Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Florida, 2005
321 Bartram Hall
(352) 273-0139
Research Interests
The Choe Lab defines pathways animals use to detect and respond to environmental stress and studies how these pathways interact with physiological processes such as stress resistance, ageing, drug resistance, growth, and reproduction. We currently study these processes in the free-living model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using a variety of physiological, genetic, molecular, cell biology, and biochemical approaches. Stress pathways underlie adaptations to environmental stress in animals, contribute to drug resistance in parasites, and have to potential to delay aging and age-related diseases in humans.
Current Graduate Students
| Name | Research Interests | |
| Pauline Fontaine | pfontaine@ufl.edu | Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in nematodes |
| Keon Wimberly | kwimberl1@ufl.edu | Cell signaling of stress responses |
Current Postdocs
| Name | Research Interests | |
| Cheng-Wei (Mike) Wu | cwwu05@ufl.edu | Cell signaling of stress responses |