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Elizabeth Adkins-Regan -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Reproduction, Physiology
	Research Description: Vertebrate social behavior; hormonal bases of reproductive and aggressive behavior; hormones and behavior; avian reproductive physiology
Anurag Agrawal -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Entomology
	Research Description: Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions, including aspects of herbivory, community ecology, phenotypic plasticity, coevolution, plant defense and herbivore offense.
Eric Alani -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Roles for mismatch repair factors in regulating chromosome stability and genetic recombination
Esther Angert -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: Microbial ecology, evolution of a novel bacterial developmental system and microbial phylogeny, daughter cell formation, endospore formation
Douglas Antczak -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Immunology, Reproduction, Genetics, Genomics
	Research Description: Reproductive immunology; equine immunology
Judith Appleton -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Immunity to nematode parasites colonizing mucosal sites, parasitism.
Charles Aquadro -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Population Genetics, Comparative Genomics, Evolution
	Research Description: Our research reveals the principles and processes that determine the nature, amount, distribution, and functional significance of genetic variation within and between natural populations and among related species. We draw on the tools of experimental and theoretical population genetics, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics to study the structure and evolution of the genome, natural populations, to resolve the evolutionary forces acting on individual genes, and to functionally annotate the genome (particularly that of Drosophila).
Antje Baeumner -- Biological and Environmental Engineering
	Research Interests: BioEngineering, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Genomics
	Research Description: Development of biosensors and bioanalytical microsystems and micro total analysis systems for the detection of pathogenic organisms in food, the environment and for clinical diagnostics. Pathogens we focus on include C. parvum, E. coli, Dengue virus, HIV
Joel Baines -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Virology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Herpes Simplex Virus, Replication, DNA packaging
Daniel Barbash -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Development, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: We are interested in how animals develop, evolve and form new species. We use a variety of techniques including genetics, developmental biology and molecular evolution. Most of our research is done with Drosophila (fruit flies).
Andrew Bass -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Evolution, Development
	Research Description: Animal communication; evolution of vertebrate nervous system; hormones, brains, and behavior; comparative neuroanatomy; sexual differentiation of the brain; hormonal control of development, teleost fish
Carl Batt -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Nanobiotechnology
	Research Description: Application of nanobiotechnology to exploring problems in biology. Development of potential therapeutic agents to combat cancer.
Barbara Bedford -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Environmental, Hydrology
	Research Description: Plant ecology; biogeochemistry; hydrology; freshwater wetlands; conservation of wetland plant diversity; landscape ecology
Tadhg Begley -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Biosynthesis of thiamin, coenzyme A and nicotinamide in bacteria using a combination of chemical and biochemical strategies, biosynthetic pathways
Andre Bensadoun -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Nutrition, Genomics
	Research Description: Lipase; proteoglycans; structure, function, molecular biology, and regulation of transcription and secretion.
Klaus Beyenbach -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Physiology, Biomedical Sciences
	Research Description: Physiology of the kidney, transport of ions across cell membranes and epithelial tissues. Aglomerular urine formation, secretory transport mechanisms; epithelial defects in knock out mice, transport across insect malphigian tubules, magnesium transport and homeostasis
Stephen Bloom -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Toxicology
	Research Description: Molecular basis of drug resistance in cancers of the immune system such as B-cell lymphoma; expression of mitochondrial-associated proteins in the Bcl-2 family, changes in mitochondrial membrane potential, activation of MAP kinase signaling by mitochondrial inhibitors, and engagement of the apoptotic cell death pathway
Bernd Blossey -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Entomology, Conservation
	Research Description: impact of invasive plants on native flora and fauna, biological control of non-indigenous plant species in natural areas, plant-insect interactions, and invasion and conservation biology
Ronald Booker -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Development
	Research Description: Intrinsic and extrinsic control of neurodevelopment in insects, determine the neural basis of behavioral ontogeny using the moth Manduca sexta, and the fly Drosophila melanogaster as model systems
Kathryn Boor -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Disease Pathogenesis, Microbiology, Toxicology, Genomics
	Research Description: Microbiological quality and safety of dairy products; adaptation of bacterial cells to environmental stresses; physiology and genetic characteristics of pathogenic bacteria.
