Gene regulatory networks controlling sex in arthropods.

Oxygen and light regulation of gene expression; Biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll; Prokaryotic development.

Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria. Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation.

Drosophila development and genomics; Nuclear receptors.

Structure and organization of biological membranes; phospholipid transporters; effect of diabetes on membrane structure. (Medical Sciences Program)

Genetic, molecular and biochemical analysis of translation initiation in yeast.

Limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins: a minimalist approach to structure and function.

Human chromosome duplication and maintenance of genome integrity.

Mechanisms of directed cell migration in C. elegans.

Mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication, and recombination.

Multicellular interactions of bacteria.

Plant physiology: Environmental sensory-response systems and plant development.

Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors.

Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen interactions.

Cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of Drosophila.

Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria.

Plant evolution; speciation; phylogenetic systematics; chloroplast genome evolution; horizontal gene transfer; flora of Indiana.

Compound Eye Development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

Evolution of molecules, genome structure, and phenotypes.

Molecular genetics of flowering time regulation and chromatin structure in Arabidopsis and other species.

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.

Chlamydial virulence factors and host response.

Specificity of coiled-coil interactions and protein-lipid interactions. (Department of Chemistry)

Comparative genomics and molecular evolution: Horizontal gene transfer in plants. Evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes and RNA editing. Intracellular transfer of organellar genes to the nucleus. Evolution of mutation rates. Molecular phylogeny.

Specification of three-dimensional biological form in cells and in evolution

Evolutionary developmental biology; Evolution of early development; Larval origins; How embryos fossilize.

Microtubule dynamics and cellular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis.

Structural molecular biology. (Department of Chemistry)

Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation; Regulation of microtubule dynamics during interphase and mitosis. (Medical Sciences Program)

The physiology, pathogenesis, molecular genetics, stress responses, and genomics of the gram-positive human respiratory pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Correlation between clathrin-mediated endocytosis and Huntington’s disease.

Meiosis and DNA repair.