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Seema Agarwala Associate Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	During embryogenesis, neurons learn of their cell-fates and are assigned to specific brain nuclei (nucleogenesis), which organize brain connectivity and function. Little is known about how such complex patterni...

Richard Aldrich Professor and Chair of Neurobiology Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II The National Academy of Sciences, member Email web site	Ion channels are the molecular units of electrical signaling in cells. They are proteins that regulate the movement of ions--such as sodium, calcium, and potassium--into and out of cells. They are responsible f...

Hal Alper Assistant Professor Email web site	The goal of metabolic and cellular engineering is to endow novel and useful properties to cellular systems. Recent advances in molecular biology and genetic engineering empower metabolic engineers with an incre...

Orly Alter Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Fellow, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology Email web site	In her Genomic Signal Processing Lab at UT Austin, Dr. Orly Alter and her students use general...

Eric V. Anslyn Distinguished Teaching Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Norman Hackerman Professorship in Chemistry Email web site	Our research is oriented at developing artificial enzymes and sensors by synthetic and combinatorial library methods. Our synthetic projects are targeted to phosphodiester hydrolysis, enolate alkylations, and ...

Dean Appling Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Lester J. Reed Professor In Biochemistry Email web site	My laboratory studies the organization and regulation of metabolic pathways in eukaryotes. Eukaryotic cells are composed of many different compartments, such as cytoplasm, mitochondria, and nuclei. Although ea...

Nigel Atkinson Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	The fundamental question that drives us is: How are ion channel genes regulated and what are the consequences of this regulation? To address this question we have been using the slowpoke gene of Drosophila as a...

Chandrajit Bajaj Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization Director of Center for Computational Visualization Email web site	My research interests span the algorithmic and computational mathematics underpinnings of Structural Biology and Biophysics, Image Processing, Geometric Modeling, Computer Graphics, and Visualization. I am ...

Halil Berberoglu Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Email web site	In my laboratory, we are interested in harnessing the power of sun through biological and artificial bio-mimetic routes for producing clean and renewable fuels. Currently we are studying algal and cyanobact...

George Bittner Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	We research cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration. That is, we examine various biophysical, biochemical, or molecular mechanisms by which lesioned neurons repair lesions ...

Henry Bose Mary M. Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair In Microbiology Director, School of Biological Sciences Email web site	A long-standing interest of this laboratory has been to define the mechanism of transformation by the v-rel oncogene. v-Rel is the acutely transforming member of the Rel/NF-κB family of transcription facto...

Shawn Bratton Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology Email web site	My laboratory focuses primarily on basic mechanisms of apoptosis (programmed cell death) and autophagy (self-cannibalism) in the context of cancer.

Richard M. Brown Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair In Plant Cell Biology Email web site	Cellulose is the most abundant macromolecule on earth, yet details about its biosynthesis and structure remain unclear. We are using broad, interdisciplinary advances and tools to study cellulose and its biosyn...

Karen S. Browning Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Chairman, Cell & Molecular Biology Graduate Program and Director Dual Degree MD/PhD Program Email web site	My research focuses on the initiation of protein synthesis in higher plants. We are seeking a molecular description of the process in which initiation factors (eIF4A, eIF4B, eIF4F, eIF3, eIF2 and PABP) select,...

James J. Bull Johann Friedrich Miescher Regents Professor in Molecular Biology Email web site	see section bio for more info Evolutionary genetics from the molecular to the phenotypic levels comprises the bulk of my research. Specific t...

Clarence Chan Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Our research is focused on two basic processes that are critical for the proliferation and well being of all eukaryotic cells - chromosome segregation (i.e., mitosis) and the spatial control of cell growth and ...

Z. Jeffrey Chen D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics Email web site	We study genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for gene expression changes in polyploids. Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is an evolutionary innovation for all eukaryotes including some animals and m...

David Crews Ashbel Smith Professor of Integrative Biology, and Psychology Email web site	see section bio for more info One of my research programs focuses on sex determination as a case study in how evolution has produced very di...

