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John Abbott
Curator of Entomology, Texas Natural Science Center, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
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My research focuses primarily on the biodiversity, biogeography and biology of Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies), particularly in North America and the New World tropics. My interests, however, ...
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Seema Agarwala
Associate Professor in Neurobiology
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During embryogenesis, neurons learn of their cell-fates and are assigned to specific brain nuclei (nucleogenesis), which organize brain connectivity and function. Little is known about how such ...
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Richard Aldrich
Professor and Chair of Neurobiology
Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II
The National Academy of Sciences, member
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Ion channels are the molecular units of electrical signaling in cells. They are proteins that regulate the movement of ions--such as sodium, calcium, and potassium--into and out of cells. They are ...
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Nigel Atkinson
Professor in Neurobiology
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The fundamental question that drives us is: How are ion channel genes regulated and what are the consequences of this regulation? To address this question we have been using the slowpoke gene of ...
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George Bittner
Professor in Neurobiology
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We research cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. That is, we examine various biophysical, biochemical, or molecular mechanisms by which lesioned ...
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Daniel Bolnick
Assistant Professor
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I am interested in understanding the ecological and evolutionary basis of variation within and among populations, and how such variation influences speciation. To address such questions, I combine ...
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Henry Bose
Mary M. Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair In Microbiology
Director, School of Biological Sciences
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A long-standing interest of this laboratory has been to define the mechanism of transformation by the v-rel oncogene. v-Rel is the acutely transforming member of the Rel/NF-κB family of ...
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Jerry J. Brand
Professor, Ph.D.
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Development of methods that optimize the efficiency of culturing living algae under laboratory conditions while stabilizing their genetic composition.
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Richard M. Brown
Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair In Plant Cell Biology
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Cellulose is the most abundant macromolecule on earth, yet details about its biosynthesis and structure remain unclear. We are using broad, interdisciplinary advances and tools to study cellulose and ...
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Karen S. Browning
Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chairman, Cell & Molecular Biology Graduate Program and Director Dual Degree MD/PhD Program
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My research focuses on the initiation of protein synthesis in higher plants. We are seeking a molecular description of the process in which initiation factors (eIF4A, eIF4B, eIF4F, eIF3, eIF2 and ...
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Clarence Chan
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Our research is focused on two basic processes that are critical for the proliferation and well being of all eukaryotic cells - chromosome segregation (i.e., mitosis) and the spatial control of cell ...
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Z. Jeffrey Chen
D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics
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We study genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for gene expression changes in polyploids. Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is an evolutionary innovation for all eukaryotes including some ...
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Arturo DeLozanne
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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We are interested in defining the molecular basis of the lysosomal disorder known as the Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. This disease is caused by mutations in a very large gene and result in the loss of ...
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Moon Draper
Lecturer, Ph.D.
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My interest is the genetic control of the suite of ion channels that
populate a neuron. To this end, we are mapping the promoter elements
that control the transcription of potassium channels in ...
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Jaquelin Dudley
Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a retrovirus that induces mammary carcinomas and T-cell lymphomas in mice by insertional mutagenesis. We have identified the Cux1 protein (also known as ...
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Johann Eberhart
Assistant Professor
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Craniofacial disease is common in humans because of the complexity of craniofacial development. This complexity is caused by the wide variety of cellular processes, including cell migration and cell ...
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Andy Ellington
Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry
Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professor In Biochemistry
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The Ellington lab is primarily interesting in the evolutionary engineering of molecules, pathways, and organisms, and the application of these efforts to real world problems. In particular, we ...
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Janice Fischer
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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My laboratory uses Drosophila genetics and molecular biology to study universal mechanisms of development. We do most of our experiments with the Drosophila compound eye. Patterning of the Drosophila ...
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Hugh Forrest
Professor Emeritus, DSC
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I have not been active in lab research since I retired around 2000. I have continued to be active in research however as Editor (for the last 40 years) of the international journal "Biochemical ...
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George Georgiou
Professor in Chemical Engineering
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #9
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Dr. Georgiou’s group is working on both biotechnology and mechanistic biology problems. In biotechnology, his group is focusing on the development of protein engineering and combinatorial library ...
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Nace Golding
Associate Professor in Neurobiology
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Neuronal dendrites are elaborate, tree-like structures that receive up to thousands of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connections. The morphology and electrical properties of the dendrites ...
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Ellen Gottlieb
Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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A) A primary focus of our work is to decipher the molecular mechanisms governing the exciting field of RNA transport/localization. This process is of fundamental importance in development and ...
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Jeffrey Gross
Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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Our research focuses on vertebrate eye development largely utilizing the zebrafish as a model system, with some projects now extending into mouse models. Combining forward genetic screens with ...
