Research Areas

Community Health

• Norma Wells - Community issues in oral health

Development and Function of the Craniofacial Complex

• Tracy Popowics - Dental morphology and development
• Susan Herring - Craniofacial structure and function
• Timothy Cox - Genetics of cleft lip and palate
• Michael Cunningham - Pathogenesis of human malformation syndromes
• Greg King - Bone remodeling in facial structure
• Linda LeResche - TMD, pain, hormones
• Zi-Jun Liu - Biology of craniofacial skeleton and tooth movement

Immunology and the Host Response to Oral Microbes

• Richard Darveau - Molecular aspects of LPS signaling
• Gerard Cangelosi - Molecular epidemiology and diagnostic technology
• Whasun Oh Chung - Host responses to commensal vs. pathogen bacteria
• Beverly Dale-Crunk - Epithelial innate immunity and antimicrobial peptides
• Sheila Lukehart - Spirocetes – host interactions
• Frank Roberts - Genetic polymorphism and periodontal disease
• Timothy Rose - Viral – host interactions
• Jeffrey Vieira - Viral host interactions, innate immunity
• Paul Yager - Salivary assay development for bacterial DNA
• Manoj Muthukuru - Immunoregulation during chronic oral mucosal inflammation

Molecular Mechanisms of Bone Remodeling and Tissue regeneration

• David Eyre - Collagen structure, biomineralization
• Cecilia Giachelli - Adhesion molecules, vascular biology, calcification
• Morayma Reyes - Stem cell transplantation
• Bruce Rutherford - Regeneration and tissue engineering
• Ram Samudrala - Computer modeling of protein interactions
• Martha Somerman - Molecular approaches to tissue regeneration
• Patrick Stayton - Engineering proteins for biomaterials
• Carol Ware - Embryonic stem cells (ESC) and Human ESC (hESC)
• Manoj Muthukuru - Microenvironment conditioning for optimizing bone regeneration

Molecular/Genetic Mechanisms of Tissue Differentiation

• Sandra Bordin - Regeneration and repair of oral connective tissue
• Peter Byers - Molecular genetics of collagen disorders
• David Eyre - Collagen structure, biomineralization
• Sampath Narayanan - Inflammation, fibrosis, wound healing
• Richard Presland - Molecular aspects of epithelial differentiation
• John Wataha - Biocompatibility

Oral Diagnostics

• Ram Samudrala - Computer modeling of protein interactions
• Paul Yager - Salivary diagnostics based on microfluidics

Pain

• Douglas Ramsay - Mechanisms of drug tolerance

Physiology of Oral Cells and Salivary Gland Signaling

• Thomas Morton, Jr. - Oral pathology
• Sandra Bordin - Regeneration and repair of oral connective tissue
• David Eyre - Collagen structure, biomineralization
• Albert Folch - Miniaturization of tools for quantitative cell biology
• Kenneth Izutsu - Salivary gland physiology and oral cancer diagnostics
• Sampath Narayanan - Inflammation, fibrosis, wound healing
• Eileen Watson - Salivary gland pharmacology and signaling
• Paul Yager - Salivary diagnostics based on microfluidics