Maria Croyle Associate Professor in Pharmacy Email web site	The Anatomy of a Virus: Active Research Projects in the Croyle Lab To date, viral vectors have held the most promise as vehicles for gene therapy because they are capable of delivering genes to certain t...

Kevin Dalby Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Email web site	Cancer is most commonly caused by the development of aberrant cell signaling pathways. Modern pharmaceutical research thus seeks a clear understanding of these pathways in efforts to treat this all too prevale...

Arturo DeLozanne Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	We are interested in defining the molecular basis of the lysosomal disorder known as the Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. This disease is caused by mutations in a very large gene and result in the loss of a large pro...

Jaquelin Dudley Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a retrovirus that induces mammary carcinomas and T-cell lymphomas in mice by insertional mutagenesis. We have identified the Cux1 protein (also known as CCAAT-displacement pr...

Johann Eberhart Assistant Professor Email web site	Craniofacial disease is common in humans because of the complexity of craniofacial development. This complexity is caused by the wide variety of cellular processes, including cell migration and cell signaling, ...

Ron Elber Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry W.A. "Tex" Moncrief Chair in Computational Life Sciences and Biology Email web site	Two thrusts in computational biology are considered in the laboratory of Ron Elber in the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES): (i) The study of the dynamics and function of proteins and R...

Andy Ellington Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professor In Biochemistry Email web site	The Ellington lab is primarily interesting in the evolutionary engineering of molecules, pathways, and organisms, and the application of these efforts to real world problems. In particular, we evolve functiona...

Walter Fast Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Email web site	We are interested in merging protein engineering technologies with more classical biochemical approaches in the investigation and manipulation of three enzyme systems: 1. Quorum sensing, a “language” that s...

Janice Fischer Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	My laboratory uses Drosophila genetics and molecular biology to study universal mechanisms of development. We do most of our experiments with the Drosophila compound eye. Patterning of the Drosophila compound e...

Ernst-Ludwig Florin Assistant Professor in Physics Email web site	Our long-term goal is to analyze and understand specific cellular processes from the single molecule level up to an entire cellular response. We currently investigate the molecular mechanics of microtubules,...

George Georgiou Professor in Chemical Engineering Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #9 Email web site	Dr. Georgiou’s group is working on both biotechnology and mechanistic biology problems. In biotechnology, his group is focusing on the development of protein engineering and combinatorial library screening te...

Nace Golding Associate Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	Neuronal dendrites are elaborate, tree-like structures that receive up to thousands of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connections. The morphology and electrical properties of the dendrites strongly influenc...

Andrea Gore Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Professor in Toxicology Amer. Acad. for the Advancement of Science Fellow Email web site	My laboratory is interested in the mechanisms by which the brain controls reproductive development and aging. We are focusing on a group of neurons in the hypothalamus that synthesize and release a peptide, go...

Ellen Gottlieb Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	A) A primary focus of our work is to decipher the molecular mechanisms governing the exciting field of RNA transport/localization. This process is of fundamental importance in development and differentiation...

Jeffrey Gross Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	Our research focuses on vertebrate eye development largely utilizing the zebrafish as a model system, with some projects now extending into mouse models. Combining forward genetic screens with reverse genetic ...

Robin Gutell Professor in Integrative Biology Email web site	see section bio for more info The remarkable advances in Nucleic Acid sequencing and Computer technology is transforming Biology to a ne...

Marvin Hackert Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry William Shive Centennial Professor In Biochemistry Email web site	Our research focuses on understanding function of proteins in relationship to their three-dimensional structures. Antizyme and antizyme inhibitor are regulatory proteins of ornithine decarboxylase that initiate...

Adron Harris M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair In Molecular Biology Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research Email web site	This laboratory is investigating molecular mechanisms responsible for alcoholism and drug dependence. We are defining actions of alcohol and other drugs on brain cells as well as the long-term changes in gene e...

