{"result":[{"lastName":"Krasnow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4120&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Krasnow","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Mark_Krasnow","researchInterest":"Genetic and molecular basis of respiratory system  development, maintenance, and disease in Drosophila, mouse, and human"},{"lastName":"Scott","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4165&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matthew Scott","firstName":"Matthew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Matthew_Scott","researchInterest":"Genetic regulation of animal development and human disease. We use mice and flies to study Hedgehog/Patched signaling and its links to brain cancer, development of the neural tube and cerebellum, planar cell polarity genes, a neurodegenerative disease called Niemann-Pick syndrome that affects intracellular organelle movements, chromatin proteins in embryonic stem cells, and genetic control of body size."},{"lastName":"Nusse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4280&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roeland Nusse","firstName":"Roeland","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Roeland_Nusse","researchInterest":"Our laboratory studies Wnt signaling in development and disease. We found recently that Wnt proteins are unusual growth factors, because they are lipid-modified. We also discovered that Wnt proteins promote the proliferation of stem cells of various origins. Current work is directed at understanding the function of the lipid on the Wnt,  using Wnt proteins as factors the expand stem cells and on understanding Wnt signaling during injury repair and regeneration."},{"lastName":"Beachy","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7655&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip Beachy","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Philip_Beachy","researchInterest":"Function of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis (pattern formation), in injury repair and regeneration (pattern maintenance). We study how the distribution of such signals is regulated in tissues, how cells perceive and respond to distinct concentrations of signals, and how such signaling pathways arose in evolution. We also study the normal roles of such signals in stem-cell physiology and their abnormal roles in the formation and expansion of cancer stem cells."},{"lastName":"Petrov","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6234&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dmitri Petrov","firstName":"Dmitri","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Dmitri_Petrov","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fuller","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4159&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Margaret T. Fuller","firstName":"Margaret","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Margaret_Fuller","researchInterest":"Regulation of stem cell division and self-renewal Cell type specific transcription machinery and regulation of cell differentiation Developmental regulation of cell cycle progression during male meiosis Molecular dissection of the mechanism of cytokinesis."},{"lastName":"Tobin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Sr Research Scholar (PI Waiver),Center for Biomedical Ethics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6945&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sara L. (Sally) Tobin","firstName":"Sara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Sara_Tobin","researchInterest":"Tobin is a Senior Research Scholar in the Program for Genomics, Ethics, and Society at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She obtained her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Washington and did postdoctoral research in Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley and in Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. She became a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1983, where she established her independent research l"},{"lastName":"Lu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3976&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bingwei Lu","firstName":"Bingwei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Bingwei_Lu","researchInterest":"We are interested in understanding how neural stem cells balance their self-renewal and differentiation and how deregulation of this process can result in brain tumor. We are also interested in mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer\u0092s and Parkinson\u0092s diseases. We are using both Drosophila and mammalian models to address these fundamental questions."},{"lastName":"Schneider","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4580&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Schneider","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/David_Schneider","researchInterest":"We study innate immunity and microbial pathogenesis. We have been studying models for a variety of bacterial infections including:  Listeria, Mycobacteria, Salmonella and Streptococcus as well as some fungi, parasites and viruses."},{"lastName":"Tran","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9649&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Tran","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/David_Tran","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fire","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Fire","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Andrew_Fire","researchInterest":"We study natural cellular mechanisms for adapting to genetic change. These include systems activated during normal development and those for detecting and responding to foreign or unwanted genetic activity. Underlying these studies are questions of how a cells can distinguish information as \"self\" versus \"nonself\" or \"wanted\" versus \"unwanted\"."},{"lastName":"Axelrod","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4410&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeffrey Axelrod","firstName":"Jeffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Jeffrey_Axelrod","researchInterest":"Genetic and cell biological analyses of signals controlling cell polarity and cell proliferation and differentiation.  Frizzled signaling and cytoskeletal organization."