Human Genetics
Bell, Graeme - ProfessorGenetics of diabetes and other metabolic disorders; development and regeneration of insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells
Cox, Nancy - ProfessorQuantitative human genetics, genetics of complex human diseases, including diabetes, asthma, stuttering, and psychiatric disorders.
Di Rienzo, Anna - ProfessorHuman genetic variation and the evolution of common diseases.
Dobyns, William - ProfessorDevelopmental Neurogenetics, especially human brain development and the molecular genetics of brain malformations.
Dolan, M. Eileen - ProfessorPharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents
Gilad, Yoav - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of gene expression in primates; Evolution of the sense of smell.
Gilliam, Conrad - ProfessorOur group is generally focused upon identification of genetic determinants of common genetic disorders, with a particular emphasis on neurological and psychiatric genetic disease.
He, Tong-Chuan - Associate ProfessorMolecular biology of bone and soft tissue tumors; BMP and Wnt-regulated differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells; Cancer bone metastasis; Gene therapy.
Hudson, Richard - ProfessorPopulation genetics theory and the analysis of molecular variation within and between populations.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorHuman evolutionary genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, neurogenetics, and stem cell biology.
Le Beau, Michelle - ProfessorMolecular analysis of recurring chromosomal abnormalities in human tumors; identification of cooperating mutations and genetic pathways leading to transformation.
Liu, Chun-Yu - Assistant ProfessorGenetics/genomics underlying neuropsychiatric disorders.
McNally, Elizabeth - ProfessorGenetics of heart and muscle development and disease in humans and mice.
McPeek, Mary Sara - ProfessorApplications of probability and statistics to genetics; complex trait mapping; counting-process models for genetic recombination.
Millen, Kathleen - Associate ProfessorGenetic analysis of pattern formation during vertebrate CNS development and the genetic basis of congenital brain malformations in humans.
Nobrega, Marcelo - Assistant ProfessorGenetics of heart development and congenital heart diseases. Genetic engineering of mouse models of human diseases. Genomic organization and gene regulatory architecture. Vertebrate comparative genomics.
Ober, Carole - ProfessorComplex trait genetics; human population genetics; HLA and fertility.
Olopade, Olufunmilayo (Funmi) - ProfessorCancer genetics and epigenetics, molecular genetics of breast and ovarian cancer; genetics of cancer predisposition in diverse populations including BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, inflammation and cancer.
Palmer, Abraham - Assistant ProfessorGenetic basis of animal behavior, quantitative trait mapping, drug abuse and psychiatric phenotypes, translation of genetic findings to human populations
Pritchard, Jonathan - ProfessorStatistical genetics and population genetics; applications include complex disease mapping, human evolution and molecular evolution.
Przeworski, Molly - Assistant ProfessorPopulation genetics, human evolution
Refetoff, Samuel - ProfessorMolecular basis of inherited thyroid diseases.
Rinker-Schaeffer, Carrie - Associate ProfessorMolecular and mechanisims regulating cancer cell colonization of metastatic sites. Our work includes the areas of signal transduction, stress kinase activation, cell cycle progression, and novel mechanisms regulating metastatic growth including quorum sensing.
Rowley, Janet - ProfessorChanges in gene expression in human leukemia cells with recurring chromosome translocations
Rzhetsky, Andrey - ProfessorAnalysis of complex molecular networks for understanding common phenotypes
Scanu, Angelo - ProfessorGenetic mechanisms in dyslipoproteinemias in humans; metalloproteinases and kringle-containing proteins; proteoglycans in atherogenesis.
Storb, Ursula - ProfessorImmunoglobulin gene expression; somatic hypermutation; regulation and functions of DNA methylation and chromatin modifications in development and transcription.
Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.