Dwight Bowman -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Immunology, Disease Pathogenesis, Microbiology, Ecology, Parasitology
	Research Description: Soil transmitted parasites, parasites of wildlife, visceral larva migrans, host response to soil transmitted pathogens, detection of soil transmitted parasites.
Jack Bradbury -- Lab of Ornithology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Mating systems, sound communication, or spatial pattern, male grouse sound fields, Function of vocal mimicry in wild parrots in Costa Rica and Bonaire.
John Brady -- Food Science
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Molecular biophysics, Molecular dynamic simulations of proteins and carbohydrates, structure, dynamics, and hydration of carbohydrates
Tom Brenna -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Mass spectrometry; human nutrition. Role of Polyusaturated Fatty Acids in fetal development, especially neural formation, examining precursors to PUFAs
Anthony Bretscher -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Microfilament organization and function in vertebrates and yeast, mechanism of polarized growth and organelle segregation during the cell cycle.
William Brown -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Intracellular membrane trafficking and organelle biogenesis, role of membrane tubules
Thomas Brutnell -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Genomics, Plant Biology
	Research Description: we are developing a genetic system that will enable researchers to disrupt any gene in the maize genome. By knocking out individual components of a light-signaling pathway and examining the effects on the growth and development of the maize plants, we hope to gain a better understanding of these complex and essential pathways in one of the world's most agronomically important plants.
Dan Buckley -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Microbial genomics in natural environments. I use molecular techniques to study the diversity and evolution of microorganisms in an ecological and biogeochemical context.
Carlos Bustamante -- Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
	Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genomics, Evolution
	Research Description: Statistical Genetics/Genomics, Bayesian Statistics, Population Genetics/Genomics, Computational Statistics, Molecular Evolution, Model Selection
Patricia Cassano -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Understanding the role of nutrition in the pathogenesis of chronic disease. Epidemiologic investigation of human populations with emphasis on integration of biological and epidemiological information. Interaction of nutrients and genetic susceptibility in cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Donna Cassidy-Hanley -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Basic genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology of the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila, application of techniques developed in this versatile organism to other biologically important protozoa, like the agriculturally important fish parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.
Richard Cerione -- Vet Molecular Medicine
	Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Disease Pathogenesis, Genomics
	Research Description: Mechanisms of receptor-coupled signal transduction; the actions of cellular polypeptide growth factor receptors
Yung-Fu Chang -- Vet Diagnostic Lab
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Disease Pathogenesis, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular microbiology and bacterial pathogenesis, canine lyme disease
Alice Churchill -- Plant Protection-Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Identify genes in fungus that cause disease in plants and insects and can be used to treat disease in humans, how are these genes expressed?, understanding the roles of fungal-natural products in host-parasite interactions
Andrew Clark -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, genetics of complex traits, patterns of DNA sequence variation in most of the known antibacterial genes of insects, sperm competition, examining the mechanisms that maintain genetic variation
Christopher Clark -- Lab of Ornithology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Regional and large-scale population level distributions, abundances, and acoustic behaviors of birds, fish, frogs, and whales; evolution and function of acoustic signaling behavior in animals using advanced sound analysis techniques.
