The following faculty advise students in our Genetics PhD Program.
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To view faculty in the Departments of Genetics and Medical Genetics only, please see our Faculty List.
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
David Baum
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Botany
Genetic basis for plant phenotypic evolution and understanding evolutionary relationships from sequence variation
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
David Brow
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of transcription termination and pre-mRNA splicing in yeast
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
John Doebley
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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Quantitative genetics of maize-teosinte evolution
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
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
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
Carol Eunmi Lee
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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
Valentina Lo Sardo
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Genetic risk factors in cardiovascular disease and cancer, role in cell fate and state determination, ethnicity-based risk for disease
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
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
Vatsan Raman
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High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics
Claire Richardson
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Genetics
Neurobiology, cell biology, aging and stress, genetics, C. elegans
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)
Daifeng Wang
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Gene regulatory networks, functional genomics, neurogenomics, genotype-phenotype prediction, single-cell genomics
Jue D. (Jade) Wang
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Bacteriology
Genome stability, DNA replication and stress response in bacteria
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