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Department of Biology Research
 

Genetics and Molecular Biology

primary faculty

Ted Abel
molecular mechanisms of long-term memory storage

Andrew Binns
genetic and biochemical analysis of Agrobacterium-plant cell interaction

Nancy Bonini
role of the eyes absent gene in eye formation; transgenic models for human neurodegenerative disease

Dustin Brisson
disease ecology, molecular evolution, microbial evolution

Anthony Cashmore
photoregulatory signal regulation

Fevzi Daldal
photosynthetic and respiratory electron transfer pathways and structure, function and biogenesis of cytochrome complexes

Warren Ewens
mathematical and statistical methods in genetics

Mark Goulian
two-component signaling in E. coli. regulation of porin expression, directed evolution of signaling circuits

Wei Guo
molecular basis of polarized exocytosis

Junhyong Kim
evolution of gene regulation and developmental systems, computational infrastructure for deducing the tree of life, comparatve genomics and molecular evolution

R. Scott Poethig
genetic regulation of plant morphogenesis

Mecky Pohlschröder
protein translocation in archaea

Philip A. Rea
energy-dependent transport across plant membranes

David S. Roos
cell biology and molecular genetics of protozoan parasites Toxoplasma and Plasmodium (malaria); eukaryotic evolution; computational biology

Paul Schmidt
evolutionary ecology, ecological and evolutionary genetics

Richard Schultz
egg activation and gene expression in mouse embryos

Paul D. Sniegowski
population and evolutionary genetics

Doris Wagner
control of the onset of reproduction in Arabidopsis

Eric S. Weinberg
genetic control of embryonic pattern, brain development and organogenesis in the zebrafish embryo

 

adjunct faculty

Moss, Eric - Fox Chase Cancer Center
Heterochronic genes and mechanisms of developmental timing in C. elegans and higher organisms; RNA-binding proteins and translational regulation in development.

 


Research
Department of Biology
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

last updated December 21, 2007