS, 116 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Molecular genetics, lipid signaling & cancer biology, cell cycle control, TOR signaling, drug discovery
Graduate Program Affiliation
Kayla Bayless, PhD
kaylajb@tamu.edu | 979.436.0763 | Office: MREB-II, 4412| Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Understanding the biochemical role of cytoskeletal and adapter proteins in new blood vessel growth.
Graduate Program Affiliation
Sarah Bondos, PhD
bondos@tamu.edu | 979.436.0807 | Office: MREB-II, 4417|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Hox protein regulation in developmental biology
Graduate Program Affiliation
Sanjukta Chakraborty, PhD
schakraborty@tamu.edu | 979.436.0697 | Office: MREB-II, 2416|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Tumor lymphatic interactions in progression of lymph node metastasis
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jeffrey Cirillo, PhD
jdcirillo@tamu.edu | 979.436.0343 | Office: MREB-II, 3350 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Therapeutic strategies and epigenetic analyses
Graduate Program Affiliation
Roderick Dashwood, PhD
rdashwood@tamu.edu | 713.677.7806 | Office: ALKEK, | Houston Campus
Research Interest
Cancer epigenetics/prevention, from cell-based assays and preclinical models to human translation.
Graduate Program Affiliation
Peter Davies, MD, PhD
pdavies@tamu.edu | 713.677.7473 | Office: ALKEK, 900|Houston Campus
Research Interest
Drug discovery research, snake venom research
Graduate Program Affiliation
Robin Fuchs-Young, PhD
fuchs-young@tamu.edu | 512.699.3704 | Office: MREB-II, 4410|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Mechanisms of cancer susceptibility
Graduate Program Affiliation
Shannon Glaser, PhD
sglaser@tamu.edu | 979.436.9260 | Office: MREB-II, 2342 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Biliary cancer, hepatobiliary cancer, cholangiocarcinoma
Graduate Program Affiliation
Carl Gregory, PhD
cgregory@tamu.edu | 979.436.9643 | Office: MREB-II, 4414 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Musculoskeletal cancer, bone involvement
Graduate Program Affiliation
Yun Huang, PhD
yun.huang@tamu.edu | 713.677.7484 | Houston Campus
Research Interest
Cancer epigenetics and developmental epigenetics
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jason Karpac, PhD
karpac@tamu.edu | 975.436.0767 | Office: MREB-II, 4342 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Exploring cell signaling, integrative physiology, and oncogenic signaling using drosophila
Graduate Program Affiliation
Fei Liu, PhD
fliu@tamu.edu | 979.436.9642 | Office: REYNOLDS, 242B | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Cancer nanomedicine, adverse effects of radiotherapy
Graduate Program Affiliation
Steve Maxwell, PhD
s-maxwell@tamu.edu | 979.436.0804 | Office: MREB II, 4418|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Mechanisms of drug resistance in lymphoma
Graduate Program Affiliation
Rajesh Miranda, PhD
rmiranda@tamu.edu | 979.436.0332 | Office: MREB | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Fetal and perinatal development, brain, placenta, opioids, alcohol
Graduate Program Affiliation
Xu Peng, MD, PhD
xp23@tamu.edu | 979.436.9265 | Office: MREB-II, 3417|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Signal transduction and epigenetic regulators in cardiovascular and lymphatic development
Graduate Program Affiliation
Dave Reiner, PhD
dreiner@tamu.edu | 713.677.7416 | Office: ALKEK, 916 | Houston Campus
Research Interest
Signal transduction, proto-oncogenes, GTPases, Ras, RalGEF, Ral, Rheb, fate patterning, fidelity
Graduate Program Affiliation
Irtisha Singh, PhD
isingh@tamu.edu | 646.574.2080 | Office: MREB-II | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
RNA processing, gene regulation, epigenetics
Graduate Program Affiliation
Raquel Sitcheran, PhD
sitcheran@tamu.edu | 979.436.0749 | Office: MREB-II, 4348 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Investigating NF-κB proteins in mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolism and cancer progression.
Graduate Program Affiliation
Jim Song, PhD
jus35@tamu.edu | 979.436.0633 | Bryan Campus
Research Interest
Cancer immunotherapy
Graduate Program Affiliation
David Threadgill, PhD
dwt@tamu.edu | 979.436.0850 | Office: REYN 428|Bryan Campus
Research Interest
EGFR, Colon Cancer, Environmental Toxicants, Diet, Stem Cells
Graduate Program Affiliation
Yi Xu,
yi-xu1@tamu.edu | 713.677.7570 | Office: ALKEK| Houston Campus
Research Interest
Understanding the connection between gut microbes and colorectal cancer
Graduate Program Affiliation
Yubin Zhou, MD, PhD
yubinzhou@tamu.edu | 713.677.7483 | Office: ALKEK, 925, |Houston Campus
Research Interest
Calcium signaling, ion channels, oncogenic signaling pathways, and epigenetics
Graduate Program Affiliation
Keywords: gene regulation, developmental genetics, bioinformatics, microbial and viral genetics, cancer genetics, epigenetics, polymorphism, multi genetic inheritance, mutations