Theodore Clark -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Immunology, Parasitology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Cutaneous immunity, Infectious Diseases, Host-parasite interactions, DNA vaccines, Genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (also known as Ich), a parasitic ciliate
Thomas Cleland -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Neural coding and representation, how sensory systems adapt to extract information
Paula Cohen -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Genetics
	Research Description: Studies in our lab are focused on the role of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) family in mammalian meiosis and recombination. Initially characterized by their function in repair of DNA, the MMR family is important for genome stability in a variety of organisms. This is illustrated by the observation that mutations in the genes encoding some MMR family members results in predisposition to colorectal cancer in the human population
Ruth Collins -- Vet Molecular Medicine
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cancer Biology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Identification of Novel Proteins Involved in Controlling Cell Growth
Alan Collmer -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Genomics
	Research Description: Biotechnology; microbial genetics; phytobacteriology
Brian Crane -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: understanding interactions among proteins, electrons, and photons
Bryan Danforth -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Entomology, Genomics
	Research Description: Morphology and systematics of solitary and social bees; behavioral ecology
Peter Davies -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Development, Biochemistry, Physiology
	Research Description: Hormonal control of plant development; stem elongation, potato tuberization, fruit ripening, and senescence, hormones
Jerrold Davis -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Systematics
	Research Description: Botanical systematics; phylogenetics of monocots, particularly grasses; nature of species and their delimination, development of methods for inferring species boundaries on the basis of population variation patters
David Deitcher -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Development, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; molecular neurobiology and neurogenetics, role of proteins (esp. SNAP-25) in NT release
Timothy DeVoogd -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Animal communication; neuroanatomical plasticity, quantitative neurobiology; neurobiology of avian caching; hormonal influences on brain structure; avian song system, neural basis for female song discrimination, interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory, evolution of these behaviors
Andre Dhondt -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Environmental
	Research Description: Population function, causes and effects of individual differences, selection pressures on individuals
Janis Dickinson -- Natural Resources, Neurobiology & Behavior
	Research Interests: Natural Resources, Neurobiology & Behavior
	Research Description: bird and insect behavior; avian conservation biology, citizen science
Antonio DiTommaso -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Weed biology/ecology and population dynamics, weed seed biology, biological weed control using pathogens and insects, biology of invasive weeds in cropland and natural areas, integrated weed management
Jeffrey Doyle -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Biology, Systematics, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular plant systematics; gene phylogeny and evolution; origin and evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes; evolution of genomes, genes, and gene expression in polyploids, genes and genomes as phylogenetics markers, gene silencing and dosage compensation
Laurie Drinkwater -- Horticulture
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Conservation
	Research Description: Biological soil processes in intensive annual cropping systems, emphasizing mechanisms that control soil organic matter dynamics, interactions between soil biology and soil structure and biologically-driven nutrient cycling.
Elizabeth Earle -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Cell culture techniques for the genetic manipulation of crop plants, gene transfer, cytoplasmic male sterility; pest resistance
Thomas Eisner -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, Chemical Ecology
	Research Description: Chemical communication, ecology, and evolution; behavioral ecology, particularly of insects; insect-plant interactions; conservation. The chemistry of sexual selection, protection against diseases, biochemical processes that produce these chemicals.
Stephen Ellner -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Environmental, Systematics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Theoretical population biology and evolutionary ecology, combines modeling, mathematics, and simulations, often in collaboration with experimental biologists.
Stephen Emlen -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution
	Research Description: Animal social behavior, expecially of birds; cooperation and conflict in animal societies; decision rules of social engagement, evolutionary theory of the family, ecological, social, and genetic relatedness factors in shaping the structure of animal societies, studying conflicts of interest between male and female mates over sexual and parental behaviors
Gerald Feigenson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry
	Research Description: physical and chemical properties of biomembranes: nonrandom mixing of lipids in bilayer phases; role of cholesterol in bilayer phases; lipid physical chemistry studied by fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and other physical chemical techniques.
Joseph Fetcho -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology, Physiology
	Research Description: Our lab studies how movements are produced by the brain and spinal cord of vertebrates. We use zebrafish as a model system because they allow us to combine genetic and optical methods with more conventional physiological approaches to study the neural circuits. In addition to studies of normal function, we examine disruptions of function by genetic mutations, and are developing approaches to cure spinal injuries.
Barbara Finlay -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Development, Evolution
	Research Description: Development and evolution of sensory and neural systems. Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains.
John Fitzpatrick -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Systematics
	Research Description: Animal and applied ecology; vertebrate zoology; systematics
Alexander Flecker -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Animal ecology; community and ecosystem ecology; limnology; population ecology; vertebrate zoology; tropical river systems; ecology of tropical managed ecosystems
Lisa Fortier -- Vet Clinical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences
	Research Description: Comparing Embryonic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cartilage Repair Isolation and Culture of Embryonic Stem Cells for Articular Cartilage Repair Role of Rho Proteins in Chondrocyte Differentiation
Joanne Fortune -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Reproduction, Physiology
	Research Description: Reproductive physiology; hormonal regulation of ovarian function
Thomas Fox -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Genes of mitochondria, their regulation by nuclear genes, and assembly of their products in the inner membrane in yeast.
