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Douglas Antczak -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Immunology, Reproduction, Genetics, Genomics
	Research Description: Reproductive immunology; equine immunology
Judith Appleton -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Immunity to nematode parasites colonizing mucosal sites, parasitism.
Colin Parrish -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Virology, Evolution, Cell Biology, Genomics, Microbiology
	Research Description: The evolution and host range of parvoviruses
Antje Baeumner -- Biological and Environmental Engineering
	Research Interests: BioEngineering, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Genomics
	Research Description: Development of biosensors and bioanalytical microsystems and micro total analysis systems for the detection of pathogenic organisms in food, the environment and for clinical diagnostics. Pathogens we focus on include C. parvum, E. coli, Dengue virus, HIV
Dan Luo -- Biological and Environmental Engineering
	Research Interests: BioEngineering, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: My general research and teaching interests focus on molecular bioengineering, a truly young and cross-disciplinary field. Specifically we are working on nucleic acid engineering and nucleic acid delivery. The underlying philosophy of my research is to integrate "what has been discovered" in molecular biology and cell biology in order to engineer "what has never been," and using "what has never been" to discover more "what is" in biology...and the cycle goes on.
Carlos Bustamante -- Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
	Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genomics, Evolution
	Research Description: Statistical Genetics/Genomics, Bayesian Statistics, Population Genetics/Genomics, Computational Statistics, Molecular Evolution, Model Selection
Jason Mezey -- Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
	Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genetics, Evolution, Development
	Research Description: Genetics, Statistical Genomics, Microarray Analysis, Evolutionary-Developmental Biology, Drosophila Genetics, Behavior, and Flight
Thomas Brutnell -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Genomics, Plant Biology
	Research Description: we are developing a genetic system that will enable researchers to disrupt any gene in the maize genome. By knocking out individual components of a light-signaling pathway and examining the effects on the growth and development of the maize plants, we hope to gain a better understanding of these complex and essential pathways in one of the world's most agronomically important plants.
Maria Harrison -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Nutrition, Plant Biology, Parasitology
	Research Description: Host-intracellular symbiont interactions, host-microbe signaling, mineral nutrient transport, intracellular membrane protein trafficking
Georg Jander -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Genetics, Entomology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Interactions of Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse ear cress) and Myzus persicae (green peach aphid).A. thaliana is a commonly studied genetic model plant; M. persicae is a crop plant pest, which transmits plant viruses to hundreds of species of mostly dicot plants. Current research projects in the laboratory include studying the induction of plant defenses after aphid feeding, natural variation in both the plant and the insect, and the effects of glucosinolates and myrosinase, a crucifer-specific insect defense system, on aphid resistance.
Gregory Martin -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genomics, Disease Pathogenesis, Immunology
	Research Description: Molecular basis of plant immunity and disease susceptibility. Bacterial pathogenesis. Gene expression profiling and functional genomics. Signal transduction.
David Stern -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Genetics, Biochemistry, Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Nuclear control of plant organelle gene expression including mitochondrial transcription, chloroplast RNA stability and chloroplast translation, eukaryotic cell evolution
Brian Crane -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: understanding interactions among proteins, electrons, and photons
Hening Lin -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology
	Research Description: Occurrence and function of several protein posttranslational modifications, including ADP-ribosylation, diphthamide, and C-mannosylation.
David McQuade -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: Synthesis of Non-Natural Information-Rich Polymers ,Evolving Enzymes to Catalyze the Synthesis of Complex Non-Natural Polymers;Development of Supramolecular Catalysts via a Parallel Approach: Cross-Linked Imprinted Inverse Micelles ,Oligomeric p- (Phenyleneethynylene)s for the Development of Liquid Crystalline-Based Biosensors
David Usher -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Solid-support synthesis of specific sequences, binding specificity, template reactions, and diagnostic and therapeutic applications of these analogs.
Robert Gilbert -- Clinical Science
	Research Interests: Reproduction, Immunology, Infectious Disease
	Research Description: Theriogenology, with emphasis on production animals. Postpartum conditions of dairy cows. Uterine disorders of dairy cows, in particular subclinical endometritis. Interaction of nutrition and fertility. Comparative pathogenesis of trichomoniasis in cattle and in people.
