Cell & Developmental Biology Faculty
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
- Diana Bautista
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular mechanisms of transduction in touch and pain receptors
- David Bilder
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Genetics of cell and tissue architecture
- Beth Burnside
- Professor Emerita 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 Associate 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 Forte
- Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology
Membrane proteins, transport and energetics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Department Chair 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 of Cell and Developmental Biology
Mathematical modeling of molecular, cellular and developmental systems
- Michael Rape
- Assistant 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
The role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion
- Fred Wilt
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular embryology; cell biology
- Andrew Wurmser
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells
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
- Lu Chen
- Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Mechanisms of synapse formation during development and synapse modification in plasticity
- Kathleen Collins
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Telomerase, non-coding RNAs, RNA silencing
- 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 and Molecular 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
- William V. Power Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Signal transduction mechanisms; biochemistry; molecular genetics; cell biology
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