A Department Retreat included everyone from Professors to technicians and promoted scientific interchanges and good fellowship. The Department carries out research on molecules, cells, and organisms. The broad scope of research fosters creative comparisons between simple model organisms and more complex muticellular systems and organisms. CBA faculty possess a combination of skills and expertise that are uniquely suited to study the functions of gene products in the context of cells, and to analyze multicellular systems. These skills include diverse microscopy methods, cell fractionation techniques, and genetic methods, as well as molecular tools and protein purification technology.
Faculty share their expertise with each other and teach colleagues throughout the institution.
Faculty seek out and build collaborations in the Department, medical school, and other institutions. Dr. Lazarow, recognizing the need for confocal microscopy by Mount Sinai scientists, supports a Core Facility, effectively directed by Dr. Henderson, which becomes one of the most heavily used in the School. It is converted to an institutional Shared Microscopy Resource. Modular laboratories constructed in 1990 and 1994 accommodate new faculty and relocate faculty without additional renovation costs. Because the process of G protein signaling is conserved from yeast to mammals, these findings will have a major impact on the field of growth control through G protein-mediated pathways, with direct relevance to understanding carcinogenesis.