Genetics & Development Field Faculty
- Eric E. Alani: Genetic and biochemical studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae aimed at understanding the role of DNA mismatch repair in maintaining genome stability
- Charles F. Aquadro: Population genetics and molecular evolution
- Daniel Barbash: Genetic, molecular evolutionary and developmental studies of speciation and interspecific divergence in Drosophila
- Ronald Booker: Insect developmental neurobiology
- Anthony P. Bretscher: Microfilament organization and function in vertebrates and yeast
- Ed Buckler: Genomics, quantitative genetics, and bioinformatics of maize
- Carlos Bustamante: Computational genomics, Population genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics
- Andrew G. Clark: Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, genetics of complex traits
- Paula Cohen: The Role of Mismatch Repair Proteins in Meiotic Recombination
- David L. Deitcher: Mechanisms underlying neurotransmitter release in Drosophila
- Thomas D. Fox: Control of mitochondrial and nuclear genes in yeast
- Maria J. Garcia-Garcia: Regulation of cell motility during embryonic development in mice and flies.
- Michael L. Goldberg: Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in Drosophila
- Teresa Gunn: Mammalian molecular and developmental genetics focusing on genes involved in pigmentation, neurodegeneration, embryonic patterning and body weight regulation
- Maureen R. Hanson: RNA editing in plant organelles; genetics of nuclear/organelle and organelle/organelle interactions
- Richard G. Harrison: Evolution; population genetics; molecular evolution
- Susan A. Henry: Genetics regulation, phospholipid biosynthesis in yeast, transcriptional regulation, signal transduction
- Jian Hua: Signaling of temperature responses and defense responses, regulation of growth homeostasis, Arabidopsis genetics
- Tim C. Huffaker: Microtubule assembly and function and yeast cells/mechanisms of chromosome segregation.
- Kenneth J. Kemphues: Developmental genetics of the nematode Caenorhabditis
- Douglas C. Knipple: Structure and evolution of neuroexcitatory molecules in insects
- W. Lee Kraus: Transcriptional activation by nuclear hormone receptors and coactivators; Chromatin and transcription; Regulation of gene expression
- Brian Lazzaro: Population genetics; molecular evolution; insect immunity
- Sylvia Lee: Molecular genetics of longevity in C. elegans
- David Lin: Development of the mouse olfactory system
- John T. Lis: Gene regulation and chromatin structure
- Jun "Kelly" Liu: Molecular genetics of mesodermal cell fate specification in C. elegans; Function of nuclear envelope proteins in C. elegans development
- Ross J. MacIntyre: Gene structure and function in Drosophila
- Jason G. Mezey: Mapping quatitative loci, pathway modeling, microarray analysis, evo-devo.
- June B. Nasrallah: Molecular genetics of self-incompatibility in plants
- Drew M. Noden: Cranialfacial development in vertebrate embryos; mechanisms of call migration, angiogenesis, myogenesis
- Colin R. Parrish: The evolution of parvoviruses and the viral molecular and cellular basis of the control of viral host ranges by the viral capsid structure
- Joseph Peters: Molecular mechanisms of genome stability and evolution; transposons that target DNA replication and DNA repair
- Jeffrey W. Roberts: Regulation of gene expression in phage lambda
- John Schimenti: Genetics of Reproduction and Development in Mice
- Jeffrey Scott: The genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry of insecticide resistance; insect cytochrome P450s.
- Adam Siepel: Bioinformatics; comparative genomics; evolutionary genomics.
- Paul Soloway: Mechanisms regulating DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena in mice; role of extracellular matrix remodeling factors as regulators immune responses; functional genetic analysis using gene targeting in mice.
- David B. Stern: Regulation of plant organelle gene expression
- Tudorita Tumbar: Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in governing stem cell function in mouse tissue
- Bik-Kwoon Tye: Genome structure and DNA replication in yeast.
- Volker M. Vogt: Structure and assembly of retroviruses
- Robert Weiss: Molecular mechanism for the maintenance of genomic stability; cellular responses to DNA dmage; mouse models of human cancer
- Mariana F. Wolfner: Molecular, developmental and genetic studies of Drosophila reproduction, embryogenesis and nuclear envelope