Dan Buckley -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Microbial genomics in natural environments. I use molecular techniques to study the diversity and evolution of microorganisms in an ecological and biogeochemical context.
Antonio DiTommaso -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Weed biology/ecology and population dynamics, weed seed biology, biological weed control using pathogens and insects, biology of invasive weeds in cropland and natural areas, integrated weed management
Charles Mohler -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Population ecology of weedy annual plants in agricultural systems, including studies of seed survival, processes affecting seedling emergence, plant survival and seed production. The effects of cultivation and crop residues (i.e., straw etc.) on seedling emergence and seed survival.
Ralph Obendorf -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Seed Biology
	Research Description: Seed biology-development, maturation, desiccation tolerance, germination, somatic embryogenesis; enzyme purification, characterization and gene expression; Medicinal and health related components in seeds; nutriceuticals
Janice Thies -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Ecology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Impact of soil and plant management practices on soil microbial diversity, abundance and activity, Development and testing of biopesticides and biofertilizers, Molecular approaches to bacterial source tracking and their potential use in monitoring total maximum daily load
Olena Vatamaniuk -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics
	Research Description: Molecular analysis of mechanisms used by different organisms (C. elegans, and plants) to detoxify heavy metals, heavy metal transport
Charles Greene -- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
	Research Interests: Ecology, Marine Biology
	Research Description: Impact of invertebrate predators on the survivorship of diapausing Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda: Calanoida) populations in the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine, climate -based forecasts for the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem, Bioacoustics, understanding the distribution and abundance of right whales relative to their prey
Susan Riha -- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: interaction of plants with their physical environment and in dynamic simulation modeling
Anurag Agrawal -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Entomology
	Research Description: Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions, including aspects of herbivory, community ecology, phenotypic plasticity, coevolution, plant defense and herbivore offense.
Andre Dhondt -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Environmental
	Research Description: Population function, causes and effects of individual differences, selection pressures on individuals
Stephen Ellner -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Environmental, Systematics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Theoretical population biology and evolutionary ecology, combines modeling, mathematics, and simulations, often in collaboration with experimental biologists.
John Fitzpatrick -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Systematics
	Research Description: Animal and applied ecology; vertebrate zoology; systematics
Alexander Flecker -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Animal ecology; community and ecosystem ecology; limnology; population ecology; vertebrate zoology; tropical river systems; ecology of tropical managed ecosystems
Monica Geber -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Environmental, Genomics
	Research Description: Plant population ecology
Harry Greene -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Ecology, behavior, evolution, and conservation of vertebrates, especially reptiles
Nelson Hairston -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Genomics
	Research Description: Ecological and microevolutionary processes, especially in lakes. Linkages between genotype, phenotype and ecological functioning. The role of long-lived dormant eggs in on-going ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
Richard Harrison -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Genetics, Evolution, Molecular Biology, Entomology, Genomics
	Research Description: Evolutionary biology, genetics of speciation, molecular evolution.
Drew Harvell -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Disease Pathogenesis, Evolution, Marine Biology
	Research Description: Marine Evolutionary ecology, life history evolution, functional morphology
Irby Lovette -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution
	Research Description: Evolutionary diversity in natural systems. Using a combination of phylogenetic and comparative methodologies, I document temporal and geographic patterns of diversification and test hypotheses about the historical processes that produce those patterns. Birds serve as my primary model system and most of my work is conducted within an explicit historical framework provided by the phylogenetic analysis of DNA nucleotide sequences.
Peter Marks -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Plant succession; woody-plant demography; plant community ecology; field and historical plant ecology
Amy McCune -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution, Systematics, Morphology, Ichthyology, Ecology
	Research Description: Ichthyology; evolutionary biology; systematics; development and evolution; paleobiology
James Morin -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Marine Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Oceanography, population ecology, animal ecology, systematics
Alison Power -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Disease Pathogenesis, Entomology
	Research Description: Agricultural ecology; ecology of cropping systems and epidemiology of insect-vectored diseases
William Provine -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution
	Research Description: History of biology, especially evolutionary theory. Staying alive with oligodendroglioma, writing, teaching
Myra Shulman -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Marine Biology
	Research Description: Marine Biology
Jed Sparks -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Bioremediation
	Research Description: The research in the Sparks lab is focused on understand ing how processes occurring in plants and soils control atmospheric chemistry. Biological processes generate many of the compounds that control air quality and atmospheric. This, coupled with the inputs to the atmosphere from humans (pollution) has led to dramatic changes in the atmosphere in the last hundred years , many of which are detrimental to human health and the sustainability of natural and agricultural ecosystems. We use a wide range of modern ecological methodologies to understand these processes.
