The DBC is a group faculty who share an interest in the processes that create the form and function of the biological world around us.
Aaron Engelhart email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-1950
Nucleic Acids
Ann Rougvie email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-4708
Temporal Control of Development; Gene Expression; Protein-DNA Interactions
Atsushi Asakura email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-7108
Muscle stem cell self-renewal and muscle regeneration using mouse genetics, and therapeutic approach for muscular dystrophy
Dan Voytas email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-4509
Plant genome engineering through homologous recombination; Retrotransposable elements and genome organization
Daniel Garry email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-2178
Regenerative medicine, cardiogenesis, and stem-cell biology
David Greenstein email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-3955
Developmental genetics, germline development, cell signaling
David Marks email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-6737
Molecular genetic analysis of genes controlling epidermal cell fate in plants
David Zarkower email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-9450
Genetic and molecular control of sexual development
Deanna Koepp email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-4201
Cell cycle regulation, Ubiquitination and proteolysis, Genetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis
Duncan Clarke email:[email protected] | ph: 612-624-3442
The programmatic goal of our research is to understand cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms that maintain genome stability
Emilie Snell-Rood email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-7238
Using butterflies and beetles for inspiration, I ask questions such as 'why are some animals so smart?’
Frank Albert email: [email protected] | ph: 612-301-1243
Genomics, Statistical and Quantitative Genetics, Transcriptomics
Hans G Othmer email: othme001umn.edu | ph: 612-624-8325
Applied math, mathematical biology, dynamical systems
Harald Junge email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-6017
Retina, neurovascular interactions, wnt signaling
Hiroshi Nakato email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-1727
Function of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in pattern formation
Huai Deng email: [email protected] | ph: 218-726-8459
Stress response signaling in development regulation; Chromatin targeting and remodeling by protein complexes
Jeff Simon email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-5097
Developmental Gene Expression; Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions
Jennifer Liang email: joliang@d.umn.edu | ph:218-726-7681
Uses zebrafish as a model system to uncover the mechanisms that control development of the central nervous system
Jop van Berlo email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-1853
Role of cardiac progenitor cells in vivo during cardiac development
Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia email: [email protected]
Kate Adamala email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-0570
Synthetic cells, Cell-free protein expression, Engineering genetic pathways
Laura Gammill email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-6158
Early vertebrate neural development, molecular embryology
Lihsia Chen email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-1299
Cell Adhesion, Cytoskeleton, Signal Transduction, cell migration, axon guidance, embryogenesis
Lorene Lanier email: [email protected] | ph: 612 626-2399
Cytoskeletal mechanisms of growth cone motility, Neurodevelopment, Cell motility and live cell imaging
Mary Porter email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-1901
Regulation of dynein-based motility
Matthew Slattery email: [email protected] | ph: 218-726-7223
Meg Titus email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-8498
Molecular genetic analysis of unconventional myosin function
Melissa Klein Gardner email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-6906
Chromatin mechanisms and dynamics; Quantitative fluorescence microscopy
Michael Georgieff email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-2971
The effect of fetal/neonatal iron nutrition on brain development and neurocognitive function
Michael Kyba email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-5869
Tissue-specific stem cell self-renewal, cell therapy, muscular dystrophy
Michael O'Connor email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-2642
Molecular genetics of development, growth factor signaling and gene regulation
Michael Travisano email [email protected] | ph: 612-626-6201
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary genetics, microbial ecology and evolution
Min Ni email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-3702
Light signal transduction and seed development
Nam Chul Kim email: [email protected] | ph: 218-726-6080
Age-related neuromuscular degeneration such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and multisystem proteinopathy
Naomi Courtemanche email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-3195
Cytoskeletal dynamics, Protein biochemistry, Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, Thermodynamic modeling
Neil Olszewski email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-3129
Molecular mechanisms of hormone action; molecular genetic analysis of DNA viruses of plants
Nobuaki Kikyo email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-0498
Nuclear reprogramming in somatic cell nuclear cloning and stem cells
Pedro Fernandez-Funezemail: [email protected] | ph: 218 726 6863
Using Drosophila genetic tools to understand neurodegeneration
Peter Igarashi email: [email protected] | ph:612-625-3654
Kidney development, transcriptional regulation, microRNAs, primary cilia, polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
Rita Perlingeiro email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-4984
Mechanisms controlling lineage decision and reprogramming, and application to regenerative medicine
Saeko Takada email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-3613
DNA damage responses and cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms during development.
Sean Conner email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-3707
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis; mammalian intracellular membrane trafficking
Steve McLoon email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-9182
Development of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly mechanisms that regulate cell division, cell differentiation and the pattern of axonal connections
Susan Gibson email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-7408
Signal transduction pathways and gene expression in plants; genomics; plant development; metabolic pathways and regulation of carbon partitioning
Suzanne McGaugh email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-6143
The how, why, and how fast organisms can adapt to new environments and whether evolution would proceed down the same path if repeated in an independent event.
Thomas Neufeld email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-5158
Genetic control of cell growth during development; signal transduction
Tom Hays email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-2949
Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Developmental mechanisms
Vivian Bardwell email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-7028
Regulation of Gene Expression; Developmental Mechanisms; Human Genetics
William Gray email: [email protected] | ph: 612-624-3042
Molecular mechanisms of the hormone auxin in the control of plant growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis
Yasuhiko Kawakami email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-9935
Pattern formation, Morphogenesis, Signaling pathways, Congenital malformation
Yasushi Nakagawa email: [email protected] | ph: 612-625-4497
Development of the mouse forebrain
Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang email: [email protected] | ph: 218-726-7818
Research Statement: neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, developmental plasticity
Yue Chen email: [email protected] | ph: 612-626-3340
Functional proteomics and protein posttranslational modification networks in diseases