Faculty and Their Research
Molecular Genetics

Aseem Z. Ansari - email
Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry, biology and genomics

Alan D. Attie - email
Molecular genetics of diabetes & insulin resistance; cell biology of lipoprotein assembly, cholesterol trafficking

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

David Brow - email
Nuclear steps in gene expression; transcription by RNA polymerases II and III; RNA dynamics in pre-mRNA splicing

Michael M. Cox - email
Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair

Elizabeth A. Craig - email
Protein folding in the cell ? the function of molecular chaperones in facilitating protein folding and protein translocation across membranes

James Dahlberg - email
RNA, processing and transport; nuclear export; microRNA control

John Denu - email
Mechanism and biological function of reversible protein modifications in signal transduction, chromatin dynamics and gene activation

Catherine Fox - email
Replication, structure, and expression of eukaryotic chromosomes; conserved mechanisms linking transcription, cell cycle, and cell differentiation

Paul D. Friesen - email
Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons

Patricia Kiley - email
Transcriptional regulation; signal transduction of oxygen deprivation; Fe-S cluster assembly and regulation

Robert Landick – email
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans

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

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