Research Mentors
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Institution and Department
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Research Focus
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Chakra Chennubhotla
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Pitt – Computational Biology
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Research in spatial tumor biology and computational pathology.
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Sandra Murray
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Pitt – Cell Biology and Physiology
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Role of gap junctions and cell-to-cell communication in endocrine cell proliferation, migration, differentiation, and hormone production using time-lapse video microscopy, transmission immuno-electron microscopy, and molecular biological techniques
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Shikhar Uttam
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Pitt – Computational Biology
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Learning intra-tumor heterogeneity in compressed domains: an information theoretic perspective. |
Ian Sigal
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Pitt – Ophthalmology
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Computational and experimental methods to understand the biomechanics of the eye and soft tissue remodeling. |
Ben Van Houten
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Pitt – Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
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The formation and repair of DNA damage in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, with particular interest in the structure and function of proteins that mediate nucleotide excision repair.
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Art Wetzel
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Image processing and large data handling, 10s of TBytes, for neural circuit reconstruction from optical and electron microscopy. This work involves both biological analysis and computational program development. |