Edward Awl
Psychology

Behavioral and biological studies of 
selective attention and working memory.  

Alice Barkan
Biology

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression 
in the chloroplast, protein facilitated RNA catalysis.

Patrick Bartlein
Geography

Climatology, Quaternary environments, and climatic change.

Andy Berglund
Chemistry

RNA-protein interactions, intron recognition and regulation of pre-mRNA splicing.

Brendan Bohannan
Biology

Microbial biodiversity, molecular microbial ecology, experimental microbial
ecology and evolution.

Bruce Bowerman
Biology

Cell polarity and cell division in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.

William Bradshaw
Biology

Evolutionary genetics, biological clocks, population biology.

Scott Bridgham
Biology

Ecosystem ecology, climate change, restoration, wetlands.

Rod Capaldi
Biology

Membrane structure and function and oxidative phosphorylation.

Richard Castenholz
Biology

Microbial aquatic ecology and physiological 
ecology of photosynthetic microbes.

John Conery
Computer & Information Science

Parallel processing, computational science, and bioinformatics.

William Cresko
Biology

Developmental genetics of evolving traits,gene and genome 
duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation. 

Paul Dassonville
Psychology

The brain's ability to form spatial representations using sensory cues.

Victoria DeRose
Chemistry

Investigating chemical activity and structure in nucleic acids and proteins,
with an emphasis on metal interactions.

Chris Doe
Biology

Neural stem cells, cell polarity, CNS development in Drosophila. 

Sarah Douglas
Computer & Information Science

Modeling, simulation, and bioinformatics.

Kenneth Doxsee
Chemistry

Organic synthesis, molecular recognition, crystallization chemistry.

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Judith Eisen
Biology

Neural and neural crest development, neuronal and glia cell fate 
specification, axonal pathfinding.

Richard Emlet
Biology

Functional morphology, biomechanics, ecology, evolution of  invertebrate.

Jessica Green
BIOLOGY

Biological diversity, applied and theoretical ecology, bioinformatics,

Karen Guillemin
Biology

Helicobacter pylori  mechanisms of pathogenesis; 
bacterial-host interactions in development.

Diane Hawley
Chemistry

RNA polymerase, regulation of gene expression, and 
protein-DNA interactions.

Tory Herman
Biology

Neural target selection and synapse formation of Drosophila.

James Hutchison
Chemistry

Ion and electron transport in biological systems and synthetic materials.

Bart Johnson
Landscape Architecture

Conservation planning, biodiversity protection, and ecological design and restoration.

Darren Johnson
Chemistry

Metals in medicine, molecular recognition of biologically-relevant molecules.

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Eric Johnson
Biology

Hypoxia, genomics, gene regulation.

John Keana
Chemistry

Organic synthesis, pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
* Professor Keana has retired from teaching, but he continues to run fully active 
and funded research program(s). Applications from potential postdoctoral fellows
 and undergraduate research participants are welcome.

Cliff Kentros
Psychology

Cellular and molecular studies of mammalian learning and memory.

Charles Kimmel
Biology

Pattern formation during development.
* Professor Kimmel  has retired from teaching, but he continues to run fully active 
and funded research program(s).  Applications from potential postdoctoral fellows 
and undergraduate research participants are welcome.

Gary Klug
Human Physiology

Chronic and acute adaptations in muscle due to exercise.

Hiner Linke
PHYSICS

Quantum ratchets, motor proteins, semiconductor  nanostructures.

Shawn Lockery
Biology

Parallel distributed processing in simple biological networks.

Andrew Marcus
Chemistry

Protein dynamics, intracellular transport.

Richard Marrocco
Psychology

Neurobiology of visual attention and pharmacology of arousal and attention.

Svetlana Maslakova
Biology

Evolutionary developmental biology of marine invertebrates; biology of nemerteans; comparative embryology and morphology.

Brian Matthews
Physics

Protein structure and function, protein folding, and x-ray crystallography.

Patricia McDowell
Geography

Fluvial geomorphology, watershed science and policy.

Helen Neville
Psychology

Brain development, neuroplasticity, and development.

Peter O'Day
Biology

Cellular signaling, visual transduction, and ion channels and transport.

