CELL BIOLOGY

Needhi Bhalla (coming in Summer, 2008) Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Barry Bowman Functions of ATPases in Active Transport
Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering) - Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions
Doug Kellogg Control of Cell Cycle Events by Cyclin-dependent Kinases
Karen Ottemann How Pathogenic Bacteria Sense their Environment
Michael Rexach Structure & Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes
Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans
Bill Sullivan The Nuclear Cycle of Drosophila embryos
Martha Zuñiga Cell Biology of Class I Histocompatibility Molecules

CHROMOSOME BIOLOGY

Needhi Bhalla (coming in Summer, 2008) Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Hinrich Boeger Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation
Grant Hartzog How Chromatin Influences Transcription
David Haussler HHMI Investigator. Computational Biology
Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans
Rohinton Kamakaka Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators
John Tamkun Chromatin Remodeling in Drosophila Development

Genomics research is carried out by faculty in MCD Biology and the Baskin School of Engineering, and includes the Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, a team working on the Human Genome Project and the UCSC DNA Microarray Project.

Manuel Ares, Jr. Pre-mRNA Splicing & Processing in Yeast
David Haussler (Computer Sciences) HHMI Investigator. Computational Biology
Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering ) Large Scale Approaches to Whole Genome Biology
Alan Zahler Pre-mRNA Exon Recognition & Alternative Splicing

Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering) Large Scale Approaches to Whole Genome Biology
Robert Ludwig Plant-microbe Interactions & Plant Gene Cloning
Karen Ottemann (Environmental Toxicology) Chemotaxis of Pathogenic Bacteria
Fitnat Yildiz (Environmental Toxicology) Ex-vivo Survival Mechanisms

Bin Chen Mammalian Brain Development
Lindsay Hinck The Molecular Basis of Neuronal Chemotropism
David Feldheim Development of the Mouse Nervous System
Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes
Yi Zuo Functions of glia at the synapses in the mammalian nervous system

RNA MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The RNA cluster includes the internationally-recognized
Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation.

Manuel Ares, Jr. Pre-mRNA Splicing & Processing in Yeast
Melissa Jurica Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes
Todd Lowe Large Scale Approaches to Whole Genome Biology
Harry Noller Structure & Function of the Ribosome        
Bill Scott (Chemistry) Crystallography & Mechanism of RNA Enzymes
Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans
Alan Zahler Pre-mRNA Exon Recognition & Alternative Splicing