Committee on Developmental Biology
Cunningham, John - ProfessorBiology and therapy of hemoglobinopathies, developmental biology of blood and neural crest, and stem cell research.
Dawson, Glyn - ProfessorLipid signalling pathways and progrd cell death in brain and tumors; inherited lysosomal storage diseases.
Du, Wei - Associate ProfessorCell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.
Fehon, Richard - ProfessorRegulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.
Ferguson, Edwin - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila
Glotzer, Michael - Associate ProfessorThe molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells
Green, William - Associate ProfessorCell Biology of neurotransmitter 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 and parasites.
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.
Horne-Badovinac, Sally - Assistant ProfessorEpithelial morphogenesis and organ shape
Imamoto, Akira - Associate ProfessorMouse models of human syndromes affecting morphogenesis, patterning, and cell fate during craniofacial and cardiovascular development.
Kee, Barbara - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulation of lymphocyte development.
Kovar, David - Assistant ProfessorBiochemical mechanisms of actin filament assembly.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
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.
Malamy, Jocelyn - Associate ProfessorMolecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.
McNally, Elizabeth - ProfessorGenetics of heart and muscle development and disease in humans and mice.
Millen, Kathleen - Associate ProfessorGenetic analysis vertebrate CNS development and the genetic basis of mental retardation and autism
Moskowitz, Ivan - Assistant ProfessorMolecular genetics of cardiovascular development and congenital heart disease.
Preuss, Daphne - ProfessorGenetic analysis of fertilization in Arabidopsis reproduction. Structure and function of plant centromeres.
Prince, Victoria - ProfessorMolecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.
Ragsdale, Clifton - Associate ProfessorMolecular and cellular mechanisms of brain development
Rebay, Ilaria - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.
Rosner, Marsha - ProfessorGrowth factor receptor signaling leading to cell growth, cell differentiation or cell death.
Ruddat, Manfred - Associate Professorparasite interactions; developmental aspects of gene expression.
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
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.
Sharma, Kamal - Associate 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.
Skapek, Stephen - Associate ProfessorFunctional analysis of cancer suppressing genes.
Storb, Ursula - ProfessorImmunoglobulin gene expression; somatic hypermutation; regulation and functions of DNA methylation and chromatin modifications in development and transcription.
Svensson, Eric - Associate ProfessorDevelopmental biology of the cardiovascular system with emphasis on the transcriptional regulation of cardiac development
White, Kevin - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.