Faculty studying gene expression
Alisch, Reid
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
alisch
Phone: (608) 263-3793
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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.
Amasino, Richard
Position title: Professor
Email:
amasino
Phone: 608-262-4704
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Biochemsitry
Understanding how plants sense and respond to seasonal environmental changes
Anderson, Matt
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
mzanderson
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Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes
Attie, Alan
Position title: Professor
Email:
adattie
Phone: 608-262-1372
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Biochemistry
Genetics & Genomics of Metabolic Disease and Response to Diet
Bashirullah, Arash
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
bashirullah
Phone: 608-890-1851
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Pharmacy
Intercellular communication: uncovering mechanisms that coordinate the development of multicellular organisms
Bent, Andrew
Position title: Professor
Email:
afbent
Phone: 608-265-3034
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Plant Pathology
Molecular/Genetic Mechanisms of Plant Disease Resistance
Donohue, Timothy
Position title: Professor
Email:
tdonohue
Phone: 608-262-4663
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Bacteriology
Unlocking the secrets of microbes to benefit society
Fox, Catherine
Position title: Professor
Email:
cfox
Phone: 608-262-9370
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms required for genome duplication and stability in eukaryotic organisms
Galmozzi, Andrea
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
agalmozzi
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Medicine
Metabolism - Adipose Tissue physiology - Obesity - Type 2 Diabetes - Cachexia
Gasch, Audrey
Position title: Professor
Email:
agasch
Phone: 608-265-0859
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Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses
Hardin, Jeff
Position title: Professor
Email:
jdhardin
Phone: 608-262-9634
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Integrative Biology
Cell movement, cell adhesion, embryonic development
Harrison, Melissa
Position title: Professor
Email:
mharrison3
Phone: 608-262-2382
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Transcriptional regulation during development
Hittinger, Chris Todd
Position title: Professor & Director, J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution
Email:
cthittinger
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Genetics
Evolutionary genomics of yeast carbon metabolism with applications in brewing and bioenergy
Hoskins, Aaron
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
ahoskins
Phone: 608-890-3101
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Biochemistry
RNA splicing, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, RNA/protein complexes
Huang, Zhen
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
z.huang
Phone: 608-263-2469
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Neurology and Nueroscience
Neuron and glial cell fate specification and differentiation, cortical neuron migration, migration disorders
Hull, Christina
Position title: Professor
Email:
cmhull
Phone: 608-265-5441
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Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Fungal pathogen biology, eukaryotic development and differentiation, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of infectious spore germination
Huynh, Tu-Anh
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
thuynh6
Phone: 608-262-5960
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Food Science
Bacterial signaling mechanisms, stress response, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis
Ikeda, Akihiro
Position title: Professor
Email:
aikeda
Phone: 608-262-5477
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Medical Genetics
Identifying genes involved in aging, cell proliferation and neovascularization using mouse genetics
Kang, Junsu
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
junsu.kang
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Our lab studies how zebrafish possess a remarkable potential to regenerate tissues, such as amputated appendages and damaged heart muscle.
Keller, Nancy
Position title: Professor
Email:
npkeller
Phone: 608-262-9795
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Fungal genetics, fungal/bacterial interactions, mining fungal genomes for bioactive chemicals
Kimble, Judith
Position title: Professor
Email:
jekimble
Phone: 608-262-6188
Address:
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
Molecular regulation of germ line self-renewal and differentiation in C. elegans
Lamming, Dudley
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
dlamming
Phone: 608-256-1901 x 12861
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Medicine
Biology of aging and age-related diseases, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease
Landick, Robert
Position title: Professor
Email:
landick
Phone: 608-265-8475
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Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of RNA chain elongation
Lo Sardo, Valentina
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
losardo
Phone: 608-265-5624
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Cellular and Molecular Biology
Stem cell biology, reprogramming, cell fate determination, genetic risk factors for Cardiovascular disease and Cancer, genomics, transcriptomics, human specific genomic regions, evolution
Mahmoud, Ahmed
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
aimahmoud
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Mammalian cardiac regeneration
Masson, Patrick
Position title: Professor
Email:
phmasson
Phone: 608-265-2312
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Genetics
Genetic investigations of root growth behaviors and polyamine responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon
Meyer, Mark B.
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
markmeyer
Phone: 608-890-0857
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Nutritional Sciences
Vitamin D metabolism, inflammatory disease, genetic basis of disease, gene expression regulation, bioinformatics, genome-editing
Otegui, Marisa
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
otegui
Phone: 608-265-5703
Address:
Botany
Plant Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant Genetics and Development
Parks, Brian
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
brian.w.parks
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Nutritional Sciences
Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.
Perna, Nicole
Position title: Professor & Graduate Program Director
Email:
ntperna
Phone: 608-890-0171
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Genetics
Systems-scale evolutionary genomics of agriculturally, biomedically and industrially significant bacteria
Peters, Jason
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
jason.peters
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Roles of bacterial gene networks in antibiotic resistance and biofuel production
Poss, Ken
Position title: Professor
Email:
kposs
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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Models and mechanisms of tissue regeneration
Prolla, Tomas
Position title: Professor
Email:
taprolla
Phone: 608-265-5204
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Genetics and Medical Genetics
DNA repair, cancer and the aging process
Roy, Sushmita
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
sroy
Phone: 608-316-4453
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Machine learning methods; the structure, function and evolution of regulatory networks; predictive models
Schwartz, David
Position title: Professor
Email:
dcschwartz
Phone: 608-265-0546
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Genetics and Chemistry
Discovery of fundamental molecular phenomena, which are harnessed within fully integrated systems for comprehensive genome analysis; creation of a cell-free system (“GenSyn”) for the direct fabrication of synthetic chromosomes, which adapt/advance micro- and nanofluidics technologies previously developed for genome analysis by the Schwartz group
Sharma, Prashant P.
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
prashant.sharma
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Integrative Biology
Developmental genetics; evolution of developmental mechanisms; phylogenomics; molecular evolution
Skop, Ahna
Position title: Professor
Email:
skop
Phone: 608-262-1593
Address:
Genetics, Medical Genetics
Affiliate appointments in Life Science Communication and Art
Newly appreciated signaling organelle called the midbody (MB) and the midbody remnant (MBR)
Sridharan, Rupa
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
rsridharan2
Phone: 608-316-4422
Address:
Cell and Regenerative Biology
Epigenetics: histone modification crosstalk and RNA processing,
Development and differentiation: from mouse and human stem cells
Genomics: Single cell transcriptomics and epigenomics
Taylor, Michael
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
michael.taylor
Address:
School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
Regulation of CNS angiogenesis and barriergenesis
Wang, Daifeng
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
daifeng.wang
Phone: (608) 262-8567
Address:
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Gene regulatory networks, functional genomics, genotype-phenotype prediction, single-cell biology, brain disorders
Wang, Han
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
han.wang
Phone: (608)-262-3336
Address:
Integrative Biology
Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Sleep and Behaviors in C. elegans; Development of Novel Genetic Tools
Wang, Jue D. (Jade)
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
wang
Phone: 608-263-0307
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Bacteriology
Bacterial Stress Response, Nucleotide Signaling, Mutagenesis, Antibiotic Resistance
Wassarman, David
Credentials: Medical Genetics
Position title: Professor
Email:
dawassarman
Phone: 608-262-6648
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Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration
Wellik, Deneen
Position title: Professor and Chair
Email:
wellik
Address:
Cell & Regenerative Biology
The role of Hox genes in the development, growth and homeostasis of the adult skeleton, muscle and lung.
Werling, Donna
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
dwerling
Phone: (608) 262-3113
Address:
Genetics
Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease
Wolter, Justin
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
wolter4
Address:
Genetics
Genetic modifiers of neurodevelopment
Yin, Jerry
Position title: Professor
Email:
jcyin
Phone: 608-262-5014
Address:
Medical Genetics and Neurology
cAMP/PKA/dCREB2 signaling in sleep, memory formation, neurodegenerative diseases, developmental disabilities
Zhao, Fei
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
fei.zhao
Address:
Comparative Biosciences
Sex organ development
Zhao, Xinyu
Position title: Professor
Email:
xinyu.zhao
Phone: 608-263-9906
Address:
Neuroscience
Gene regulation of stem cells and brain development, autism spectrum disorders