St. George UTM UTSC All Faculty Ashley Bruce Professor and Graduate Chair ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Leslie T. Buck Professor 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Dorothea Godt Professor Emerita Analysis of molecular networks that drive cell shape changes, cell migration, and cell and tissue architecture during animal development. Campus: St. George (downtown) Daphne Goring Professor 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). Campus: St. George (downtown) Felix Gunawan Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We investigate how cardiac and endothelial cells acquire their identities, sculpt their forms and spatially organize by integrating input from blood flow–driven forces, extracellular matrix cues, and gene regulatory networks. Campus: St. George (downtown) Tony J.C. Harris Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Heather McFarlane Assistant Professor ☀ 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Sergey V. Plotnikov Associate Professor ☀ 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Arneet Saltzman Assistant Professor Understanding chromatin regulation during development using C. elegans as a model system. Campus: St. George (downtown) Ulrich Tepass Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Campus: St. George (downtown) Vincent Tropepe Professor and Associate Vice-President Research Oversight & Compliance ☀ Accepting Applications We study the molecular and cellular basis of neurogenesis in the brain and retina during development and in the context of regeneration. Campus: St. George (downtown) Melanie A. Woodin President & Professor Understanding the functioning of inhibitory synapses, both at the cellular level and within neuronal circuits. Campus: St. George (downtown)