Rasika Harshey Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	We have two major research interests. (1) DNA-protein interactions in Mu transposition. Many cancer-causing retroviruses including HIV, recombine with their host genomes in a manner similar to that used by tran...

Arjang Hassibi Assistant Professor Email web site	Dr. Hassibi's research focuses on new approaches to sense, detect and analyze biological systems using integrated systems and advanced signal processing techniques. In particular, he is interested in CMOS-based...

Christine Hawkes Assistant Professor Email web site	Hawkes lab website Research in the Hawkes Lab is focused on a mechanistic understanding of how plant-microbe interactions affect community...

Graeme Henkelman Assistant Professor Ph.D. Email web site	Computational methods are used in our lab to investigate protein dynamics. Experimental techniques, such as x-ray crystallography, are used to determine the structure of proteins with atomic resolution. Static...

David L. Herrin Professor of Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	There are several lines of molecular biology research currently underway in my laboratory. A major area concerns intron ribozymes that are found primarily in organellar genes, nuclear rRNA genes, prokaryotes, a...

David Hillis Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor In Natural Sciences Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Email web site	see section bio for more info Evolutionary biology provides a conceptual framework for understanding patterns of molecular diversity. For in...

David Hoffman Associate Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	Biophysical methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography are extensively used in our investigations of protein and RNA structure and function. Current work includes t...

Hans A. Hofmann Assistant Professor ICMB Fellow Email web site	The research in Dr. Hofmann's laboratory seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution. African cichlid fishes are an ideal model system to address th...

Jon Huibregtse Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Graduate Advisor, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program Email web site	The Huibregtse lab studies the biochemistry of the ubiquitin proteolysis system, a major pathway for degradation of proteins in eukaryotic cells. Our interest in this pathway arose from study of human papilloma...

Enamul Huq Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	Our research is aimed at understanding light signal transduction, specifically those pathways mediated by the phytochrome (phy) family of sensory photoreceptors that absorb light in the red and far-red region o...

Stephen Hursting Professor and Margaret McKean Love Chair, Division of Nutritional Sciences Email web site	Research Interests: Diet-gene interactions relevant to cancer prevention, particularly the molecular and hormonal mechanisms underlying energy balance-cancer associations. Focus Areas: 1. Mechanism-Based N...

Brent Iverson Distinguished Teaching Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Professor Email web site	Antibody and enzyme engineering with an emphasis on creating better methods for improving protein function. Several new technologies have been developed and patented. Recent successes include (a) the produc...

Vishwanath Iyer Associate Professor, MGM Email web site	Nearly all cells respond to physiological or developmental cues by large-scale transcriptional reprogramming – altering the expression of hundreds to thousands of genes throughout the genome. Such sweeping chan...

Robert Jansen Sidney F. and Doris Blake Centennial Professor In Systematic Botany and the Blake Collection Email web site	see section bio for more info My primary research interests involve the determination of phylogenetic relationships among plants and the ev...

Makkuni Jayaram Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	We study the molecular mechanisms by which extrachromosomal DNA elements maintain themselves stably and at relatively high copy numbers without endangering their host organisms. The model system we employ i...

Arlen Johnson Associate Professor In Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	My lab studies ribosome export and mRNA degradation in yeast. We use techniques spanning genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and proteomics. Recently, we identified the nuclear export pathw...

Kenneth Johnson Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Roger J. Williams Centennial Professor In Biochemistry Email web site	Three polymerases and a molecular motor: In projects related to AIDS, we examine HIV reverse transcriptase mechanism, its resistance to nucleoside analogs, and characterization of novel nonnucleoside inhibitor...

Daniel Johnston Director; Ctr for Learning and Memory, Institute for Neuroscience Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Email web site	Research in my laboratory is primarily directed towards understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic integration and long-term plasticity of neurons in the medial temporal lobe. We have ...

Christopher Jolly Assistant Professor in Nutritional Sciences Email web site	My lab focuses on understanding the biochemical/molecular mechanisms underlying reduced immune function in aging. We primarily focus on identifying signaling pathways which may lead to changes in lipid metabol...

