Program in Gene Function and Expression

Faculty

Michael R. Green, M.D., Ph.D. 
Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Cancer Molecular Biology

Usha Acharya, Ph.D. 
Molecular Genetics of Lipid Metabolism and Signaling

Ingolf Bach, Ph.D. 
Neuronal Cell Fate Specification

Victor Boyartchuk, Ph.D. 
Studies of the Genetic Factors Controlling Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases using Animal Model Systems

Michael Brodsky, Ph.D. 
Regulation of Drosophila p53 and DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis

Lucio Castilla, Ph.D. 
Genetics of Leukemia, Mouse Models

Job Dekker, Ph.D. 
Spatial Organization of Genomes

Heinrich Göttlinger, M.D., Ph.D. 
Molecular Biology of HIV-1

Paul Kaufman, Ph.D. 
Assembly and Function of Eukaryotic Chromosomes

Nathan Lawson, Ph.D. 
Determining the Signals Responsible for Blood Vessel Development using Zebrafish

Brian Lewis, Ph.D. 
Molecular Genetics of Pancreatic and Liver Cancers

Siu Ing (Inge) The, Ph.D. 
Hedgehog Signaling and Distribution in Drosophila melanogaster 

Heidi Tissenbaum, Ph.D. 
Molecular Mechanisms of Aging in C. elegans 

Rossella Tupler, M.D., Ph.D. 
Molecular Pathogenesis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy

Fumihiko Urano, M.D., Ph.D. 
Role of ER Stress in Diabetes and Aging

Marian Walhout, Ph.D. 
Mapping Transcription Regulatory Circuits in the Nematode C. elegans 

Yong-Xu Wang, Ph.D. 
Transcriptional Control of Energy Metabolism and Metabolic Diseases by the Nuclear Receptor PPAR Subfamily

Scot Wolfe, Ph.D. 
Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Proteins

Julie Zhu, Ph.D. 
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics