Genetics Faculty

Faculty with appointments in the Departments of Genetics and Medical Genetics are listed below.

For PhD Mentors in the Genetics Training Program, please see our PhD Mentors list.

Matt Anderson

Address:
Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes

Jake Brunkard

Address:
Genetics
Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics

Qiang Chang

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

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

Address:
Genetics
Stem cell metabolism and physiology, oogenesis, Drosophila genetics

Audrey Gasch

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

Chris Todd Hittinger

Address:
Genetics
Evolutionary genomics of yeast carbon metabolism with applications in brewing and bioenergy

Akihiro Ikeda

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

Patrick Masson

Address:
Genetics
Genetic investigations of root growth behaviors and polyamine responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon

Bret Payseur

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

Francisco Pelegri

Address:
Genetics and Medical Genetics
Cellular and developmental mechanisms in the vertebrate egg-to-embryo transition, early cell fate specification

Nicole Perna

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

John Pool

Address:
Genetics
Population genomics and the genetic basis of adaptive evolution

Tomas Prolla

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

Claire Richardson

Address:
Genetics
Neurobiology, cell biology, aging and stress, genetics, C. elegans

Steven Schrodi

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

Address:
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

Nathaniel Sharp

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

Ahna Skop

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)

David Wassarman

Credentials: Medical Genetics

Address:
Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Donna Werling

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

Justin Wolter

Address:
Genetics
Genetic modifiers of neurodevelopment

Jerry Yin

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

Affiliates

Judith Kimble

Address:
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
Molecular regulation of germ line self-renewal and differentiation in C. elegans

Misha Perouansky

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Anesthesiology

Terri L. Young

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Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Ophthalmic genetics, refractive error genetics, and pediatric ophthalmology clinical studies

Affiliates

Emeritus Faculty