Evolutionary Genetics

Borevitz, Justin - Assistant ProfessorQuantitative and population genetics of local native plant species

Di Rienzo, Anna - ProfessorHuman genetic variation and the evolution of common diseases.

Feder, Martin - ProfessorEvolutionary and ecological functional genomics, with Hsp70 and other molecular chaperones in Drosophila as a focus.

Gilad, Yoav - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of gene expression in primates; Evolution of the sense of smell.

Hudson, Richard - ProfessorPopulation genetics theory and the analysis of molecular variation within and between populations.

Kreitman, Martin - ProfessorPopulation genetics; molecular evolution.

Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.

Li, Wen-Hsiung - ProfessorMolecular evolution, including experimental studies and bioinformatics studies of molecular and genomics.

Liu, Chun-Yu - Assistant ProfessorGenetics/genomics underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and brain functions.

Long, Manyuan - ProfessorNew gene evolution: the rates and patterns, the impact on protein networks, the functional and phenotypic effects; other problems of genome evolution. Drosophila as experimental systems; in silico genomics of animals and plants.

Malamy, Jocelyn - Associate ProfessorMolecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.

Nagylaki, Thomas - ProfessorTheoretical population biology, especially geographical variation; gene conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural selection.

Nash, Piers - Assistant ProfessorModular protein interaction domains in signal transduction and the cell cycle.

Price, Trevor - ProfessorGenetics of speciation, including molecular studies of gene flow, quantitative genetics of sexually selected traits, and comparative analyses using molecular phylogenies.

Pritchard, Jonathan - ProfessorStatistical genetics and population genetics; applications include complex disease mapping, human evolution and molecular evolution.

Przeworski, Molly - ProfessorPopulation genetics, human evolution

Ruvinsky, llya - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of development, particularly the evolution of transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution

Rzhetsky, Andrey - ProfessorAnalysis of complex molecular networks for understanding common phenotypes

Van Valen, Leigh - Professor Ecological and evolutionary genetics, organization and evolution of phenotype, evolution of development and adaptation, macroevolution, phylogenetics, conceptual analysis.

Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.