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CELL BIOLOGY

Needhi Bhalla Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Barry Bowman Functions of ATPases in Active Transport
Camilla Forsberg Stem Cell Fate Decisions

Lindsay Hinck The Molecular Basis of Cancer
Doug Kellogg Control of Cell Cycle Events by Cyclin-dependent Kinases

Robert Ludwig Plant-microbe Interactions & Plant Gene Cloning
Karen Ottemann How Pathogenic Bacteria Sense their Environment
Amy Ralston Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells
Michael Rexach Structure & Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes
Bill Sullivan Cell Cycle, Cytoskeleton, and Host-pathogen Interactions

Fitnat Yildiz Vibrio cholera and regulation of growth in biofilms
Martha Zuñiga Cell Biology of Class I Histocompatibility Molecules

 
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY


David Feldheim Development of the Mouse Nervous System
Camilla Forsberg Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions
Grant Hartzog How Chromatin Influences Transcription
Lindsay Hinck The Molecular Basis of Cancer
Amy Ralston Origin and regulation of mammalian stem cells
John Tamkun Chromatin Remodeling in Drosophila Development
Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes
Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans
Bill Sullivan Cell Cycle, Cytoskeleton, and Host-pathogen Interactions
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CHROMOSOME BIOLOGY


Needhi Bhalla Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Hinrich Boeger Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation
Grant Hartzog How Chromatin Influences Transcription
Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans
Rohinton Kamakaka Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators
John Tamkun Chromatin Remodeling in Drosophila Development

 

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GENOMICS

Manuel Ares, Jr. Pre-mRNA Splicing & Processing

Grant Hartzog How Chromatin Influences Transcription

David Haussler HHMI Investigator. Computational Biology, Evolution of noncoding RNA

Todd Lowe Non-coding RNA gene discovery; extremophile computational & experimental genomics
Amy Ralston Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells

Jeremy Sanford Genomics of RNA binding proteins

Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans

Fitnat Yildiz Vibrio cholera and regulation of growth in biofilms

Alan Zahler Pre-mRNA Exon Recognition & Alternative Splicing

 
NEUROBIOLOGY

Bin Chen Mammalian Brain Development
David Feldheim Development of the Mouse Nervous System
Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes
Yi Zuo Functions of glia at the synapses in the mammalian nervous system

 


RNA MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The RNA cluster includes the internationally-recognized
Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
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Manuel Ares, Jr. Pre-mRNA Splicing & Processing

David Haussler HHMI Investigator. Computational Biology, Evolution of noncoding RNA
Melissa Jurica Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes
Todd Lowe Large Scale Approaches to Whole Genome Biology
Harry Noller Structure & Function of the Ribosome

Jeremy Sanford Genomics of RNA binding proteins         
Bill Scott Crystallography & Mechanism of RNA Enzymes

Michael Stone Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology
Alan Zahler Pre-mRNA Exon Recognition & Alternative Splicing

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