David Winkler -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior
	Research Description: Ornithology; evolution of life histories, especially parental care; evolutionary and behavioral ecology
Kelly Zamudio -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution, Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Genomics
	Research Description: Population biology, systematics and character evolution. Currently I am focusing on the links between patterns of genetic differentiation and particular attributes of the ecology and life history of organisms such as mating systems, dispersal and demography.
Bryan Danforth -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Entomology, Genomics
	Research Description: Morphology and systematics of solitary and social bees; behavioral ecology
Cole Gilbert -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Evolution, Entomology
	Research Description: Invertebrate neuroethology; sensory guidance; neural evolution in arthropods.
Laura Harrington -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Entomology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Medical entomology; mosquito biology; vector-borne disease ecology. Ecology, epidemiology, and management of disease vectors, Blood feeding behavior of mosquitoes and the evolution of host preferences, Patterns of mortality in mosquito vectors, Oviposition and mating behavior of Aedes aegypti in the field, Mechanisms of insecticide resistance and resistance management of disease vectors
Linda Rayor -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Entomology, Ecology
	Research Description: Behavioral ecology of social spiders and social amblypygids. Social and foraging behavior of predatory arthropods; Tritrophic interactions.
Carl Batt -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Nanobiotechnology
	Research Description: Application of nanobiotechnology to exploring problems in biology. Development of potential therapeutic agents to combat cancer.
Kathryn Boor -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Disease Pathogenesis, Microbiology, Toxicology, Genomics
	Research Description: Microbiological quality and safety of dairy products; adaptation of bacterial cells to environmental stresses; physiology and genetic characteristics of pathogenic bacteria.
John Brady -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Molecular biophysics, Molecular dynamic simulations of proteins and carbohydrates, structure, dynamics, and hydration of carbohydrates
Martin Wiedmann -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Biotechnology, Disease Pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular pathogenesis, epidemiology, and evolution of bacterial and foodborne bacterial infectious diseases such as Listeria monocytogenes and Streptococcus agalactiae
Laurie Drinkwater -- Horticulture
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Conservation
	Research Description: Biological soil processes in intensive annual cropping systems, emphasizing mechanisms that control soil organic matter dynamics, interactions between soil biology and soil structure and biologically-driven nutrient cycling.
Susana Mendez -- Immunology and Infectious Disease
	Research Interests: Immunology, Parasitology
	Research Description: Development of vaccines against parasitic diseases (leishmaniasis, hookworms). Study of the immunomodulation conferred by vaccines. Studies on transmission and genestics of canine leishmaniasis. Immunomodulation, host-parasite interactions, vaccine testing, genetics of susceptibility of disease, animal models of infectious disease.
Jack Bradbury -- Lab of Ornithology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Mating systems, sound communication, or spatial pattern, male grouse sound fields, Function of vocal mimicry in wild parrots in Costa Rica and Bonaire.
Christopher Clark -- Lab of Ornithology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Regional and large-scale population level distributions, abundances, and acoustic behaviors of birds, fish, frogs, and whales; evolution and function of acoustic signaling behavior in animals using advanced sound analysis techniques.
Esther Angert -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: Microbial ecology, evolution of a novel bacterial developmental system and microbial phylogeny, daughter cell formation, endospore formation
William Ghiorse -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology, Bacteriology, Protozoology
	Research Description: Aquatic microbiology; microbial ecology; microbial physiology; prokaryotic cytology; subsurface microbiology.
