Model Organism Genetics
Bergelson, Joy - ProfessorThe evolution of plant-pathogen and plant-herbivore interactions; molecular ecology.
Bishop, Douglas - ProfessorMeiotic recombination, recombinational DNA repair in yeast and mammalian cells.
Borevitz, Justin - Assistant Professorquantitative and population genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana related to adaptation in natural light environments
Du, Wei - Associate ProfessorCell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.
Fehon, Richard - ProfessorRegulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.
Ferguson, Edwin - Associate ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila
Glick, Benjamin - ProfessorBiogenesis of secretory pathway organelles in yeast and mammalian cells, and directed evolution of fluorescent proteins.
Glotzer, Michael - Associate ProfessorThe molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells.
Greenberg, Jean - Associate ProfessorArabidopsis defense mechanisms against bacterial infection; Pseudomonas syringae virulence mechanisms.
Haselkorn, Robert - ProfessorCellular differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; acetyl CoA carboxylase in plants and humans.
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.
Ho, Robert - ProfessorPattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.
Imamoto, Akira - Associate ProfessorMouse models of human syndromes affecting morphogenesis, patterning, and cell fate during craniofacial and cardiovascular development.
Kovar, David - Assistant ProfessorMolecular mechanisms of actin assembly in fission yeast: molecular genetic to in vitro single filament studies.
Kreitman, Martin - ProfessorPopulation genetics; molecular evolution.
Kron, Stephen - Associate ProfessorSignal transduction, cell cycle control, and checkpoints. Technology for proteomics, drug discovery and systems biology.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorHuman evolutionary genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, neurogenetics, and stem cell biology.
Lamppa, Gayle - Associate ProfessorChloroplast development; nuclear genes coding for chloroplast proteins; regulation of protein import and posttranslational processing.
Li, Wen-Hsiung - ProfessorMolecular evolution, including experimental studies and bioinformatics studies of molecular and genomics.
Malamy, Jocelyn - Associate ProfessorMolecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.
McLeod, Rima - ProfessorImmunobiology of toxoplasmosis.
McNally, Elizabeth - ProfessorGenetics of heart and muscle development and disease in humans and mice.
Mets, Laurens - Associate ProfessorChloroplast biogenesis and genetics; biochemical genetics and photophysics of photosynthesis; correlated genomic and genetic analysis.
Millen, Kathleen - Associate ProfessorGenetic analysis of pattern formation during vertebrate CNS development and the genetic basis of congenital brain malformations in humans.
Moskowitz, Ivan - Assistant ProfessorMolecular genetics of cardiovascular development and congenital heart disease.
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.
Palmer, Abraham - Assistant ProfessorGenetic basis of animal behavior, quantitative trait mapping, drug abuse and psychiatric phenotypes, translation of genetic findings to human populations
Popko, Brian - ProfessorMouse models in the study of neurological disorders.
Preuss, Daphne - ProfessorGenetic analysis of fertilization in Arabidopsis reproduction. Structure and function of plant centromeres.
Prince, Victoria - Associate ProfessorMolecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.
Rebay, Ilaria - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.
Rothman-Denes, Lucia - ProfessorRNA polymerases structure and function; mechanisms of transcription regulation; host-viral interactions.
Ruvinsky, llya - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of development, particularly the origin and diversification of the nervous system and 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
Schmidt-Ott, Urs - Assistant ProfessorDevelopmental Genetics and Evolution.
Staley, Jonathan - Associate ProfessorPre-mRNA splicing: quality control, signal transduction, intron function and snRNA function. Approaches include genetics, genomics, cell biology and biochemistry in budding yeast.
Turkewitz, Aaron - Associate ProfessorSecretory granules; exocytosis and endocytosis; evolution of membrane traffic.
White, Kevin - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.