Adjunct faculty

Sam Chen is co-director (with Brien Riley) of the VIPBG Molecular Genetics Laboratory. He is interested in using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis to identify variants of genes associated with schizophrenia. 

Gordon D. Ginder is director of the Massy Cancer Center, and aside from his clinical duties is interested in transcriptional regulation particularly globin gene regulation during erythroid differentiation and interferon regulation of class I gene expression in human tumors. 

Shawn E. Holt investigates the role of telomerase in aging and cancer. 

Colleen Jackson-Cook is a cytogeneticist investigating cancer-related chromosomal aberrations in prostate cancer and the cause(s) of constitutional and acquired aneuploidy in humans. She also is the director of the Cytogenetics Diagnostics Laboratory.

Kenneth S. Kendler is a clinical psychiatrist and co-director of VIPBG (with Dr. Eaves). The focus of Kendler's research is in the areas of schizophrenia, depression and anxiety, and the interrelationship between psychiatric disorders and substance abuse.

Michael F. Miles, M.D., Ph.D. Michael Miles aims to use functional genomics to understand genetic epidemiology of substance use disorders and the development of comorbid psychopathology.

Michael C. Neale has several research interests in behavioral genetics including schizophrenia; alcohol dependence; the epidemiology of mood, anxiety and alcohol disorders; cognition and aging; and finally, the measurement and classification of psychopathology:models. 

Brien P. Riley is co-director (with Dr. Sam Chen) of the VIPBG Molecular Genetics laboratory.  His principle interest is the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, and recent work has focused on identifying risk variants in the DTNBP1 gene.  He also is interested in depression and autism.

Raj Rao is Director of the Stem Cell Bioengineering Laboratory located in the Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering. Primary research areas include genomic integrity of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and development of novel biomaterials for hESC propagation and differentiation.

Joy L. Ware investigates the genetics and mechanisms of prostrate cancer development.