Evolution and Development
The following 21 faculty members are pursuing research related to this topic.
Bergelson, Joy - ProfessorThe evolution of plant-pathogen and plant-herbivore interactions; molecular ecology.
Borevitz, Justin O - Assistant ProfessorQuantitative and population genetics of local native plant species
Feder, Martin E - ProfessorEvolutionary and ecological functional genomics, with Hsp70 and other molecular chaperones in Drosophila as a focus.
Ferguson, Edwin L - ProfessorDevelopmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila
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.
Kreitman, Martin - ProfessorPopulation genetics; molecular evolution.
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.
Malamy, Jocelyn E. - Associate ProfessorMolecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.
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.
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.
Ragsdale, Clifton - Associate ProfessorMolecular and cellular mechanisms of brain development
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.
Shapiro, James A - ProfessorGenome reorganization and multicellular regulatory systems in bacteria populations.
Shubin, Neil - ProfessorPaleontology and developmental studies in salamanders to identify mechanisms behind the evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas.
Turkewitz, Aaron - Associate ProfessorSecretory granules; exocytosis and endocytosis; evolution of membrane traffic.
White, Kevin P - ProfessorThe White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.