Members & Associate Members of IMB

Alice Barkan - Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the chloroplast, protein-facilitated RNA catalysis.

Andy Berglund - RNA-protein interactions, intron recognition and regulation of pre-mRNA splicing.

Bruce A. Bowerman - Genetic analysis of the microfilament and microtubule cytoskeleton during early C. elegans embryogenesis.

Roderick A. Capaldi - Membrane structure and function, oxidative phosphorylation.

Victoria DeRose - Investigating chemical activity and structure in nucleic acids and proteins, with an emphasis on metal interactions.

Chris Doe - Neural stem cells, cell polarity and CNS development in Drosophila.

Karen Guillemin - H. pylori mechanisms of pathogenesis, bacterial-host interactions in development.

Diane Hawley - RNA polymerase, regulation of gene expression, protein-DNA interactions.

Tory Herman - Neural target selection and synapse formation in Drosophila.

Eric Johnson - Hypoxia, genomics, gene regulation.

Andrew Marcus - Protein dynamics, intracellular transport.

Brian W. Matthews - Protein structure and function; protein folding; X-ray crystallography.

Brad Nolen - Molecular regulation of the cytoskeleton.

Kenneth Prehoda - Signal transduction, protein interaction networks, x-ray crystallography.

S. James Remington - Enzyme structure, mechanism and dynamics, x-ray crystallography, development of fluorescent protein biosensors.

Eric U. Selker - Epigenetics, DNA methylation, genome dynamics, gene silencing, position effects.

George F. Sprague, Jr. - Genetic regulatory mechanisms in yeast.

Karen U. Sprague - The Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and teaching faculty.

Tom H. Stevens - Membrane biogenesis, protein sorting, organelle assembly.

Peter H. von Hippel - Physical biochemistry of proteins and nucleic acids; gene expression.

Hui Zong - Genetic analysis of gliomagenesis with a mosaic mouse model, lineage, stem cells and loss of tumor suppressor genes.

Other Faculty Doing Research in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

William Cresko - Developmental genetics of evolving traits,gene and genome duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation.

Judith S. Eisen - Neural and neural crest development, neuronal and glia cell fate specification, axonal pathfinding.

James Hutchison - Ion and electron transport in biological systems and synthetic materials.

John Keana - Organic synthesis, pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.

Clifford Kentros - Cellular and molecular studies of mammalian learning and memory.

Charles B. Kimmel - Pattern formation during development.

Shawn Lockery - Parallel and distributed processing in simple biological networks.

Peter O'Day - Cellular signaling, retinal physiology, ion transport .

John H. Postlethwait - Genome evolution, evolution of development, developmental neurobiology.

William Roberts - Signal processing in sensory systems, synaptic transmission, calcium signaling.

Joe Thornton - Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; hormones, receptors, and evolutionary genomics.

Nathan Tublitz - Neuropeptides, invertebrate neurobiology, neural basis of behavior.

Philip Washbourne - Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation between neurons during development and repair.

Janis C. Weeks - Steroid hormone effects on synapses, neural circuits and neurodegeneration.

Monte Westerfield - Developmental genetics of neurons and muscle.

Emeritus Faculty

O. Hayes Griffith - Phospholipase structure/function; signal transduction; enzyme kinetics; fluorescent probes.

John A. Schellman - Theoretical biophysical chemistry.

Franklin W. Stahl - Mechanisms of recombination.

James A. Weston - Morphogenesis, cell differentiation.