Division of Biology and Medicine
Therapeutic Sciences Graduate Program
Elena Oancea, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience; TSGP Committee Member; Principal Investigator for NIH/NIGMS Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
Biography
The focus of my laboratory is in understanding signal transduction events using fluorescent microscopy in living cells. My lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art two-color TIRF microscope, which we will use to study UV-induced pigmentation in human skin and melanoma behavior. To visualize signal transduction events, we design and generate novel fluorescent probes using molecular biology techniques, which give us a unique angle in answering biologically relevant questions.