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Professor
Meiotic
recombination, recombinational DNA repair in yeast and mammalian
cells.
Professor
Regulation
of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.
Professor
Developmental
genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in
Drosophila.
Assistant Professor
Cell adhesion and migration; Cytoskeletal dynamics; Cellular mechanosensation.
Professor
Organelle
biogenesis; organization of the transitional ER and Golgi apparatus
in yeast and mammalian cells.
Professor
The
molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells.
Professor
Arabidopsis
defense mechanisms against bacterial infection; Pseudomonas syringae
virulence mechanisms.
Assistant Professor
Regulation
of microtubule dynamics and interactions by molecular motors.
Assistant Professor
Epithelial
Morphogenesis and Organ Shape.
Assistant Professor
Molecular
mechanisms of actin assembly and cytokinesis in fission yeast: molecular
genetic to in vitro single molecule studies.
Professor
Signal
transduction, cell cycle control, and checkpoints. Technology for
proteomics, drug discovery and systems biology.
Associate Professor
Molecular
regulation of root system growth and development; establishing drought
tolerance in crop plants.
Assistant Professor
Cytoskeletal
dynamics, cell polarization, dynamics of cellular morphogenesis
in early embryos, computational cell and developmental biology.
Associate Professor
Transcriptional
regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine
kinase signal transduction.
Professor
How DNA sequence specifies biological form.
Professor
RNA
polymerases structure and function; mechanisms of transcription
regulation; host-viral interactions.
Assistant Professor
Molecular basis of systems behavior.
Assistant Professor
Chromatin Biochemistry and Structure.
Chair of the Graduate Program,
Associate Professor
Pre-mRNA
splicing: quality control, signal transduction, intron function
and snRNA function. Approaches include genetics, genomics, cell
biology and biochemistry in budding yeast.
Associate Professor
Secretory
granules; exocytosis and endocytosis; evolution of membrane traffic.
Professor
Epithelial Barriers: Structure, regulation, and impact on human health.
Professor
Cellular
differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; acetyl CoA carboxylase
in plants and humans.
Professor
Structure
of sickle-cell hemoglobin fibers and the red cell cytoskeleton by
cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction.
Associate Professor
Chloroplast
development; nuclear genes coding for chloroplast proteins; regulation
of protein import and posttranslational processing.
Associate Professor
Chloroplast
biogenesis and genetics; biochemical genetics and photophysics of
photosynthesis; correlated genomic and genetic analysis.
Professor
Herpes
simplex viruses, gene function and regulation, mechanisms of latent
infection, vectors for gene therapy.
Professor
Changes
in gene expression in human leukemia cells with recurring chromosome
translocations.
Professor
Immunoglobulin
gene expression; somatic hypermutation; regulation and functions
of DNA methylation in development and transcription.
Professor
Developmental
genetics of oogenesis; ovarian germline stem cell; genetics of spermatogenesis.
Professor
Structure
of cell nucleus; RNA transcription and processing; implications
for the immune system; novel growth factors for tissue maintenance
and differentiation.
Professor
Membrane
cholesterol biochemistry and cholesterol homeostasis.
Professor
Mechanism
of mutation; role of DNA polymerases in response to mutagenic agents.
Professor
Molecular
mechanism of muscle contraction, nonmuscle actomyosin, cell motility,
microfilaments, and microtubules.
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