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Committee on Developmental Biology
Chair Victoria Prince, Associate Professor
Faculty (35 members)

 

Cunningham, John (info coming up soon)

Dawson, Glyn - Professor
Lipid signalling pathways and programed cell death in brain and tumors; inherited lysosomal storage diseases.

Du, Wei - Associate Professor
Cell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.

Fehon, Richard - Professor
Regulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.

Ferguson, Edwin - Associate Professor
Developmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila.

Glotzer, Michael - Associate Professor
The molecular mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells.

Green, William - Associate Professor
Cell Biology of neurotransmitter receptors.

Gross, Martin - Professor
Translational control of protein synthesis; cell-free protein synthesis and mechanism and regulation of polypeptide chain initiation.

Grove, Elizabeth - Professor
Cellular and molecular mechanisms that control patterning, cell fate choice, and differentiation in the mammalian forebrain.

Haselkorn, Robert - Professor
Cellular differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; acetyl CoA carboxylase in plants and humans.

Ho, Robert - Professor
Pattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.

Holaska, James - Assistant Professor
Regulation of gene expression, chromatin dynamics and nuclear architecture by nuclear envelope proteins: Implications for muscular dystrophy, heart disease and aging.

Imamoto, Akira - Associate Professor
Mouse models of human syndromes affecting morphogenesis, patterning, and cell fate during craniofacial and cardiovascular development.

Kee, Barbara - Assistant Professor
Transcriptional regulation of lymphocyte development.

Lahn, Bruce - Professor
Human evolutionary genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, neurogenetics, and stem cell biology.

Lowe, Christopher - Assistant Professor
Evolution and development of deuterostomes.

Macleod, Kay - Assistant Professor
Regulation of cell cycle checkpoints and cell death in response to oxidative stress and DNA damage.

Mahowald, Anthony - Professor
Developmental genetics of oogenesis; ovarian germline stem cell; genetics of spermatogenesis.

Malamy, Jocelyn - Associate Professor
Molecular regulation of root system growth and development in Arabidopsis and crop plants.

McNally, Elizabeth - Professor
Genetics of heart and muscle development and disease in humans and mice.

Millen, Kathleen - Associate Professor
Genetic basis of congenital brain malformations in humans and genetic analysis of pattern formation during vertebrate CNS development.

Moskowitz, Ivan - Assistant Professor
Molecular genetics of cardiovascular development and congenital heart disease.

Preuss, Daphne - Professor
Genetic analysis of fertilization in Arabidopsis reproduction. Structure and function of plant centromeres.

Prince, Victoria - Associate Professor
Molecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.

Ragsdale, Clifton - Associate Professor
Molecular genetics of neuronal patterning in brain development.

Rebay, Ilaria - Associate Professor
Transcriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.

Rosner, Marsha - Professor
Growth factor receptor signaling leading to cell growth, cell differentiation or cell death.

Ruvinsky, llya - Assistant Professor
Evolution of development, particularly the origin and diversification of the nervous system and evolution of transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution.

Schmidt-Ott, Urs - Assistant Professor
Developmental Genetics and Evolution.

Schwartz, Nancy - Professor
Transcriptional control of ECM expression during chondrogenesis and neurogenesis; regulation of sulfate activation; skeletal dysplasias.

Sharma, Kamal - Assistant Professor
Role of transcription factors in determination of neuronal identity in relation to motor circuits in the vertebrate spinal cord.

Shubin, Neil - Professor
Paleontology and developmental studies in salamanders to identify mechanisms behind the evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas.

Singh, Harinder - Professor
Gene regulatory networks and the specification of cell fates in the immune system. Genetic engineering of stem cells.

Svensson, Eric - Assistant Professor
Developmental biology of the cardiovascular system with emphasis on the transcriptional regulation of cardiac development.

White, Kevin - Professor
The White lab studies the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental processes.

 

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