Developmental Biology Program

Faculty Members

Faculty Name	Department	Description
Hubert Amrein	Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Genetic control and the molecular mechanisms of dosage compensation in Drosophila.
Amy Bejsovec	Associate Professor of Biology	Cell fate specification and cell-to-cell communication during embryonic development.
Philip Benfey	Professor of Biology	Plant Developmental Genetics and Genomics.
Gerard Blobe	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Role of the TGF-beta signaling pathway in cancer and vascular biology.
Blanche Capel	Professor of Cell Biology	Sex Determination / Germ Cell Development
Christopher Counter	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Elucidation of telomere function in cancer.
Clifford Cunningham	Associate Professor of Biology	Evolution and biogeography of marine invertebrates.
Xinnian Dong	Professor of Biology	Response of plants to pathogens; molecular and genetic investigation of the signal transduction pathways activating plant defense genes.
Michael Ehlers	Associate Professor of Neurobiology	Regulation of NMDA-type glutamate receptors by protein phosphorylation and idetification of cellular proteins involved in glutamate receptor trafficking.
Sharyn Endow	Professor of Cell Biology	Microtubule motor proteins involoved in spindle function; chromosome movement in meiosis and mitosis.
Arno Greenleaf	Professor of Biochemistry	Eukaryotic transcription enzymology and molecular biology; RNA polymerase II, transcription factors and CTD kinase.
Steve Haase	Assistant Professor of Biology	Genetic, genomic, molecular, and cellular approaches to understanding cell cycle regulation in yeast. Cyclin dependent kinase control of centrosome duplication.
Joseph Heitman	Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Genetic analysis of the action of immunosuppressive compounds.
Brigid Hogan	Professor of Cell Biology	Cellular interactions regulating proliferation and differentiation during mammalian organogenesis and development of primordial germ cells.
Erich Jarvis	Associate Professor of Neurobiology	Molecular pathways of the perception and production of learned vacalizations.
Daniel Kiehart	Professor of Biology	Cell motility; muscle contraction; mitosis.
Margaret Kirby	Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Professor of Biology	Neural crest and heart development.
John Klingensmith	Associate Professor of Cell Biology	Mechanisms which establish and pattern the body axes and organ precursors of the mammalian embryo.
Sally Kornbluth	Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Examination of cell cycle regulation using in vitro reconstitution of cell cycle processes.
Michael Krangel	Professor of Immunology	Rearrangement and expression of T cell receptor genes; chemotactic cytokines.
Terry Lechler	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Development and morphogenesis of two highly proliferative tissues, the skin and the intestine.
Daniel Lew	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Cell cycle control and the control of cell polarity.
Elwood Linney	Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Molecular approaches to retinoic acid and estrogen signaling during zebrafish embryonic development; 3D imaging of gene expression; environmental biosensing using embryos.
David McClay	Professor of Biology	Problems in evolution and development, speciations genetics, molecular evolution, and population genetics.
Donald McDonnell	Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Development of and application of novel molecular approaches for the discovery of tissue specific modulators of steroid hormone receptors.
Erik Meyers	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology	Mechanisms of patterning and development during organogenesis of the mammalian embryo; tissue-specific genetic manipulation in mice.
Richard Mooney	Associate Professor of Neurobiology	Sensitive period regulation in the brains of songbirds during vocal development.
Christopher Nicchitta	Associate Professor of Cell Biology	Protein and mRNA trafficking. Chaperone immunobiology.
H. Frederick Nijhout	Professor of Biology	Regulatory processes in development and the evolution of developmental mechanisms.
Ken Poss	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Modeling disease and regeneration in zebrafish.
Tannishtha Reya	Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Signaling pathways that regulate stem cell fate.
V. Louise Roth	Associate Professor of Biology	The evolution of body size and shape in mammals.
David R. Sherwood	Assistant Professor of Biology	Genetics analysis of development in C. elegans.
Theodore Slotkin	Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Effects of endocrine status, nutrition, and drugs on nervous system development; neonatal cardiovascular mechanisms; neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease and depression in the elderly.
Kathleen Smith	Professor of Biology	Cranial development, function and evolution in vertebrates.
Tai-ping Sun	Associate Professor of Biology	Molecular genetics of plant growth hormones; environmental and developmental regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis; the mechanisms by which gibberellins affect plant development.
Fan Wang	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology	Neural circuit development in mouse somatic sensory system.
Xiao-Fan Wang	Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Structure and function of TGF-b receptors; growth regulation by TGF-b.
Robert Wechsler-Reya	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Role of Sonic Hedgehog Signaling in Neural Development and Cancer.
Robin Wharton	Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Molecular mechanism of pattern formation in the Drosophila embryo.
John Willis	Associate Professor of Biology	Evolutionary genetics in natural plant populations.
Greg Wray	Professor of Biology	Development and interaction among regulatory genes in echinoderms.
Tso-Pang Yao	Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	Transcriptional co-activator p300 and CBP using knock-out animal and various biochemical approaches.
Yuan Zhuang	Associate Professor of Immunology	Molecular mechanisms by which HLH genes function to determine cell type during development.

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Last updated on April 26, 2007