Faculty studying genomics and proteomics
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.
Matt Anderson
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Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes
Anjon Audhya
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of vesicle biogenesis and membrane transport during development
Karl Broman
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Statistical problems in genetics and genomics, particularly methods for identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits in experimental organisms.
Kerri Coon
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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors
Catherine Fox
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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms required for genome duplication and stability in eukaryotic organisms
Andrea Galmozzi
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Medicine
Metabolism - Adipose Tissue physiology - Obesity - Type 2 Diabetes - Cachexia
Audrey Gasch
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Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses
Emile Gluck-Thaler
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Plant Pathology
How fungi cause disease on animals and plants by integrating molecular genetics with evolutionary genomics and data science
Gaelen Hess
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Biomolecular Chemistry
High-throughput functional genomics to investigate DNA repair and pathogenic effectors
Chris Todd Hittinger
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Genetics
Evolutionary genomics of yeast carbon metabolism with applications in brewing and bioenergy
Christina Hull
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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
Akihiro Ikeda
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Medical Genetics
Identifying genes involved in aging, cell proliferation and neovascularization using mouse genetics
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
Ci Ji Lim
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Biochemistry
Telomeres, chromatin structure-function relationship, protein-DNA interactions, molecular machines
Mark Mandel
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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Bacterial genetics, colonization of host epithelial tissue, signal transduction, Vibrio fischeri-squid symbiosis
Mark B. Meyer
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Nutritional Sciences
Vitamin D metabolism, inflammatory disease, genetic basis of disease, gene expression regulation, bioinformatics, genome-editing
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
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
Roles of bacterial gene networks in antibiotic resistance and biofuel production
Vatsan Raman
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Biochemistry
High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics
David Schwartz
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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
Ahna Skop
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Genetics, Medical Genetics
Affiliate appointments in Life Science Communication and Art
Newly appreciated signaling organelle called the midbody (MB) and the midbody remnant (MBR)
Rupa Sridharan
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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
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)
Jue D. (Jade) Wang
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Bacteriology
Bacterial Stress Response, Nucleotide Signaling, Mutagenesis, Antibiotic Resistance
Donna Werling
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Genetics
Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease
Xinyu Zhao
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Neuroscience
Gene regulation of stem cells and brain development, autism spectrum disorders