Research Summaries
Research Summaries
| Alfonso, Aixa | Classical and molecular genetic analysis of neural development and synapse function in C. elegans |
| Ashley, Mary | Molecular ecology, landscape genetics, conservation biology |
| BassiriRad, Hormoz | Ecophysiology, plant nutrition and global climate change |
| Chang, Chieh | Molecular and opto-genetic investigation of neural circuit assembly and regeneration |
| Chuang, Chiou-Fen | Molecular and genetic mechanisms of cellular diversity in the C. elegans sensory system |
| Dubreuil, Ronald | Genetic studies of spectrin in Drosophila: effects on absorption, packaging, and transport of dietary fat and effects on the development of Parkinson’s disease |
| Gong, Liang-Wei | Molecular mechanisms of exocytosis and endocytosis |
| Gonzalez-Meler, Miquel | Response of ecosystems and plants to environmental change with emphasis on ecosystem effects on climate, human-nature interactions, and the impact of non-native species (including pests) on ecosystem function. Other areas include bioenergy systems, sustainability of urban areas, and environmental forensics. |
| Howe, Henry F. | I study restoration of seed-dispersal processes and habitat heterogeneity in fragmented tropical landscapes. |
| Igic, Boris | Evolution, mating systems, diversity and disparity within/among organismal groups, quantitative trait loci |
| Jeffery, Constance | Protein structure, function and evolution, membrane proteins, moonlighting proteins, pseudoenzymes, the effects of disease- causing mutations on protein structure and function, predicting protein functions |
| Kay, Brian | Molecular recognition, protein-protein interactions, protein engineering, biotechnology, phage-display |
| Lynch, Jeremy | Evolution of development, insects, embryos, pattern formation, germline determination, cis-regulatory logic, genetic basis of form and morphogenesis |
| Malchow, Robert Paul | Synaptic mechanisms in the vertebrate retina; neural-glial interactions; transport processes |
| Mason-Gamer, Roberta | I use genetic methods to study plant evolutionary history, with a particular focus on the phylogenetics of polyploids and hybrids. |
| Minor, Emily | Landscape ecology, urban ecology, conservation planning, dispersal and invasions |
| Morrison, Don | Genetic recombination and quorum sensing in the streptococci |
| Okkema, Peter | Muscle & neuronal development and organogenesis in the nematode C. elegans |
| Orenic, Teresa | Pattern formation in the Drosophila adult limbs and nervous system |
| Park, Thomas | Neurobiology studies of sensory systems using behavioral and physiological techniques |
| Polikanov, Yury | Structural studies of ribosome functional complexes |
| Poretsky, Rachel | Microbial ecology in marine and freshwater environments, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, bioinformatics |
| Richmond, Janet | Behavioral, electrophysiological and ultrastructural analyses in C. elegans to resolve molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission (exocytosis, endocytosis and receptor trafficking) |
| Saxena, Ankur | Quantitative analysis of neural crest stem cell and neural crest- derived cancer migration/differentiation in vivo |
| Shingleton, Alex | Evolution, Development, Physiology, Eco-Evo-Devo, Gene-Environment Interactions, Modeling, Drosophila, Morphology, Allometry, Plasticity |
| Stone, David | G protein regulated signaling, directional sensing, and cellular polarization in yeast |
| Warpeha, Katherine | Global change biology, cellular stress, cellular signaling, plant products of the phenylpropanoid pathway |
| Wise, David | Structure and dynamics of terrestrial food webs using long–term field experiments, observations of natural gradients, and mathematical modeling of ecological and evolutionary processes |