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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Richard Harland

Richard Harland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular biology, early vertebrate development, Xenopus, embryo development

Hernan G Garcia

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

genetics, genomics, biophysics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dirk Hockemeyer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, cell biology

Lin He

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

comparative genomics, developmental biology, cell biology, cancer biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, evolution, quantitative genetics, developmental genetics, evolutionary genetics, craniofacial development

Photo of Pini smiling

Pini Perera

School of Public Health

environmental epigenetics, genomic imprinting, developmental toxicology, non-codingRNA, mouse genetics/epigenetics, birth outcomes and maternal health, pregnancy, developmental biology, neurobiology, molecular biology, toxicology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm

Marla Feller in front of physiology equipment

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurophysiology, developmental neuroscience

Sheng Luan

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial biology, plant biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

vertebrate physiologies, quantitative cell biology, development biology

Tyrone B. Hayes

Dept of Integrative Biology

genetics, amphibians, developmental endocrinology, steroid hormones, metamorphosis, sex differentiation, hormonal differentiation, African clawed frog, Japnanes Kajika, Pine Barrens treefrog

Lew Feldman in the Botanical Garden's Carnivorous Plant Greenhouse

Lewis J. Feldman

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant biology, plant physiology, plant

Darlene D. Francis

Darlene D. Francis

School of Public Health

biological basis of health disparities, developmental programming, stress, environment x gene interactions, animal models, biopsychosocial approach to health and well-being

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics

Yan Gong

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant development, cell biology, single-cell transcriptomics, evolutionary genomics

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Dept of Anthropology

intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, cancer, Drosophila, cell biology, cell polarity, tumor suppressor, epithelial architecture, polarity, proliferation control, tumor-host interaction, morphogenesis

Sabrina Agarwal

Dept of Anthropology

Bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, gender research, ethics in biological anthropology, osteology and osteoporosis, health and disease, paleopathology, community-engaged research / scholarship, community engaged/collaborative archaeology

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Robert Tjian Jacket

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants

Nicole King

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues