Jerry Brand

Development of methods that optimize the efficiency of culturing living algae under laboratory conditions while stabilizing their genetic composition

Clarence Chan (Adjunct - Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)

Research in our laboratory is centered on two cellular processes that are of fundamental importance in the eukaryotic cell cycle - chromosome segregation (or mitosis) and cellular morphogenesis (or spatial control of cell growth and division).

Our laboratory studies genetic, epigenetic, and evolutionary consequences of polyploidy on genome function.

Arturo De Lozanne

We are interested in the study of cell motility and its role in different aspects of cell biology. Our current efforts are directed towards understanding the molecular basis of cytokinesis.

Janice Fischer

Molecular mechanisms of cell communication in Drosophila eye development.

Jeff Gross

Development and function of the visual system.

David Herrin

Ribozymes; group-I introns; intron-encoded restriction endonucleases; circadian control of gene expression

Enamul Huq

Light signal transduction in plants

Klaus Kalthoff

I am serving as faculty advisor for a new B.S. Biology degree plan in Human Biology. It emphasizes topics that educated citizens should be familiar with, ranging from the human genome project to the carrying capacity of Earth.

John La Claire

Cell and molecular biology of algae. Three different projects have included studies on cell motility and native chloroplast plasmids in giant-celled green algae, and gene expression in toxic bloom-forming algae.

Alan Lloyd

Tom Mabry (Emeritus)

Natural products chemistry; neurotoxins; phytoestrogens; antiviral proteins; terpenoids, phenolics, and alkaloids; chemistry of plant tissue cultures; and phytoalexins

Paul Macdonald

Localized cytoplasmic determinants in Drosophila development; mRNA localization; translational regulation

Mona Mehdy

Signalling pathways and gene expression in plants during plant-pathogen interactions

Jennifer Morgan

Molecular mechanisms of neuronal communication

Terry O'Halloran

Regulation of membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells

Martin Poenie

Signal transduction in activated T cells

Stan Roux

Marty Shankland

Evolution of developmental mechanisms

We research the role of the membrane transport and mRNA metabolism in Drosophila cleavage furrow formation and cell polarity.

Dave Stein

Development of the Drosophila ovary, egg and embryo

Sibum Sung

Our research interests focus on the genetic, molecular and biochemical understandings of plant development through plant-environment interactions

-Molecular control of cell motility and cell shape change.
-Mechanisms of tissue morphogenesis during neural tube closure and gastrulation.
-Evolution of morphogenetic mechanisms.