Research Laboratories

Visit the Laboratory of Michael Lipscomb. The Lipscomb laboratory studies the immunoregulatory network that governs immune cell plasticity and diversity, with a particular focus in delineating the differentiation and function of antigen-presenting myeloid cells and their causative role in directing T cell responses. 

The vision at the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory emphasizes allowing biological anthropology to take the lead in expanding the frontiers of an inclusive integrative anthropologic mindset into the broad dimensions of science. Howard University has had a long commitment to understanding the societal implications of science and we do not expect to waiver from this now. 

Visit the Laboratory of Hemayet Ullah. As a part of Plant Biotechnology based project, the Ullah lab, with collaboration from Dr. Sivanesan Dakshanamurth of Georgetown University, has developed several functional modulators of a plant protein that negatively regulates the environmental stress resistance pathways. The same scaffold protein is widely implicated in the translation process of selected viruses including HIV1. 

How does evolution shape bones and muscles that are used in multiple biomechanical systems? This question has inspired the Farina laboratory's interest in fish gill ventilation. Collectively, Stacy Farina and her laboratory team study the diversity and biomechanics of gill chambers in fishes.