Thomas Juenger Associate Professor, Integrative Biology Ph.D. Email web site	see section bio for more info My research focuses on the interface of ecological and evolutionary processes in natural plant populations. I...

Adrian Keatinge-Clay Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email	Many important pharmaceuticals, including the antibiotic erythromycin and the immunosuppressant rapamycin, belong to a diverse class of molecules called polyketides. My lab uses protein crystallography and enzy...

Sean Kerwin Associate Professor in Pharmacy G. D. Searle Fellow Email web site	The long-term goal of our research is the development of selective strategies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, and infectious diseases. Our work takes place at the interface of computational chemistr...

G. Barrie Kitto Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	(1) Development of treatments and vaccines for AIDS. This research includes both the use of immunotoxins targeted to infected cells and a novel class of MHC-based vaccines. (2) Vaccines for Respirato...

Kimberly Kline Julian C. Barton Professor in Nutrition Email web site	Research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of nutrition and cancer biology. Long term goals are to better our understanding of the biological actions of vitamin E, both naturally occurring forms and ...

Robert Krug Chair, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Lorene Morrow Kelley Fellow In Microbiology Email web site	The major focus of the Krug laboratory is the molecular biology of human influenza viruses (influenza A and B viruses), which cause widespread human disease. We are determining the molecular mechanisms of viral...

Alan M. Lambowitz Mr. & Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. and Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Regents Chairs In Molecular Biology Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology Email web site	Our laboratory studies gene expression, RNA splicing, catalytic RNAs, and retroviral-like genetic elements, including possible ancestors of HIV-1 and leukemia viruses. We are interested in mechanisms of RNA ca...

Hung-wen (Ben) Liu George H. Hitchings Regents Chair In Drug Design Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Biochemistry Email web site	My group is currently working on three general areas with the focus aimed at the elucidation of the mechanisms of novel enzymatic reactions and the design of methods to control and/or regulate their function...

Alan Lloyd Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	The main goal of my lab is to understand plant developmental mechanisms and plant pigment pathways. In plants, the control of cell fate decisions is a central issue during plant development and pattern forma...

Paul Macdonald Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Doherty, Jr. Regents Chair In Molecular Biology Email web site	Regulation of gene expression at the post-transcriptional level has long been recognized for its essential role in early development, and has more recently emerged as a widespread phenomenon affecting the major...

Dmitrii Makarov Associate Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	Our work in single molecules theory is motivated by the recent developments in scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and single molecule optical spectroscopy, which enable experimenters to ...

Edward Marcotte Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry William and Gwyn Shive Endowed Professor in Metabolism and Bioinformatics Email web site	Our research group combines experimental approaches with computational/bioinformatics approaches to study protein function and protein-protein interactions on a genome-wide scale. We’ve discovered a number ...

Mia Markey Assistant Professor (Biomedical Engineering) Email web site	The mission of the Biomedical Informatics Lab (BMIL) is to design cost-effective, computational decision aids for diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease. The BMIL develops decision support systems for ...

Stephen Martin Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Chair In Chemistry Email web site	The design and synthesis of small molecules that exhibit high affinities for biomacromolecules is critical to the study of enzyme mechanism and specificity and to correlating structure and function in protein-l...

Mikhail Matz Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology Email web site	We are a molecular biology and genomics lab working on (i) biofluorescence and (ii) evolution in the marine environment. We address a wide range of issues, including: - molecular biology and ...

Jennifer Maynard Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Email web site	Building on decades of basic research in the biological sciences, fundamental principles underlying the function of complex biological systems are being elucidated in laboratories throughout the world. Concurre...

Mona Mehdy Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	In response to pathogens and herbivores, plants employ up-regulation and down-regulation of diverse genes to achieve resistance. Research in my lab centers on two areas: 1) molecular mechanisms of down-regula...

Richard Meyer Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Conjugation is probably the most common mechanism for genetic exchange in bacteria. Bacteria can transfer DNA by conjugation not only between different species, but also into higher organisms such as plants and...

