Research
Research in the Department of Biology spans the entire breadth of biology: from ecology and evolution to molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Our research is supported by a wide array of funding sources, including NIH, NSF and the Welch Foundation.
Many departmental faculty members actively participate in campus-wide interdepartmental graduate and research programs, including Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, and the newly formed faculty of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavioral Biology.
Biological Clocks
Molecular genetics and genomics of circadian clocks and signaling pathways in fungi
Neurobiology of mammalian circadian rhythms and their regulation by light-dark signals
Molecular biology of biological clocks in Drosophila; behavioral neurogenetics; transcriptional regulation.
Molecular genetics and genomics of monarch butterfly circadian clocks and long-distance migration
Developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synapse formation; neural regeneration; biological clock control of neural signaling