Identify the attitudes and barriers towards Jewish genetic diseases among the young Jewish population of. Another project involves clinical research in Fragile X.

 

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I work on the statistical aspect of mapping genes for a variety of Mendelian and complex disorders. Among the disorders I am researching are: retinal diseases, deafness, club foot, cleft lip/palate, and stroke. In addition to mapping genes for deafness, I am also studying the effect that the unique mating structure of the deaf community has on the incidence of various forms of deafness. Lastly, I am also involved in genomic medicine and trying to integrate it into the private primary care setting.

 

 

Dr. Hackam's research interests include cellular mechanisms of photoreceptor degeneration and survival; Signaling pathways regulating ocular tumorigenesis and tumor stem cell proliferation.

 

Membrane Traffic: Sorting and regulation of protein transport in the endocytic and secretory pathways.

 

Dr. Ogihara conducts research in data mining and its applications, in particular, biological and music data.

Dr. Rampersaud's research interests focus on applying statistical methods to identify both genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to obesity, early developmental birth defects including Neural Tube Defects, and preterm birth. She is particularly interested in understanding the genetics of diseases that disproportionately affect women's health and in studying the role that maternal effects, genetic imprinting and maternal-fetal interactions play in causation of these disorders.

 

Dr. Silva is interested in studying the central and peripheral mechanisms that control energy and glucose balance, the role of non-protein coding RNAs in metabolic gene regulation and strategies to target non-protein coding RNAs as drug therapies for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

 

Dr. Tomic-Canic's research is focused on using genomics approaches to understand biology of skin including: mechanisms of disease (such as chronic wounds, infection or skin cancer); prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers and mechanisms of drug response.

 

Dr. Vance's primary areas of expertise are in Neurogenetics, especially in Parkinson disease and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, and also in cardiovascular genetics, human genotyping and banking of DNA samples, and the molecular aspects of the positional cloning of human disease. His research has focused on the application of clinical, molecular, and mathematical genetic techniques to identify genes leading to human disease.

 

Dr. Walz's research focuses on understanding the molecular bases of human genetic conditions affecting behavior utilizing mouse models.

 

Dr. Wang's research focuses on using genomic approaches to map susceptibility genes and discover novel pathways for complex diseases such as coronary artery disease and Parkinson disease.