Biology

Faculty and Professional Interests

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Manuel Ares Jr.
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA

Hanns H. Boeger
Chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription

Barry Bowman
Membrane biochemistry and genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of membrane proteins

Bin Chen
Mammalian brain development

David Feldheim
Developmental neuroscience

Grant Hartzog
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation

Lindsay Hinck
Neurobiology, cell biology, development

Melissa Jurica
Structural analysis of ribonucleoprotein macromolecules

Rohinton T. Kamakaka
Gene repression and insulators

Douglas R. Kellogg
Coordination of cell growth and cell division

Robert A. Ludwig
Plant microbe interactions, photorespiration, genetic recombination in plants

Harry F. Noller
Ribosomes, RNA structure and function, RNA protein interaction

Michael Rexach
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex, nuclear transport

William M. Saxton
Cytoskeletal motors and active transport processes

Susan Strome
Chromatin and RNA regulation in C. elegans

William T. Sullivan
Genetics, cell biology, development of the Drosophila embryo

John W. Tamkun
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression

Alan M. Zahler
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and alternative pre-mRNA processing

Martha C. Zúñiga
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system

Yi Zuo
Glia-synapse interaction and synaptic plasticity in vivo

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Emeritus Faculty

Charles Daniel
Robert Edgar
Jerry F. Feldman
Henry Hilgard
Kivie Moldave
Clifton A. Poodry
Lincoln Taiz
Frank J. Talamantes
Howard H. Wang

Scott Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology

Todd M. Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea

Karen Ottemann (Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria

Seth Rubin (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance

William G. Scott (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes

Fitnat Yildiz (Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Lecturers

Michael Dalbey
Jeremy Lee
Linda Ogren
Mary Zavanelli

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mark H. Carr
Marine ecology, applied marine ecology

Daniel P. Costa
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds

Donald Croll
Foraging ecology of marine birds and mammals, island conservation/ecology

Daniel F. Doak
Conservation biology, population biology, plant-animal interactions

Laurel R. Fox
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions

Lynda J. Goff
Algal symbiosis, host-parasite relationships, molecular evolution

Bruce E. Lyon
Behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, avian ecology

Jonathan Moore
Ecology and conservation of freshwater ecosystems

Ingrid M. Parker
Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions

Grant H. Pogson
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes

Donald C. Potts
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing

Peter T. Raimondi
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology

Barry Sinervo
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology

John N. Thompson
Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of species interactions, organization of biodiversity

Terrie M. Williams
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise physiology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus Faculty

Ralph Berger
William Jackson Davis
William Doyle
Ralph Hinegardner
Jean Langenheim
Burney LeBoeuf
Charles (Leo) Ortiz
A. Todd Newberry
John Pearse

James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Ocean Sciences)
Marine sciences, community ecology

Greg Gilbert (Environmental Studies)
Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology

Daniel Harder (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Floristic inventory of Indochina and central Africa, biogeography, plant systematics

Karen D. Holl (Environmental Studies)
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology

Paul L. Koch (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology

Raphael Kudela (Ocean Sciences)
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms

R. Bruce Mac Farlane (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine, estuarine, and anadromous fishes

Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease

Mary W. Silver (Ocean Sciences)
Biological oceanography, marine plankton, midwater ecology

Bernie Tershy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of seabirds and island ecosystems

Robert Vrijenhoek (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Kerstin Wasson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary ecology, invasion biology, conservation science

Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecturers

Baldo Marinovic
Jill Thompson