Anthony Hay -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Toxicology
	Research Description: Ability of microorganisms to degrade xenobiotics
John Helmann -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Bacteriology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Transcription factors, bacterial gene regulation, antibiotic stress responses and antibiotic resistance
Eugene Madsen -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Bacteriology, Toxicology
	Research Description: Biodegradation of environmental pollutants; biogeochemistry of field sites' molecular approaches to characterizing naturally occurring microbial communities; microbial ecology.
Joseph Peters -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genetics, Genomics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Molecular mechanism that allows a discrete DNA element that can move within bacteria, called transposon Tn7, to recognize target sites associated with DNA replication. Functional genomics involving the use of transposons to "knock out" all the genes in a population of cells
James Russell -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Ecology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Microbial ecology; rumen microbiology; microbial physiology
James Shapleigh -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Microbial physiology; electron transport; structure and function of electron transport proteins.
Stephen Winans -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Disease Pathogenesis, Bacteriology
	Research Description: Cell signaling between the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its plant hosts
Stephen Zinder -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Bacteriology, Genomics
	Research Description: Microbial biochemistry; microbial ecology
Eric Alani -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Roles for mismatch repair factors in regulating chromosome stability and genetic recombination
Charles Aquadro -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Population Genetics, Comparative Genomics, Evolution
	Research Description: Our research reveals the principles and processes that determine the nature, amount, distribution, and functional significance of genetic variation within and between natural populations and among related species. We draw on the tools of experimental and theoretical population genetics, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics to study the structure and evolution of the genome, natural populations, to resolve the evolutionary forces acting on individual genes, and to functionally annotate the genome (particularly that of Drosophila).
Daniel Barbash -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Development, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: We are interested in how animals develop, evolve and form new species. We use a variety of techniques including genetics, developmental biology and molecular evolution. Most of our research is done with Drosophila (fruit flies).
Anthony Bretscher -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Microfilament organization and function in vertebrates and yeast, mechanism of polarized growth and organelle segregation during the cell cycle.
William Brown -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Intracellular membrane trafficking and organelle biogenesis, role of membrane tubules
Andrew Clark -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, genetics of complex traits, patterns of DNA sequence variation in most of the known antibacterial genes of insects, sperm competition, examining the mechanisms that maintain genetic variation
Gerald Feigenson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry
	Research Description: physical and chemical properties of biomembranes: nonrandom mixing of lipids in bilayer phases; role of cholesterol in bilayer phases; lipid physical chemistry studied by fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and other physical chemical techniques.
Thomas Fox -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Genes of mitochondria, their regulation by nuclear genes, and assembly of their products in the inner membrane in yeast.
Jianhua Fu -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Structural Biology
	Research Description: Structural Biology, X-ray Crystallography, BiochemistryRegulation of gene expression in eukaryotes
Maria Garcia-Garcia -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Development
	Research Description: Study of cellular movements and behaviours that contribute to morphogenesis during embryonic development
Michael Goldberg -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Drosophila genetics: Genes required for proper chromosome segregation and morphology.
Maureen Hanson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Plant organelle biogenesis, nuclear/organelle interactions, RNA editing, floral development and senescence
Susan Henry -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Genetic regulation of membrane biogenesis using baker s yeast as a model organism. Our primary interest is in the regulation of membrane phospholipid synthesis. We use molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry in our research.
George Hess -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Neurobiology, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry
	Research Description: Development and use of rapid reaction methods and instrumentation to study the function of neurotransmitter receptors
Tim Huffaker -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in yeast
Ailong Ke -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics
	Research Description: Structure and functions of the RNA and RNA-protein complexes
Kenneth Kemphues -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Development
	Research Description: Patterning in early development of C. elegans; establishment of polarity; control of cleavage pattern.
Lee Kraus -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Transcriptional regulation by nuclear hormone receptors and coactivators; Chromatin and transcription; Hormone action and cancer
Siu Sylvia Lee -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Disease Pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Development, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of how longevity is controlled in an organism. How metabolic status is sensed and regulated in a cell & in an organism. How insulin signaling controls metabolism, development & longevity in C. elegans.
John Lis -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Gene regulation and chromatin structure.