Lauren Ancel Meyers Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology Email web site	see section bio for more info The Meyers lab works on problems at the interface of evolution and epidemiology. We are simultaneously pursuin...

S. John Mihic M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Fellow In Molecular Biology Associate Professor Email web site	Research in my laboratory is focused on characterizing the molecular mechanisms of action of alcohol, inhaled solvents, sedatives and anaesthetics on glycine, GABA-A and serotonin-3 receptors. We combine the te...

Edward (Ted) Mills Assistant Professor Email web site	In mammals, up to 25% of overall basal metabolic rate is devoted to a futile cycle of proton extrusion from and leak back into the mitochondrial matrix during oxidative phosphorylation. Commonly referred to as...

Daniel Miranker David Bruton Jr Centennial Fellow in Cs #3, PHD Email web site	Professor Miranker’s research group addresses biological database infrastructure with applications in Proteomics, Genomics and Phylogeny. One research focus concerns search and mining methods for large-scale ...

Ian Molineux Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Our major interest is understanding how nucleic acids pass through lipid bilayers. Our model system is bacteriophage T7, which uses three different motor proteins to transport its DNA into the cell at the in...

Jennifer Morgan Assistant Professor, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	The process by which neurons communicate with each other is called synaptic transmission, and it underlies all human social, cognitive, motor and sexual behaviors. Communication between neurons occurs at specia...

Hitoshi Morikawa Associate Professor in Neurobiology M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Fellow In Molecular Biology Email web site	A large amount of knowledge has accumulated over the past decades implicating the central dopaminergic system in reward-based reinforcement learning, motivated behaviors and locomotion, as well as its dysfuncti...

Richard Morrisett Professor in Pharmacy Email web site	My primary research interests center upon the interactions between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters and their synaptic and cellular effects that regulate certain aspects of normal neural function as ...

Hiroshi Nishiyama Assistant Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	The synaptic connections between neurons undergo continuous structural remodeling even in the adult brain. However, we still have not largely understood the structural plasticity of neural circuitry in the con...

Nomeli Nunez Assistant Professor in Human Ecology Email web site	Dr. Nomeli Nunez earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1992 at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where he was an MBRS program participant. He finished his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology at W...

Theresa O'Halloran Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	The membranes of eukarytoic cells are in continual flux, trafficking receptors and other proteins to their appropriate intracellular destinations. This process is important to signal transduction, cancer, and ...

Tanya Paull Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Email web site	Research in the lab is focused on the DNA damage response in eukaryotic cells, specifically the checkpoint activation and DNA repair responses that occur immediately after the introduction of chromosomal dou...

Shelley Payne Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology University Distinguished Teaching Professor Email web site	We are interested in the genetics and regulation of virulence factors of gram negative pathogens, including Shigella and Vibrio cholerae. Members of the Shigella species are found both extracellularly and int...

Jonathan Pierce-Shimomura Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Email	Our lab seeks to identify genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors. We approach this complex subject by studying how conserved genes contribute to behaviors in the simple but powerful model nematode C. elegans...

Martin Poenie Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	We are interested in the cell biology of T cells and how they carry out their effector functions. In particular we are want to know how signaling events lead to reorganization of the T cell cytoskeleton and tra...

George Pollak Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	My principal interests are in elucidating how circuits in the mammalian brain transform information in sensory systems and how populations of neurons then represent features of the external world. Specifical...

William Press Professor of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Chair Email web site	My work is in computational biology, especially whole-genome studies. My collaborators and I develop and test new algorithms for finding and characterizing functional sequence, and for understanding evolutiona...

Kimberly Raab-Graham Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Email web site	My current research has focused on identifying synaptic mRNAs and developing tools to characterize the local translation of these transcripts. I now plan to use these tools to address the questions of what mRNA...

Pengyu Ren Assistant Professor Email web site	Dr. Ren studies the structure and function of biomolecules, with pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. Ren’s research team uses a range of computational tools to study the structure, dynamics and interact...

