Research by Groups

Biochemistry & Structural Biology

Alice Barkan	Biology	Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the chloroplast, protein-facilitated RNA catalysis.
Andy Berglund	Chemistry	RNA-protein interactions, intron recognition and regulation of pre-mRNA splicing.
Roderick Capaldi	Biology	Membrane structure and function and oxidative phosphorylation.
Diane Hawley	Chemistry	RNA polymerase, regulation of gene expression, and protein-DNA interactions.
James Hutchinson	Chemistry	Ion and electron transport in biological systems and synthetic materials.
John Keana	Chemistry	Organic synthesis, pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
Shawn Lockery	Biology	Parallel and distributed processing in simple biological networks.
Andrew Marcus	Chemistry	Protein dynamics, intracellular transport.
Brian Matthews	Physics	Protein structure and function, protein folding, and x-ray crystallography.
Peter O'Day	Biology	Cellular signaling, retinal physiology, and ion transport.
Kenneth Prehoda	Chemistry	Signal transduction, protein interaction networks, x-ray crystallography.
S. James Remington	Physics	Enzyme structure, mechanisms and dynamics, x-ray crystallography, development of fluorescent protein biosensors.
William Roberts	Biology	Signal processing in sensory systems, synaptic transmission, and calcium signaling.
Tom Stevens	Chemistry	Membrane biogenesis, protein sorting, and organelle assembly.
Peter von Hippel	Chemistry	Physical biochemistry of proteins and nucleic acids and gene expression.

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Bioinformatics

John Conery	Computer & Information Science	Parallel processing, computational science, and bioinformatics.
Sarah Douglas	Computer & Information Science	Modeling, simulation, and bioinformatics.
Jessica Green	Biology	Biological diversity, applied and theoretical ecology, bioinformatics,
Joe Thornton	Biology	Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, hormones, receptors and evolutionary genomics.

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Ecology & Evolution

Patrick Bartlein	Geography	Climatology, Quaternary environments, climatic change.
Brendan Bohannan	Biology	Microbial biodiversity, molecular microbial ecology, experimental microbial ecology and evolution.
William Bradshaw	Biology	Evolutionary genetics, biological clocks, population biology.
Scott Bridgham	Biology	Ecosystem ecology, climate change, restoration, wetlands.
George Carroll	Biology	Evolution and ecology of microfungi.
Richard Castenholz	Biology	Microbial aquatic ecology and physiological ecology of photosynthetic microbes.
William Cresko	Biology	Developmental genetics of evolving traits, gene and genome duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation.
Richard Emlet	Biology	Functional morphology, biomechanics, ecology, and evolution of invertebrates.
Jessica Green	Biology	Biological diversity, applied and theoretical ecology, bioinformatics,
Bart Johnson	Landscape & Architecture	Conservaton planning, biodiversity protection, and ecological design and restoration.
Svetlana Maslakova	Biology	Evolutionary developmental biology of marine invertebrates; biology of nemerteans; comparative embryology and morphology.
Patricia McDowell	Geography	Fluvial geomorphology, watershed science and policy.
Patrick Phillips	Biology	Evolutionary genetics and the genetics of complex traits.
John Postlethwait	Biology	Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.
Gregory Retallack	Geology	Fossil soils and plants as records of paleoclimates, other aspects of terrestrial paleoenvironments.
Josh Roering	Geography	Earth surface processes, quantitative geomorphology, and landscape evolution
Barbara Roy	Biology	Plant population ecology, frequency-dependent selection, mimicry, evolution of disease resistance and tolerance.
Alan Shan ks	Biology	Biological oceanography, larval ecology, marine animal behavior.
Lynda Shapiro	Biology	Biology of pelagic marine phytoplankton.
Lawrence Sugiyama	Anthropology	Evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, and indigenous Amazonian societies.
Joe Thornton	Biology	Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, hormones, receptors and evolutionary genomics.
Daniel Udovic	Biology & Environmental Studies	Population modeling, mutualisms, science education.
Michelle Wood	Biology	Evolutionary ecology of marine plankton and cyanobacteria, biological oceanography, ocean color and optic.
Craig Young	Biology	Development and larval biology of marine invertebrates, deep-sea reproduction, marine benthic ecology and ecology.

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Genetics

Alice Barkan	Biology	Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the chloroplast, protein-facilitated RNA catalysis.
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.
William cresko	Biology	Developmental genetics of evolving traits, gene and genome duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation.
Chris Doe	Biology	Neural stem cells, cell polarity, CNS development in Drosophila.
Judith Eisen	Biology	Neural and neural crest development, neuronal and glia cell fate specification, axonal pathfinding.
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.
Charles Kimmel	Biology	Pattern formation during development.
Eric Johnson	Biology	Hypoxia, genomics, gene regulation.
Brian Matthews	Physics	Protein structure and function, protein folding, and x-ray crystallography.
Patrick Phillips	Biology	Evolutionary genetics and the genetics of complex traits.
John Postlethwait	Biology	Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.
Barbara Roy	Biology	Plant population ecology, frequency-dependent selection, mimicry, evolution of disease resistance and tolerance.
Eric Selker	Biology	Epigenetics, DNA methylation, genome dynamics, gene silencing, position effects.
George Sprague	Biology	Genetic regulatory mechanisms in yeast.
Franklin Stahl	Biology	Mechanisms of recombinants.
Tom Stevens	Chemistry	Membrane biogenesis, protein sorting, and organelle assembly.
Joe Thornton	Biology	Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, hormones, receptors and evolutionary genomics.
Peter von Hippel	Chemistry	Physical biochemistry of proteins and nucleic acids and gene expression.
Monte Westerfield	Biology	Developmental genetics of neurons and muscle.
Hui Zong	Biology	Genetic analysis of gliomagenesis with a mosaic mouse model, lineage, stem cells and loss of tumor suppressor genes.