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Adron Harris
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair In Molecular Biology
Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research
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This laboratory is investigating molecular mechanisms responsible for alcoholism and drug dependence. We are defining actions of alcohol and other drugs on brain cells as well as the long-term ...
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Kristen Harris
Professor of Neurobiology
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Knowing the dimensions and connectivity of synapses is fundamental to understanding function. In the brain, more than 90% of synapses occur on dendritic spines. These tiny protrusions from the ...
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Rasika Harshey
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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We have two major research interests. (1) DNA-protein interactions in Mu transposition. Many cancer-causing retroviruses including HIV, recombine with their host genomes in a manner similar to that ...
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David L. Herrin
Professor of Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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There are several lines of molecular biology research currently underway in my laboratory. A major area concerns intron ribozymes that are found primarily in organellar genes, nuclear rRNA genes, ...
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David Hillis
Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor In Natural Sciences
Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Hans A. Hofmann
Assistant Professor
ICMB Fellow
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The research in Dr. Hofmann's laboratory seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution. African cichlid fishes are an ideal model system to ...
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Jon Huibregtse
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Graduate Advisor, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program
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The Huibregtse lab studies the biochemistry of the ubiquitin proteolysis system, a major pathway for degradation of proteins in eukaryotic cells. Our interest in this pathway arose from study of ...
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Alexander C. Huk
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
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Research in our lab focuses on how the primate brain processes visual motion, with the general goals of understanding: (1) how the nervous system represents and transforms information, and (2) how ...
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Enamul Huq
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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Our research is aimed at understanding light signal transduction, specifically those pathways mediated by the phytochrome (phy) family of sensory photoreceptors that absorb light in the red and ...
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Vishwanath Iyer
Associate Professor, MGM
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Nearly all cells respond to physiological or developmental cues by large-scale transcriptional reprogramming – altering the expression of hundreds to thousands of genes throughout the genome. Such ...
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Makkuni Jayaram
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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We study the molecular mechanisms by which extrachromosomal
DNA elements maintain themselves stably and at relatively high copy numbers without endangering their host organisms. The model system ...
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Arlen Johnson
Associate Professor In Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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My lab studies ribosome export and mRNA degradation
in yeast. We use techniques spanning genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and proteomics. Recently, we identified the nuclear ...
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Daniel Johnston
Director; Ctr for Learning and Memory, Institute for Neuroscience
Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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Research in my laboratory is primarily directed towards understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic integration and long-term plasticity of neurons in the medial temporal lobe. ...
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Theresa A. Jones
Professor
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My laboratory studies plasticity of neural structure and synaptic connectivity in adult animals following brain damage and during learning. Damage to the adult brain results in degeneration and ...
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Helmut Koester
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
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In the mammalian brain information is encoded by the activity of many neurons. These neurons are part of neuronal networks that consist of a large number of highly interconnected neurons. These ...
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Robert Krug
Chair, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
Lorene Morrow Kelley Fellow In Microbiology
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The major focus of the Krug laboratory is the molecular biology of human influenza viruses (influenza A and B viruses), which cause widespread human disease. We are determining the molecular ...
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John W. La Claire II
Professor, Ph.D.
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We use marine and freshwater algal cells as model systems for studying basic cell and molecular biological questions. Most recently, we have been investigating the molecular genetic basis for harmful ...
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Alan M. Lambowitz
Mr. & Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. and Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Regents Chairs In Molecular Biology
Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
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Our laboratory studies gene expression, RNA splicing, catalytic RNAs, and retroviral-like genetic elements, including
possible ancestors of HIV-1 and leukemia viruses. We are interested in ...
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Guosong Liu
Adjunct Professor
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Professor Guosong Liu's laboratory aims to understand the "biophysics of memory"�how neurons in our brain physically form connections, why they choose to make certain connections over others and ...
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Alan Lloyd
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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The main goal of my lab is to understand plant developmental mechanisms and plant pigment pathways. In plants, the control of cell fate decisions is a central issue during plant development and ...
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Paul Macdonald
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Doherty, Jr. Regents Chair In Molecular Biology
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Regulation of gene expression at the post-transcriptional level has long been recognized for its essential role in early development, and has more recently emerged as a widespread phenomenon ...
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Mikhail Matz
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology
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We are a molecular biology and genomics lab working on (i) biofluorescence and (ii) evolution in the marine environment. We address a wide range of issues, including:
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Michael Mauk
Professor of Neurobiology
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We investigate information processing and learning in the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex. The levels of analysis are: 1) behavioral studies, reversible lesions and in vivo recordings of neural ...
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Mona Mehdy
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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In response to pathogens and herbivores, plants employ up-regulation and down-regulation of diverse genes to achieve resistance. Research in my lab centers on two areas: 1) molecular mechanisms of ...
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Richard Meyer
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Conjugation is probably the most common mechanism for genetic exchange in bacteria. Bacteria can transfer DNA by conjugation not only between different species, but also into higher organisms such as ...
