Faculty and Their Research
Cell and Devlopmental Biology

Richard M. Amasino - email
Regulation of plant development; specifically, floral induction and plant senescence

Jon Audhya  email
Mechanisms of membrane trafficking; regulation of growth factor signaling; live-cell imaging; membrane remodeling during development of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Sebastian Y. Bednarek - email
Plant cell biology; intracellular protein trafficking, membrane biogenesis

Laura L. Kiessling - email
Biomolecular recognition processes; the chemistry and biology of protein-saccharide interactions

Judith Kimble - email
Regulation of development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Thomas F. J. Martin - email
Mechanisms of hormone action; signal transduction and second messengers; regulation of hormone and neurotransmitter secretion; inositol phospholipid biochemistry

Deane Mosher - email
Structure and function of extracellular proteins involved in cell migration and differentiation with emphases on thrombosis, hemostasis, and white cell trafficking

David L. Nelson - email
Biochemistry of behavior in Paramecium: Role of Ca2+, cyclic nucleotides, and protein kinases

Ronald T. Raines - email
Chemical biology, protein design and engineering, enzymology

Michael Sheets - email
Regulation of vertebrate development and cell differentiation by molecular signaling pathways

Michael R. Sussman - email
Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana.

Douglas B. Weibel - email
Understanding the behavior and physiology of microbes; biological engineering

Marvin P. Wickens - email
Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology

Christiane Wiese - email
Molecular mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and microtubule nucleation; cell-cycle dependent regulation of spindle assembly proteins; centrosome structure and function