Biology Faculty Research

Paul F. Agris, Professor.
Molecular Biology; Nucleic Acids; Drug therapeutics.
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Marlene Belfort, Distinguished Professor
Gene expression; introns; inteins, regulation by small RNA.
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Thomas Caraco, Associate Professor.
Theoretical ecology; landscape ecology of epidemics.
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Haijun Chen , Assistant Professor.
The molecular properties of channels and signalling in the cell membrane.
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Richard P. Cunningham, Professor.
Biochemical and biophysical studies on DNA repair enzymes.
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Dan Fabris, Professor.
Protein-nucleic acid interactions; Mass spectrometry; RNA-based drug therapeutics
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Helen T. Ghiradella, Professor.
Cuticular patterning in insects; insect structural colors; flash control in the firefly; sensory systems in minute arthropods; effects of lead on insect behavior.
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Mary Katherine (Katy) Gonder, Assistant Professor.
Comparative human and non-human primate evolutionary genetics, primate biogeography and primate behavior and ecology with a special interest in African biodiversity.
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Gary Kleppel, Professor.
Aquatic ecology; effect of human demographic and land-use patterns on ecosystem integrity.
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Melinda Larsen , Associate Professor.
Molecular basis for organ development, role of cell-extracellular matrix and cell-cell signaling
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Pan T.X. Li , Assistant Professor
Single Molecule Manipulation and Detection; RNA Folding and Macromolecule Assembly
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Gregory A. Lnenicka, Professor.
Role of activity in axon growth and synaptic development; synaptic physiology and morphology; activity-dependent changes in Ca2+ regulation.
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Albert J. T. Millis, Professor.
Molecular biology of cellular aging and vascular smooth-muscle cell differentiation; extracellular matrix and metalloproteinase gene regulation and expression.
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Robert Osuna, Associate Professor.
Regulation of bacterial gene expression.
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Cara T. Pager, Assistant Professor.
Virus-host interactions; Translational control, replication and assembly of RNA viruses; miRNA-mediated gene regulation; RNA granules
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Prashanth Rangan, Assistant Professor.
RNA regulation in maintaining stem cells; translational regulators; germ line stem cells in D. malanogaster.
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George Robinson, Associate Professor.
Plant community ecology; biological invasions; biodiversity and public policy; restoration ecology.
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John T. Schmidt, Professor.
Gene expression in synapse formation and plasticity in the retinotectal projection; growth cone motility and its regulation by myosin light chain kinase.
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Annalisa Scimemi, Assistant Professor.
Synaptic structure and function; Astrocyte control of synaptic transmission; Synaptic basis of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Hua Shi , Associate Professor.
Molecular and cell biology of transcription and signal transduction; aptamer-mediated multi-pathway control in living organisms; forward engineering approach to cancer drug discovery and development.
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David A. Shub, Professor.
Origin and function of self/splicing introns; catalytic RNA and gene regulation; homing endonucleases and unidirectional gene conversion.
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Caro-Beth Stewart, Associate Professor.
Molecular basis for adaptive evolution; evolution of digestive enzymes; phylogenetic analysis of gene families; primate molecular evolution and phylogeny.
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Ben G. Szaro, Professor.
Cytoskeletal proteins in developing and regenerating axons.
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Jeffrey L. Travis, Research Associate Professor.
Mechanism of intracellular transport; membrane-cytoskeletal interactions; novel methods of microtubule assembly.
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Ing-Nang Wang, Associate Professor.
Experimental evolution; microbial evolution; molecular population genetics.
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Sho-Ya Wang, Professor.
Retinoids and gene regulation; murine teratocarcinoma cell differentiation; transcription factors and differentiation; Na+ channel structure-function relationships.
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Richard S. Zitomer, Professor and Chairperson.
Regulation of expression of the yeast genes by oxygen.
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