Jun Liu -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Development, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Molecular genetics of mesodermal cell fate specification in C. elegans Function of nuclear envelope proteins in C. elegans development
Ross MacIntyre -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: Analysis of gene structure and regulation in Drosophila, including several gene-enzyme systems, G protein and apoptosis inhibitor genes and the complex dumpy locus.
Linda Nicholson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biophysics
	Research Description: NMR spectroscopy; relationships between protein structure, dynamics, and function; rational drug design.
Jeffrey Roberts -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Regulation of gene expression: transcription mechanisms, control of DNA repair functions.
David Shalloway -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Computational analysis of protein-ligand interactions; signal transduction and protein folding.
Tudorita Tumbar -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Elucidating the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms implicated in cell fate choice and stem cell activity within tissues. We use the mouse as a model system. An important focus is on the control of nuclear function and structure including transcriptional networks, chromatin structure and dynamics, and DNA replication
Bik-Kwoon Tye -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Mitotic and meiotic segregation of chromosomes; regulation of DNA replication in yeast; DNA binding proteins involved in the organization of chromosome structures.
Volker Vogt -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Virology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology
	Research Description: Structure and assembly of retroviruses; mobile introns.
David Wilson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Bioremediation, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Toxicology
	Research Description: Genetic engineering of cellulases; heavy metal transport.
Mariana Wolfner -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Reproduction, Molecular Biology, Development, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular genetic, genomic, physiological function & evolution of seminal fluid proteins that influence the mated Drosophila female's behavior, fertility and life span; initiation of embryo development in Drosophila, "activation" of eggs to begin development, cell cycle transition from meiosis to mitosis, role of the nuclear envelope in this cell cycle control
Barbara Bedford -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Environmental, Hydrology
	Research Description: Plant ecology; biogeochemistry; hydrology; freshwater wetlands; conservation of wetland plant diversity; landscape ecology
Bernd Blossey -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Entomology, Conservation
	Research Description: impact of invasive plants on native flora and fauna, biological control of non-indigenous plant species in natural areas, plant-insect interactions, and invasion and conservation biology
Edward Mills -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Large lakes ecology, freshwater foodwebs, aquatic invasive species
Patrick Sullivan -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Computational Biology
	Research Description: fisheries problems in marine and freshwater environments. These include statistical methods for population assessment and modeling, methods for data acquisition and utilization, spatial modeling of habitat and abundance, and formulating mechanisms for making better use of information in the management arena
Joseph Yavitt -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology
	Research Description: Ecology of forest and wetland ecosystems; biogeochemistry
Janis Dickinson -- Natural Resources, Neurobiology & Behavior
	Research Interests: Natural Resources, Neurobiology & Behavior
	Research Description: bird and insect behavior; avian conservation biology, citizen science
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Reproduction, Physiology
	Research Description: Vertebrate social behavior; hormonal bases of reproductive and aggressive behavior; hormones and behavior; avian reproductive physiology
Andrew Bass -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Evolution, Development
	Research Description: Animal communication; evolution of vertebrate nervous system; hormones, brains, and behavior; comparative neuroanatomy; sexual differentiation of the brain; hormonal control of development, teleost fish
Ronald Booker -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Development
	Research Description: Intrinsic and extrinsic control of neurodevelopment in insects, determine the neural basis of behavioral ontogeny using the moth Manduca sexta, and the fly Drosophila melanogaster as model systems
Thomas Cleland -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Neural coding and representation, how sensory systems adapt to extract information
David Deitcher -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Development, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; molecular neurobiology and neurogenetics, role of proteins (esp. SNAP-25) in NT release
Thomas Eisner -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, Chemical Ecology
	Research Description: Chemical communication, ecology, and evolution; behavioral ecology, particularly of insects; insect-plant interactions; conservation. The chemistry of sexual selection, protection against diseases, biochemical processes that produce these chemicals.
Stephen Emlen -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution
	Research Description: Animal social behavior, expecially of birds; cooperation and conflict in animal societies; decision rules of social engagement, evolutionary theory of the family, ecological, social, and genetic relatedness factors in shaping the structure of animal societies, studying conflicts of interest between male and female mates over sexual and parental behaviors
Joseph Fetcho -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology, Physiology
	Research Description: Our lab studies how movements are produced by the brain and spinal cord of vertebrates. We use zebrafish as a model system because they allow us to combine genetic and optical methods with more conventional physiological approaches to study the neural circuits. In addition to studies of normal function, we examine disruptions of function by genetic mutations, and are developing approaches to cure spinal injuries.
