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Faculty Name	Department	Description
Hubert Amrein	Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Genetic control and the molecular mechanisms of dosage compensation in Drosophila.
Amy Bejsovec	Associate Professor of Biology	Cell fate specification and cell-to-cell communication during embryonic development.
Gerard Blobe	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Role of the TGF-beta signaling pathway in cancer and vascular biology.
Blanche Capel	Associate Professor of Cell Biology	Sex determination and mammalian development.
Christopher Counter	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Elucidation of telomere function in cancer.
Clifford Cunningham	Associate Professor of Biology	Evolution and biogeography of marine invertebrates.
Xinnian Dong	Associate Professor of Biology	Response of plants to pathogens; molecular and genetic investigation of the signal transduction pathways activating plant defense genes.
Michael Ehlers	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology	Regulation of NMDA-type glutamate receptors by protein phosphorylation and idetification of cellular proteins involved in glutamate receptor trafficking.
Sharyn Endow	Professor of Cell Biology	Microtubule motor proteins involoved in spindle function; chromosome movement in meiosis and mitosis.
Arno Greenleaf	Professor of Biochemistry	Eukaryotic transcription enzymology and molecular biology; RNA polymerase II, transcription factors and CTD kinase.
Joseph Heitman	Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Genetic analysis of the action of immunosuppressive compounds.
Brigid Hogan	Professor of Cell Biology	Cellular interactions regulating proliferation and differentiation during mammalian organogenesis and development of primordial germ cells.
Erich Jarvis	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology	Molecular pathways of the perception and production of learned vacalizations.
Lawrence Katz	Professor of Neurobiology	Development and modification of the mammalian visual and olfactory systems.
Russel Kaufman	Associate Professor of Biochemistry	Regulation of multigene families and developmental hematopoiesis.
Daniel Kiehart	Professor of Biology	Cell motility; muscle contraction; mitosis.
Margaret Kirby	Instructor of Cell Biology	Neural crest and heart development.
John Klingensmith	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Mechanisms which establish and pattern the body axes and organ precursors of the mammalian embryo.
Sally Kornbluth	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Examination of cell cycle regulation using in vitro reconstitution of cell cycle processes.
Michael Krangel	Associate Professor of Immunology	Rearrangement and expression of T cell receptor genes; chemotactic cytokines.
Daniel Lew	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Cell cycle control and the control of cell polarity.
Haifan Lin	Associate Professor of Cell Biology	Mechanism of stem cell division and germline development.
Elwood Linney	Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Molecular approaches to retinoic acid and estrogen signaling during zebrafish embryonic development; 3D imaging of gene expression; environmental biosensing using embryos.
David McClay	Professor of Biology	Problems in evolution and development, speciations genetics, molecular evolution, and population genetics.
Donald McDonnell	Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Development of and application of novel molecular approaches for the discovery of tissue specific modulators of steroid hormone receptors.
Erik Meyers	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Mechanisms of patterning and development during organogenesis of the mammalian embryo; tissue-specific genetic manipulation in mice.
Richard Mooney	Associate Professor of Neurobiology	Sensitive period regulation in the brains of songbirds during vocal development.
H. Frederick Nijhout	Professor of Biology	Regulatory processes in development and the evolution of developmental mechanisms.
Tannishtha Reya	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Signaling pathways that regulate stem cell fate.
V. Louise Roth	Associate Professor of Biology	The evolution of body size and shape in mammals.
Theodore Slotkin	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Effects of endocrine status, nutrition, and drugs on nervous system development; neonatal cardiovascular mechanisms; neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease and depression in the elderly.
Kathleen Smith	Professor of Biology	Cranial development, function and evolution in vertebrates.
Tai-ping Sun	Associate Professor of Biology	Molecular genetics of plant growth hormones; environmental and developmental regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis; the mechanisms by which gibberellins affect plant development.
Fan Wang	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Neural circuit development in mouse somatic sensory system.
Xiao-Fan Wang	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Structure and function of TGF-b receptors; growth regulation by TGF-b.
Robin Wharton	Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Molecular mechanism of pattern formation in the Drosophila embryo.
Greg Wray	Associate Professor of Biology	Development and interaction among regulatory genes in echinoderms.
Tso-Pang Yao	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Transcriptional co-activator p300 and CBP using knock-out animal and various biochemical approaches.
Yuan Zhuang	Assistant Professor of Immunology	Molecular mechanisms by which HLH genes function to determine cell type during development.

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