| BROWSE BY: Directory | Research Thrust |
| Faculty members from ten science and engineering departments conduct basic and applied research in cellular engineering. ICE organizes industry-relevant research into Research Thrust Groups. |  |
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Biomimetic materials, nanoscale self-assembly, gene delivery |
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Molecular Control of Plant Cell Growth, Cytoskeletal Basis of Cellular Morphogenesis |
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Complex Fluids, Polymeric Gels, and Nanostructured Biomaterials |
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Targeted control of inflammation, host-protected immune responses |
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Developing renewable alternatives to gasoline using innovative genomic methods |
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Photochemical Neurobiology |
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Large-scale protein separations; Polyelectrolyte-colloid coacervation; Structure-property relations in Glycosaminoglycans |
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Ca2+ Release Mechanisms in Mammalian Eggs During Maturation and Fertilization |
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Tumor Therapeutic and Metabolic Engineering |
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Structural Biology of Glycoproteins in Human Disease |
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Protein Folding in the Cell and How It Can Go Wrong |
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Single Molecule Biophysics |
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Bacterial cell-cell signaling and engineering tools to study regulatory networks |
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Design of Allosteric Inhibitors of Caspases, Mediatiors of Apoptosis |
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Regulatory genomics and systems biology of cell wall biosynthesis |
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Protein maturation and quality control in the mammalian secretory pathway, and understanding the viral life cycle |
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Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Multicellular Systems |
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Fluorescence spectroscopy applied to membrane protein interactions. Development of molecular probes to detect cholesterol levels in cellular membranes |
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Genome Variation Detection, Genetic Mapping, Microarray Technology, Microbial and Viral Genomics |
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Cellular functions and dynamics of microtubules and motor proteins |
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Microbial Decomposition of Biomass, Biofilm Formation, and Fuels from Biomass |
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Systems Biology Approach to Optimization of Bioremediation and Microbial Fuel Cells and Physiology and Ecology of Anaerobes |
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Metabolic Regulation and Engineering |
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Neural effects of steroids and envrionmental pollutants |
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Biomaterial Models of Cell Migration Microenvironments |
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Plant Metabolic Engineering, Taxol Biosynthesis, and Mammalian Cell In Vitro Systems |
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Biophysics of Microtubules and Motor Proteins |
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Dynamically Responsive Smart Materials, Biomimetic Interfaces |
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Nanostructured Biomaterials from Renewable Biopolymers & Natural Products |
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Engineering methods in vivo to sensitize breast cancer cells to death |
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Protein Engineering via Over-Expression in Plant Plastids |
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Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Programmed Cell Death |
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Long-term Reconstituting Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
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Bioinspired and Biomimetic Structures, Supramolecular Polymer Science, Self Organization, Responsive Materials/Surfaces, Polymers for Biomedical Science, Well Defined Macromolecular Architectures, Functional Materials, Novel Biomaterials, Hydrogels. |
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Novel Polymeric Materials for Biological Sensing, Drug and Gene Delivery |
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| Mechanisms of Membrane Protein Complexes Involved in Signalling or Bioenergetics, Including Receptors and Transporters; Solid State NMR Spectroscopy Studies of Local Structure and Conformation Changes. |
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Understanding organogenesis of the mammalian liver and pancreas |
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Cytoskeleton in mitosis and cytokinesis |
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Metabolic Engineering in Plants, Iron Uptake and Paclitaxel Biosynthesis |
