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Ahmed, Shawn, PhD
Assistant Professor - Genetics
Telomere replication, DNA damage and germline immortality in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Anton, Eva, PhD
Assistant Professor - Cell & Molecular Physiology
Molecular analysis of neuronal migration and layer formation in the cerebral cortex.

Bautch, Victoria, PhD
Professor - Biology
Blood vessel formation using mouse models of vascular development and function; stem cell-derived blood vessels; vessel assembly and patterning during development.
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Brenman, Jay, PhD
Assistant Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology
How the nervous system becomes wired together through the generation of morphologically diverse dendrites and axons.

Burridge, Keith, PhD
Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology
Cell-matrix interactions; cell signaling and the cytoskeleton.

Caron, Kathleen, PhD
Assistant Professor - Cell & Molecular Physiology
Mouse models of human disease; adrenomedullin in reproductive biology; G-protein coupled receptor/RAMP signaling.

Conlon, Frank, PhD
Assistant Professor - Genetics
Cellular and molecular pathways that establish the early vertebrate body plan using experimental embryology and molecular techniques in amphibians with genetic analysis in the mouse.

Crews, Stephen, PhD
Professor - Biochemistry & Biophysics
Molecular genetics of central nervous system development.

Duronio, Bob, PhD
Associate Professor - Biology
How the molecular processes that control pattern formation and cell fate decisions during Drosophila development influence the cell cycle.

Goldstein, Bob, PhD
Associate Professor - Biology
Generation of cell diversity in development.

Kirby, Suzanne, MD PhD
Assistant Professor - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
General hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation; hematopoiesis.

LaMantia, Anthony, PhD
Professor - Cell & Molecular Physiology
Retinoic acid-mediated signaling in the induction and patterning of the mammalian forebrain.

Lauder, Jean, PhD
Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology Developmental biology; neurobiology; molecular biology.

Lieb, Jason, PhD
Assistant Professor - Biology
How and where proteins interact with the genome on a global scale in vivo, and how these interactions affect the biology of living cells.

Liljegren, Sarah, PhD
Assistant Professor - Biology
Genetic and molecular analysis of abscission in Arabidopsis.

Mack, Christopher, PhD
Assistant Professor - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; transcription and cell-signaling pathways that regulate smooth muscle-cell differentiation.

Magnuson, Terry, PhD
Professor and Chair - Genetics
Novel approaches to allelic series of genomic modifications in mammals; mammalian polycomb-group complexes; mammalian Swi/Snf chromatin remodeling complexes.

Majesky, Mark, PhD
Professor - Genetics
Development of coronary vessels and vascular stem cells in mice.

Marzluff, William, PhD
Professor - Biochemistry & Biophysics
Molecular biology and control of gene expression in animal cells; regulation of gene expression during the cell cycle by post-transcriptional mechanisms.

Milgram, Sharon, PhD
Associate Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology
Protein trafficking in endocrine cells, neurons and epithelial cells; regulation of apical ion transport; protein-protein interactions that modulate cell signaling.

O’Brien, Deborah, PhD
Associate Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology
Regulation of mammalian spermatogenesis and fertilization.

Pardo-Manuel, Fernando, PhD

Assistant Professor - Genetics
Regulation of female meiosis, chromosome segregation and asymmetrical cell division and polarity.

Patterson, Cam, MD
Professor - Pharmacology
Endothelial cell differentiation and cell type-specific gene expression; mechanisms of protein folding and protein degradation.

Peifer, Mark, PhD

Professor - Biology
Cell adhesion, signal transduction, and cancer: the Armadillo connection.

Pevny, Larysa, PhD
Assistant Professor - Genetics
Neural induction; neurogenesis; SOX proteins.

Polleux, Franck, PhD
Assistant Professor - Pharmacology
Neuronal patterning in development.

Reed, Jason, PhD
Associate Professor - Biology
Plant signal transduction and development.

Snider, William, MD

Professor - Cell & Molecular Physiology
Neuronal differentiation, axon growth and regeneration.

Taylor, Joan, PhD
Assistant Professor - Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Cellular signaling pathways that regulate normal and aberrant growth in the cardiovascular system.

Threadgill, David, PhD
Assistant Professor - Genetics
Disease susceptibility; mutagenesis; colon cancer; genetic engineering; microarrays.

Van Dyke, Terry, PhD
Professor - Genetics
Regulatory mechanisms of cell-specific gene expression and cell growth control.

Wang, Da-Zhi, PhD
Assistant Professor - Cell & Developmental Biology
Molecular mechanisms of mammalian cardiac specification using myocardin.

Xiong, Yue, PhD
Associate Professor - Biochemistry & Biophysics
Mammalian cell-cycle control, tumor suppression and tumorigenesis.

 
 
updated January 6, 2006