Profiles in "Molecular Biology" Expertise Area

  • Buetow is a human genetics and genomics researcher who leverages computational tools to understand complex traits such as cancer, liver disease, and obesity.
  • Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.
  • Efrem Lim studies the role of the virome in human health and disease. His expertise is in the microbiome in mother-infant health and SARS-CoV-2.
  • Pintér has most recently taught biology and chemistry, biotechnology, forensic chemistry and microbiology and developed courses for genetics, forensic chemistry and bioorganic chemistry.
  • Ian Hogue is a virologist who studies how alpha herpesviruses, including human Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), infects the nervous system.
  • Baehr is interested foremost in the biology of aging. Baehr seeks to understand aging through the context of evolutionary biology.