Profiles of Faculty Group Leaders

Shawn Ahmed, PhD

germ cell immortality, telomeres and telomerase

Aravind Asokan, PhD

synthetic virology, gene therapy, virus-host interactions

Art Aylsworth, MD

clinical genetics, phenotype delineation

Brian J. Bennett, PhD

systems genetics, cardiovascular disease, nutrigenomics

Jonathan S. Berg, MD, PhD

medical genetics, clinical cancer genetics, personalized medicine

Scott Bultman, PhD

mouse models of human disease,
chromatin-modifying factors, epigenetics

Kathleen Caron, PhD

adrenomedullin, RAMPs, gene targeting, mouse models, preeclampsia, hypertension, reproduction, pregnancy

Derek Chiang, PhD

bioinformatics, liver cancer, sequencing technologies

Frank L. Conlon, PhD

heart development, mesodermal patterning, T box genes

Ian J. Davis, MD, PhD

mechanisms of transcription factor deregulation in cancer development

Bob Duronio, PhD

genetics of cell cycle control; regulation of Gene Expression; drosophila development

Jim Evans, MD, PhD

medical genetics, clinical cancer genetics, pharmacogenomics

Rosann Farber, PhD

Associate Department Chair
human molecular genetics, somatic cell genetics, genetic instability

Terry Furey, PhD

chromatin and gene regulation, integrative cancer genomics, computational biology, high-throughput sequencing

Mark Heise, PhD

viral pathogenesis, virus-host interactions, genetics of virulence, vaccine development

Eric T. Juengst, PhD

ethical, legal and social issues in human genetics and genomics

William Y. Kim, MD

genitourinary Cancers: Renal Cell Carcinoma, Bladder Cancer, Prostate Cancer

Beverly H. Koller, PhD

mouse models of human disease genes

Ethan Lange, PhD

complex disease models, statistical genetics

Leslie Lange, PhD

genetics of complex diseases, genetics of chronic inflammation, cardiovascular disease, asthma

Yun Li, PhD

statistical Genetics

Terry Magnuson, PhD

Department Chair
mammalian genetics/genomics, developmental genetics

A. Gregory Matera, PhD

genetics and cell biology of RNP assembly transport, developmental regulation of protein arginine methylation, drosophila and mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy

Virginia Miller, PhD

Yersinia and Klebsiella; Y. pestis and Y.enterocolitca; bacterial pathogenesis

Karen L. Mohlke, PhD

complex traits, genetics of type 2 diabetes

Joe Muenzer, MD, PhD

inborn errors of metabolism

Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD

Charles M. Perou, PhD

breast cancer, genomics, microarrays, tumor classification, drug resistance

Larysa Halyna Pevny, PhD

neural induction, neurogenesis, SOX proteins

Daniel Pomp, PhD

genetic architecture of complex traits, with an emphasis on obesity and body weight regulation

Cynthia Powell, MD

dysmorphology and birth defects

W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD

renal cel carcinoma, von Hippel Landau tumor gene, biologically active treatment protocols

Kristy Richards, MD, PhD

lymphoma, the study of polymorphisms

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD

genomics of gene regulation, microRNAs, epigenomics, computational biology, metabolic disease

Norman E. Sharpless, MD

cancer genetics, tumor suppressor genes, mouse tumor models, cell cycle and senescence

Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP

complex traits in humans, psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenetics, twin studies, schizophrenia, major depression, nicotine dependence

Wei Sun, PhD

eQTL studies, tiling array data analysis, statistical genetics, dimension reduction, multiple testing

William Valdar, PhD

mapping of complex disease loci in animal models, statistical genetics

Jason Whitmire, PhD

viral immunology, memory T cell differentiation, vaccines, inflammation, microbial immunology

Kirk Wilhelmsen, MD PhD

genetic mapping of susceptibility loci for complex traits and the positional cloning of genes responsible for neurodegenerative disorders