Division of Biological Sciences

Faculty & Research Interests

• Ruthie Angelovici

  The genetic and metabolic control of seed amino acids’ composition

• James Birchler

  Chromosome evolution and function in plants and fruit fly

• David Braun

  Genetic control of carbon partitioning in plants

• Elizabeth Bryda

  Generation and characterization of animal models to study genetics and disease

• Chiswili Yves Chabu

  Mechanisms of cell-cell communication during development and tumor progression

• Anand Chandrasekhar

  Mechanisms regulating neuronal development and physiology in vertebrates

• Lori Eggert

  Ecological pressures that shape animal populations

• Andrea Eveland

  Gene regulatory mechanisms controlling plant architecture traits in cereal crops

• Sherry Flint-Garcia

  The genetics and consequences of maize domestication and breeding

• Candace Galen

  Ecology and evolution in natural plant populations

• Elizabeth King

  Genomic approaches to the study of life history evolution

• Mannie Liscum

  Genetic control of phototropism in plants

• Paula McSteen

  Genetic regulation of meristem function in plants

• Todd Mockler

  Application of computational bioinformatics and molecular genomics to plant genomes.

• Susan Nagel

  Environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and developmental programming of adult disease

• Kathleen Newton

  Organization and gene content of mitochondrial genomes in plants

• J. Chris Pires

  Systematics, phylogenetics, and genome evolution of polyploidy plants

• Patrick Shiu

  Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and sexual development in fungi

• R. Keith Slotkin

  Determining how transposable elements become epigenetically silenced

• Change Tan

  Mechanism of incomplete cytokinesis during germ cell development

• John C. Walker

  Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular signaling in plants

• Troy Zars

  Mechanisms of learning and memory in fruit fly

• Bing Zhang

  Genetic dissection of synaptic plasticity, neural circuitry, and behavior in fruit flies