Molecular Evolution
The following 28 faculty members are pursuing research related to this topic.
Adams, Erin J - Assistant ProfessorStructure and biochemistry of proteins involved in immunological recognition. Characterization of gamma delta T cell receptors and their ligands and activating and inhibitory receptors involved in the innate immune response.
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
Di Rienzo, Anna - ProfessorHuman genetic variation and the evolution of common diseases.
Feder, Martin E - ProfessorEvolutionary and ecological functional genomics, with Hsp70 and other molecular chaperones in Drosophila as a focus.
Gilad, Yoav - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of gene expression in primates; Evolution of the sense of smell.
Glick, Benjamin S - ProfessorBiogenesis of secretory pathway organelles in yeast and mammalian cells, and directed evolution of fluorescent proteins.
Ho, Robert K - ProfessorPattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.
Hudson, Richard - ProfessorPopulation genetics theory and the analysis of molecular variation within and between populations.
Koide, Shohei - Associate ProfessorProtein engineering and design. Peptide self-assembly mechanism and folding. Structural biology of signaling proteins. NMR spectroscopy.
Kreitman, Martin - ProfessorPopulation genetics; molecular evolution.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
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.
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.
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 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.
Ober, Carole - ProfessorComplex trait genetics; QTL mapping; asthma; fertility
Pritchard, Jonathan - ProfessorStatistical genetics and population genetics; applications include complex disease mapping, human evolution and molecular evolution.
Przeworski, Molly - ProfessorPopulation genetics, human evolution
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.
Van Valen, Leigh - Professor Ecological and evolutionary genetics, organization and evolution of phenotype, evolution of development and adaptation, macroevolution, phylogenetics, conceptual analysis.
Wu, Chung-I - ProfessorSpeciation, genomics, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, sexual selection.