MCB Faculty Research
Bender, Carol
Development, implementation, and evaluation of undergraduate research programs, both domestic and international.
Bolger, Molly
My research focuses on student reasoning in science. Specifically, I am interested in how students employ certain types of dynamic, causal and model-based reasoning to build mechanistic explanations for biological phenomena.
Bolger, Timothy
Function and regulation of DEAD-box RNA helicases in gene expression, with a focus on protein translation.
Bosco, Giovanni
Chromosomes, chromatin, cell cycle, development, meiosis, epigenetics, cancer, aging, memory
Capaldi, Andrew
Understanding signaling pathways and transcription factors controlling cell growth in budding yeast using a combination of genomic, proteomic and computational methods.
Davidson, Bradley
We study heart development in the primitive chordate, Ciona intestinalis. The simplicity of this organism allows us to decipher conserved transcriptional and cellular events underlying the earliest steps of heart formation.
Dieckmann, Carol
My laboratory works on two projects: 1) Regulation of mitochondrial gene expression in yeast, 2) Placement and assembly of the eyespot in the green alga Chlamydomonas.
Fares, Johnny
Analysis of membrane trafficking
Gutenkunst, Ryan
Computational biology, with focus on signal transduction in the immune system and on inferring history and natural selection from population genomic data
Little, John
Behavior and evolution of gene regulatory circuits; mechanisms of gene regulation; biochemistry of the SOS response in E. coli.
Nagy, Lisa
Analysis of the genetic basis of morphological diversification
Schroeder, Joyce
Molecular mechanisms of breast cancer progression.
Tax, Frans
Functions of plant receptor kinases and their signaling pathways.
Tomanek, Debra
Science education.
Weinert, Ted
Genome instability using yeast as a model organism. Formation and fate of dicentric chromosomes, interaction with DNA replication forks and regulators.
Yao, Guang
Systems biology study of control mechanisms underlying mammalian cell-fate decisions and cancer development.
Zarnescu, Daniela
RNA based mechanisms during normal development and in disease states. We use molecular and genetic tools to elucidate the function(s) of RNA binding proteins linked to human neurological disorders, heart disease and cancer.