Jianhua Fu -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Structural Biology
	Research Description: Structural Biology, X-ray Crystallography, BiochemistryRegulation of gene expression in eukaryotes
Maria Garcia-Garcia -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Development
	Research Description: Study of cellular movements and behaviours that contribute to morphogenesis during embryonic development
Monica Geber -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Environmental, Genomics
	Research Description: Plant population ecology
William Ghiorse -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology, Bacteriology, Protozoology
	Research Description: Aquatic microbiology; microbial ecology; microbial physiology; prokaryotic cytology; subsurface microbiology.
Cole Gilbert -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Evolution, Entomology
	Research Description: Invertebrate neuroethology; sensory guidance; neural evolution in arthropods.
Robert Gilbert -- Clinical Science
	Research Interests: Reproduction, Immunology, Infectious Disease
	Research Description: Theriogenology, with emphasis on production animals. Postpartum conditions of dairy cows. Uterine disorders of dairy cows, in particular subclinical endometritis. Interaction of nutrition and fertility. Comparative pathogenesis of trichomoniasis in cattle and in people.
Robert Gilmour -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology, Computational Biology, Physiology
	Research Description: Cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology
James Giovannoni -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular and genetic analysis of fruit ripening and related signal transduction systems
Michael Goldberg -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Drosophila genetics: Genes required for proper chromosome segregation and morphology.
Charles Greene -- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
	Research Interests: Ecology, Marine Biology
	Research Description: Impact of invertebrate predators on the survivorship of diapausing Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda: Calanoida) populations in the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine, climate -based forecasts for the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem, Bioacoustics, understanding the distribution and abundance of right whales relative to their prey
Harry Greene -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Ecology, behavior, evolution, and conservation of vertebrates, especially reptiles
Zhenglong Gu -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Evolution, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Evolutionary and nutritional genomics, Computational biology
Teresa Gunn -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Development, Nutrition, Biomedical Sciences, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Mouse pigmentation genetics as a model system for studying fundamental signaling pathways involved in many processes, including embryonic development, neuron survival and regulation of body weight.
Nelson Hairston -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Genomics
	Research Description: Ecological and microevolutionary processes, especially in lakes. Linkages between genotype, phenotype and ecological functioning. The role of long-lived dormant eggs in on-going ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
Bruce Halpern -- Psychology / Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Sensory function, especially chemoreception: human olfaction; effects of aging on human smell and taste; evolution of retronasal olfaction (smelling from inside the mouth) in vertebrates.
Maureen Hanson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Plant organelle biogenesis, nuclear/organelle interactions, RNA editing, floral development and senescence
Laura Harrington -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Entomology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Medical entomology; mosquito biology; vector-borne disease ecology. Ecology, epidemiology, and management of disease vectors, Blood feeding behavior of mosquitoes and the evolution of host preferences, Patterns of mortality in mosquito vectors, Oviposition and mating behavior of Aedes aegypti in the field, Mechanisms of insecticide resistance and resistance management of disease vectors
Ronald Harris-Warrick -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Neuromodulation of neural networks; gene cloning of K+ channels.
Richard Harrison -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Genetics, Evolution, Molecular Biology, Entomology, Genomics
	Research Description: Evolutionary biology, genetics of speciation, molecular evolution.
Drew Harvell -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Disease Pathogenesis, Evolution, Marine Biology
	Research Description: Marine Evolutionary ecology, life history evolution, functional morphology
Anthony Hay -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Toxicology
	Research Description: Ability of microorganisms to degrade xenobiotics
John Helmann -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Bacteriology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Transcription factors, bacterial gene regulation, antibiotic stress responses and antibiotic resistance
Susan Henry -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Genetic regulation of membrane biogenesis using baker s yeast as a model organism. Our primary interest is in the regulation of membrane phospholipid synthesis. We use molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry in our research.
John Hermanson -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Paleobiology, Physiology
	Research Description: Comparative and functional morphology; muscle development, structure, and function. We work largely with horses and also study bats and other species.
George Hess -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Neurobiology, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry
	Research Description: Development and use of rapid reaction methods and instrumentation to study the function of neurotransmitter receptors
Matthais Hesse -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Immunology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Role of immunosuppressive regulatory T cells as a potential regulatory mechanism in schistosomiasis. Our data demonstrate that CD4+Foxp3+ naturally-occurring regulatory T cells (naTreg) prevent exacerbated Th-2 cytokine responses in our model. Recent data indicate that many naTregs change to an active/memory phenotype when the disease progresses to chronic inflammation. We speculate that these cells are particularly important to control and maintain a balanced response in chronic schistosomiasis.
