Genetics PhD Mentors

Caroline Alexander

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Oncology
Analysis of breast development, signaling and disease

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)

Alan Attie

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Biochemistry
Genetics of type 2 diabetes and related metabolic diseases

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

David Baum

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Botany
Genetic basis for plant phenotypic evolution and understanding evolutionary relationships from sequence variation

Andrew Bent

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Plant Pathology
Disease resistance and defense signal transduction in plants

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

Karl Broman

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Statistical  genetics and genomics

David Brow

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of transcription termination and pre-mRNA splicing in yeast

Jake Brunkard

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Genetics
Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics

Hao Chang

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Dermatology
Planar cell polarity in mammalian skin development and cancer

Qiang Chang

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Medical Genetics and Neurology
DNA methylation-dependent epigenetic regulation of brain functions

Lara Collier

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Pharmacy
We use genetic and pharmacological approaches in mouse models to study disease etiology and treatment

Kerri Coon

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3552 Microbial Sciences Building

Cameron Currie

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Bacteriology
Ecological and evolutionary genomics of symbiotic systems

John Doebley

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Quantitative genetics of maize-teosinte evolution

Timothy Donohue

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Bacteriology
Unlocking the secrets of microbes to benefit society

David Eide

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Nutritional Science
How cells and organisms survive and thrive under nutrient-deficient conditions

Feyza Engin

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Diabetes and metabolic disorders, organelle dysfunction, stress responses, beta cell biology

Catherine Fox

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms required for genome duplication and stability in eukaryotic organisms

Audrey Gasch

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses

Richard Gourse

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Bacteriology
Control of gene expression and the structure of the bacterial chromosome

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

Chris Todd Hittinger

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Genetics
Evolution of carbon-responsive gene networks, yeast biodiversity, industrial brewing and biofuel applications

Aaron Hoskins

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Biochemistry
RNA splicing, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, RNA/protein complexes

Zhen Huang

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Neurology and Nueroscience
Neuron and glial cell fate specification and differentiation, cortical neuron migration, migration disorders

Christina Hull

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Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Anna Huttenlocher

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Pediatrics
Cell migration, Wound repair, Inflammation

Akihiro Ikeda

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Medical Genetics
Identifying genes involved in aging, cell proliferation and neovascularization using mouse genetics

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

Patrick Krysan

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Horticulture
Functional genomics of Arabidopsis signal transduction

Dudley Lamming

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Medicine
Biology of aging and age-related diseases, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease

Robert Landick

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Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of RNA chain elongation

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Integrative Biology and Center for Rapid Evolution
Rapid Evolutionary responses to global change, including biological invasions, climate, and pollution. Genetic architecture of invasive species, functional ecological and evolutionary genomics

Peter Lewis

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Cancer

Ahmed Mahmoud

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Mammalian cardiac regeneration

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

Marisa Otegui

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Botany and Genetics
Cellular trafficking and signaling

Brian Parks

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Nutritional Sciences
Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.

Bret Payseur

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Speciation, Evolution of Extreme Phenotypes, Recombination

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

Caitlin Pepperell

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Medicine
Ecological and evolutionary interactions between humans and human pathogens

Nicole Perna

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Genetics
Systems-scale evolutionary genomics of agriculturally, biomedically and industrially significant bacteria

Jason Peters

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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Gene networks and genetic tools in bacteria.

John Pool

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Genetics
Population genomics and the genetic basis of adaptive evolution

Tomas Prolla

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
DNA repair, cancer and the aging process

Vatsan Raman

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High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics

Sushmita Roy

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

Steven Schrodi

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Medical Genetics
Human genomics of inflammatory diseases, statistical genetics, genetic architecture of diseases

David Schwartz

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Chemistry and Genetics
Scalable discovery of human and cancer structural variation through invention and applications of single molecule systems

Nathaniel Sharp

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

Ahna Skop

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Genetics, Medical Genetics and Life Science Communications
Asymmetric cell division, cytokinesis, cell polarity & cell cycle genomics and proteomics

Paul Sondel

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Pediatrics and Human Oncology
Antibody recognition of cancer cells in mice and in patients

Rupa Sridharan

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Epigenetics and Induced pluripotent stem cells

Michael Sussman

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Biochemistry
Signal transduction and plasma membrane receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana, genomic technologies

Michael Taylor

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School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
Genetic dissection of blood-brain barrier development

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)

Han Wang

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Integrative Biology
Genetic and Neural Dissection of Sleep in C. elegans

Jue D. (Jade) Wang

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Bacteriology
Genome stability, DNA replication and stress response in bacteria

David Wassarman

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Medical Genetics
Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Beth A. Weaver

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Cell and Regenerative Biology - McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Mitosis, Aneuploidy, Cell Cycle, Cancer

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.

Donna Werling

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Genetics
Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease

Marvin Wickens

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Biochemistry
The molecular basis of RNA control: how it is accomplished, integrated and evolves

Jerry Yin

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

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