MAKI ASANO (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: DNA replication initiation, ORC1, Cdc6, E2F, Drosophila, endoreplication, proliferation, developmental regulation.

AMANDA BIRD (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Sensing of metal elements by eukaryotes; regulatory roles of novel RNAs and small proteins.

DAVID BISARO (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Molecular biology of geminiviruses; including viral pathogenesis and regulation of viral gene expression.

MICHAEL CHAN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Study of metal based catalysts and sensors, utilizing macromolecular crystallography.

SUSAN COLE (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Roles of fringe genes and Notch signaling during development. Analysis of cyclic mRNA expression during somitogenesis: linking the Notch pathway and the segmentation clock.

DONALD H. DEAN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Protein engineering of insecticidal toxins.

BIAO DING (PCMB/MG)
Focus: Structure and function of plasmodesmata, intercellular trafficking of proteins, RNAs, viruses and viroids.

ANDREA I. DOSEFF (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Regulation of proteins involved in cell death during innate immune response, cell differentiation and cancer. Signal transduction pathways that control apoptosis during septic shock, inflammation, atherosclerosis and cancer.

HAROLD FISK (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Centrosome duplication, cell cycle regulation, mitotic spindle assembly.

MARK P. FOSTER (Biochemistry)
Focus: Elucidation of structural and dynamic aspects of molecular recognition and assembly using a variety of biochemical and biophysical tools, with emphasis on NMR spectroscopy.

VANITA HOPPER (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Intracellular trafficking of RNA and proteins; Nucleus organization; RNA processing.

JAMES HOPPER (Biochemistry)
Focus: Our goal is to understand how Gal4 functions to recruit RNA Polymerase II and mechanistically how such activities are regulated.

JANE JACKMAN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Principles and techniques of mechanistic enzymology and enzyme kinetics to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of tRNA processing enzymes.

REBECCA LAMB (PCMB/MG)
Focus: Transcription regulation of gene expression during flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana; MADS box transcription factor specificity.

GUSTAVO W. LEONE (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: The RB/E2F pathway in cellular differentiation and in cancer.

THOMAS MAGLIERY (Biochemistry)
Focus: Four helix bundle protein Rop and several tumor suppressor proteins, stability defects; vivo, site-specific unnatural protein mutagenesis.

KARIN MUSIER-FORSYTH (Biochemistry & Chemistry)
Focus: My group uses a wide variety of chemical and biophysical approaches to answer fundamental questions focusing on nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) and proteins that are involved in translation of the genetic code and viral replication.

STEPHEN OSMANI (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Cell Cycle Regulation and Development.

HAY-OAK PARK (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Regulation of Cell growth and oriented cell division; oxidative stress response.

DEBBIE PARRIS ( Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics )
Focus: Herpes simplex virus DNA replication-mechanism for initiation by the origin binding protein and mechanism by which the DNA polymerase accessoty protein increases processivity.

MARK SEEGER (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Molecular genetic analysis of neuronal development in Drosophila.

AMANDA SIMCOX (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Pattern formation & growth regulation during Drosophila development.

R. KEITH SLOTKIN (PCMB/MG)
Focus: My laboratory aims to discover how potentially mutagenic “jumping genes” or transposable elements are epigenetically repressed from generation to generation, as well as how this system has been adopted over evolutionary time to regulate non-transposable element genes.

ZUCAI SUO (Biochemistry)
Focus: Kinetic mechanisms of DNA repair and lesion bypass catalyzed by novel DNA polymerase; development of anti-viral and anti-cancer drugs.

RICHARD P. SWENSON (Biochemistry)
Focus: Redox cofactor-protein interactions and their role in biological electron transfer, metabolism, detoxification, and pharmacological activity.

HARALD E. F. VAESSIN (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Regulation Of Cell Proliferation And Terminal Differentiation During Neurogenesis.

DESH P.S. VERMA (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Mechanisms of Cell Plate Formation and Stress Regulation in Plant Cells.

PENG GEORGE WANG (Biochemistry)
Focus: Biochemistry, chemistry and biotechnology of carbohydrates.

MICHAEL WEINSTEIN (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Role of Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGFß ) and Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) in mammalian embryogenesis, tumorigenesis, and lung development.

ROBIN WHARTON (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Our laboratory studies the mechanisms that govern pattern formation during development of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster .

JIAN-QIU WU (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: cell division, cellular polarization, cytoskeleton, microscopy, fission yeast .

ZHENGRONG JUSTIN WU (Biochemistry)
Focus: High-resolution structural studies to establish protein function and mechanism.