Faculty

Mounir G. AbouHaidar

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Molecular biology of plant and human viruses. Mechanisms of resistance and development of "transgenic" plants resistant to viruses.  
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Thomas Berleth

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The Arabidopsis embryo represents a simple, reproducible cellular pattern comprised of few basic tissues and prototypes of leaf- and root-like organs. These structures are generated in a suite of highly reproducible stages that imply tight control of orientation and frequency of cell division as well as cell morphology and differentiation. 
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Ashley E. Bruce

Our goal is to understand how morphogenesis and embryonic tissue patterning are linked. We use cellular, molecular and embryological techniques to study these questions in the zebrafish embryo. 
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Leslie T. Buck

☀ Accepting Applications
We use a comparative neurobiological/physiological/molecular approach to understand how animals survive environmental extremes, in particular how painted turtles and goldfish survive without oxygen for weeks. 
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John Calarco

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We study how mRNA processing and post-transcriptional gene regulation influences the development, differentiation, and function of the nervous system. 
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Belinda S.W. Chang

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Recreating the evolution of visual proteins in the laboratory; next generation sequencing and computational studies of visual proteins from animals in unusual habitats; mutagenesis studies of visual pigment structure/function. 
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Dinesh Christendat

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Structural biology approaches to understand the functional divergence and regulation of metabolic proteins in plants and microbes. 
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Darrell Desveaux

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Systems biology of plant-microbe interactions. We investigate how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves. 
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Dorothea Godt

Analysis of molecular networks that drive cell shape changes, cell migration, and cell and tissue architecture during animal development. 
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Daphne Goring

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My overall research interests are to understand how plant cells communicate through signal transduction pathways to regulate plant reproduction in the Brassicaceae family (Arabidopsis and related species). 
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David S. Guttman

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Comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. Evolution of host specificity and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Microbiome studies of human and plant diseases. 
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Tony J.C. Harris

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We study how molecular circuits control and coordinate cell polarity, adhesion, cytoskeletal and membrane trafficking machinery to build and re-shape cells during animal development. 
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Qian Lin

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How does the brain produce adaptive, flexible behavior? We want to understand the neural mechanisms of decision making by combining whole-brain imaging in behaving zebrafish and computational tools. 
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Shelley Lumba

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Our goal is to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying dormancy and germination in both non-parasitic and parasitic plants. We apply systems biology approaches to generate signalling networks during seed germination.  
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Peter McCourt

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The laboratory is focused on how hormones regulate developmental responses in higher plants. In particular, we use functional and chemical genomics approaches to dissect abscisic acid (ABA) and strigolactone signaling. 
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Heather McFarlane

☀ Accepting Applications
We ask and answer questions about the fundamental mechanisms by which plants sense their environment through the cell wall and how plants adjust their growth in response to these signals. 
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Jennifer A. Mitchell

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We study how stem cells maintain the ability to self-renew and differentiate to specialised cells. Our focus is on finding the on/off instructions in DNA that regulate genes required for stem cell function. 
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Alan M. Moses

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DNA and protein sequences that control gene regulation. Population genetics and molecular evolution of regulatory networks. Development of computational and statistical methods for analysis of large biological datasets. 
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Eiji Nambara

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My research team investigates molecular mechanisms by which plants regulate plant hormone metabolism. 
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Melody J. Neumann

My primary research interest is the scholarly and scientific analysis of teaching practices to improve student learning in cell and molecular biology. 
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John H. Peever

☀ Accepting Applications
Our research is focused on identifying the brain circuits that control sleep and wakefulness, and how breakdown in these circuits contribute to disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and narcolepsy. 
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Sergey V. Plotnikov

☀ Accepting Applications
We are interested in understanding the mechanisms utilized by mammalian cells to sense and transduce physical inputs from the microenvironment and how cell migration is guided by the mechanical cues. 
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Jessica Pressey

Cellular mechanisms underlying inhibitory GABAergic synaptic plasticity in the central nervous system 
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Nicholas J. Provart

Bioinformatic tools and analyses for hypothesis generation in plant biology. Wet-lab validation of hypotheses generated using such tools 
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Maurice Ringuette

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Arneet Saltzman

☀ Accepting Applications
Understanding chromatin regulation during development using C. elegans as a model system. 
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Maxwell Shafer

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Decoding the genomic and cellular mechanisms of sleep evolution using comparative approaches across vertebrate species, including functional genomics, bioinformatics, cell & molecular biology, neurobiology, and evolution.  
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Ulrich Tepass

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We study the mechanisms of cell polarity and cell adhesion of epithelial cells during animal development. Our work is relevant for several human diseases, in particular cancer and blindness. 
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Vincent Tropepe

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We study the molecular and cellular basis of neurogenesis in the brain and retina during development and in the context of regeneration. 
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Rudolf Winklbauer

We study the molecular and cellular mechanisms and the tissue mechanical basis of vertebrate gastrulation. 
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Melanie A. Woodin

Understanding the functioning of inhibitory synapses, both at the cellular level and within neuronal circuits. 
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Keiko Yoshioka

☀ Accepting Applications
Signal transduction of stress responses in plants with an emphasis on immunity; environmental effects on pathogen resistance; signal transduction networks in abiotic and biotic stress responses; production of stress resistant plants. 
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