Faculty
Research Faculty
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.
Expertise: Cellular organization and behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
Expertise: Neural development and behavior.
Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis.
Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors.
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response.
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
Expertise: Modulation of neural networks.
Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.
Mitochondrial genetics and metabolism in health and neurodegenerative disease
Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells.
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.
Biology Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2023
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.
Affiliated Faculty
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems.
Teaching Faculty
Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change.
Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.
Expertise: Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.
Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function.
Expertise:Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology
Undergraduate Advising Head — Spring 2024
Faculty Emeriti
Expertise: Super-resolution light microscopy and the structure of the synapse
Expertise: Cell differentiation, centrioles and cell death. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Naegleria.
Expertise: Comparative nutritional pathophysiology in man and animals. Lipoprotein metabolism and atherogenesis, diabetes and obesity.
Expertise: Developmental immunology and immunogenetics.
Expertise: Mammalian embryogenesis. Gene expression in single cells.