| Justen Andrews | Gene regulatory networks controlling sex in arthropods. | (lab) |
| 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. | |
| Peter Cherbas | Drosophila development and genomics; Nuclear receptors. | (lab) |
| 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) |
| Thomas Kaufman | Cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of Drosophila. | |
| Justin Kumar | Compound Eye Development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. | (lab) |
| Scott Michaels | Molecular genetics of flowering time regulation and chromatin structure in Arabidopsis and other species. | (lab) |
| Tai Min | Molecular mechanisms of Down syndrome, neurological disorders, and aging. | |
| Armin Moczek | Evolution and Development; Insect Genomics; Developmental Plasticity; Behavioral Ecology and Sexual Selection; Insect Endocrinology; Invasive Species and post-invasion Evolution; Natural History of Onthophagus beetles. | (lab) |
| 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 | |
| Rudolf A. Raff | Evolutionary developmental biology; Evolution of early development; Larval origins; How embryos fossilize. | |
| Sidney L. Shaw | Microtubule dynamics and cellular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. | |
| Nicholas Sokol | MicroRNA Function in Drosophila | |
| Greg Velicer | Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior. | |
| Andrew Zelhof | Metamorphosis of Drosophila photoreceptor cells. | |
| Miriam E. Zolan | Meiosis and DNA repair. |
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