Developmental Genetics
The following 32 faculty members are pursuing research related to this topic.
Borevitz, Justin O - Assistant ProfessorQuantitative and population genetics of local native plant species
Cunningham, John - ProfessorBiology and therapy of hemoglobinopathies, developmental biology of blood and neural crest, and stem cell research.
Dobyns, William B - ProfessorDevelopmental Neurogenetics, especially human brain development and the molecular genetics of brain malformations.
Du, Wei - Associate ProfessorCell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.
Fehon, Richard - ProfessorRegulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.
Ferguson, Edwin L - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila
Glotzer, Michael - Associate ProfessorThe molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells
Grove, Elizabeth A - ProfessorCellular and molecular mechanisms that control patterning, cell fate choice, and differentiation in the mammalian forebrain.
Ho, Robert K - ProfessorPattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.
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.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
Liu, Chun-Yu - Assistant ProfessorGenetics/genomics underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and brain functions.
Lowe, Christopher J - Assistant ProfessorEvolution and development of deuterostomes.
Macleod, Kay F - Assistant ProfessorRegulation of cell cycle checkpoints and cell death in response to oxidative stress and DNA damage.
Mahowald, Anthony P - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of oogenesis; ovarian germline stem cell; genetics of spermatogenesis.
Malamy, Jocelyn E. - 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
Nobrega, Marcelo A - 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.
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 - 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.
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.
Singh, Harinder - ProfessorGene regulatory networks and the specification of cell fates in the immune system. Genetic engineering of stem cells.
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 P - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.