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Justen Andrews Gene regulatory networks controlling sex in arthropods. (lab)
Carl Bauer Oxygen and light regulation of gene expression; Biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll; Prokaryotic development. (lab)
Yves V. Brun Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria. Bacterial adhesion.  
Peter Cherbas Drosophila development and genomics; Nuclear receptors. (lab)
Thomas F. Donahue Genetic, molecular and biochemical analysis of translation initiation in yeast.  
Mark Estelle Molecular genetics of hormone action in Arabidopsis. (lab)
Wayne Forrester Mechanisms of directed cell migration in C. elegans. (lab)
Pat Foster Mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication, and recombination.  
Clay Fuqua Multicellular interactions of bacteria.
Matthew Hahn Computational and Evolutionary Genomics; Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation; Molecular Population Genetics (lab)
Roger Hangarter Plant physiology: Environmental sensory-response systems and plant development. (lab)
Roger Innes Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen interactions. (lab)
Thomas Kaufman Cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of Drosophila.  
Daniel Kearns Bacterial motility and multicellular behavior.  
David Kehoe Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria. (lab)
Eric Knox Plant evolution; speciation; phylogenetic systematics; chloroplast genome evolution; horizontal gene transfer; flora of Indiana.  
Justin Kumar Eye specification in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. (lab)
Michael Lynch Evolution of molecules, genome structure, and phenotypes. (lab)
Melanie Marketon Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactions.  
Scott Michaels Molecular genetics of flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis and other species. (lab)
Tai Min Molecular mechanisms of Down syndrome, neurological disorders, and aging.  
Kristi Montooth

Evolutionary physiological genetics; population genetics; biochemical adaptation.

 
Leonie Moyle Genetics of speciation and adaptation, comparative genomics, evolutionary ecology, plant reproduction. (lab)
David Nelson Chlamydial virulence factors and host response.  
Jeffrey D. Palmer Molecular evolution: Lateral transfer of mitochondrial genes to the nucleus and between organisms. Evolution of mutation rates. Molecular phylogeny. (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.  
Loren H. Rieseberg Plant evolutionary genomics; speciation; domestication; invasiveness; Compositae genomics; conservation. (lab)
Nicholas Sokol MicroRNA Function in Drosophila  
Milton Taylor The interferon response in hepatitis C patients. A study using DNA array technology to explain the differences in response to treatment. Molecular mechanism of synergy between different interferons using array technology, and various virus systems. (lab)
Greg Velicer Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior.  
Michael J. Wade Evolution in metapopulations; Genetic basis of speciation in Tribolium; Epistasis; Evolutionary genetics of maternal effects; Sexual selection and alternative male mating strategies; Coevolution of arthropod hosts and Wolbachia endosymbionts. (lab)
Claire E. Walczak Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation; Regulation of microtubule dynamics during interphase and mitosis. (Medical Sciences Program) (lab)
Malcolm E. Winkler The physiology, pathogenesis, molecular genetics, stress responses, and genomics of the gram-positive human respiratory pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae. (lab)
Andrew Zelhof Metamorphosis of Drosophila photoreceptor cells.  
Miriam E. Zolan Meiosis and DNA repair.