Abney, Mark - Assistant ProfessorStatistical genetics, human population genetics, genetics of quantitative and complex phenotypes.
Adams, Erin - Assistant ProfessorStructure and biochemistry of proteins involved in immunological recognition. Characterization of gamma delta T cell receptors and their ligands and activating and inhibitory receptors involved in the innate immune response.
Bell, Graeme - ProfessorGenetics of diabetes and other metabolic disorders; development and regeneration of insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells
Bergelson, Joy - ProfessorThe evolution of plant-pathogen and plant-herbivore interactions; molecular ecology.
Bezanilla, Francisco - ProfessorBiophysics and dynamics of ion channels
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
Casadaban, Malcolm - Associate ProfessorGene structure and regulation; gene fusing, cloning and engineering; DNA transposition and mutator phage; nonhomologous recombination.
Chiang, Kwen-Sheng - Associate ProfessorA novel non-binary propagation pathway of plant mitochondria.
Cox, Nancy - ProfessorQuantitative human genetics, genetics of complex human diseases, including diabetes, asthma, stuttering, and psychiatric disorders.
Crosson, Sean - Assistant ProfessorDeciphering the Structure, Function, and Topology of Microbial Signaling Systems
Das, Soma - Associate ProfessorMolecular diagnostics of genetic disease.
Dawson, Glyn - ProfessorLipid signalling pathways and progrd cell death in brain and tumors; inherited lysosomal storage diseases.
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
Du, Wei - Associate ProfessorCell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.
Ellis, Nathan - Associate ProfessorMolecular mechanisms that maintain genomic integrity, with special emphasis on the RecQ helicases; the genetics colon cancer susceptibility.
Feder, Martin - ProfessorEvolutionary and ecological functional genomics, with Hsp70 and other molecular chaperones in Drosophila as a focus.
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
Friedmann, Herbert - Associate ProfessorBacterial enzymes; nucleotide, porphyrin, bile pigment, and corrinoid metabolism; bacterial delta-aminolevulinic acid synthesis and control.
Getz, Godfrey - ProfessorStructure and function of apolipoproteins in lipoprotein assembly, and in atherosclerosis and Alzheimers disease pathogenesis.
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.
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.
Goldwasser, Eugene - ProfessorBiochemistry of blood cell differentiation; mode of action of erythropoietin.
Green, William - Associate ProfessorCell Biology of neurotransmitter receptors.
Greenberg, Jean - Associate ProfessorArabidopsis defense mechanisms against bacterial infection; Pseudomonas syringae virulence mechanisms.
Greene, Geoffrey - ProfessorSteroid hormone regulation of gene networks in reproductive tissues and cancers. Structure and function of nuclear receptors.
Gross, Martin - ProfessorTranslational control of protein synthesis; cell-free protein synthesis and mechanism and regulation of polypeptide chain initiation.
Grove, Elizabeth - ProfessorCellular and molecular mechanisms that control patterning, cell fate choice, and differentiation in the mammalian forebrain.
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.
Holaska, James - Assistant ProfessorRegulation of gene expression, chromatin dynamics and nuclear architecture by nuclear envelope proteins: Implications for muscular dystrophy, heart disease and aging.
Hudson, Richard - ProfessorPopulation genetics theory and the analysis of molecular variation within and between populations.
Imamoto, Akira - Associate ProfessorMouse models of human syndromes affecting morphogenesis, patterning, and cell fate during craniofacial and cardiovascular development.
Jones, Richard - Assistant ProfessorSystems-Level Analyses of Cancer Signaling
Josephs, Robert - ProfessorStructure of sickle-cell hemoglobin fibers and the red cell cytoskeleton by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction.
Kalinichenko, Vladimir - Assistant ProfessorTranscriptional regulation of lung development
Kee, Barbara - Assistant ProfessorTranscriptional regulation of lymphocyte development.
Keenan, Robert - Assistant ProfessorStructural biology and directed evolution.
Kent, Stephen - ProfessorApplication of chemistry to the study of proteins. Chemical protein synthesis. Protein mass spectrometry. Functional Proteomics. Mechanism of enzyme catalysis.
Koide, Shohei - Associate ProfessorProtein engineering and design. Peptide self-assembly mechanism and folding. Structural biology of signaling proteins. NMR spectroscopy.
Kossiakoff, Anthony - ProfessorStructure and function of hormone-receptor interactions, enzyme-inhibitor interfaces, and synthetic proteins.
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.
Le Beau, Michelle - ProfessorMolecular analysis of recurring chromosomal abnormalities in human tumors; identification of cooperating mutations and genetic pathways leading to transformation.
Li, Wen-Hsiung - ProfessorMolecular evolution, including experimental studies and bioinformatics studies of molecular and genomics.
Liao, Shutsung - ProfessorSex hormone action; mechanism of cancer progression and suppression; modulation of cholesterol, molecular aaction of herbal medicine.
Liu, Chun-Yu - Assistant ProfessorGenetics/genomics underlying neuropsychiatric disorders.
Long, Manyuan - ProfessorGenetics and evolution of Drosophila courtship behavior; Evolution of gene networks and systems driven by new genes; Rates and patterns of new gene origination; Other problems in molecular evolution and population genetics.
Lowe, Christopher - Assistant ProfessorEvolution and development of deuterostomes.
Macleod, Kay - Assistant ProfessorRegulation of cell cycle checkpoints and cell death in response to oxidative stress and DNA damage.
Mahowald, Anthony - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of oogenesis; ovarian germline stem cell; genetics of spermatogenesis.
Makinen, Marvin - ProfessorElectron magnetic resonance; enzyme mechanisms; metalloenzymes; molecular dynamics; structural basis of enzyme action.
