Genomics & Computational Biology John Calarco Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We study how mRNA processing and post-transcriptional gene regulation influences the development, differentiation, and function of the nervous system. Belinda S.W. Chang Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Dinesh Christendat Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Structural biology approaches to understand the functional divergence and regulation of metabolic proteins in plants and microbes. Darrell Desveaux Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Systems biology of plant-microbe interactions. We investigate how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves. David S. Guttman Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. Evolution of host specificity and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Microbiome studies of human and plant diseases. Qian Lin Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Peter McCourt Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Jennifer A. Mitchell Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Alan M. Moses Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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. Nicholas J. Provart Professor & Chair Bioinformatic tools and analyses for hypothesis generation in plant biology. Wet-lab validation of hypotheses generated using such tools Arneet Saltzman Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Understanding chromatin regulation during development using C. elegans as a model system. Maxwell Shafer Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications 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.
