Faculty Directory

Research Interests: Plant evolutionary biology; development and genomics

Research Interests: Molecular and developmental biology; plant gene expression

Research Interests: Signaling (MAPK) Pathways that Control Cell Polarity and Cell Differentiation

Research Interests: Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake.

Research Interests: Science Education; the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Research Interests: C. elegans sensory biology: G protein-coupled signal transduction and regulation

Research Interests: Human and primate evolution, ancient humans (including Neanderthals and Denisovans), anthropological genomics

Research Interests: Molecular genetics: RNA-protein interactions and prokaryotic gene expression

Research Interests: Axonal transport and neurodegenerative disease

Research Interests: Membrane biochemistry and cell physiology

Research Interests: Undergraduate STEM education, Cell Biology

Research Interests: DNA-protein interaction; DNA structure, bacterial pathogenesis

Research Interests: Fish evolution and ecology; genome evolution; climate change.

Research Interests: Cell biology: mechanism of chromosome segregation

Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus development

Research Interests: Development of neurons and glial cells, neurodevelopmental disorders

Research Interests: Evolutionary biology; molecular phylogenetics and population genomics

Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology; Evolutionary Biology.

Research Interests: Physiology of neuronal cell signaling pathways

Research Interests: The role of sodium transport in salt tolerance in two species of Chara.

Research Interests: Undergraduate curriculum development; Evolutionary ecology

Research Interests: Chromatin and its impact on gene expression and chromosome function; Gene duplication and the evolution of protein functions; Rewiring of transcriptional circuits.

Research Interests: Microbial symbioses, microbial community structure and function, evolutionary biology, biodiversity and conservation, marine and freshwater ecology, bioinformatics.

Research Interests: Cell biology of the nucleus

Research Interests: Sensory transduction; Cell signaling

Research Interests: Nascent RNA structure and function

Research Interests: Evolutionary biology: evolutionary genetics of aquatic invertebrates

Research Interests: Translational control of gene expression

Research Interests: Synthetic biology and plant natural products

Research Interests: Behavioral and spatial ecology of migratory birds, undergraduate experiential learning

Research Interests: Neuronal computation in the auditory system

Research Interests: C4 photosynthesis and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM); STEM education.

Research Interests: Biological functions of protein methylation