text size: A A A

Genetic, cellular and developmental biology faculty mentors

in the lab These faculty members use microbial, invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant model systems (including the most genetically tractable model organisms: Drosophila, zebra fish, Arabidopsis, and maize) to genetically dissect the regulation of growth and development. Their research interests include chromosome structure, gene regulation, repair of damaged DNA, interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, intracellular trafficking and the cytoskeletal architecture, and intercellular and intracellular signaling mechanisms that regulate early development, later growth, and aging in a variety of cells, tissues and organs.

Stephen Alexander	Making cancer chemotherapy more effective
James Birchler	Regulatory gene balance, dosage compensation, gene silencing, centromere activity and artificial chromosomes
Anand Chandrasekhar	Mechanisms regulating neuronal development and physiology
Linda Chapman	Function of Alpha N-Acetylgalactosaminidase in Bacterial Physiology
Karen Cone	Epigenetic influences on plant gene expression; plant genetics and molecular biology
D Cornelison	Signaling and activity of skeletal muscle satellite cells
John David	Plasma membrane structure and function in skeletal muscle development; intercellular signaling in the regulation of myoblast fusion
Michael Garcia	Molecular and cellular analysis of axon-glial interactions; neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases.
Miriam Golomb	Bacterial pathogenesis and genome evolution
Mark Kirk	Stem cell biology and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors
Mannie Liscum	Environmental and homeostatic regulation of growth and development
Joel Maruniak	Adult neurogenesis
Kathleen Newton	Plant molecular genetics; mitochondrial genetics
Steven Nothwehr	Intracellular protein trafficking and sorting
Thomas Phillips	Mucosal cell biology
David Schulz	How do individual neurons balance plasticity and stability in the nervous system?
David Setzer	Mechanisms and control of transcription of eukaryotic genes
Pat Shiu	Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA - a new RNAi phenomenon?
George Smith	Molecular imaging of cancer through phage display
Per Stromhaug	Autophagy - when a cell has to eat itself!
Change Tan	Developing methods for generating conditional mutations and studying cytokinesis during Drosophila gametogenesis
John Walker	Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular signaling in plants
Samuel T. Waters	Molecular and genetic analysis of transcriptional regulators during neural development
David Worcester	Structure and dynamics of biological membranes and membrane components using neutron diffraction
Troy Zars	Mechanisms of learning and memory in Drosophila