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Our faculty have research interests in a number of exciting areas of Biology. To see faculty members listed by interest category, please select one of the following:

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R. Craig Albertson Craniofacial Development and Evolution; Quantitative Genetics; Geometric Morphometric Shape Analysis
David M. Althoff Species interactions, Insect Community Ecology, Molecular Ecology
John M. Belote Role of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway in Drosophila development
Samuel H.P. Chan Bioenergetics of organelles
Michael S. Cosgrove Structural biochemistry of proteins involved in the epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure
Marvin Druger Science teaching
Scott Erdman Eucaryotic cellular organization and differentiation; functional genomics in fungal systems
Thomas P. Fondy Cancer chemotherapeutic drug development
Douglas A. Frank Plant/ecosystem ecology with emphasis on plant-herbivore interactions
Jason D. Fridley Plant ecology and geography, landscape ecology, invasive species, biodiversity
Anthony Garza Biofilm formation; bacterial development; stress resistance in bacteria
F. Reed Hainsworth Animal physiological ecology; quantitative tests of optimization theories
Richard L. Hallberg
(Emeritus)
Protein phosphatases and the cell cycle in yeast; role of molecular chaperones in mitochondrial DNA replication
H. Ernest Hemphill Bacteriophages of Bacillis subtilis; gene structure
Marilyn Kerr Instructor
George M. Langford Cell and Molecular Biology of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease: Axonal Transport in Nerve Cells and Fungal Pathogenesis of Epithelial Cells
Katharine Lewis Specification and patterning of spinal cord interneurons; Formation of functional neuronal circuitry; Evolution of spinal cord patterning and function; Dorsal-ventral neural tube patterning; zebrafish development
Eleanor Maine Genetic regulation of development; cell-signaling; germline development; RNA silencing

Samuel J. McNaughton
(Emeritus)

Ecosystem and plant ecology; conservation biology
Melissa Pepling Regulation of mouse oocyte development; Hormone signaling in oocyte differentiation.
Scott Pitnick Evolution of reproduction and life history traits
Ramesh Raina Genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating plant-pest interactions;Functional genomics of cell signaling in plants
Mark E. Ritchie Biodiversity; plant-herbivore interactions; environmental science
John M. Russell Ion transport: regulation and roles in cellular processes
Kari A. Segraves Coevolution, Mutualism, Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions
William T. Starmer

Ecological genetics of microorganisms and insects; population genetics and evolution; molecular evolution

J. Albert C. Uy Sexual Selection; Animal Communication; Speciation
Roy Welch Molecular aspects of signaling among a homogeneous population of bacteria
Jason R. Wiles Education research in the Life and Earth Sciences with special attention to teaching and learning about biological evolution; Science education at all academic levels
Larry L. Wolf Behavior and ecology

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