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S. John Mihic
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Fellow In Molecular Biology
Associate Professor
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Research in my laboratory is focused on characterizing the molecular mechanisms of action of alcohol, inhaled solvents, sedatives and anaesthetics on glycine, GABA-A and serotonin-3 receptors. We ...
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Ian Molineux
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Our major interest is understanding how nucleic acids pass through lipid bilayers. Our model system is bacteriophage T7, which uses three different motor proteins to transport its DNA into the ...
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Jennifer Morgan
Assistant Professor, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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The process by which neurons communicate with each other is called synaptic transmission, and it underlies all human social, cognitive, motor and sexual behaviors. Communication between neurons ...
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Hitoshi Morikawa
Associate Professor in Neurobiology
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Fellow In Molecular Biology
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A large amount of knowledge has accumulated over the past decades implicating the central dopaminergic system in reward-based reinforcement learning, motivated behaviors and locomotion, as well as ...
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Richard Morrisett
Professor in Pharmacy
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My primary research interests center upon the interactions between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters and their synaptic and cellular effects that regulate certain aspects of normal neural ...
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Ulrich Mueller
W.M. Wheeler Lost Pines Professor in Integrative Biology
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Dr. Mueller's research aims at understanding the evolution of organismal interactions, particularly the evolution of mutualisms and the evolution of social conflict and cooperation. Current research ...
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Hiroshi Nishiyama
Assistant Professor in Neurobiology
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The synaptic connections between neurons undergo continuous structural remodeling even in the adult brain. However, we still have not largely understood the structural plasticity of neural circuitry ...
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Theresa O'Halloran
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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The membranes of eukarytoic cells are in continual flux, trafficking receptors and other proteins to their appropriate
intracellular destinations. This process is important to signal transduction, ...
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Tanya Paull
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
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Research in the lab is focused on the DNA damage response in eukaryotic cells, specifically the checkpoint activation and DNA repair responses that occur immediately after the introduction of ...
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Shelley Payne
Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
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We are interested in the genetics and regulation of virulence factors of gram negative pathogens, including Shigella and Vibrio cholerae.
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Jonathan Pierce-Shimomura
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
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Our lab seeks to identify genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors. We approach this complex subject by studying how conserved genes contribute to behaviors in the simple but powerful model nematode ...
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Jonathan Pillow
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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My research interests lie at the intersection of computational
neuroscience, human visual perception, and machine learning. I am
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Martin Poenie
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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We are interested in the cell biology of T cells and how they carry out their effector functions. In particular we are want to know how signaling events lead to reorganization of the T cell ...
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Russell Poldrack
Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology
Director; Imaging Research Center
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My research interests are very generally centered around the questions of how new skills are acquired, how existing skills are expressed, and how people exert executive control during thought and ...
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George Pollak
Professor in Neurobiology
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My principal interests are in elucidating how circuits in the mammalian brain transform information in sensory systems and how populations of neurons then represent features of the external world. ...
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William Press
Professor of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology
Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Chair
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My work is in computational biology, especially whole-genome studies. My collaborators and I develop and test new algorithms for finding and characterizing functional sequence, and for understanding ...
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Alison Preston
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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My research focuses on understanding memory and how it is implemented in the human brain. Using a combination of behavioral and brain imaging techniques, my research explores how we form new ...
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Nicholas Priebe
Assistant Professor in Neurobiology
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The massive expansion of cerebral cortex is a hallmark of the human brain. We know that the cortex plays an essential role in our perceptions and actions. Sensory inputs from the periphery are ...
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Kimberly Raab-Graham
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
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My current research has focused on identifying synaptic mRNAs and developing tools to characterize the local translation of these transcripts. I now plan to use these tools to address the questions ...
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David Ress
Associate Director
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Mission: to develop new neuroimaging methods that permit precise quantitation of brain function and structure, with particular emphasis on the study of vision and visual cortex. The research falls ...
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Austen Riggs
Professor of Biology
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Interactions between and within macromolecular assemblages are frequently the key to understanding many complex cellular processes. I am particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms ...
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Jon Robertus
Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry
Benjamin Clayton Centennial Professor In Biochemistry
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Research in my laboratory focuses on protein structure, action, engineering and rational drug design. This includes analysis of three-dimensional structure by X-ray crystallography, site-directed ...
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Stanley Roux
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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We are studying how the stimuli of light and gravity alter patterns of plant development. In our studies of light-induced responses we have found that ectoapyrase, an enzyme whose expression is ...
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Rick Russell
Associate Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Our group combines biochemical and biophysical approaches to study the processes of RNA folding and assembly with proteins. Some of nature’s most complex and important enzyme machines are composed of ...
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Bob Sanders
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of nutrition and cancer biology. Long term goals are to develop
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Sahotra Sarkar
Professor, Ph.D.
