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Participating Faculty
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. If you are interested in working with a faculty member not listed here, we would be happy to confirm their participation prior to submitting your application.
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Topic | 
|---|---|---|
| Michael Bell | Ecology and Evolution | Causes of temporal and spatial variation using the threespine stickleback fish | 
| Jian Cao | Medicine | Biology and prevention of cancer metastasis | 
| Holly Colognato | Pharmacological Sciences | Extracellular matrix in the brain: roles during development and during neurodegeneration | 
| Carlos de los Santos | Pharmacological Sciences | NMR Solution Structure of Nucleic Acids and Proteins | 
| Dale Deutsch | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Metabolism of the endocannabinoids, anandamide and 2-AG | 
| Dale Drueckhammer | Chemistry | Design, synthesis, and study of new organic molecules | 
| Walter Eanes | Ecology and Evolution | Molecular evolution, phylogenetic analysis, population genetics | 
| Michael Frohman | Pharmacological Sciences | Regulation of exocytosis, cell shape, and mitochondrial fusion by lipid signaling pathways | 
| Jessica Gurevitch | Ecology and Evolution | Experimental investigation of fundamental ecological questions of plant populations | 
| Robert Haltiwanger | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Role of protein glycosylation in signal transduction and quality control | 
| Patrick Hearing | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Adenovirus-host cell interactions; viral vectors for human gene therapy | 
| Nancy Hollingsworth | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis | 
| Stefan Judex | Biomedical Engineering | Bone regulation | 
| Richard Kew | Pathology | Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation; pulmonary immunopathology | 
| James Konopka | Microbiology & Immunology | Signal transduction, morphogenesis and genetics of pathogenic fungi | 
| Mary Kritzer | Neurobiology and Behavior | Sex differences in cortical microcircuitry | 
| Joel M. Levine | Neurobiology and Behavior | Molecular biology of nerve regeneration; nerve-glia interactions | 
| Erwin London | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Membrane protein structure/translocation/folding | 
| Lorne Mendell | Neurobiology and Behavior | Functional effects of neurotrophins in neonatal and adult mammals | 
| Iwao Ojima | Chemistry | Design, synthesis, and structure-activity relationships of medicinally-active compounds | 
| Nancy Reich | Microbiology & Immunology | Cytokines and Viral Defense | 
| Basil Rigas | Medicine | Cancer prevention | 
| Robert Rizzo | Applied Math and Statistics | Computational structural biology; HIV/AIDS, cancer, and influenza | 
| Lorna Role | Neurobiology and Behavior | Cholinergic signalling in circuits and behaviors related to emotional salience in learning and memory | 
| Clint Rubin | Biomedical Engineering | Cellular mechanisms responsible for the growth, healing, and homeostasis of bone | 
| Nicole Sampson | Chemistry | Steroid degradation pathways in M. tuberculosis | 
| Howard Sirotkin | Neurobiology and Behavior | Molecular genetics of vertebrate neural patterning | 
| Helmut Strey | Biomedical Engineering | Drug delivery, nanostructures | 
| Ken-Ichi Takemaru | Pharmacological Sciences | Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease | 
| Styliani-Anna Tsirka | Pharmacological Sciences | Neuro-immune interactions in physiology and pathology of central nervous system | 
| Lonnie Wollmuth | Neurobiology and Behavior | Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission   | 
                     
