The following is an alphabetical list of MCB faculty members and brief descriptions of their research. A list of faculty by division affiliation is available here. Bowes fellows are at the bottom.
Diana Bautista
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular mechanisms of transduction in touch and pain receptors
David Bilder
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Genetics of cell and tissue architecture
Beth Burnside
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology of the photoreceptor cytoskeleton
W. Zacheus Cande
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell and developmental biology
Abby Dernburg
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Chromosome organization and dynamics during meiosis
David G. Drubin
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Actin and microtubule cytoskeletons in yeast and mammalian cells
Gary Firestone
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular endocrinology; tumor biology
John Gerhart
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Cell and Developmental Biology
Developmental biology
Iswar Hariharan
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Mechanisms of control of growth and cell proliferation. Regulation of regenerative growth.
Lin He
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
microRNA functions in cancer development, mouse tumor models
Rebecca Heald
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Mitotic spindle assembly and function in Xenopus laevis
Dirk Hockemeyer
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Telomere biology of human stem cells
Gary Karpen
Adjunct Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Chromosome structure and function
Arash Komeili
Assistant Professor (Affiliated) of Cell and Developmental Biology
Assembly and Subcellular Organization of Bacterial Organelles
Polina Lishko
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology of mammalian fertilization
Kunxin Luo
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Signal transduction pathways mediated by receptors and the mechanisms controlling the activity of the receptor kinases
Robert Macey
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Terry Machen
Associate Dean of Biological Sciences and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Epithelial transport; cellular and membrane physiology
G. Steven Martin
Dean of Biological Sciences and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology; tumor virology
Howard Mel
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Satyabrata Nandi
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Tumor biology; endocrinology
George Oster
Professor (Affiliated) of Cell and Developmental Biology
Mathematical modeling of molecular, cellular and developmental systems
Michael Rape
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Protein ubiquitination, degradation and the control of cell division and differentiation
Harry Rubin
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell and tumor biology
Randy Schekman
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Organelle assembly; protein transport
Karsten Weis
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Macromolecular transport into and out of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells
David Weisblat
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Developmental biology
Matthew Welch
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cytoskeletal function in cell migration, membrane trafficking and microbial pathogenesis
Fred Wilt
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular embryology; cell biology
The following faculty have a secondary affiliation with the Cell & Developmental Biology division.
Georjana Barnes
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Microtubule cytoskeleton and cell cycle controls
Kathleen Collins
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Telomerase, non-coding RNAs, RNA silencing
Nicole King
Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Choanoflagellates, animal origins, and the evolution of host-microbe interactions
Doug Koshland
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Mechanisms and principles that mediate desiccation tolerance and the structure, integrity, and evolution of chromosomes
Barbara Meyer
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Sex determination in C. elegans
Eva Nogales
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Structure-function of macromolecular assemblies: cytoskeleton self-assembly and nucleic acid transactions
Ellen Robey
Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis
Fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage
Jeremy Thorner
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Signal transduction mechanisms; biochemistry; molecular genetics; cell biology