| Yves V. Brun | Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria. Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation. | |
| Brian Calvi | Cell cycle control of DNA replication and genome stability. | |
| Lingling Chen | Structural and biochemical studies on protein-protein interactions in GroEL-mediated protein folding and microbial communications. | (lab) |
| David Daleke | Structure and organization of biological membranes; phospholipid transporters; effect of diabetes on membrane structure. (Medical Sciences Program) | (lab) |
| Pranav Danthi | Viral and cellular determinants of virus-induced cell death and disease. | |
| Wayne Forrester | Mechanisms of directed cell migration in C. elegans. (Medical Sciences Program) | (lab) |
| Roger Hangarter | Plant physiology: Environmental sensory-response systems and plant development. | (lab) |
| Ke Hu | Cytoskeletal biogenesis of apicomplexan parasites. | |
| Thomas Kaufman | Cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of Drosophila. | |
| David Kehoe | Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria. | (lab) |
| Justin Kumar | Compound Eye Development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. | (lab) |
| Soni Lacefield | Chromosome segregation and spindle checkpoint function in meiosis | |
| Melanie Marketon | Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactions. | |
| Tai Min | Molecular mechanisms of Down syndrome, neurological disorders, and aging. | |
| David Nelson | Chlamydial virulence factors and host response. | |
| Joe Pomerening | Signal transduction pathways governing early embryonic and somatic cell cycles, and understanding the integration of feedback loops and other signaling elements in their M-phase control systems. | |
| Elizabeth C. Raff | Specification of three-dimensional biological form in cells and in evolution | |
| Sidney L. Shaw | Microtubule dynamics and cellular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. | |
| Nicholas Sokol | MicroRNA Function in Drosophila | |
| Claire E. Walczak | Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation; Regulation of microtubule dynamics during interphase and mitosis. (Medical Sciences Program) | (lab) |
| Joel Ybe | Correlation between clathrin-mediated endocytosis and Huntington’s disease. | (lab) |
| Andrew Zelhof | Metamorphosis of Drosophila photoreceptor cells. | |
| Miriam E. Zolan | Meiosis and DNA repair. |
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