People

Maple is studying parietal cell development and recovery from injury

Jeff is studying how cells manage excess membrane during dedifferentiation

Charles is studying how nucleolus and ribosome biogenesis machinery react to various types of cell stress

Ray is studying damage responses and tumorigenesis in the esophagus

Xiaobo is studying stem cells, paligenosis, and tumorigenesis in the stomach. He is also interested in studying how metabolic changes influence cell fate

Max is studying AMPK-dependent metabolic regulation of stem cell fate and licensing checkpoints in paligenosis

Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
Department of Pathology & Immunology
Department of Developmental Biology

Co-Director:
Washington University Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (DDRCC)

Director of Research:
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine

Dongkook is studying genetic mechanisms of cell stress responses and paligenosis using Drosophila as a model system

Bianca is studying the role of ATF3 targets in autophagy

Megan is studying the role of ATF3 in injury response, regeneration, and paligenosis

Jose is studying the host and microbial factors that dictate H. pylori pathogenesis

Lily is studying epigenetic changes in response to gastric injury

Jingxu is studying energy metabolism of paligenosis and tumorigenesis in the stomach

Nancy is studying the H. pylori host-pathogen relationship

Spencer is studying the role of the Hippo pathway in gastric homeostasis and tumorigenesis