Genomic Analysis
The following 44 faculty members are pursuing research related to this topic.
Bell, Graeme I - 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.
Borevitz, Justin O - Assistant ProfessorQuantitative and population genetics of local native plant species
Cox, Nancy J - ProfessorQuantitative human genetics, genetics of complex human diseases, including diabetes, asthma, stuttering, and psychiatric disorders.
Crosson, Sean - Assistant ProfessorDeciphering the Structure, Function, and Topology of Microbial Signaling Systems
Di Rienzo, Anna - ProfessorHuman genetic variation and the evolution of common diseases.
Dolan, M. Eileen - ProfessorPharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents
Feder, Martin E - 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.
Gilad, Yoav - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of gene expression in primates; Evolution of the sense of smell.
Glotzer, Michael - Associate ProfessorThe molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells
Greene, Geoffrey L - ProfessorSteroid hormone regulation of gene networks in reproductive tissues and cancers. Structure and function of nuclear receptors.
Haselkorn, Robert - ProfessorCellular differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; acetyl CoA carboxylase in plants and humans and parasites.
Holaska, James M. - Assistant ProfessorRegulation of gene expression, chromatin dynamics and nuclear architecture by nuclear envelope proteins: Implications for muscular dystrophy, heart disease and aging.
Jones, Richard B - Assistant ProfessorSystems-Level Analyses of Cancer Signaling
Kay, Brian - ProfessorMapping protein-protein interactions with combinatorial peptides, engineered proteins, and phage-display
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
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.
McLeod, Rima - ProfessorImmunobiology of toxoplasmosis.
Mets, Laurens - Associate ProfessorChloroplast biogenesis and genetics; biochemical genetics and photophysics of photosynthesis; correlated genomic and genetic analysis.
Nash, Piers - Assistant ProfessorModular protein interaction domains in signal transduction and the cell cycle.
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.
Olopade, Olufunmilayo (Funmi) F - 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 A - Assistant ProfessorGenetic basis of animal behavior, quantitative trait mapping, drug abuse and psychiatric phenotypes, translation of genetic findings to human populations
Pan, Tao - ProfessorRNA genomics, RNA epigenetics, RNA folding
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.
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.
Rowley, Janet D - 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
Shapiro, James A - 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 P - Associate ProfessorNon-coding RNA mechanism and function; mechanism and regulation of the splicing machinery; fidelity of splice site choice.
Storb, Ursula - ProfessorImmunoglobulin gene expression; somatic hypermutation; regulation and functions of DNA methylation and chromatin modifications in development and transcription.
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.
Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.