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