Integrative Biology and Philosophy
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The major thrust of our research is in systematic biodiversity conservation and restoration planning, in particular, the design of conservation area networks. However, we are interested in all areas ...
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K. Sata Sathasivan
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D.
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I am interested in applied plant molecular biology areas such as plant genetic engineering, genome analysis, expression of foreign proteins in plants and developing biofuels.
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Sara Sawyer
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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Evolutionary changes driven by historical viral epidemics have left a molecular �fossil record� in our DNA sequence. Our goal is to learn about natural strategies that have been successful at ...
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Timothy Schallert
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.
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The brain and spinal cord are vulnerable to traumatic injury, stroke, tumors and degenerative diseases, often with devastating functional impairments, but at no time in the history of medicine have ...
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Christine Schmidt
Laurence E. McMakin, Professor of Biomedical Engeering
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Damage to spinal cord and peripheral nerve tissue can have a devastating impact on the quality of life for individuals
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Eyal Seidemann
Associate Professor, Psychology
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The central goal of my research is to understand how perceptual events and motor plans are represented and processed in the primate cerebral cortex. To address these questions, we employ a novel ...
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Marty Shankland
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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Our lab investigates the cellular events that underlie the spatial patterning of embryonic body plans, and the way those pattern-forming mechanisms have evolved during the diversification of ...
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John Sisson
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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The Sisson lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms that control how cells form and differentiate in early animal embryos. Our research is currently focused on elucidating the molecular ...
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Max Snodderly
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
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Dr. Snodderly's core interest is the study of vision. He is interested in the effects of aging on visual function and the potential for nutrition to slow or to prevent age-related diseases such as ...
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David Stein
Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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Most of the research in our lab is focused on the question of how a complex multicellular organism develops from a seemingly simple single cell, the fertilized Drosophila egg. In one set of ...
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Scott Stevens
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) function in many cellular processes and the malfunction of some of these RNPs cause serious human disease. To better understand how disease states can be corrected, our ...
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Christopher Sullivan
Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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The recent discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and small regulatory RNAs such as siRNAs and miRNAs, has dramatically changed our understanding of the regulation of gene expression. Consequently, ...
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Sibum Sung
Assistant Professor Cell and Developmental Biology
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Our research interests focus on the genetic, molecular and biochemical understandings of plant development through plant-environment interactions. We are particularly interested in the epigenetic ...
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Paul J. Szaniszlo
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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Our research uses the model black (melanized) pathogenic mold Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis to identify cell wall-related virulence factors among the more than 100 other ...
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Peter Thomas
Professor, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Marine Sci Institute
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My research interests are the endocrine control of reproduction in fishes and other vertebrates and the effects of environmental factors such as hypoxia and pollutants on reproductive function. ...
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Wesley Thompson
Professor in Neurobiology
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My lab is interested in the role of glial cells in the formation
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Ming Tian
Assistant Professor, MGM
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My research interest is the DNA recombination events that are involved in generating antibody diversity in B cells. The large repertoire of antigen specificity and different effector
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M. Stephen Trent
Associate Professor
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In order to survive, bacteria must quickly respond to changes in the surrounding environment. We are interested in how diverse environmental stimuli promote changes in conserved microbial structures ...
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Philip Tucker
Marie Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology
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We hope to better understand transcriptional regulation of lymphoid and cardiovascular development and function
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My research interests are in understanding the processes and interactions that structure phytoplankton communities. I have two major research areas: the autecology of the oceanic species that ...
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Steven Vokes
Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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Transcriptional and cis-regulatory mechanisms underlie the process of cellular specification during embryonic development. Here, initiating signals tell undifferentiated cells their fates and ...
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James Walker
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
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My research interests include the mechanism by which the bacterial chromosome is replicated, how replication is controlled, and how replication is integrated with cell division. Specifically, we ...
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John Wallingford
Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
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The process by which embryos acquire their final shape involves the coordination of cell fate decisions with cell movement. We are taking an integrated approach to understanding
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Tandy Warnow
Professor in Computer Sciences
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Phylogenies (i.e. evolutionary trees) are fundamental to our understanding of evolution, and their inference
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Marvin Whiteley
Assistant Professor Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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Bacteria exhibit many social activities and represent a model for dissecting social behavior at the genetic level (recently defined as sociomicrobiology). One example of social behavior in bacteria ...
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Claus Wilke
Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology
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Wilke works in the areas of computational and theoretical biology. His research can be broadly subdivided into three areas: (1) molecular evolution, (2) evolution of RNA viruses, (3) theoretical ...
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Harold Zakon
Professor in Neurobiology
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Ion channels are fundamental for the workings of the nervous system. We study the function, regulation, and evolution of voltage-dependent ion channels. Our main focus has been to study the ...
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