Carl Hopkins -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior
	Research Description: Neuroethology of animal communication, especially electric communication and electrolocation in fish. Neuroethology of passive electrolocation.
Katherine Houpt -- Vet Clinical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Behavior
	Research Description: Behavioral physiology; ingestive behavior; horse behavior
Howard Howland -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Sensory physiology, especially vision; development of focusing and refractive state in humans; animal vision, models of myopia and emmetropization; optical quality of the eye.
Ronald Hoy -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior, BioEngineering, Entomology, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Animal communication; behavior genetics of inbertebrates; regeneration and development in invertebrate nervous systems. Categorical perception of sound frequency by crickets.
Jian Hua -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology
	Research Description: How plants regulate their growth in response to temperature variations. Our long-term goal is to understand the perception and transduction of the temperature signals and their modulation on the basic cellular machinery during cell growth. We have been using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to genetically dissect this process.
Tim Huffaker -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
	Research Description: Mechanisms of chromosome segregation in yeast
Georg Jander -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Genetics, Entomology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Interactions of Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse ear cress) and Myzus persicae (green peach aphid).A. thaliana is a commonly studied genetic model plant; M. persicae is a crop plant pest, which transmits plant viruses to hundreds of species of mostly dicot plants. Current research projects in the laboratory include studying the induction of plant defenses after aphid feeding, natural variation in both the plant and the insect, and the effects of glucosinolates and myrosinase, a crucifer-specific insect defense system, on aphid resistance.
Robert Johnston -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Neurobiology
	Research Description: Animal communication, social recognition, and memory (individual, kin, species, sexual state) mostly by chemical signals; neural mechanisms of social recognition and memory, the sense of smell:brain and behavior
Kenneth Kemphues -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Development
	Research Description: Patterning in early development of C. elegans; establishment of polarity; control of cleavage pattern.
Michael Kotlikoff -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Physiology
	Research Description: Muscle biology, Membrane Ion Channels, Ryanodine receptors, Functional genomics, Gene trap methods for gene function discovery, Gene targeting in the mouse
Lee Kraus -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Transcriptional regulation by nuclear hormone receptors and coactivators; Chromatin and transcription; Hormone action and cancer
Stephen Kresovich -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Ecology, Plant Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Interface between genomics and the conservation and use of agricultural resources
Sondra Lazarowitz -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Virology, Disease Pathogenesis, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Cell and molecular biology of virus-host interactions: Viral determinants of pathogenicity and host range; mechanism of virus cell-to-cell and systemic movement; regulation of nuclear export.
Kwangwon Lee -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Pathology, Circadian Rhythms
	Research Description: Circadian Rhythms, Light regulation, Quantitative Trait Loci analysis
Siu Sylvia Lee -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Disease Pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Development, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of how longevity is controlled in an organism. How metabolic status is sensed and regulated in a cell & in an organism. How insulin signaling controls metabolism, development & longevity in C. elegans.
David Lin -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Genomics, Development, Genetics, Biomedical Sciences
	Research Description: Development of the mouse olfactory system, genomic and genetic approaches to determine how this process of axon guidance and target selection is accomplished.
Hening Lin -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology
	Research Description: Occurrence and function of several protein posttranslational modifications, including ADP-ribosylation, diphthamide, and C-mannosylation.
Christiane Linster -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Behavior, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Behavioral neuroscience, Rat olfaction, Computational neuroscience.
John Lis -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Gene regulation and chromatin structure.
Jun Liu -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Development, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Molecular genetics of mesodermal cell fate specification in C. elegans Function of nuclear envelope proteins in C. elegans development
Ellis Loew -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Neurobiology, Ecology, Physiology
	Research Description: Sensory physiology; sensory ecology; retinal physiology and biochemistry; clinical electrophysiology; visual sciences. The underwater visual environment.
Irby Lovette -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Evolution
	Research Description: Evolutionary diversity in natural systems. Using a combination of phylogenetic and comparative methodologies, I document temporal and geographic patterns of diversification and test hypotheses about the historical processes that produce those patterns. Birds serve as my primary model system and most of my work is conducted within an explicit historical framework provided by the phylogenetic analysis of DNA nucleotide sequences.
