Faculty
Genetics and Development
Adam Bass, MD
Research Interests: genomics of gastrointestinal cancers
Address: ICRC 3rd Floor
Phone: 212-305-2055
Email: ab5147@cumc.columbia.edu
Wellington Cardoso, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Progenitor/Stem cell biology , Lung development and repair-regeneration, Airway epithelial differentiation and pathogenesis of chronic airway diseases, Developmental basis of adult lung disease
Address: BB 8-812
Phone: 212-342-3971
Email: wvc2104@columbia.edu
Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD
Research Interests: the interface of nutritional and transcriptional regulatory networks
Address: BB 1109
Phone: 212-000-0000
Email: cc4688@cumc.columbia.edu
Christine Chio, PhD
Research Interests: preclinical therapeutics in genetically engineered mouse models of pancreatic cancer, redox biology, cancer metabolism, ex vivo 3D organoid platforms to study pancreatic cancer
Address: ICRC 505
Phone: 212-851-4967
Email: ic2445@cumc.columbia.edu
Angela Christiano, PhD
Research Interests: Studying inherited skin and hair disorders using a classical genetic approach through identification and phenotyping of disease families, genetic linkage, gene discovery and mutation analysis.
Address: Russ Berrie 307
Phone: 212-851-4850
Email: amc65@cumc.columbia.edu
Alberto Ciccia, PhD
Research Interests: Maintenance of genome stability, Breast and ovarian cancer, Genome editing
Address: ICRC 309
Phone: 212-305-4011
Email: ac3685@columbia.edu
Frank Costantini, PhD
Research Interests: Genetic control of epithelial branching morphogenesis during kidney development in the mouse
Address: HHSC 1418
Phone: 212-305-6814
Email: fdc3@columbia.edu
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
Research Interests: pathogenesis of cancers derived from B lymphocytes, known as B cell lymphomas
Address: ICRC 508
Phone: 212-851-5273
Email: rd10@columbia.edu
Jean Gautier, PhD
Research Interests: Using Xenopus laevis cell-free extracts to study DNA replication and repair
Address: ICRC 603A
Phone: 212-851-4566
Email: jg130@columbia.edu
Vincenzo Gennarino, PhD
Research Interests: RNA-binding proteins and non-coding RNA regulatory networks in neurological disorders, Establishment and maintenance of RNA homeostasis in the brain, Developing RNA therapeutic approaches to neurological diseases, Protein dosage and neurological disorders
Address: HHSC 1402
Phone: 212-305-4011
Email: vag2138@cumc.columbia.edu
David Goldstein, PhD
Research Interests: Studying disease causing genes and new treatment options targeted to the underlying causes of disease
Address: VP&S 11-101
Phone: 212-305-0923
Email: dg2875@columbia.edu
Maxwell Gottesman, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Regulation of transcription termination in E. coli and bacteriophage, Repair of DNA damage in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, Hormonal regulation of gene expression, phage HK022 Nun transcription termination protein
Address: HHSC 914
Phone: 212-305-6900
Email: meg8@columbia.edu
Iva Greenwald, PhD
Research Interests: LIN-12/Notch signaling and its modulation, cell-cell interactions and cell fate specification , integration of signaling events in development, organogenesis
Address: Fairchild 804A
Phone: 212-853-6928
Email: isg4@columbia.edu
Oliver Hobert, PhD
Research Interests: Synapses and Circuits, Cell Specification and Differentiation, Neurogenetics, Axon Pathfinding and Synaptogenesis, Cellular/Molecular/Developmental Neuroscience
Address: Fairchild 805A
Phone: 212-853-0063
Email: or38@columbia.edu
Laura Johnston, PhD
Research Interests: Fitness sensing during organ and tissue growth: internal surveillance mechanisms that promote healthy organ development
Address: HHSC 704
Phone: 212-305-1688
Email: lj180@columbia.edu
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Skeletal biology
Address: HHSC 1602A
Phone: 212-305-6398
Email: gk2172@columbia.edu
Chao Lu, PhD
