Faculty studying development
Reid Alisch
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Neurological Surgery
The role of epigenetics in human health and disease processes, particularly in relation to the origins of mental illness.
Richard Amasino
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Biochemsitry
Understanding how plants sense and respond to seasonal environmental changes
Jean-Michel Ané
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Bacteriology/Agronomy
Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes (bacteria and fungi)
Anjon Audhya
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of vesicle biogenesis and membrane transport during development
Arash Bashirullah
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Pharmacy
Intercellular communication: uncovering mechanisms that coordinate the development of multicellular organisms
Seth Blair
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Integrative Biology
Developmental genetics of patterning and cell signaling in Drosophila
Barak Blum
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, genetics of type-1 and type-2 diabetes
Grace Boekhoff-Falk
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Anatomy
Developmental biology, gene expression, hormones, growth and differentiation factors
Qiang Chang
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Medical Genetics and Neurology
DNA methylation-dependent epigenetic regulation of brain functions
Daniel S. Greenspan
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Genes important to vertebrate development and human disease
Yevgenya Grinblat
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Integrative Biology and Neuroscience
Pattern formation, neural development, zebrafish developmental genetics
Mary Halloran
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Integrative Biology
Understanding mechanisms controlling development of the nervous system
Jeff Hardin
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Integrative Biology
Using C. elegans to study cell movement and adhesion during embryonic development
Melissa Harrison
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Studying embryonic development to understand the transcriptional mechanisms for a totipotent state
Zhen Huang
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Neurology and Nueroscience
Neuron and glial cell fate specification and differentiation, cortical neuron migration, migration disorders
Junsu Kang
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Zebrafish, regeneration, fin, heart, enhancer, genetic mutant
Nancy Keller
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Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Exploring genetic regulation of virulence and natural product synthesis by fungi
Judith Kimble
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Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
Molecular regulation of germ line self-renewal and differentiation in C. elegans
Peter Lewis
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms of chromatin assembly, gene silencing, and epigenetic inheritance
Patrick Masson
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Genetics
Genetics of root growth behavior using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system.
Phil Newmark
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Integrative Biology
Germ cell development and regeneration in planarians; developmental biology of parasitic flatworms
Francisco Pelegri
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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Cellular and developmental mechanisms in the vertebrate egg-to-embryo transition, early cell fate specification
Ahna Skop
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Genetics, Medical Genetics and Life Science Communications
Asymmetric cell division, cytokinesis, cell polarity & cell cycle genomics and proteomics
Rupa Sridharan
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Epigenetics and Induced pluripotent stem cells
Michael Taylor
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School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
Genetic dissection of blood-brain barrier development
Deneen Wellik
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Cell & Regenerative Biology
The role of Hox genes in the development, growth and homeostasis of the adult skeleton, muscle and lung.
Jae-hyuk Yu
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Bacteriology
Molecular genetics and genomics of spore formation and mycotoxin biosynthesis in filamentous fungi
Jing Zhang
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Oncology
Using genetically engineered mouse models to study normal and mutant hematopoietic stem cell functions
Xinyu Zhao
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Neuroscience
Genetics and epigenetic regulation of neural stem cells and neuronal development
Xuehua Zhong
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Genetics
Mechanisms and roles of epigenetic modifications underpinning various biological processes