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Lydia Arbogast, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1856
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Email: larbogast@siumed.edu
Our research area is reproductive neuroendocrinology with a focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms for hormone action in the hypothalamus and the neuronal circuitry involved in the control of prolactin release from the anterior pituitary gland.
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Brent Bany, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1596
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Email: bbany@siumed.edu
Uterine and placental biology in mice and man.
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Bojun Chen, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmisson using the
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Buffy Ellsworth, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1539
Email: bells@siu.edu
Email: bells@siu.edu
We are interested in how forkhead transcription factors regulate pituitary gland development and function.
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Chelsea Griffith, Ph.D.
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Buck Hales, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1544
Email: dhales@siumed.edu
Email: dhales@siumed.edu
Dietary intervention for the prevention and treatment of ovarian cancer, in order to understand the role of oxidative stress and inflammation in hormonal carcinogenesis.
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Deepak Hiremath, Ph.D.
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Phil Jensik, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-1525
Email: pjensik@siumed.edu
Email: pjensik@siumed.edu
Our laboratory studies the transcription factor deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor 1 (DEAF1)
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Jonathan Krimsier, M.S.
Phone: 453-1473
Email: jonathan.krimsier@siu.edu
Email: jonathan.krimsier@siu.edu
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Jacob Nordman, Ph.D.
Impact of stress on the neurocircuitry of violent aggression
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Denise Zaczek, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-8470
Email: dzaczek@siumed.edu
Email: dzaczek@siumed.edu
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Zhengui (Patrick) Zheng, Ph.D.
Phone: 453-8430
email: zzheng57@siumed.edu.
Developmental and molecular basis of sexual differentiation during vertebrate organogenesis