Genetics & Genomics
The Division of Biological Sciences has a strong, interactive group of scientists exploring fundamental mechanisms of genetics and genomics. Genetics is being used to elucidate a wide range of fundamental processes, including meitotic silencing, cytokinesis, learning and memory, neuronal development, transcription, cellular signaling, physiology, metabolism and chromosome evolution. Genomic-level studies are being used to study population dynamics and development of new traits. Research in this area benefits from several campus core research facilities, including a DNA Core, and animal modeling core, a plant transformation core, and an Informatics Research Core.
Faculty & Research Interests
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Ruthie Angelovici
The genetic and metabolic control of seed amino acids’ composition
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James Birchler
Chromosome evolution and function in plants and fruit fly
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David Braun
Genetic control of carbon partitioning in plants
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Elizabeth Bryda
Generation and characterization of animal models to study genetics and disease
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Chiswili Yves Chabu
Mechanisms of cell-cell communication during development and tumor progression
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Anand Chandrasekhar
Mechanisms regulating neuronal development and physiology in vertebrates
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Lori Eggert
Ecological pressures that shape animal populations
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Andrea Eveland
Gene regulatory mechanisms controlling plant architecture traits in cereal crops
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Sherry Flint-Garcia
The genetics and consequences of maize domestication and breeding
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Candace Galen
Ecology and evolution in natural plant populations
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Elizabeth King
Genomic approaches to the study of life history evolution
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Mannie Liscum
Genetic control of phototropism in plants
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Paula McSteen
Genetic regulation of meristem function in plants
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Todd Mockler
Application of computational bioinformatics and molecular genomics to plant genomes.
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Susan Nagel
Environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and developmental programming of adult disease
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Kathleen Newton
Organization and gene content of mitochondrial genomes in plants
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J. Chris Pires
Systematics, phylogenetics, and genome evolution of polyploidy plants
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Patrick Shiu
Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and sexual development in fungi
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R. Keith Slotkin
Determining how transposable elements become epigenetically silenced
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Change Tan
Mechanism of incomplete cytokinesis during germ cell development
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John C. Walker
Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular signaling in plants
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Troy Zars
Mechanisms of learning and memory in fruit fly
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Bing Zhang
Genetic dissection of synaptic plasticity, neural circuitry, and behavior in fruit flies
News
Apr. 10, 2019
MU neurobiologists annotate critical neuronal proteins in lamprey genome
Mar. 28, 2019
McSteen lab finds a new gene essential for making ears of corn