Drosophila and other insects

Faculty studying drosophila and other insects

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

Kerri Coon

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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

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Genetics
Stem cell metabolism and physiology, oogenesis, Drosophila genetics

Melissa Harrison

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Transcriptional regulation during development

John Pool

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Genetics
Population genomics and the genetic basis of adaptive evolution

Sushmita Roy

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Machine learning methods; the structure, function and evolution of regulatory networks; predictive models

Nathaniel Sharp

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Genetics
Mutation, Evolution, Genome Architecture, Genetic Variation, Sexual Selection

Randal Tibbetts

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Human Oncology
Genetic control of DNA replication and repair in mammals. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

David Wassarman

Credentials: Medical Genetics

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Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Jerry Yin

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Medical Genetics and Neurology
cAMP/PKA/dCREB2 signaling in sleep, memory formation, neurodegenerative diseases, developmental disabilities