Thomas Caraco, Associate Professor.
Theoretical ecology; landscape ecology of epidemics.

Haijun Chen , Assistant Professor.
The molecular properties of channels and signalling in the cell membrane.

Richard P. Cunningham, Professor.
Biochemical and biophysical studies on DNA repair enzymes.

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.

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.

Helmut V. B. Hirsch, Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Behavioral and genetic analysis of developmental plasticity in Drosophila; developmental neuroethology; use of Drosophila as a model system for studying the effects of stress,pollution, and climate changes.

Gary Kleppel, Professor.
Aquatic ecology; effect of human demographic and land-use patterns on ecosystem integrity.

Melinda Larsen , Assistant Professor.
Molecular basis for organ development, role of cell-extracellular matrix and cell-cell signaling

Min-Ho Lee , Assistant Professor.
RNA metabolism and Translational Regulation in Germline Development; C. elegans and closely related Nematodes

Pan T.X. Li , Assistant Professor
Single Molecule Manipulation and Detection; RNA Folding and Macromolecule Assembly

Gregory A. Lnenicka, Professor.
Role of activity in axon growth and synaptic development; synaptic physiology and morphology; activity-dependent changes in Ca2+ regulation.

Kurt McKean , Assistant Professor.
Evolutionary and ecological immunology, and evolution of pathogen virulence.

Albert J. T. Millis, Professor and Chairperson.
Molecular biology of cellular aging and vascular smooth-muscle cell differentiation; extracellular matrix and metalloproteinase gene regulation and expression.

Robert Osuna, Associate Professor.
Regulation of bacterial gene expression.

George Robinson, Associate Professor.
Plant community ecology; biological invasions; biodiversity and public policy; restoration ecology.

Jamie C. Rusconi, Assistant Professor
Developmentally regulated programmed cell death (PCD) or apoptosis; genetics and cell biology of developing Drosophila.

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.

Hua Shi , Assistant 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.

David A. Shub, Professor.
Origin and function of self/splicing introns; catalytic RNA and gene regulation; homing endonucleases and unidirectional gene conversion.

Caro-Beth Stewart, Associate Professor.
Molecular basis for adaptive evolution; evolution of digestive enzymes; phylogenetic analysis of gene families; primate molecular evolution and phylogeny.

Ben G. Szaro, Professor.
Cytoskeletal proteins in developing and regenerating axons.

Jeffrey L. Travis, Research Associate Professor.
Mechanism of intracellular transport; membrane-cytoskeletal interactions; novel methods of microtubule assembly.

Ing-Nang Wang, Assistant Professor.
Experimental evolution; microbial evolution; molecular population genetics.

Sho-Ya Wang, Professor.
Retinoids and gene regulation; murine teratocarcinoma cell differentiation; transcription factors and differentiation; Na+ channel structure-function relationships.

Richard S. Zitomer, Professor.
Regulation of expression of the yeast genes by oxygen.