Research Interests: Tumor promoter-induced signal transduction pathways and their role in the process of neoplastic cell transformation, carcinogenesis, and cancer prevention.
Regulation of stem cell growth, both from the perspective of the expansion of stem cells in the lab, and the regulated differentiation to functional tissues.
Tom Hays focuses on aligning the CBS research mission with faculty and graduate student research. Responsibilities include strategic planning, research funding, infrastructure priorities, graduate program initiatives, graduate recruitment, collegiate faculty searches, and approval of CBS faculty grant submissions (Proposal Routing Forms approvals). Hays, professor of genetics, cell biology and development (GCD), represents GCD and the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics.
Please contact Katie Hoffman if you would like to meet with Tom.
Cell and molecular biology of HIV and HTLV; Antiviral drug discovery and development; Antiviral drug resistance; HIV genetic variation, evolution and population genetics; Viral quasispecies; Virus assembly; Evolution of emerging viruses.
Dr. Sadowsky, a fellow in the prestigious American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is internationally known and respected for his research work in the area of environmental microbiology. He is currently director of the BioTechnology Intsitute and the Minnesota Mississippi Metagenome Project. His research interests include molecular plant-microbe interactions in nitrogen-fixing symbiotic systems, investigations of the use of microorganisms for biodegradation and bioremediation; molecular methods to determine sources and kinds of bacteria in the environment; and metagenomics of soil, water, and intestinal environments. (Biol 4850, Intro to Mississippi Metagenomics)
