Stephen C. Brown, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Hormonal control of salt
and water balance in lower vertebrates;
feeding mechanisms and biomechanics
of invertebrates
John Mackiewicz, Ph.D., Cornell University
Ecology; systematics; Cestoda,
especially those of fishes
Margaret M. Stewart, Ph.D., Cornell University
Amphibian population and
community studies; population biology of tropical amphibians;
vertebrate
biology; biodiversity and conservation
Professors
Kenneth P. Able, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Animal migration,
orientation, and navigation
Jerram L. Brown, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Social
behavior; behavioral ecology; evolutionary biology; mate choice, climate change;
molecular ecology; population biology
Richard P. Cunningham, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Biochemical and
biophysical studies on DNA repair enzymes
Helen T. Ghiradella, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Cuticular patterning in insects; insect structural colors; flash control in
the firefly;
sensory systems in minute-arthropods; effects of lead on insect
behavior
Helmut V.B. Hirsch, Ph.D., Stanford University
Behavioral and genetic
analysis of developmental plasticity in Drosophila;
developmental
neuroethology; use of Drosophila as a model system for
studying the
effects of heavy metals
Colin S. Izzard, Ph.D., Cambridge University (England)
Mechanisms of
adhesion and motility in normal, transformed,
and mutant cells; matrix
proteins, cell-surface receptors, and cytoskeletal proteins
Jon W. Jacklet, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Neurobiology; neural
correlates of behavior; cellular and molecular basis of
membrane electrical
activity; emphasis on nitric oxide as neurotransmitter and neuromodulator
Paulette J. McCormick, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Molecular biology of cancer and metastases;
developmental genetics; mammalian genetics and proteomics
Albert J.T. Millis, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Gene expression and differentiation in vascular smooth muscle and endothelial
cells; genomic analysis of vascular cell differentiation
John T. Schmidt, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Growth cone motility and
its regulation by myosin light chain kinase; Gene expression in
synapse
formation in the retinolectal projection
David A. Shub, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Origin and function of self-splicing introns; catalytic RNA and gene regulation;
homing endonucleases and
unidirectional gene conversion; "selfish DNA"
Richard S. Zitomer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Regulation of
expression of the yeast genes by oxygen
Associate Professors
Dmitry Belostotsky, Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences/Moscow
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression; plant molecular genetics
Thomas Caraco, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Theoretical ecology, ecology of epidemics
Gary S. Kleppel, Ph.D., Fordham University
Nutritional ecology and physiology of zooplankton; implications of land use
(particularly urbanization) on ecosystem function;
Gregory A. Lnenicka, Ph.D., University of Virginia at Charlottesville
Role of activity in axon growth and synaptic development in crayfish and Drosphilia;
synaptic physiology
and morphology; activity-dependent changes in calcium channels
Robert Osuna, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Regulation of bacterial gene
expression
George R. Robinson, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Community
ecology; plant invasions; biodiversity and public policy; restoration ecology
Caro-Beth Stewart, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Bioinformatics; Molecular basis for adaptive evolution;
phylogenetic
analysis of gene families; primate molecular evolution and phylogeny
Ben Szaro, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Cytoskeletal proteins in
developing and regenerating axons
Sho-Ya Wang, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Retinoids
and gene regulation; murine teratocarcinoma cell differentiation;
transcription factors and differentiation; Na+ channel structure-function relationship
Assistant Professors
Ravindra Gupta, Ph.D., University of Bombay
Biochemical mechanism of DNA double strand break repair in mammalian cells
Affiliated Faculty
Jeffrey L. Travis, Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Mechanism of intracellular
transport; membrane-cytoskeletal interactions;
novel methods of microtubule
assembly
Suzannah Bliss Tieman, Ph.D., Stanford University
Anatomical and
physiological studies of the mammalian visual system and its development;
effects of experience on development; angiogenesis