Research Interests: Chromatin Biology, Cancer Biology, Developmental Biology, Genomics and Epigenomics
Address: ICRC 312
Phone: 212-305-4011
Email: cl3684@cumc.columbia.edu
Richard Mann, PhD
Research Interests: Stem Cell Biology, Neurogenetics, Axon Pathfinding and Synaptogenesis, Cell Specification and Differentiation, Cellular/Molecular/Developmental Neuroscience
Address: JLGSC L9-001
Phone: 212-853-1028
Email: rsm10@columbia.edu
Cathy Mendelsohn, PhD
Research Interests: Identification of progenitors important for formation and regeneration of the urothelium, Stem cell populations that give rise to bladder cancers, Genetics of lower urinary tract malformations as part of the Columbia University O'Brien Research Center (http://cumcobriencenter.com/), Generating a molecular and cellular atlas of the mouse and human lower urinary tract (https://beta.gudmap.org/tutorials/urogenital-dev/), Role of Pparg in urothelial development, regeneration and bladder cancer
Address: ICRC 311
Phone: 212-851-4781
Email: clm20@cumc.columbia.edu
Rodney Rothstein, PhD
Research Interests: Recognition and repair of DNA damage
Address: HHSC 1608
Phone: 212-305-1733
Email: rjr4@cumc.columbia.edu
Anil Rustgi, MD
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal tumors
Address: ICRC 2nd Floor
Phone: 212-851-4764
Eric Schon, PhD
Research Interests: Mitochondrial genetics and the molecular basis of human mitochondrial disease
Address: VP&S 4-449
Phone: 212-305-1665
Email: eas3@cumc.columbia.edu
Michael Shen, PhD
Research Interests: Mammalian development and cancer using in vivo analyses of genetically-engineered mouse models.
Address: ICRC 217B
Phone: 212-851-4723
Email: ms3625@cumc.columbia.edu
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Research Interests: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Neurogenetics, Neural Degeneration and Repair, Cellular/Molecular/Developmental Neuroscience, Circadian-regulated metabolism, Glial development and pathology, Sleep, Mitochondria biology and disease
Address: HHSC 1604
Phone: 212-305-4186
Email: ms4095@cumc.columbia.edu
Joanna Smeeton, PhD
Address: Harkness Pavilion 199
Phone: 212-305-1890
Email: jms2504@cumc.columbia.edu
Gary Struhl, PhD
Research Interests: Organ growth, Cell patterning, Cell-cell signaling
Address: JLGSC L9-035
Phone: 212-853-3575
Email: gs20@cumc.columbia.edu
Yousin Suh, PhD
Research Interests: the (epi)genetic component that underlies the interface of intrinsic aging and disease
Address: P&S 10-420
Phone: 212-305-6832
Email: ys3214@cumc.columbia.edu
Lorraine Symington, PhD
Research Interests: Using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model eukaryotic genetic system to determine the mechanisms of mitotic/somatic genome stability
Address: HHSC 1222
Phone: 212-305-4793
Email: lss5@cumc.columbia.edu
Alison Taylor, PhD
Research Interests: the role of aneuploidy in tumor development
Address: ICRC 309B
Phone: 212-000-0000
Email: at3499@cumc.columbia.edu
Joseph Terwilliger, PhD
Research Interests: Population genetic epidemiology and gene mapping
Address: PH 18-302
Phone: 212-305-4011
Email: jdt3@cumc.columbia.edu
Andrew Tomlinson, PhD
Research Interests: Cellular Interactions in Drosophila Development, Cell Specification and Differentiation
Address: JLGSC L9-027
Phone: 212-853-1034
Email: at41@cumc.columbia.edu
Hynek Wichterle, PhD
Research Interests: Neural Degeneration and Repair, Cell Specification and Differentiation, Stem Cell Biology, Cellular/Molecular/Developmental Neuroscience
Address: VP&S 14-401G
Phone: 212-342-3929
Email: hw350@cumc.columbia.edu
Kelley Yan, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Intestinal stem cell biology, Intestinal epithelial biology, Regenerative medicine, Cell fate, Single-cell genomics
Address: BB 801B
Phone: 212-342-1593
Email: ky2004@cumc.columbia.edu
Zhiguo Zhang, PhD
Research Interests: Epigenetic inheritance and Cancer Epigenetics
Address: ICRC 407A
Phone: 212-851-4936
Email: zz2401@cumc.columbia.edu