Nikolai Grishin, Ph.D.
Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Grishin is interested in understanding proteins by using computational approaches to classify sequence-structure data into a biologically relevant, hierarchical system.  He is currently developing new mathematical methods for this analysis as well as using available tools for solving biological problems by computer analysis.
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Wen-hong Li, Ph.D.
Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Biomedical Research
Assistant Professor, Departments of Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Dr. Li seeks to understand molecular mechanisms regulating dynamics of cell calcium signaling and cell-cell communication through gap junctions . He has been developing cell permeable and photo-activatable probes and new imaging techniques to investigate biological functions of these signaling events under physiological conditions.
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Keith A. Wharton, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
W.W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology and Molecular Biology

Dr. Wharton uses fruit flies and mice as tools to understand how Naked Cuticle proteins restrain potent Wnt signals that are crucial for development and stem cell renewal.
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Christoph Wuelfing, Ph.D.
W.A. Moncreif, Jr. Scholar in Medical Research
Assistant Professor, Center for Immunology and
Department of Cell Biology
Dr. Wuelfing seeks to understand a fundamental element of cell regulation termed “polarization” and its important role in the activation of immune cells. His work focuses on elucidating the molecular and cellular mechanisms in lymphocytes that regulate the sub-cellular localization of receptors, signaling intermediates, vesicles and the cyotoskeleton.
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