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• Justen Andrews: Gene regulatory networks controlling sex in arthropods.
• Carl Bauer: Regulation of gene expression by light and oxygen; prokaryotic cell development.
• José Bonner: Genetic and Molecular Analysis of the Heat Shock Response.
• Yves Brun: Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria.
• Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Lingling Chen: Structural and biochemical studies on protein-protein interactions in GroEL-mediated protein folding and microbial communications.
• Peter Cherbas: Steroid-regulated gene expression in the development of Drosophila.
• Yean W. Chooi Odle: Eucaryotic ribosome biogenesis. Autoimmune diseases. Memory.
• Keith Clay: Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Plant/Fungal Interactions.
• Lynda Delph: Evolutionary Ecology, Plant Reproductive Strategies.
• Greg Demas: Hormones, brain and behavior, neuroendocrine-immune interactions and seasonal regulation of reproduction, aggression and immune function.
• Wayne Forrester: Developmental biology, cell-cell signaling, cancer metastasis.
• Patricia L. Foster: DNA repair, recombination, and mutagenesis.
• Roger P. Hangarter: Plant Physiology.
• Richard Hardy: Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors.
• Diane Henshel: Developmental neurobiology, Environmental toxicology.
• Laura Hurley: Neuroethology of the auditory system, neuromodulation of sensory systems.
• Roger Innes: Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen interactions.
• Daniel Kearns: Bacterial motility and multicellular behavior.
• David Kehoe: Signal transduction and the regulation of gene expression in bacteria.
• Ellen D. Ketterson: Our group studies behavior and evolution of birds, working in the field and with captives.
• Curt Lively: Population biology; predatory-prey and host-parasite interactions.
• Melanie Marketon: Microbial pathogenesis and microbe-host interactions.
• Emilia Martins: Behavioral evolution, communication and social behavior of lizards and zebrafish, genetic and hormonal bases of behavior, computational tools for studying behavior and evolution.
• Anthony L. Mescher: Cellular and Developmental Biology.
• Scott Michaels: Molecular genetics of flowering time regulation and chromatin structure in Arabidopsis and other species.
• Armin P. Moczek: The origins of novel traits in insects; evolution of developmental mechanisms; behavioral ecology and sexual selection.
• Leonie Moyle: Evolutionary genetics, speciation, plant reproductive biology.
• Tuli Mukhopadhyay: Assembly and structure of RNA, enveloped viruses.
• Kenneth Nephew: Chemoprevention of epithelial cancer (breast, ovary, prostate); Nuclear Receptors and Steroid Hormone Action; Reproductive Tract Biology.
• Jeffrey D. Palmer: 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.
• Flynn Picardal: Environmental microbiology, biogeochemistry, bioremediation of pollutants.
• Anne Prieto: Functional roles of receptor protein tyrosine kinases and their ligands during the development of the central nervous system.
• Rudolph A. Raff: Evolution of Development.
• Heather Reynolds: Plant Community Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions.
• G. Troy Smith: Neuroethology and neuroendocrinology of sexually dimorphic communication behavior.
• Nicholas Sokol: MicroRNA Function in Drosophila.
• Stefan Surzycki: Physical mapping of chloroplast DNA of Chlamydomonas reinhardti and its expression.
• Roderick A. Suthers: Physiology, neural basis of animal behavior, bioacoustics.
• Claire Walczak: Molecular mechanisms of mitosis.
• John B. Watkins III: The effect of diabetes mellitus on hepatobiliary function; the regulation of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase expression in rats with diabetes mellitus; the effect of antioxidants on oxidative stress in diabetic rodents; the effect of a low carbohydrate diet on oxidative stress in diabetic rodents.
• Maxine Watson: Plant developmental ecology; phytogeography (biogeography of plants).
• Andrew Zelhof: Metamorphosis of Drosophila photoreceptor cells.
• Miriam Zolan: Meiosis and DNA Repair.