John Richburg Associate Professor Head, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology Email web site	The broad focus of my research is the investigation of the mechanism(s) by which environmental toxicants affect male reproduction. My specific research interests are directed towards thee understanding of the s...

Austen Riggs Professor of Biology Email web site	Interactions between and within macromolecular assemblages are frequently the key to understanding many complex cellular processes. I am particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms responsible for pr...

Jon Robertus Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Benjamin Clayton Centennial Professor In Biochemistry Email web site	Research in my laboratory focuses on protein structure, action, engineering and rational drug design. This includes analysis of three-dimensional structure by X-ray crystallography, site-directed mutation of cl...

Stanley Roux Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	We are studying how the stimuli of light and gravity alter patterns of plant development. In our studies of light-induced responses we have found that ectoapyrase, an enzyme whose expression is strongly regulat...

Krishnendu Roy Associate Professor in Biomedical Engeering Email web site	My overall research interest is in developing novel concepts for polymer controlled delivery of biological factors, especially for nucleic acid therapeutics (DNA, SiRNA and oligos) and stem cell engineering...

Rick Russell Associate Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	Our group combines biochemical and biophysical approaches to study the processes of RNA folding and assembly with proteins. Some of nature’s most complex and important enzyme machines are composed of RNA and pr...

Bob Sanders Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of nutrition and cancer biology. Long term goals are to develop vitamin E analogs as anticancer agents, and to increase the understanding of the biological...

Sara Sawyer Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Email web site	Evolutionary changes driven by historical viral epidemics have left a molecular ï¿½fossil recordï¿½ in our DNA sequence. Our goal is to learn about natural strategies that have been successful at beating viruse...

Christine Schmidt Laurence E. McMakin, Professor of Biomedical Engeering Email web site	Damage to spinal cord and peripheral nerve tissue can have a devastating impact on the quality of life for individuals suffering from nerve injuries. Many attempts are being made to engineer therapies that can...

Marty Shankland Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	Our lab investigates the cellular events that underlie the spatial patterning of embryonic body plans, and the way those pattern-forming mechanisms have evolved during the diversification of multicellular anima...

Jason Shear Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	The Shear Group investigates complex cellular and biochemical microenvironments at a variety of levels. Several current projects are focused on development of novel sensor- array methods and electrophoretic a...

George Shubeita Assistant Professor Email web site	Our group is interested in unraveling molecular mechanisms that regulate molecular-motor-driven transport within cells. We combine biophysical, biochemical, genetic and cell biology techniques to decipher the r...

John Sisson Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	The Sisson lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms that control how cells form and differentiate in early animal embryos. Our research is currently focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of two ...

David Stein Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	Most of the research in our lab is focused on the question of how a complex multicellular organism develops from a seemingly simple single cell, the fertilized Drosophila egg. In one set of investigations, we a...

Scott Stevens Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) function in many cellular processes and the malfunction of some of these RNPs cause serious human disease. To better understand how disease states can be corrected, our laboratory stud...

Laura Suggs Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Email web site	Our lab is primarily interested in the development of biologically active materials and their use and behavior in cardiovascular tissue engineering. It is important to understand molecular and cellular mech...

Christopher Sullivan Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Email web site	The recent discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and small regulatory RNAs such as siRNAs and miRNAs, has dramatically changed our understanding of the regulation of gene expression. Consequently, RNAi has gener...

Sibum Sung Assistant Professor Cell and Developmental Biology Email web site	Our research interests focus on the genetic, molecular and biochemical understandings of plant development through plant-environment interactions. We are particularly interested in the epigenetic regulation of...

Paul J. Szaniszlo Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	Our research uses the model black (melanized) pathogenic mold Wangiella (Exophiala) dermatitidis to identify cell wall-related virulence factors among the more than 100 other melanized fung...

Wesley Thompson Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	My lab is interested in the role of glial cells in the formation and maintenance of synapses in the nervous system. For this purpose we study the simplest of all synapses, the neuromuscular junction where our ...

