Research Divisions

Biochemistry

• James Briggs   (Vice Chair) Computational Biochemistry/Biophysics; Computer-Aided Drug Design

• Joseph Eichberg   Phosphoinositides and Phosphorylation in Signal Transduction

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

• George Fox   RNA Structure, Function, and Evolution

• Robert Fox   The Physical Basis of Protein Structure and Function

• 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

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

• Robert Schwartz   Molecular Development and Drug Discovery

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

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

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

• Richard Willson   Biomolecular Recognition, Diagnostics and Nanobiology

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

Ecology and Evolution

• Anna Armitage   Coastal and wetlands community ecology.

• Ricardo Azevedo   (Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs) Evolution of Development

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

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

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

• George Fox   RNA Structure, Function, and Evolution

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

• Dan Graur   Theoretical Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics

• Kresimir Josic   Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Biological Networks

• Elizabeth Ostrowski   Population Genomics, Social Evolution; Multicellular Development in Amoebae

• Steven Pennings   Plant Community Ecology and Plant-Herbivore Interactions

• Gregg Roman   Drosophila Behavioral Genetics

• Amy Sater   Vertebrate Development; Neural Induction; Cell Signaling

• Dan Wells   (Chair) Vertebrate Genetics and Genomics; Evolution of Development

• Diane Wiernasz   Ecological Genetics and Sexual Selection

• Rebecca Zufall   Genome and Molecular Evolution; Evolution of Protists

Cell and Molecular Biology

• Ricardo Azevedo   (Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs) Evolution of Development

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

• Sang-Hyuk Chung   Roles of hormones and their receptors in HPV-induced cervical cancer

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

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

• Stuart Dryer   Development and Molecular Neurobiology

• Joseph Eichberg   Phosphoinositides and Phosphorylation in Signal Transduction

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

• Daniel Frigo   Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of Novel Hormone-Regulated Signaling Pathways in Disease

• Laura Frishman   Visual Neuroscience: Retinal Function and Circuitry

• Masaya Fujita   Microbial Development and Gene Regulation

• 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

• Seema Khurana   Regulation of epithelial cell biology and pathobiology by actin and actin-binding proteins

• Brian Knoll   Receptor Theory; G Protein-Coupled Receptors

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

• Chin-Yo Lin   Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Estrogen Receptor Alpha

• 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.

• Michael Rea   Neurobiology of Circadian Clock; Neurochemical Regulation of Circadian Phase

• Gregg Roman   Drosophila Behavioral Genetics

• Amy Sater   Vertebrate Development; Neural Induction; Cell Signaling

• 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

• Margaret Warner   

• Zhang Weihua   The molecular mechanism of cancer metastasis

• Dan Wells   (Chair) Vertebrate Genetics and Genomics; Evolution of Development

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

• 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