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.