},{"lastName":"Berlin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9330&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dorit Berlin","firstName":"Dorit","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Dorit_Berlin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rothenberg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10397&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Rothenberg","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Michael_Rothenberg","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Francke","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Genetics"},{"focus":"Neurogenetics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4281&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Uta Francke","firstName":"Uta","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Uta_Francke","researchInterest":"Functional consequences and pathogenetic mechanisms of mutations and microdeletions in human neurogenetic syndromes and mouse models: Williams-Beuren syndrome, a heterozygous 1.6 megabase deletion; Rett syndrome, caused by mutations in the X-linked methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Mechanisms of genomic imprinting: Prader Willi syndrome"},{"lastName":"Cleary","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4506&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Cleary","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Michael_Cleary","researchInterest":"The role of oncoproteins in cancer and development; molecular and cellular biology of hematologic malignancies; targeted molecular therapies of cancer."},{"lastName":"Stankunas","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9759&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kryn Stankunas","firstName":"Kryn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Kryn_Stankunas","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Gozani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6423&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Or Gozani","firstName":"Or","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Or_Gozani","researchInterest":"We study the molecular mechanisms by which chromatin-signaling networks effect nuclear and epigenetic programs, and how dysregulation of these pathways leads to disease.  Our work centers on the biology of lysine methylation, a principal chromatin-regulatory mechanism that directs epigenetic processes.  We study how lysine methylation events are generated, sensed, and transduced, and how these chemical marks integrate with other nuclear signaling systems to govern diverse cellular functions."},{"lastName":"Crabtree","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4283&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Crabtree","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Gerald_Crabtree","researchInterest":"The role of chromatin in stem cell formation and function.  Development of small molecule regulators as experimental probes and therapeutic leads.  Signaling through calcineurin  and NFAT in vertebrate development."},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4284&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick O. Brown","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Patrick_Brown","researchInterest":"Dr. Brown's research group uses diverse experimental and computational methods to investigate the logic and mechanisms that control a genome's expression program.  The Brown laboratory is systematically characterizing the genetic scripts that control the expression of our genes, in normal development and physiology and in diseases like cancer, with a particular focus on post-transcriptional regulation. The Brown lab also develops strategies and assays for early detection and diagnosis of cancer."},{"lastName":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Davis","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Ronald_Davis","researchInterest":"We are using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. We have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion."},{"lastName":"Sidow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4393&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Arend Sidow","firstName":"Arend","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Arend_Sidow","researchInterest":"We study the function and molecular evolution of proteins and noncoding functional elements in the genome.  Please refer to our web site for more information:  http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/index.html"},{"lastName":"Luo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6229&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Liqun Luo","firstName":"Liqun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Liqun_Luo","researchInterest":"We are studying how neural circuits are assembled during development, and how they contribute to sensory perception.  We are addressing these questions at different levels from molecular, cellular, circuit to animal behavior.  We are primarily using Drosophila as a model organism for our studies.  Most recently, we are also developing novel genetic tools in the mouse to extend our studies to the mammalian brain."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Dermatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6089&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Howard Y. Chang","firstName":"Howard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Howard_Chang","researchInterest":"The Chang group is focused on two fundamental questions in epithelial biology: (1) the basis of positional identities in epidermal structures throughout the body, and (2) how those signals and boundaries may be abrogated to allow cancer metastasis. We are investigating the roles of site-specific fibroblast differentiation in patterning the epidermis, and dissecting the mechanisms of wound healing programs in cancer metastasis."},{"lastName":"Reijo-Pera","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - OB GYN Institutes"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - OB GYN Institutes","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8036&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Renee A. Reijo Pera, Ph.D.","firstName":"Renee","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Renee_Reijo-Pera","researchInterest":"The Reijo Pera Laboratory is focused on understanding key cell fates in the embryo, including the generation of pluripotent stem cells, somatic and germ cell lineages"}]}