Molecular and Cell

Faculty Research Interests in Cell and Molecular Biology

Faculty member 

Research Interest

Lizabeth A. Allison
Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington

Molecular and cellular biology: Mechanisms of nuclear import and export; nuclear hormone receptor and oncogene expression.

Eric L. Bradley
Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of California Santa Barbara

Biomedical Imaging; in vivo monitoring of cell-molecular processes in mammary tumor development. Mechanisms of reproductive inhibition; role of the endocrine system in maintaining reversible infertility.

Eric Engstrom
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Plant development and evolution of developmental processes. Establishment of leaf polarity.

Mark Forsyth
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. Microbiology

John D. Griffin
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Neurophysiology: Hypothalamic control of thermoregulation and the generation of a fever in response to infection.

Oliver Kerscher
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Yeast Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Study of proteins and protein modifiers that regulate chromosome segregation and genome integrity in the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cereviasiae.

Margaret Saha
Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Developmental neurobiology; molecular genetics of cell determination and patterning in the developing vertebrate nervous system, particularly genes regulating brain and vascular development

Diane C. Shakes
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Cell and developmental biology; the interplay between cell cycle progression and cell differentiation during C. elegans gametogenesis

Matthew Wawersik
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Cell and developmental biology; molecular genetic analysis of germ cell sex determination and germline stem cell establishment

Kurt Williamson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Delaware

Soil microbial ecology. Environmental virology.

Patty Zwollo
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utrecht
The Netherlands

Molecular Immunology; molecular biology of the B-cell immune response in the rainbow trout. Structure and function of developmentally regulated transcription factors expressed in B-cells.