Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
2014-15 General Catalog
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MCDB Graduate Program Description | MCDB Faculty
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty and Professional Interests
Manuel Ares Jr.
Regulation of RNA processing; structure, function and evolution of RNA-based systems
Needhi Bhalla
Meiotic chromosome dynamics
Hinrich Boeger
Chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription
Barry Bowman
Membrane biochemistry and genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of membrane proteins
Bin Chen
Mammalian brain development
David Feldheim
Developmental neuroscience
Grant Hartzog
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
Lindsay Hinck
Breast development and cancer, cell biology, development
Melissa Jurica
Structure and function of human splicing machinery
Rohinton T. Kamakaka
Nuclear organization, chromatin domains, epigenetic gene regulation and insulators
Douglas R. Kellogg
Coordination of cell growth and cell division
Jeremy Lee
Molecular biology education and curriculum development; Drosphila models of neurodegeneration
Robert A. Ludwig
Plant microbe interactions, photorespiration, genetic recombination in plants
Amy Ralston
Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells
Michael Rexach
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex, nuclear transport
Jeremy Sanford
Genomic analysis of protein-RNA interactions
William M. Saxton
Cytoskeletal motors and active transport processes
Susan Strome
Chromatin and RNA regulation in C. elegans
William T. Sullivan
Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and host-pathogen interactions
John W. Tamkun
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
Zhu Wang
Prostate development and cancer, tissue stem cells
Alan M. Zahler
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and small RNA function
Martha C. Zúñiga
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system
Yi Zuo
Synaptic plasticity in learning and memory
Research Faculty
Harry Noller
Ribosome structure and function; mechanisms of protein synthesis
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Emeritus Faculty
Charles Daniel
Robert Edgar
Jerry F. Feldman
Kivie Moldave
Clifton A. Poodry
Lincoln Taiz
Frank J. Talamantes
Howard H. Wang
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Lecturers
Linda Ogren
Giulia Ruben
Mary Zavanelli
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Victora Auerbach-Stone (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
The interaction between the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the mammalian immune system
Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering)
Hematopoietic stem cells; transcriptional regulation; chromatin; blood cell development; cell surface receptors; genomics
Richard “Ed” Green (Biomolecular Engineering)
Genomics, computational molecular biology, genome assembly, human evolutionary genetics, ancient DNA, high-throughput sequencing, mRNA-processing and alternative splicing
David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering)
Bioinformatics, genomics, computational genomic data analysis, molecular evolution and comparative genomics, genomic and clinical data sharing and standards, cancer genomics, neurodevelopment, stem cell research, immunogenomics, information theory, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information theory, theoretical computer science
Scott Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology
Todd M. Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea
Karen Ottemann (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria
Seth Rubin (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance
William G. Scott (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes
Beth Shapiro (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary and molecular ecology, ancient DNA, genomics, pathogen evolution
Alexander Sher (Physics)
Development of experimental techniques for the study of neural function
Michael Stone (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus
Fitnat Yildiz (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae
Revised: 09/01/14