Ronald Harris-Warrick -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Neuromodulation of neural networks; gene cloning of K+ channels.
Carl Hopkins -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior
	Research Description: Neuroethology of animal communication, especially electric communication and electrolocation in fish. Neuroethology of passive electrolocation.
Howard Howland -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Sensory physiology, especially vision; development of focusing and refractive state in humans; animal vision, models of myopia and emmetropization; optical quality of the eye.
Ronald Hoy -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior, BioEngineering, Entomology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Animal communication; behavior genetics of inbertebrates; regeneration and development in invertebrate nervous systems. Categorical perception of sound frequency by crickets.
Christiane Linster -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Behavioral neuroscience, Rat olfaction, Computational neuroscience.
David McCobb -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Cell Biology, BioEngineering, Genomics
	Research Description: Cell and molecular neurobiology; regulation of expression and function of potassium channels in adrenaline secreting cells, and its relationship to stress.
Kern Reeve -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Molecular Biology, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Theoretical sociobiology; evolution of cooperation and conflict in animal societies; behavioral ecology; plasticity in insect social behavior. Social contacts in wasp societies.
Thomas Seeley -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Entomology
	Research Description: Sociobiology: physiology, ecology, and evolution of animal societies, especially the highly integrated societies of insects.
Paul Sherman -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Darwinian Medicine
	Research Description: Animal social behavior. Recognition systems, mammals, birds, humans.
Sandra Vehrencamp -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution
	Research Description: Vocal communication behavior of song birds. We are particularly interested in how subtle information about aggressive intentions, fighting ability, condition, and mate quality are encoded into the structure of songs primarily in a tropical wren species from Costa Rica.
Charles Walcott -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Animal Behavior
	Research Description: Common Loons are long lived birds that maintain territories on northern fresh water lakes during the breeding season. They defend their territories in part with a vocal signal, the "yodel". We are studying the role that this signal plays in establishing territories and in maintaining them. We have found that each male loon has a characteristic yodel that is stable from year to year. If, however, a loon changes its territory it also changes its yodel. Why this should be the case is not clear.
Andre Bensadoun -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Nutrition, Genomics
	Research Description: Lipase; proteoglycans; structure, function, molecular biology, and regulation of transcription and secretion.
Tom Brenna -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Mass spectrometry; human nutrition. Role of Polyusaturated Fatty Acids in fetal development, especially neural formation, examining precursors to PUFAs
Patricia Cassano -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Understanding the role of nutrition in the pathogenesis of chronic disease. Epidemiologic investigation of human populations with emphasis on integration of biological and epidemiological information. Interaction of nutrients and genetic susceptibility in cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Zhenglong Gu -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Evolution, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Evolutionary and nutritional genomics, Computational biology
Kathleen Rasmussen -- Nutritional sciences
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: Association of maternal obesity with lactation performance and infant growth among women living in upstate New York and Denmark. Effects of several interventions to improve maternal nutritional status on birthweight and the duration of exclusive breastfeeding among poor women living in Bangladesh.
Paul Soloway -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Genetics
	Research Description: Mechanisms regulating DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena in mice; role of extracellular matrix remodeling factors as regulators immune responses; functional genetic analysis using gene targeting in mice.
Martha Stipanuk -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Nutrition
	Research Description: Sulfur amino acid metabolism; nutritional and developmental aspects of amino acid metabolism in mammals; intermediary metabolism of cysteine and methionine. Molecular regulation of cysteine dioxygenase, cysteine dioxygenase transgenic mouse model.