Melissa Luckow -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Systematics
	Research Description: Phylogeny of flowering plants; legume systematics; cultivated-plant families
Dan Luo -- Biological and Environmental Engineering
	Research Interests: BioEngineering, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: My general research and teaching interests focus on molecular bioengineering, a truly young and cross-disciplinary field. Specifically we are working on nucleic acid engineering and nucleic acid delivery. The underlying philosophy of my research is to integrate "what has been discovered" in molecular biology and cell biology in order to engineer "what has never been," and using "what has never been" to discover more "what is" in biology...and the cycle goes on.
Ross MacIntyre -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution
	Research Description: Analysis of gene structure and regulation in Drosophila, including several gene-enzyme systems, G protein and apoptosis inhibitor genes and the complex dumpy locus.
Eugene Madsen -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Bacteriology, Toxicology
	Research Description: Biodegradation of environmental pollutants; biogeochemistry of field sites' molecular approaches to characterizing naturally occurring microbial communities; microbial ecology.
Peter Marks -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Plant succession; woody-plant demography; plant community ecology; field and historical plant ecology
Helene Marquis -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Bacteriology, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis with an emphasis on bacterial cell-to-cell spread, mechanisms of regulation of bacterial factors that are involved in lysis of vacuoles formed during cell-to-cell spread, signaling molecules and pathways that are responsible for the formation of spreading vacuoles.
Gregory Martin -- Boyce Thompson Institute
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genomics, Disease Pathogenesis, Immunology
	Research Description: Molecular basis of plant immunity and disease susceptibility. Bacterial pathogenesis. Gene expression profiling and functional genomics. Signal transduction.
David McCobb -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Cell Biology, BioEngineering, Genomics
	Research Description: Cell and molecular neurobiology; regulation of expression and function of potassium channels in adrenaline secreting cells, and its relationship to stress.
Susan McCouch -- Plant Breeding
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Development and application of high-resolution molecular mapping strategies for rice; comparative grass genome analysis; isolation of agriculturally important genes
Amy McCune -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution, Systematics, Morphology, Ichthyology, Ecology
	Research Description: Ichthyology; evolutionary biology; systematics; development and evolution; paleobiology
David McQuade -- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: Synthesis of Non-Natural Information-Rich Polymers ,Evolving Enzymes to Catalyze the Synthesis of Complex Non-Natural Polymers;Development of Supramolecular Catalysts via a Parallel Approach: Cross-Linked Imprinted Inverse Micelles ,Oligomeric p- (Phenyleneethynylene)s for the Development of Liquid Crystalline-Based Biosensors
Susana Mendez -- Immunology and Infectious Disease
	Research Interests: Immunology, Parasitology
	Research Description: Development of vaccines against parasitic diseases (leishmaniasis, hookworms). Study of the immunomodulation conferred by vaccines. Studies on transmission and genestics of canine leishmaniasis. Immunomodulation, host-parasite interactions, vaccine testing, genetics of susceptibility of disease, animal models of infectious disease.
Jason Mezey -- Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
	Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genetics, Evolution, Development
	Research Description: Genetics, Statistical Genomics, Microarray Analysis, Evolutionary-Developmental Biology, Drosophila Genetics, Behavior, and Flight
Edward Mills -- Natural Resources
	Research Interests: Ecology
	Research Description: Large lakes ecology, freshwater foodwebs, aquatic invasive species
Charles Mohler -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Population ecology of weedy annual plants in agricultural systems, including studies of seed survival, processes affecting seedling emergence, plant survival and seed production. The effects of cultivation and crop residues (i.e., straw etc.) on seedling emergence and seed survival.
James Morin -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Marine Biology, Ecology
	Research Description: Oceanography, population ecology, animal ecology, systematics
June Nasrallah -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Cell-Cell Interactions in Plants
Mikhail Nasrallah -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics
	Research Description: Genetic mechanisms in the development of reproductive barriers in Brassica and Arabidopsis Cell signaling during pollination in Arabidopsis
Linda Nicholson -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biophysics
	Research Description: NMR spectroscopy; relationships between protein structure, dynamics, and function; rational drug design.
