Jonathon Arnold, Professor

Fungal gene regulatory and biochemical networks, and biological clocks. View site ›

Maor Bar-Peled, Associate Professor

Molecular cell biology of the wall, Biofuel and BioEnergy, Golgi as model for System biology, Plant Immunity. View site ›

Jeff Bennetzen, Professor

Plant genomics and genome evolution, transposable elements, and regulatory gene evolution. View site ›

John M. Burke, Associate Professor

Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics; molecular evolution; genomics. View site ›

Haini N. Cai, Associate Professor

Nuclear and genome organization; Chromatin structure and function; Gene regulation in Drosophila development. View site ›

Brian Condie, Assistant Professor

The genetic analysis of mouse pharyngeal development and the development of new tools for chromosome engineering. View site ›

Steve Dalton, Professor

Stem cell biology, development of cell therapies for type 1 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Pluripotent stem cells in early development and induced pluripotent stem cells- cell reprogramming.View site ›

Alan Darvill, Professor

Investigating the structure and function of plant cell walls and the study of the conversion of biomass to biofuel.View site ›

Kelly Dawe, Professor

Plant centromere and kinetochore structure and function. View site ›

Harry W. Dickerson, Professor

Comparative Immunology; molecular parasitology. View site ›

Roberto Docampo, Professor

Cellular and molecular biology of acidocalcisomes; the role of polyphosphate in trypanosomatids. View site ›

Scott T. Dougan, Assistant Professor

Molecular and cellular basis of pattern formation in vertebrates; developmental genetics of zebrafish. View site ›

Mark Farmer, Professor

Protist systematics, cell evolution, and flagellar development. View site ›

Marcus Fechheimer , Josiah Meigs Professor

Non-muscle actin cytoskeleton; Hirano bodies; Changes in the cytoskeleton in neurodegenerative disease. View site ›

Jacek Gaertig, Professor

Molecular cell biology of the cytoskeleton; molecular genetics of ciliates. View site ›

Stephen L. Hajduk, Professor

Biochemistry and molecular biology of African trypanosomes. View site ›

Donald Harn, Professor and GRA Distinguished Investigator

Mechanistic analysis of parasite induced immune suppression. Translational research on immuno-modulation pertaining to inflammation based diseases. Vaccine development and trials.View site ›

Biao He, Associate Professor and GRA Distinguished Investigator

Paramyxovirus-host interactions, vaccine development, emerging paramyxovirus and onocylytic virus View site ›

Natarajan Kannan, Assistant Professor

Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. View site ›

Edward T. Kipreos, Professor

Regulation of the cell cycle; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis and development. View site ›

Kim Klonowski, Assistant Professor

Development and regulation of immunological memory. View site ›

Sidney Kushner, Professor

Molecular genetics of DNA repair and mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation in E. coli. View site ›

Eric Lafontaine, Associate Professor

Bacterial pathogenesis; role of adhesins in virulence; vaccine development. View site ›

James D. Lauderdale, Associate Professor

Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development. View site ›

Jim Leebens-Mack, Assistant Professor

Phylogentics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation; evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution. View site ›

Wolfgang Lukowitz, Assistant Professor

Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos. View site ›

Russell L. Malmberg, Professor

Bioinformatics of non-coding RNAs and gene family evolution; Evolutionary genetics of Sarracenia (Pitcher plant) species. View site ›

Nancy Manley, Associate Professor

Evolution, organogenesis, and function of the thymus and parathyroids. View site ›

Michael McEachern, Associate Professor

Fungal telomere structure and function, and their cellular role(s). View site ›

Richard Meagher, Professor

Molecular genetics and evolution of Arabidopsis gene expression; engineering plants for phytoremediation of ionic- and methyl-mercury. View site ›

Douglas Menke, Assistant Professor

Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.

