Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
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.
Biron, David - Assistant ProfessorBehavior and neuroscience of the nematode C. elegans; Sleep-like behavior of C. elegans.
Bishop, Douglas - ProfessorMeiotic recombination, recombinational DNA repair in yeast and mammalian cells.
Borevitz, Justin - Assistant ProfessorQuantitative and population genetics of local native plant species
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
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 - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila
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
Greenberg, Jean - ProfessorArabidopsis defense mechanisms against bacterial infection; Pseudomonas syringae virulence mechanisms.
Gupta, Mohan - Assistant Professor Mechanisms that regulate microtubule functions / interactions; roles of motor proteins in controlling microtubule dynamics; approaches range from in-vivo live cell imaging and functional assays to in-vitro single molecule analysis.
Haselkorn, Robert - ProfessorCellular differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; acetyl CoA carboxylase in plants and humans and parasites.
He, Tong-Chuan - Associate ProfessorMolecular biology of bone and soft tissue tumors; BMP and Wnt signaling in stem cells; Regulation of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation; Cancer microenvironment and bone metastasis; Gene therapy and regenerative medicine.
Ho, Robert - ProfessorPattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.
Horne-Badovinac, Sally - Assistant ProfessorEpithelial morphogenesis and organ shape
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
Kovar, David - Assistant ProfessorBiochemical mechanisms of actin filament assembly.
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 - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
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.
Leber, Jess - Assistant ProfessorMy research investigates the mechanisms by which mammalian innate immunity recognizes intracellular infection, and the counter-measures used by intracellular pathogens to subvert host defenses.
Li, Wen-Hsiung - ProfessorMolecular evolution, including experimental studies and bioinformatics studies of molecular and genomics.
Liu, Chun-Yu - Assistant ProfessorGenetics/genomics underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and brain functions.
Long, Manyuan - ProfessorNew gene evolution: the rates and patterns, the impact on protein networks, the functional and phenotypic effects; other problems of genome evolution. Drosophila as experimental systems; in silico genomics of animals and plants.
Lussier, Yves - Associate ProfessorFocus is on the use of computational systems biology and bioinformatics to accurately individualize the understanding, the prediction, and the treatment of disease.
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.
McPeek, Mary Sara - ProfessorApplications of probability and statistics to genetics; complex trait mapping; counting-process models for genetic recombination.
Mets, Laurens - Associate ProfessorChloroplast biogenesis and genetics; biochemical genetics and photophysics of photosynthesis; correlated genomic and genetic analysis.
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.
Nagylaki, Thomas - ProfessorTheoretical population biology, especially geographical variation; gene conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural selection.
Nash, Piers - Assistant ProfessorModular protein interaction domains in signal transduction and the cell cycle.
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; QTL mapping; asthma; 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
Popko, Brian - ProfessorMouse models in the study of neurological disorders.
Price, Trevor - ProfessorGenetics of speciation, including molecular studies of gene flow, quantitative genetics of sexually selected traits, and comparative analyses using molecular phylogenies.
Prince, Victoria - 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 - ProfessorPopulation genetics, human evolution
Rebay, Ilaria - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.
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.
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.
Rowley, Janet - ProfessorChanges in gene expression in human leukemia cells with recurring chromosome translocations
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
Rzhetsky, Andrey - ProfessorAnalysis of complex molecular networks for understanding common phenotypes
Schmidt-Ott, Urs - Assistant ProfessorDevelopmental Genetics and Evolution.
Shapiro, James - ProfessorGenome reorganization and multicellular regulatory systems in bacteria populations.
Singh, Harinder - ProfessorGene regulatory networks and the specification of cell fates in the immune system. Genetic engineering of stem cells.
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.
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.
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.
White, Kevin - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.
Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.