Alexander Nikitin -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Disease Pathogenesis, Genomics
	Research Description: Developing mouse genetic models for human cancer; Molecular and cellular alterations during early stages of tumor formation in the mammary gland, prostate, ovary, soft tissues and neuroendocrine system; Modeling carcinogenesis associated with deficiencies of Rb and p53 tumor suppressor genes; Rational design for targeting breast cancer cells
Karl Niklas -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biophysics, Allometry, Evolution
	Research Description: My research centers around quantifying the relationship between organic form and function. This focus requires a background in mathematics, physics, or engineering. However, students lacking this background and yet interested in pursuing this area of research are encouraged to talk with me, since research projects can always be developed and tailored around the interests and abilities of a particular student.
Alan Nixon -- Vet Clinical Sciences
	Research Interests: Disease Pathogenesis, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Joint pathobiology and cartilage resurfacing
Kevin Nixon -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Paleobotany, Systematics, Paleobiology
	Research Description: Taxonomy of oaks (Quercus); cladistic theory; paleobotany and phylogeny of angiosperms; cladistic computer programs
Brad Njaa -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: Infectious diseases of food and fiber animals and spontaneous disease arising in all species
Drew Noden -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Development, Cell Biology, Biomedical Sciences
	Research Description: Mechanisms of vertebrate craniofacial development; myogenesis, angiogenesis; mechanisms of cell migration
Linda Nowak -- Vet Molecular Medicine
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology
	Research Description: Ion channel function for a class of channels activated by the amino acid neurotransmitter L-glutamate; glutamate-activated channel function in native neurons growing in primary dissociated cell culture and in cells that have been transfected with wildtype subunits and subunits that have been modified using molecular biology techniques.
Timothy O'Brien -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Development, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Mouse developmental genetics, Cell signaling and genomic regulatory networks, Genome organization and patterning
Ralph Obendorf -- Crop and Soil Sciences
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Seed Biology
	Research Description: Seed biology-development, maturation, desiccation tolerance, germination, somatic embryogenesis; enzyme purification, characterization and gene expression; Medicinal and health related components in seeds; nutriceuticals
Nikolaus Osterrieder -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Immunology, Virology
	Research Description: The research interests of my laboratory focus on the interaction between the animal herpesviruses Equine Herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) and Marek's disease virus (MDV) and the host cell or organism, respectively. EHV-1 causes respiratory disease, neurological signs and abortions in horses whereas MDV is a tumorigenic virus, which causes a severe and deadly T cell lymphoproliferative disease in the domestic chicken.
Robert Oswald -- Vet Molecular Medicine
	Research Interests: Neurobiology, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular neurobiology and biophysics; neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction.
Thomas Owens -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biophysics
	Research Description: Analysis of new genetically engineered rice strains that exhibit significantly improved resistance to environmental stress (salt, drought and chilling). We are working to characterize why these plants are more tolerant to stress, particularly in relation to their photosynthetic performance.
Colin Parrish -- Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Research Interests: Virology, Evolution, Cell Biology, Genomics, Microbiology
	Research Description: The evolution and host range of parvoviruses
Teresa Pawlowska -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Evolution, Genetics
	Research Description: Genetics and evolution of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. AM fungi are one of the oldest and most wide spread mutualistic symbionts of plants. They facilitate plant uptake of minerals from the soil in exchange for plant-assimilated carbon and are used in sustainable land management practices.
Wojtek Pawlowski -- Plant Breeding and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology
	Research Description: We study the mechanisms of homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis and the relationship between chromosome pairing and meiotic recombination. We also want to understand the mechanisms involved in meiotic recombination and how they can be modified to modulate the levels of genetic recombination in plants. We use two model plant systems, maize (Zea mays) and Arabidopsis thaliana.
Keith Perry -- Plant Pathology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Virology, Microbiology, Entomology, Disease Pathogenesis
	Research Description: Plant viruses, how they are transmitted by insect vectors, and the plant host response to infection (symptom responses). RNA virus and the molecular genetics and protein structure of the viral determinants of transmission.
Joseph Peters -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Genetics, Genomics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
	Research Description: Molecular mechanism that allows a discrete DNA element that can move within bacteria, called transposon Tn7, to recognize target sites associated with DNA replication. Functional genomics involving the use of transposons to "knock out" all the genes in a population of cells
Ned Place -- Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences/Endocrinology
	Research Interests: Physiology, Reproduction, Endocrinology
	Research Description: My principal area of interest is mammalian reproductive biology, with a focus on the life history trade-offs associated with the timing of hormone secretion and reproductive effort. I study the effects of photoperiod and melatonin on female reproductive aging in Siberian hamsters. I am also a collaborator on the Berkeley Spotted Hyena Project at the University of California, where I study sexual differentiation and mating behavior of naturally masculinized female mammals. I pursue basic research that is integrative and comparative, while also being biomedically and ecologically relevant.