Raghuveer Parthasarathy
PHYSICS

Material properties of biological membranes, mechanisms of protein organization, 
advanced microscopy techniques.

Patrick Phillips
Biology

Evolutionary genetics and the genetics of complex traits.

John Postlethwait
Biology

Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.

Ken Prehoda
Chemistry

Signal transduction, protein interaction networks, x-ray crystallography.

James Remington
Physics

Enzyme structure, mechanism and dynamics, x-ray crystallography, 
development of fluorescent protein biosensors.

Greg Retallack
Geology

Fossil soils and plants as paleoclimate records and other aspects 
of terrestrial paleoenvironments.

Bill Roberts
Biology

Signal processing in sensory systems, synaptic transmission, and calcium signaling.

Josh Roering
Geology

Earth Surface Processes, Quantitative Geomorphology, and Landscape Evolution.

Bitty Roy
Biology

Plant population ecology, frequency-dependent selection, mimicry, and evolution 
of disease resistance and tolerance.

Eric Selker
Biology

Epigenetics, DNA methylation, genome dynamics, gene silencing, position effects.

Alan Shanks
Biology

Biological oceanography, larval ecology, marine animal behavior.

George Sprague
Biology

Genetic regulatory mechanisms in yeast.

Karen Sprague
Biology

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and teaching faculty.

Kent Stevens
Computer & information Science

Three-dimensional visualization, reconstructions of vertebrate skeletons
and biomechanical modeling.                      

Kryn Stankunas
BIOLOGY

Chromatin dynamics and the epigenetic regulation of organ formation

Tom Stevens
Chemistry

Membrane biogenesis, protein sorting, and organelle assembly.

Matt Streisfeld
biology

Adaptation in natural plant populations.

Lawrence Sugiyama
Anthropology

Evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, and indigenous Amazonian societies.

Terry Takahashi
Biology

Coding and integration of sensory information and neuroethology.

Nora Terwilliger
Biology

Marine molecular physiology, biochemical evolution, invertebrate 
oxygen-binding proteins.

Joe Thornton
Biology

Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; hormones, receptors, 
and evolutionary genomics. 

Nathan Tublitz
Biology

Neuropeptides, invertebrate neurobiology, and neural basis of behavior.

Don Tucker
Psychology

Neural mechanisms of normal and abnormal emotion, motivation, and cognition.

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Dan Udovic
Biology

Population modeling, mutualisms, science education.

Paul van Donkelaar
Human Physiology

Cortical mechanisms underlying sensorimotor integration.

Peter von Hippel
Chemistry

Physical biochemistry of proteins and nucleic acids and gene expression.
* Professor von Hippel  has retired from teaching, but he continues to run fully active
 and funded research program(s). Applications from potential postdoctoral fellows 
and undergraduate research participants are welcome.

Phil Washbourne
Biology

Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation between neurons during development and repair. 

Janis Weeks
Biology

Steroid hormone effects on synapses, neural circuits and neurodegeneration.

Michael Wehr
Psychology

Systems neuroscience, neural coding, auditory cortex.

Monte Westerfield
Biology

Developmental genetics of neurons and muscle.

Michelle Wood
Biology

Evolutionary ecology of marine plankton and cyanobacteria, 
biological oceanography, ocean color and optic. 

Marjorie Woollacott
Human Physiology

Postural control systems in humans and neural processing systems.

Craig Young
Biology

Development and larval biology of marine invertebrates.

Hui Zong
Biology

Genetic analysis of gliomagenesis with a mosaic mouse model, lineage,
 stem cells and loss of tumor suppressor genes.

George Carroll
Biology

Evolution and ecology of microfungi.

Barbara Gordon-Lickey
Psychology

Visual behavior and transmitters and receptors in neuronal plasticity.

Marvin Gordon-Lickey
Psychology

Synaptic plasticity, critical periods, and neural basis of learning

O.Hayes Griffith
Chemistry

Phospholipase structure and function, signal transduction, 
enzyme kinetics, and fluorescent probes.

Michael Posner
Psychology

Neural mechanisms and structures underlying selective attention.

Lynda Shapiro
Biology

Biology of pelagic marine phytoplankton.

Frank Stahl
Biology

Mechanisms of recombinants.

James Weston
Biology

Morphogenesis and cell differentiation.