Department of Biology
Faculty Research Interests 

Aramayo, Rodolfo - meiotic silencing in Neurospora crassa.

Aufderheide, Karl - cell and developmental biology; developmental genetics; development and differentiation in unicellular organisms; intracellular pattern formation.

Bell-Pedersen, Deb - Molecular genetics and genomics of
circadian clocks and signaling pathways in fungi.

Benedik, Michael - Microbial genetics, protein translocation and microbial biotechnology.

Campbell, Lisa - phytoplankton ecology; phytoplankton community structure, population dynamics, and diversity.

Carney, Ginger - nervous system development and function, genetic control of behaviors

Cassone, Vincent - behavioral neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action.

Criscione, Charles - ecology, evolution, and genetics of parasites

Datta, Sumana - development of the central nervous system in Drosophila melanogaster.

Earnest, David - neurobiology of mammalian circadian rhythms and their regulation by light-dark signals.

Erickson, James - Sex determination in Drosophilia; temporal and transcriptional controls in development; RNA silencing mechanisms.

Garcia, Luis Rene - genetics of behavior and development in C. elegans.

Golden, James - genetics and molecular biology of cyanobacterial heterocyst differentiation, pattern formation, and nitrogen-fixation.

Golden, Susan - molecular biology of photosynthesis and circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria.

Greenbaum, Ira - animal cytogenetics and evolution.

Griffing, Lawrence - structure and biochemical organization of cells; membrane trafficking.

Guarino, Linda - regulation of viral gene expression.

Hall, Timothy - molecular basis of gene regulation in plants, especially the involvement of chromatin in spatial control of expression and in gene silencing.

Hardin, Paul - Molecular biology of biological clocks in Drosophila; Behavioral neurogenetics; Transcriptional regulation.

Harper, Don - ecology of soft-bottom macrobenthic communities.

Holzenburg, Andreas - Structure-function relationships of macromolecular assemblies, biogenesis and architecture of chloroplast membranes, photosynthesis, bio-nanotechnology.

Jones, Adam - evolutionary genetics, including molecular ecology, sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and molecular evolution.

Kanz, James - invertebrate neuroethology; delineation of animal behavior patterns.

Kemp, Michael - Parasitology, Immunology of parasitic infections, especially schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis and malaria.

Lekven, Arne - Molecular genetics of mesoderm induction and patterning in zebrafish.

Lin, Xiaorong - Molecular genetics and genomics of morphogenesis and pathogenesis in human fungal pathogens.

Lints, Robyn - genetics of nervous system development and function in C. elegans

Lints, Thierry - Molecular control of vocal learning and social communication in songbirds.

 

MacKenzie, Duncan - comparative endocrinology of reproduction and thyroid function in fish, amphibians, and reptiles.

Maggert, Keith - genetic and molecular analysis of genomic imprinting in Drosophila.

Manhart, James - microsatellite and other genetic markers and their application to population genetics of rare and endangered and invasive plants.

Manson, Michael - molecular basis of motility and chemical sensing in bacteria; bacterial chemotaxis as a model behavior system.

McKnight, Thomas - molecular analysis of protein secretion in plants; plant genome organization and evolution.

Moyes, Rita - microbiology, immunology.

Patterson, C.O. - physiology of photosynthesis in the cyanobacteria.

Pepper, Alan - environmental regulation of development in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Perkins, Brian - Genetic and cell biological studies of retinal development in zebrafish

Qin, Hongmin - Ciliogenesis and Intraflagellar Transport in Chlamydomonas and C. elegans

Riley, Bruce - genetic regulation of zebra fish development.

Rizzo, Peter - histones and histone-like proteins in eukaryotic algae.

Rosenthal, Gil - Evolution and ecology of animal communication; mate choice and evolutionary genetics in Mexican freshwater fishes; visual ecology and evolution of Neotropical reef fishes.

Ryan, Kathryn - Nuclear pore complex assembly and nuclear envelope dynamics using yeast as a model system.

Sachs, Matt - Regulation of eukaryotic gene expression focused primarily on post-transcriptional control; functional analyses of fungi at the genome level

Scott, Tim - crocodilian biology.

Siegele, Deborah - genetics and molecular biology of genes required for stationary-phase survival of E. coli.

Smotherman, Michael - neurobiology of animal communication: sensory-motor integration

Stidham, Thomas - vertebrate paleontology, integrative biology, and the evolution of birds

Summers, Max - genetic engineering of invertebrate viral expression vectors; sorting of integral membrane proteins to nuclear membranes.

Thomas, Terry - plant molecular biology; developmental and environmental control of plant gene expression; functional genomics of diverse species.

Versaw, Wayne - plant and fungal molecular biology; phosphate transport and metabolism.

Wicksten, Mary - adaptive coloration of marine invertebrates; distribution, behavior, and classification of eastern Pacific Decapoda Crustacea.

Wilson, Hugh - angiosperm evolution and systematics; origin and differentiation of domesticated species.

Xiong, Jin - molecular evolution of photosynthesis.

Young, Ry - molecular genetics; cell-cycle regulation in fission yeast; bacteriophage lysis mechanism; bacterial toxins.

Zoran, Mark - developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synapse formation; neural regeneration; biological clock control of neural signaling.