Malamy, Jocelyn - Associate ProfessorMolecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.
Martin, Terence - ProfessorStructure of cell nucleus; RNA transcription and processing; implications for the immune system; novel growth factors for tissue maintenance and differentiation.
McLeod, Rima - ProfessorImmunobiology of toxoplasmosis.
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.
Meredith, Stephen - Associate ProfessorLipid-protein interactions; lipoprotein structure; surface phenomena in biology.
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.
Moffat, Keith - ProfessorSynchrotron radiation; time-resolved macromolecular crystallography; light-sensitive proteins
Moskowitz, Ivan - Assistant ProfessorMolecular genetics of cardiovascular development and congenital heart disease.
Nagylaki, Thomas - ProfessorTheoretical population biology, especially geographical variation; gene conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural selection.
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
Pan, Tao - Associate ProfessorRNA genomics, RNA epigenetics, RNA folding
Perozo, Eduardo - ProfessorStructure and Dynamics of Ion Channels and transporters
Piccirilli, Joseph - Associate ProfessorChemistry/biochemistry of nucleic acids; structure and mechanism of ribozymes (catalytic RNA); bioorganic chemistry.
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.
Price, Trevor - ProfessorGenetics of speciaiton, including molecular studies of gene flow, quantitaive genetics of sexually selected traits, and comparative analyses using molecular phylogenies.
Prince, Victoria - Associate ProfessorMolecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.
Pritchard, Jonathan - ProfessorStatistical genetics and population genetics; applications include complex disease mapping, human evolution and molecular evolution.
Przeworski, Molly - Assistant ProfessorPopulation genetics, human evolution
Ragsdale, Clifton - Associate ProfessorMolecular genetics of neuronal patterning in brain development.
Rebay, Ilaria - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.
Refetoff, Samuel - ProfessorMolecular basis of inherited thyroid diseases.
Rice, Phoebe - Associate ProfessorWe study mechanisms of DNA recombination and protein-DNA recognition, combining the tools of biochemistry and x-ray crystallography.
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.
Rock, Ronald - Assistant ProfessorMolecular motors; cytoskeletal organization; single-molecule biophysics
Roizman, Bernard - ProfessorHerpes simplex viruses, gene function and regulation, mechanisms of latent infection, vectors for gene therapy.
Rosner, Marsha - ProfessorGrowth factor receptor signaling leading to cell growth, cell differentiation or cell death.
Rothman-Denes, Lucia - ProfessorRNA polymerases structure and function; mechanisms of transcription regulation; host-viral interactions.
Roux, Benoit - ProfessorTheoretical and computational studies of the structure, dynamics and function of biological macromolecular systems.
Rowley, Janet - ProfessorChanges in gene expression in human leukemia cells with recurring chromosome translocations
Ruddat, Manfred - Associate Professorparasite interactions; developmental aspects of gene expression.
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
Scanu, Angelo - ProfessorGenetic mechanisms in dyslipoproteinemias in humans; metalloproteinases and kringle-containing proteins; proteoglycans in atherogenesis.
Schmidt-Ott, Urs - Assistant ProfessorDevelopmental Genetics and Evolution.
Schwartz, Nancy - ProfessorTranscriptional control of ECM expression during chondrogenesis and neurogenesis; regulation of sulfate activation; skeletal dysplasias.
Schwartz, Stuart - ProfessorMolecular cytogenetics; chromosome structure and function; phenotype-karyotype correlations; centromere structure.
Shapiro, James - ProfessorGenome reorganization and multicellular regulatory systems in bacteria populations.
Sharma, Kamal - Assistant ProfessorRole of transcription factors in determination of neuronal identity in relation to motor circuits in the vertebrate spinal cord.
Shubin, Neil - ProfessorPaleontology and developmental studies in salamanders to identify mechanisms behind the evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas.
Singh, Harinder - ProfessorGene regulatory networks and the specification of cell fates in the immune system. Genetic engineering of stem cells.
Sosnick, Tobin - ProfessorProtein and RNA/ribozyme folding; biological structure and thermodynamics as basis for understanding function.
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.
Steck, Theodore - ProfessorMembrane cholesterol biochemistry and cholesterol homeostasis.
Steiner, Donald - ProfessorBiosynthesis and evolution of pancreatic islet hormones; protein precursor processing mechanisms; development and function of the islet alpha (glucagon) and beta (insulin) cells.
Storb, Ursula - ProfessorImmunoglobulin gene expression; somatic hypermutation; regulation and functions of DNA methylation and chromatin modifications in development and transcription.
Strauss, Bernard - ProfessorMechanism of mutation; role of DNA polymerases in response to mutagenic agents.
Svensson, Eric - Assistant ProfessorDevelopmental biology of the cardiovascular system with emphasis on the transcriptional regulation of cardiac development
Taylor, Edwin - ProfessorMolecular mechanism of muscle contraction, nonmuscle actomyosin, cell motility, microfilaments, and microtubules
Turkewitz, Aaron - Associate ProfessorSecretory granules; exocytosis and endocytosis; evolution of membrane traffic.
Van Valen, Leigh - Professor Ecological and evolutionary genetics, organization and evolution of phenotype, evolution of development and adaptation, macroevolution, phylogenetics, conceptual analysis.
Verp, Marion - Associate ProfessorReproductive genetics, prenatal screening and diagnosis, genetics and cancer risk
Waggoner, Darrel - Assistant ProfessorMedical Director, Department of Human Genetics.
White, Kevin - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.
Wool, Ira - ProfessorStructure and function of eukaryotic ribosomes; RNA structures; RNA-protein interaction.
Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.