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Marine Biology

Richard Castenholz	Biology	Microbial aquatic ecology and physiological ecology of photosynthetic microbes.
Richard Emlet	Biology	Functional morphology, biomechanics, ecology, and evolution of invertebrates.
Svetlana Maslakova	Biology	Evolutionary developmental biology of marine invertebrates; biology of nemerteans; comparative embryology and morphology.
Alan Shanks	Biology	Biological oceanography, larval ecology, marine animal behavior.
Lynda Shapiro	Biology	Biology of pelagic marine phytoplankton.
Nora Terwilliger	Biology	Marine molecular physiology, biochemical evolution, invertebrate oxygen-binding proteins.
Michelle Wood	Biology	Evolutionary ecology of marine plankton and cyanobacteria, biological oceanography, ocean color and optic.
Craig Young	Biology	Development and larval biology of marine invertebrates, deep sea-reproduction, marine benthic ecology and ecology.

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Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Alice Barkan	Biology	Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the chloroplast, protein-facilitated RNA catalysis.
Andy Berglund	Chemistry	RNA-protein interactions, intron recognition and regulation of pre-mRNA splicing.
Bruce Bowerman	Biology	Cell polarity and cell division in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Roderick Capaldi	Biology	Membrane structure and function and oxidative phosphorylation.
William cresko	Biology	Developmental genetics of evolving traits, gene and genome duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation.
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.
Judith Eisen	Biology	Neural and neural crest development, neuronal and glia cell fate specification, axonal pathfinding.
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.
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.
Eric Johnson	Biology	Hypoxia, genomics, gene regulation.
Clifford Kentros	Biology	Cellular and molecular studies of mammalian learning and memory.
Charles Kimmel	Biology	Pattern formation during development.
Shawn Lockery	Biology	Parallel distributed processing in simple biological networks.
Andrew Marcus	Chemistry	Protein dynamics, intracellular transport.
Brian Matthews	Physics	Protein structure and function, protein folding, and x-ray crystallography.
Peter O'Day	Biology	Cellular signaling, retinal physiology, and ion transport.
Patrick Phillips	Biology	Evolutionary genetics and the genetics of complex traits.
John Postlethwait	Biology	Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.
Kenneth Prehoda	Chemistry	Signal transduction, protein interaction networks, x-ray crystallography.
William Roberts	Biology	Signal processing in sensory systems, synaptic transmission, and calcium signaling.
Eric Selker	Biology	Epigenetics, DNA methylation, genome dynamics, gene silencing, position effects.
Lynda Shapiro	Biology	Biology of pelagic marine phytoplankton.
George Sprague	Biology	Genetic regulatory mechanisms in yeast.
Karen Sprague	Biology	Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and teaching faculty.
Franklin Stahl	Biology	Mechanisms of recombinants.
Tom Stevens	Chemistry	Membrane biogenesis, protein sorting, and organelle assembly.
Joe Thornton	Biology	Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, hormones, receptors and evolutionary genomics.
Nathan Tublitz	Biology	Neuropeptides, invertebrate neurobiology, and neural basis of behavior.
Peter von Hippel	Chemistry	Physical biochemistry of proteins and nucleic acids and gene expression.
Philip Washbourne	Biology	Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation between neurons during development and repair.
Janis Weeks	Biology	Steroid hormones 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.
James Weston	Biology	Morphogenesis and cell differentiation.
A. Michelle Wood	Biology	Evolutionary ecology of marine plankton and cyanobacteria, biological oceanography, ocean color and optic.
Hui Zong	Biology	Genetic analysis of gliomagenesis with a mosaic mouse model, lineage, stem cells and loss of tumor suppressor genes.

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Neuroscience

Edward Awh	Psychology	Behavioral and biological studies of selective attention and working memory.
Paul Dassonville	Psychology	The brain's ability to form spatial representations using sensory cues.
Chris Doe	Biology	Neural stem cells, cell polarity, CNS development in Drosophila.
Judith Eisen	Biology	Neural and neural crest development, neuronal and glia cell fate specification, axonal pathfinding.
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.
Clifford Kentros	Biology	Cellular and molecular studies of mammalian learning and memory.
Charles Kimmel	Biology	Pattern formation during development.
Gary Klug	Human Physiology	Chronic and acute adaptations in muscle due to exercise.
Shawn Lockery	Biology	Parallel and distributed processing in simple biological networks.
Richard Marrocco	Psychology	Neurobiology of visual attention and phamacology of arousal and attention.
Helen Neville	Psychology	Brain development, neuroplasticity, and development.
Peter O'Day	Biology	Cellular signaling, retinal physiology, and ion transport.
Michael Posner	Psychology	Neural mechanisms and structures underlying selective attention.
John Postlethwait	Biology	Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.
William Roberts	Biology	Signal processing in sensory systems, synaptic transmission, and calcium signaling.
Terry Takahashi	Biology	Coding and integraton of sensory information neuroethology.
Nathan Tublitz	Biology	Neuropeptides, invertebrate neurobiology, neural basis of behavior.
Paul vanDonkelaar	Human Physiology	Cortical mechanisims underlying sensorimotor integration.
Philip Washbourne	Biology	Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation between neurons during development and repair.
Janis Weeks	Biology	Steroid hormones 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.
James Weston	Biology	Morphogenesis and cell differentiation.
Hui Zong	Biology	Genetic analysis of gliomagenesis with a mosaic mouse model, lineage, stem cells and loss of tumor suppressor genes.

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