Steven.Baete@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Biomedical Imaging, Dynamic Diffusion Imaging, Diffusion Spectrum Imaging, MRI Sequence development

Dr. Baete studies how Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be adapted to monitor the dynamics of water diffusion in healthy and diseased muscle tissue and how to improve q-space sampling and acquisition strategies for Diffusion Spectrum Imaging in the human brain.

Andrew.Darwin@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Microbiology, bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yersinia enterocolitica

Dr. Darwin is especially interested in the envelope that surrounds all bacterial cells. This cell envelope is a made up of multiple layers, including phospholipid membranes and a rigid cell wall made of the polymer peptidoglycan. The cell envelope protects bacteria from damaging molecules and conditions in their environment. Furthermore, virulence factors are assembled in the cell envelope, or must pass through it on their way out of the bacterial cell. Maintaining the integrity and functions of the cell envelope is critical at all times, including when bacteria infect a human host where they are exposed to harsh conditions, immune system attack, and must deploy their virulence factors in order to survive. He combines genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry, along with various infection models, to study important functions in the cell envelopes of two human pathogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Yersinia enterocolitica.

Molly.GaleHammell@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Computational Biomedicine, Transposable Elements, Neurodegenerative Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), RNA biology, Genetics & Genomics, Computational Genomics

To ensure that cells function normally, tens of thousands of genes must be turned on or off together. To do this, regulatory molecules – transcription factors, RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNAs – simultaneously control hundreds of genes. Dr. Gale-Hammell studies how the resulting gene networks function and how they can be compromised in human disease. This includes an emphasis on developing novel tools for the statistical analysis of genomics data, developing novel algorithms for modeling the flow of signals through genetic pathways, and importantly, testing these models using the tools of molecular genetics.

Jane.Hubbard@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Developmental genetics, stem cell biology, cancer, computational biology, metabolism

Dr. Hubbard focuses on DAF-18/PTEN and germ cell quiescence, regulation of germline proliferation and differentiation by the environment: insulin, TOR, and TGFß, germline proliferation and differentiation during aging, stem cell dynamics in vivo and in silico, and regulation of germline proliferation and differentiation by direct cell-cell communication (sheath cell–germline signaling).

Noa.Krawczyk@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Epidemiology, Substance Use, Opioids, Overdose, Health Services, Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Treatment

Dr. Krawczyk focuses on studying ways to address barriers to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder at the individual, program, and policy levels. She is also focused on studying new models of care delivery that can improve access, quality, and effectiveness of care, especially among vulnerable groups such as persons with criminal justice involvement. Her work centers on bridging research and practice by collaborating with drug user organizations, health system leaders, public health and government agencies, and advancing science that can help inform evidence-based policies and practices that reduce harm and promote well-being.

Michelle.Krogsgaard@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Immunology, T-cell recognition and sensitivity, cancer immunology, autoimmunity, receptor signaling, biophysics, cancer

Dr. Krogsgaard’s laboratory understands the molecular and cellular events that contribute to T-cell sensitivity to ‘self’ (cancer) antigens. To accomplish this, they employ advanced and highly innovative methods that combine state-of-the-art biophysical methods for characterizing protein-protein interactions e.g. surface plasmon resonance (SPR), biomembrane force probe X-ray crystallography, infrared (IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with imaging methods (single molecule imaging and FRET), and transgenic TCR technologies which makes our research highly interdisciplinary in its nature.

Sahnah.Lim@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Population Health, Gender Equity, Health Equity, Gender-based Violence, STI and HIV, Sexual and Gender Minority Populations, Sex Workers

Dr. Lim is leading the Gender Equity scientific track and Mental Health scientific track at the Department of Population Health's Section for Health Equity. As a health equity researcher, Dr. Lim conducts applied, community-engaged studies that seek to address gender-related health issues among hard-to-reach populations such as sex workers and immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. Her research uses intersectionality and syndemics frameworks to understand how multiple marginalization impacts mental and sexual health outcomes. Dr. Lim is a mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in psychosocial statistics and survey methods.

Dayu.Lin@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience

Dr. Lin's research focuses on understanding the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying social behaviors and aggression. Her work investigates the role of specific brain regions, like the hypothalamus and amygdala, in controlling these behaviors using advanced techniques like optogenetics and electrophysiology. By studying both animal models and translating findings to human applications, Dr. Lin aims to uncover the neural basis of complex behaviors such as aggression and dominance, with implications for treating psychiatric disorders.

Mengling.Liu@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Biostatistics, Survival analysis, Environmental health science

Dr. Liu’s research is focused on developing and applying statistical methods and algorithms for analyzing biomedical data, with the goal of identifying important signals and messages from data to improve human health.

Richard.Possemato@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Molecular Oncology, tumor metabolism, iron-sulfur clusters, breast cancer, mitochondrial function, serine biosynthesis

Dr. Possemato focuses on identifying metabolic pathways that are altered in the transformed state, understanding how those pathways support transformation, and investigating the environmental, genetic and epigenetic contexts in which such pathways act. Of particular interest are investigating iron homeostasis and iron-sulfur cluster metabolism as well as metabolic perturbations that affect nucleotide synthesis and DNA replication. He attacks these problems with a combination of approaches that endeavor to push the boundaries of genetic screening, mammalian cell culture, and metabolomic methods.

HyungDon.Ryoo@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Cell Biology, Stress response signaling, developmental genetics, gene expression regulation, neurodegeneration

Dr. Ryoo is interested in understanding how metazoan cells adapt to various stress conditions that could otherwise impair animal development and underlie human diseases. He uses the genetic and cell biological tools of Drosophila as a model system.

Alexander.Serganov@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Biophysics, genome integrity, pharmacology, RNA biology

Dr. Serganov runs a biochemical and structural biology laboratory focused on fundamental cellular activities involving RNA molecules.

JTorresv@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Developmental Genetics, Blood Vessels, Cardiovascular Biology, Cellular Dynamics, Circulatory Forces, Confocal Microscopy, Genetic disease modeling, Genome Editing, Heart, Imaging, Lymphatic Vessels, Organogenesis, Transgenesis, Zebrafish

Dr. Torres-Vázquez studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the development and function of the vasculature in health and disease and the role of physical forces, like those from circulatory flow, in these processes. His lab uses the transparent zebrafish embryo as its primary model and techniques like confocal imaging, gene expression analysis, forced gene expression, transgenesis, genome editing, cell transplantation, cell culture, and biochemistry.

Elaine.Wilson@NYULangone.org
Research Areas: Stem cell biology, cancer, computational biology, gene regulation

As stem cell biology and tumorigenesis are closely linked and as stem cells may have a role in the etiology of cancer, Dr. Wilson’s lab is currently defining features of normal prostate stem cells with the goal of determining if these are targets of transformation and if these have similar features to prostate cancer stem cells. The goal is to develop targeted therapies specific for prostate tumor stem cells