Patrick Stover -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Nutrition, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Regulation of folate metabolism with a focus on identifying the genes involved in regulating intracellular folate concentrations, the supply of single carbon units, and elucidating the role of folate metabolism in basic cellular process including neuronal differentiation and gene expression
Barbara Strupp -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Cognition, Neurobiology, Toxicology, Behavior, Genomics
	Research Description: Animal models of developmental cognitive disorders; current projects concern (1) the lasting cognitive effects of prenatal cocaine exposure and links to underlying neural mechanisms, using a rat model; (2) lasting cognitive effects of early postnatal lead exposure, and (3) assessment of attentional function in a transgenic mouse model of Down syndrome.
Carl Franck -- Physics
	Research Interests: Biological Physics
	Research Description: Our group’s interests have been focused on the behavior of liquid, colloidal and living systems on length scales that are much greater than atomic. Currently, our main effort has been directed at understanding the social behavior of microbes. We have particular interest in the remarkable transition from unicellular to multicellular life that the organism Dictyostelium discoideum (``Dicty’’) makes in reaction to the removal of its food supply.
Michelle Wang -- Physics
	Research Interests: Biophysics, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of gene expression and regulation, transcription and regulation of gene expression in chromatin, single-molecule biophysics, molecular motors.
Peter Davies -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Development, Biochemistry, Physiology
	Research Description: Hormonal control of plant development; stem elongation, potato tuberization, fruit ripening, and senescence, hormones
Jerrold Davis -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Systematics
	Research Description: Botanical systematics; phylogenetics of monocots, particularly grasses; nature of species and their delimination, development of methods for inferring species boundaries on the basis of population variation patters
Jeffrey Doyle -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Biology, Systematics, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular plant systematics; gene phylogeny and evolution; origin and evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes; evolution of genomes, genes, and gene expression in polyploids, genes and genomes as phylogenetics markers, gene silencing and dosage compensation
James Giovannoni -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular and genetic analysis of fruit ripening and related signal transduction systems
Jian Hua -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology
	Research Description: How plants regulate their growth in response to temperature variations. Our long-term goal is to understand the perception and transduction of the temperature signals and their modulation on the basic cellular machinery during cell growth. We have been using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to genetically dissect this process.
Melissa Luckow -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Systematics
	Research Description: Phylogeny of flowering plants; legume systematics; cultivated-plant families
June Nasrallah -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Cell-Cell Interactions in Plants
Mikhail Nasrallah -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics
	Research Description: Genetic mechanisms in the development of reproductive barriers in Brassica and Arabidopsis Cell signaling during pollination in Arabidopsis
Karl Niklas -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biophysics, Allometry, Evolution
	Research Description: My research centers around quantifying the relationship between organic form and function. This focus requires a background in mathematics, physics, or engineering. However, students lacking this background and yet interested in pursuing this area of research are encouraged to talk with me, since research projects can always be developed and tailored around the interests and abilities of a particular student.
Kevin Nixon -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Paleobotany, Systematics, Paleobiology
	Research Description: Taxonomy of oaks (Quercus); cladistic theory; paleobotany and phylogeny of angiosperms; cladistic computer programs
Thomas Owens -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biophysics
	Research Description: Analysis of new genetically engineered rice strains that exhibit significantly improved resistance to environmental stress (salt, drought and chilling). We are working to characterize why these plants are more tolerant to stress, particularly in relation to their photosynthetic performance.
Jocelyn Rose -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Structure and function of the plant cell wall and the contribution of the cell wall to various aspects of plant growth and development, including fruit development and ripening, cell expansion and interactions between plants and pathogens. Practical applications of plant biotechnology and genomics to the development of sustainable agricultural systems.
Klaas van Wijk -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics, Genetics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Development and function of chloroplasts and other plastid types in Arabidopsis and maize, using modern functional genomics tools. This includes reverse and forward genetics, proteomics, yeast-two hybrid systems and bioinformatics. My lab also has several robots for proteomics work as well as modern mass spectrometers (MALDI-TOF MS and ESI-MS/MS)
Randy Wayne -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Cell Biology, Plant Biology
	Research Description: Elucidation of light- and gravity-stimulated signal transduction chains with emphasis on motile responses
Elizabeth Earle -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Cell culture techniques for the genetic manipulation of crop plants, gene transfer, cytoplasmic male sterility; pest resistance
Stephen Kresovich -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Interface between genomics and the conservation and use of agricultural resources
Susan McCouch -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Development and application of high-resolution molecular mapping strategies for rice; comparative grass genome analysis; isolation of agriculturally important genes
Mark Sorrells -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Molecular genetics and breeding of wheat, barley, maize, rice, and oats. Molecular genetics, gene cloning, and comparative genomics of these species.
