Genetic Approaches To Aging Training Grant Faculty


Faculty Member Affiliation Research Interests
Peter S. Rabinovitch Director, Pathology, UW Cell cycle, cell proliferation and genetic instability in aging and early neoplasia
George Martin Associate Director, Pathology & Genetics Cellular aging, Alzheimer's Disease
Itmar Abrass Consultant, Pathology, UW
Kevin Conley Core Faculty, Physiology & Biophysics, UW The decline in mitochondrial function with age under resting (state 4) and exercising or maximal (state 3) conditions
Dave Cook Core Faculty, Pharmacology, UW The maturation kinetics, trafficking, and long-term accumulation of intracellular Amyloid-beta in human NT2N neurons
Christine M. Disteche Core Faculty, Pathology, UW Gene inactivation/reactivation, structure and function of the X and Y chromosomes in mammals
Dave Eaton Core Faculty, Environmental Health, UW The biochemical and molecular basis for species, interindividual and aging differences in response to chemical carcinogens and aging.
Stan Fields Core Faculty, Genome Sciences & Medicine, UW Simple eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model to analyze proteins and processes implicated in human diseases
Dan Gottschling Core Faculty, Genome Sciences, FHCRC
Matt Kaeberlein Core Faculty, Pathology, UW
Terrance J. Kavanagh Core Faculty, Environmental Health, UW Oxygen free radicals and glutathione metabolism in environmental disease and aging
Brian Kennedy Core Faculty, Biochemistry, UW Cell Biology, Signaling & Cell/Environment Interactions
Mary-Claire King Core Faculty, Genome Sciences, UW The genetics of complex, common human conditions, including Breast and ovarian cancer and inherited deafness.
Warren Ladiges Core Faculty, Biochemistry, UW
Albert La Spada Core Faculty, Neurobiology & Behavioral Sciences, UW
Renee C. LeBoeuf Core Faculty, Pathobiology, UW Understanding the molecular mechanisms causing Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
Lawrence A. Loeb Core Faculty, Pathology, UW DNA replication fidelity, aging and cancer
Mike MacCoss Core Faculty, Genome Sciences, UW
Nancy Maizels Core Faculty, Immunology, UW DNA recombination and repair in mammalian cells: how repair and recombination enzymes (including WRN and the RecQ family of helicases) function to maintain genomic stability.
Raymond J. Monnat Core Faculty, Pathology, UW Mutagenesis, oxygen free radicals, aging and cancer
Leo Pallanck Core Faculty, Genome Sciences, UW
Steven Plymate Core Faculty, Medicine, UW Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) receptor, senescence-associated genes, and androgen in prostate cancer
Brad Preston Core Faculty, Pathology, UW
Le Bris S. Quinn Core Faculty, Medicine, UW Cellular and molecular endocrinology of skeletal muscle trophic factors
May J. Reed Core Faculty, Medicine, UW Angiogenesis in Aging
Mark Roth Core Faculty, Biochemistry, FHCRC Regulation of ribosome biogenesis, centromere structure and function, autoimmune disease, and oxygen sensing
Daniel Storm Core Faculty, Biochemistry, FHCRC Study of the hypothesis that the decline in the type I adenylyl cyclase in the hippocampus may contribute to memory loss associated with aging.
James Thomas Core Faculty, Genome Sciences & Medicine, UW
Richard Veith Consultant, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UW
Tom Wight Core Faculty, Pathology, UW
Phyllis Wise Core Faculty, Biology, UW
Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni Biological Structure Biology of the adult skeletal muscle stem cells (satellite cells).