Our Faculty

• Ricardo Azevedo  Evolution of Development

• Richard Bond  Pharmacology of Receptor Theory; G Protein-Coupled Receptors

• James Briggs  Computational Biochemistry/Biophysics; Computer-Aided Drug Design

• Blaine Cole  Evolution of Social Behavior and Origin of Complex Traits

• Timothy Cooper  Adaptation and genomics of experimental populations; bacteria-plasmid interactions

• Brigitte Dauwalder  Genetic and Molecular Control of Complex Behaviors in Drosophila

• Anne Delcour  (Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs) Electrophysiology of Bacterial Ion Channels

• Stuart Dryer  (Chair) Development and Molecular Neurobiology

• Joseph Eichberg  Phosphoinositides and Phosphorylation in Signal Transduction

• Arnold Eskin  Cell and Molecular Basis of Circadian Timing; Learning and Memory

• Yuriy Fofanov  Bioinformatics, Applied Statistics, Mathematical Modeling, Information Theory

• Donald Fox  mammalian Retinal Cell Biology/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Neurotoxicolgy

• George Fox  RNA Structure, Function, and Evolution

• Tony Frankino  Evolution & Development; Ecology & Evolution of Multivariate Morphological Phenotypes

• Laura Frishman  Visual Neuroscience: Retinal Function and Circuitry

• Masaya Fujita  Microbial Development and Gene Regulation

• Xiaolian Gao  Biological NMR of Nucleic Acids and Proteins; Microarray BIOCHIP Technologies

• Dan Graur  Theoretical Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics

• Preethi Gunaratne  Genomics, Developmental Biology and microRNAs underlying Gene Networks in Stem and Tumor Cells

• Jan-Åke Gustafsson  Nuclear receptors (NRs), esp. estrogen receptors and LXR receptors, NR comodulators

• Peter Jurtshuk  Microbial Physiology; 16S rRNA Bacterial Phylogeny Studies

• Brian Knoll  Receptor Theory; G Protein-Coupled Receptors

• J. Leigh Leasure  Behavioral Neuroscience: Recovery of function after CNS injury

• Glen Legge  Cell Adhesion; Structural Biology; Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy

• Daniel Martinez  Connective Tissue Physiology

• Alison McDermott  Ocular surface innate immunity, inflammation and wound healing

• Deborah Otteson  Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of gene expression; retinal stem cell biology; molecular genetics of retinal development and differentiation.

• Steven Pennings  Plant Community Ecology and Plant-Herbivore Interactions

• B. Montgomery Pettitt  Structure, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics of Peptides, Proteins and Nucleic Acids

• Michael Rea  (Vice Chair) Neurobiology of Circadian Clock; Neurochemical Regulation of Circadian Phase

• Gregg Roman  Drosophila Behavioral Genetics

• Amy Sater  Vertebrate Development; Neural Induction; Cell Signaling

• Robert Schwartz  

• Philip Snider  Genetics

• Maria Victoria Tejada-Simon  Learning and memory. Neurobiology of cognitive disorders

• Shiao-Chun David Tu  Redox Enzymes; Applications of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence

• Yuhong Wang  Single molecule study of ribosome-small molecule interactions in protein biosynthesis

• Margaret Warner  

• Dan Wells  Vertebrate Genetics and Genomics; Evolution of Development

• William Widger  Bioenergetics; Electron Transport; Photosynthesis; Cyanobacterial Genomics

• Diane Wiernasz  Ecological Genetics and Sexual Selection

• Cecilia Williams  Nuclear receptors and functional genomics in stem cells and cancer

• Richard Willson  Biomolecular Recognition, Diagnostics and Nanobiology

• Hye-Jeong Yeo  Structural Molecular Biology; X-ray Crystallography

• Weihua Zhang  The molecular mechanism of cancer metastasis

• Xiaoliu Shaun Zhang  Cancer virotherapy, immunotherapy and gene therapy

• Jokubas Ziburkus  Neurophysiology of neuronal network interactions in normal and epileptic tissue

• Rebecca Zufall  Genome and Molecular Evolution; Evolution of Protists