Kojo Mensa-Wilmot , Professor

Cell Signaling, Organelle Biogenesis, and Drug Discovery in Trypanosomes. View site ›

Michelle Momany, Professor

Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi. View site ›

Julie Moore, Associate Professor

Human and animal model-based studies of host immune mechanisms in malaria during pregnancy and their disruption in HIV-1 infection. View site ›

Kelley Moremen, Professor

Biochemistry, molecular, and structural biology of mammalian glycoprotein biosynthesis and catabolism. Regulation of glycan-related gene expression in animal systems. View site ›

Silvia Moreno, Professor

Targeting metabolic pathways of protozoan parasites for chemotherapeutic purposes. View site ›

Andrew Paterson, Professor

Plant genome evolution diagnostic tools predicting traits such as disease resistance, improved productivity and quality; plant biodiversity. View site ›

David Peterson, Associate Professor

Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host- parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum. View site ›

Michael "Hawkeye" Pierce, Professor  

Cancer diagnostics and therapeutics by exploiting changes in glycan expression during oncogenesis and tumor progression.  Glycoproteomics technology development and application to stem cell differentiation. View site ›

Fred Quinn, Professor

Tuberculosis pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions. View site ›

Robert Sabatini, Assistant Professor

Molecular and biochemical parasitology: DNA modification, homologous recombination and the regulation of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei. View site ›

Cordula Schulz, Assistant Professor

Tissue replenishment from stem cells, Drosophila genetics. View site ›

Walter K. Schmidt, Jr., Assistant Professor

Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer's disease. View site ›

Robert A. Scott, Distinguished Research Professor

Post-genomic discovery of transcriptional regulatory machinery associated with control of microbial hydrogen production as alternative energy source. View site ›

Ping Shen, Associate Professor

Molecular and Cellular Basis of Brain Functions and Development in the Drosophila Model. View site ›

Vincent Starai, Assistant Professor

Bacterial modulation of eukaryotic membrane dynamics for intracellular survival; SNARE-dependent membrane fusion biochemistry.View site ›

Richard Steet, Assistant Professor

Lysosomal disease pathogenesis, zebrafish models, cartilage biology, congenital disorders of glycosylation. View site ›

Boris Striepen, Associate Professor

Cell and molecular biology of protozoan parasites; organelle evolution and biogenesis, metabolism and drug development. View site ›

Rick Tarleton, Professor

Mechanisms of immunity and disease in Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas Disease); Basic and applied biology of T. cruzi. View site ›

Michael Terns, Professor

Non-coding RNA-protein complexes important in cancer and viral defense. View site ›

Rebecca Terns, Senior Research Scientist

RNA-mediated viral defense in prokaryotes.  Regulation of telomerase in cancer cells. View site ›

S. Mark Tompkins, Assistant Professor

Transmission and pathogenicity of zoonotic influenza virus infection and development of vaccination and the prevention and treatment of viral infections. View site ›  

Chung-Jui Tsai, Professor

Molecular mechanisms underpinning tree fitness biomass productivity. View site ›

Jeffrey Urbauer, Associate Professor

Structural biology of transcription regulation, steroid hormone activation and breast cancer. View site ›

Wendy Watford, Assistant Professor

Regulation of host defense and tolerance by Stat transcription factors. View site ›

Lianchun Wang, Assistant Professor

The role of heparan sulfate proteoglycan in vascular and tumor biology. View site ›

Lance Wells, Assistant Professor

Systems, chemical, and molecular biology approaches to understanding the role of O-glycosylation in human disease. View site ›

Janet Westpheling, Professor

Molecular genetics of Steptomyces metabolic developmental processes; enhanced biofuel product by bacteria. View site ›

Zachary A. Wood, Assistant Professor

X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of nucleotide sugar metabolism. View site ›

Robert Woods, Professor

3D structure of polysaccharides and lipids and the design of carbohydrate-based vaccines. View site ›

Ying Xu, Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Professor

Cancer Computational and Systems Biology, Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling. View site ›

Xiaoyu Zhang, Assistant Professor

Functional genomics; epigenetic control of plant gene expression. View site ›

Shaying Zhao, Assistant Professor

Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability. View site ›