Helene Porte -- Psychology
	Research Interests: Neurobiology
	Research Description: Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep; physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams
Alison Power -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Ecology, Disease Pathogenesis, Entomology
	Research Description: Agricultural ecology; ecology of cropping systems and epidemiology of insect-vectored diseases
William Provine -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Evolution
	Research Description: History of biology, especially evolutionary theory. Staying alive with oligodendroglioma, writing, teaching
Kathleen Rasmussen -- Nutritional sciences
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: Association of maternal obesity with lactation performance and infant growth among women living in upstate New York and Denmark. Effects of several interventions to improve maternal nutritional status on birthweight and the duration of exclusive breastfeeding among poor women living in Bangladesh.
Linda Rayor -- Entomology
	Research Interests: Behavior, Entomology, Ecology
	Research Description: Behavioral ecology of social spiders and social amblypygids. Social and foraging behavior of predatory arthropods; Tritrophic interactions.
Kern Reeve -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Molecular Biology, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Theoretical sociobiology; evolution of cooperation and conflict in animal societies; behavioral ecology; plasticity in insect social behavior. Social contacts in wasp societies.
Susan Riha -- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
	Research Interests:
	Research Description: interaction of plants with their physical environment and in dynamic simulation modeling
Mark Roberson -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Reproduction, Toxicology, Physiology
	Research Description: Reproductive physiology, endocrinology; neural and sensory physiology
Jeffrey Roberts -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Regulation of gene expression: transcription mechanisms, control of DNA repair functions.
Jocelyn Rose -- Plant Biology
	Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genomics
	Research Description: Structure and function of the plant cell wall and the contribution of the cell wall to various aspects of plant growth and development, including fruit development and ripening, cell expansion and interactions between plants and pathogens. Practical applications of plant biotechnology and genomics to the development of sustainable agricultural systems.
James Russell -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Ecology, Microbiology
	Research Description: Microbial ecology; rumen microbiology; microbial physiology
John Schimenti -- Vet Biomedical Sciences
	Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Development, Genomics, Cancer Biology
	Research Description: My laboratory uses the laboratory mouse as a model system to investigate the genetics of mammalian development, gametogenesis, and maintenance of genome integrity. We use a variety of technologies to mutagenize the mouse genome to identify novel genes involved in these processes.
Marci Scidmore -- Vet Microbiology and Immunology
	Research Interests: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Infectious Disease Mechanisms, Genomics
	Research Description: Molecular Mechanisms of Chlamydia pathogenesis with an emphasis on vacuolar biology, vesicular trafficking of the chlamydial vacuole, and host-pathogen interactions.
Thomas Seeley -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, Entomology
	Research Description: Sociobiology: physiology, ecology, and evolution of animal societies, especially the highly integrated societies of insects.
David Shalloway -- Molecular Biology and Genetics
	Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics, Computational Biology
	Research Description: Computational analysis of protein-ligand interactions; signal transduction and protein folding.
James Shapleigh -- Microbiology
	Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
	Research Description: Microbial physiology; electron transport; structure and function of electron transport proteins.
Paul Sherman -- Neurobiology and Behavior
	Research Interests: Behavior, Darwinian Medicine
	Research Description: Animal social behavior. Recognition systems, mammals, birds, humans.
Myra Shulman -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Research Interests: Marine Biology
	Research Description: Marine Biology
Paul Soloway -- Nutritional Sciences
	Research Interests: Nutrition, Genetics
	Research Description: Mechanisms regulating DNA methylation and other epigenetic phenomena in mice; role of extracellular matrix remodeling factors as regulators immune responses; functional genetic analysis using gene targeting in mice.
Holger Sondermann -- Vet Molecular Medicine
	Research Interests: Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Pharmacology
	Research Description: Basic regulatory principles in signal transduction networks on a molecular level, focusing on growth factor receptor signaling. In particular, we study the role of scaf