Ming Tian Assistant Professor, MGM Email web site	My research interest is the DNA recombination events that are involved in generating antibody diversity in B cells. The large repertoire of antigen specificity and different effector functions of antibodies ar...

M. Stephen Trent Associate Professor Email	In order to survive, bacteria must quickly respond to changes in the surrounding environment. We are interested in how diverse environmental stimuli promote changes in conserved microbial structures found on t...

Philip Tucker Marie Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology Email web site	We hope to better understand transcriptional regulation of lymphoid and cardiovascular development and function in normal and diseased mice. Ongoing projects can be grouped operationally under four transcripti...

Carla Vandenberg Associate Professor Email web site	My laboratory would provide a strong training environment for students in the CMB program. My lab studies the importance of growth factor signaling in both breast cancer progression and resistance to chemother...

Steven Vokes Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	Transcriptional and cis-regulatory mechanisms underlie the process of cellular specification during embryonic development. Here, initiating signals tell undifferentiated cells their fates and positions within a...

James Walker Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Email web site	My research interests include the mechanism by which the bacterial chromosome is replicated, how replication is controlled, and how replication is integrated with cell division. Specifically, we study compon...

John Wallingford Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology Email web site	The process by which embryos acquire their final shape involves the coordination of cell fate decisions with cell movement. We are taking an integrated approach to understanding this process in vertebrate embr...

Tandy Warnow Professor in Computer Sciences Email web site	Phylogenies (i.e. evolutionary trees) are fundamental to our understanding of evolution, and their inference is a major part of research in many areas of biology. With the production of increasing amounts of b...

Lauren Webb Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	Research in the Webb group seeks to understand and manipulate the mechanisms of interaction, organization, and self-assembly of biological macromolecules that lead to the complex and emergent properties of livi...

Marvin Whiteley Assistant Professor Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Email web site	Bacteria exhibit many social activities and represent a model for dissecting social behavior at the genetic level (recently defined as sociomicrobiology). One example of social behavior in bacteria is the use o...

Christian Whitman Professor in Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Romeo T. Bachand, Jr. Regents Professorship In Pharmacy Email web site	My laboratory is interested in how enzymes evolve and how they work. We are studying two groups of enzymes, the tautomerase superfamily and the fumaryl acetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) superfamily. Both superfa...

Claus Wilke Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology Email web site	Wilke works in the areas of computational and theoretical biology. His research can be broadly subdivided into three areas: (1) molecular evolution, (2) evolution of RNA viruses, (3) theoretical population gene...

Casey Wright Assistant Professor Email web site	My laboratory is focused on unraveling the complex regulatory mechanisms that govern the activity of the pleiotropic transcription factor nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kB), with the long-term goal of identifying ph...

Whitney Yin Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	Our research focuses structural and functional studies of gene transcription and DNA replication in mitochondria. Mitochondrial transcription system has combined features of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. ...

Harold Zakon Professor in Neurobiology Email web site	Ion channels are fundamental for the workings of the nervous system. We study the function, regulation, and evolution of voltage-dependent ion channels. Our main focus has been to study the regulation of sodium...

Muhammad Zaman Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering Email web site	Research in my group is broadly focused on understanding how cancer cells interact with the extra cellular matrices in native environments. We use a combination of computational and experimental methods to stud...

Zhiwen (Jonathan) Zhang Assistant Professor, in Pharmacy Ph.D. Email web site	The goals of the Zhang lab include answering basic biological questions, developing novel biotechnologies, and identifying new drug therapies. We utilize both classic and novel techniques in the fields of bioch...

Xiaojing (John) Zhang Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering Email web site	Our current research focus is on the development of miniature tools with which to describe cellular processes quantitatively. Using these novel cell-machine interfaces, we can investigate, with extremely high s...

Yan Jessie Zhang Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry Email web site	A major focus of Zhang's research is the elucidation of the fundamental principles of transcriptional regulation. The primary experimental approaches used in the laboratory are macromolecular structure determi...