Wojtek Pawlowski -- Plant Breeding and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology
	Research Description: We study the mechanisms of homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis and the relationship between chromosome pairing and meiotic recombination. We also want to understand the mechanisms involved in meiotic recombination and how they can be modified to modulate the levels of genetic recombination in plants. We use two model plant systems, maize (Zea mays) and Arabidopsis thaliana.
Alan Collmer -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Genomics
	Research Description: Biotechnology; microbial genetics; phytobacteriology
Sondra Lazarowitz -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Virology, Disease Pathogenesis, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Cell and molecular biology of virus-host interactions: Viral determinants of pathogenicity and host range; mechanism of virus cell-to-cell and systemic movement; regulation of nuclear export.
Kwangwon Lee -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Pathology, Circadian Rhythms
	Research Description: Circadian Rhythms, Light regulation, Quantitative Trait Loci analysis
Teresa Pawlowska -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Evolution, Genetics
	Research Description: Genetics and evolution of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. AM fungi are one of the oldest and most wide spread mutualistic symbionts of plants. They facilitate plant uptake of minerals from the soil in exchange for plant-assimilated carbon and are used in sustainable land management practices.
Keith Perry -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Virology, Microbiology, Entomology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Plant viruses, how they are transmitted by insect vectors, and the plant host response to infection (symptom responses). RNA virus and the molecular genetics and protein structure of the viral determinants of transmission.
Alice Churchill -- Plant Protection-Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Identify genes in fungus that cause disease in plants and insects and can be used to treat disease in humans, how are these genes expressed?, understanding the roles of fungal-natural products in host-parasite interactions
Ned Place -- Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences/Endocrinology
	Research Interests: Physiology, Reproduction, Endocrinology
	Research Description: My principal area of interest is mammalian reproductive biology, with a focus on the life history trade-offs associated with the timing of hormone secretion and reproductive effort. I study the effects of photoperiod and melatonin on female reproductive aging in Siberian hamsters. I am also a collaborator on the Berkeley Spotted Hyena Project at the University of California, where I study sexual differentiation and mating behavior of naturally masculinized female mammals. I pursue basic research that is integrative and comparative, while also being biomedically and ecologically relevant.
Timothy DeVoogd -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Animal communication; neuroanatomical plasticity, quantitative neurobiology; neurobiology of avian caching; hormonal influences on brain structure; avian song system, neural basis for female song discrimination, interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory, evolution of these behaviors
Barbara Finlay -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Development, Evolution
	Research Description: Development and evolution of sensory and neural systems. Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains.
Robert Johnston -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Animal communication, social recognition, and memory (individual, kin, species, sexual state) mostly by chemical signals; neural mechanisms of social recognition and memory, the sense of smell:brain and behavior
Helene Porte -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep; physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams
Bruce Halpern -- Psychology / Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Sensory function, especially chemoreception: human olfaction; effects of aging on human smell and taste; evolution of retronasal olfaction (smelling from inside the mouth) in vertebrates.
Klaus Beyenbach -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Physiology, Biomedical Sciences
	Research Description: Physiology of the kidney, transport of ions across cell membranes and epithelial tissues. Aglomerular urine formation, secretory transport mechanisms; epithelial defects in knock out mice, transport across insect malphigian tubules, magnesium transport and homeostasis
Paula Cohen -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Genetics
	Research Description: Studies in our lab are focused on the role of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) family in mammalian meiosis and recombination. Initially characterized by their function in repair of DNA, the MMR family is important for genome stability in a variety of organisms. This is illustrated by the observation that mutations in the genes encoding some MMR family members results in predisposition to colorectal cancer in the human population
Joanne Fortune -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Reproduction, Physiology
	Research Description: Reproductive physiology; hormonal regulation of ovarian function
Robert Gilmour -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology, Computational Biology, Physiology
	Research Description: Cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology