The DBC is a group faculty who share an interest in the processes that create the form and function of the biological world around us.
Aaron Engelhart email: enge0213@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1950
Nucleic Acids
Ann Rougvie email: rougv001@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-4708
Temporal Control of Development; Gene Expression; Protein-DNA Interactions
Atsushi Asakura email: asakura@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-7108
Muscle stem cell self-renewal and muscle regeneration using mouse genetics, and therapeutic approach for muscular dystrophy
Dan Voytas email: voytas@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-4509
Plant genome engineering through homologous recombination; Retrotransposable elements and genome organization
Daniel Garry email: garry@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2178
Regenerative medicine, cardiogenesis, and stem-cell biology
David Greenstein email: green959@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3955
Developmental genetics, germline development, cell signaling
David Marks email: marks004@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-6737
Molecular genetic analysis of genes controlling epidermal cell fate in plants
David Zarkower email: zarko001@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-9450
Genetic and molecular control of sexual development
Deanna Koepp email: koepp015@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-4201
Cell cycle regulation, Ubiquitination and proteolysis, Genetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis
Duncan Clarke email:clark140@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3442
The programmatic goal of our research is to understand cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms that maintain genome stability
Emilie Snell-Rood email: emilies@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-7238
Using butterflies and beetles for inspiration, I ask questions such as 'why are some animals so smart?’
Frank Albert email: falbert@umn.edu | ph: 612-301-1243
Genomics, Statistical and Quantitative Genetics, Transcriptomics
Hans G Othmer email: othme001umn.edu | ph: 612-624-8325
Applied math, mathematical biology, dynamical systems
Harald Junge email: junge@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-6017
Retina, neurovascular interactions, wnt signaling
Hiroshi Nakato email: nakat003@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1727
Function of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in pattern formation
Huai Deng email: dengh@d.umn.edu | ph: 218-726-8459
Stress response signaling in development regulation; Chromatin targeting and remodeling by protein complexes
Jeff Simon email: simon004@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-5097
Developmental Gene Expression; Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions
Jennifer Hall email: hall068@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4114
Regulation of gene expression and signal transduction in the heart and vasculature
Jennifer Liang email: joliang@d.umn.edu | ph:218-726-7681
Uses zebrafish as a model system to uncover the mechanisms that control development of the central nervous system
Jop van Berlo email: jvanberl@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-1853
Role of cardiac progenitor cells in vivo during cardiac development
Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia email: riveramj@umn.edu
Kate Adamala email: kadamala@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-0570
Synthetic cells, Cell-free protein expression, Engineering genetic pathways
Laura Gammill email: gammi001@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-6158
Early vertebrate neural development, molecular embryology
Lihsia Chen email: chenx260@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1299
Cell Adhesion, Cytoskeleton, Signal Transduction, cell migration, axon guidance, embryogenesis
Lorene Lanier email: lanie002@umn.edu | ph: 612 626-2399
Cytoskeletal mechanisms of growth cone motility, Neurodevelopment, Cell motility and live cell imaging
Mary Porter email: porte001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-1901
Regulation of dynein-based motility
Matthew Slattery email: mslatter@umn.edu | ph: 218-726-7223
Meg Titus email: titus004@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-8498
Molecular genetic analysis of unconventional myosin function
Melissa Klein Gardner email: klei0091@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-6906
Chromatin mechanisms and dynamics; Quantitative fluorescence microscopy
Michael Georgieff email: georg001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2971
The effect of fetal/neonatal iron nutrition on brain development and neurocognitive function
Michael Kyba email: kyba@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-5869
Tissue-specific stem cell self-renewal, cell therapy, muscular dystrophy
Michael O'Connor email: moconnor@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2642
Molecular genetics of development, growth factor signaling and gene regulation
Michael Travisano email travisan@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-6201
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary genetics, microbial ecology and evolution
Min Ni email: nixxx008@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3702
Light signal transduction and seed development
Nam Chul Kim email: kimn@d.umn.edu | ph: 218-726-6080
Age-related neuromuscular degeneration such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and multisystem proteinopathy
Naoko Koyano email: koyano@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-7687
Neuronal differentiation Transcriptional regulation in neurodevelopment
Naomi Courtemanche email: ncourtem@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3195
Cytoskeletal dynamics, Protein biochemistry, Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, Thermodynamic modeling
Neil Olszewski email: neil@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3129
Molecular mechanisms of hormone action; molecular genetic analysis of DNA viruses of plants
Nobuaki Kikyo email: kikyo001@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-0498
Nuclear reprogramming in somatic cell nuclear cloning and stem cells
Pedro Fernandez-Funezemail: pfernand@d.umn.edu | ph: 218 726 6863
Using Drosophila genetic tools to understand neurodegeneration
Peter Igarashi email: igarashi@umn.edu | ph:612-625-3654
Kidney development, transcriptional regulation, microRNAs, primary cilia, polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
Rita Perlingeiro email: perli032@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4984
Mechanisms controlling lineage decision and reprogramming, and application to regenerative medicine
Saeko Takada email: takad003@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3613
DNA damage responses and cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms during development.
Sean Conner email: sdconner@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3707
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis; mammalian intracellular membrane trafficking
Steve McLoon email: mcloons@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-9182
Development of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly mechanisms that regulate cell division, cell differentiation and the pattern of axonal connections
Susan Gibson email: gibso043@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-7408
Signal transduction pathways and gene expression in plants; genomics; plant development; metabolic pathways and regulation of carbon partitioning
Suzanne McGaugh email: smcgaugh@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-6143
The how, why, and how fast organisms can adapt to new environments and whether evolution would proceed down the same path if repeated in an independent event.
Thomas Neufeld email: neufe003@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-5158
Genetic control of cell growth during development; signal transduction
Tom Hays email: haysx001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2949
Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Developmental mechanisms
Vivian Bardwell email: bardw001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-7028
Regulation of Gene Expression; Developmental Mechanisms; Human Genetics
William Gray email: grayx051@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3042
Molecular mechanisms of the hormone auxin in the control of plant growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis
Yasuhiko Kawakami email: kawak005@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-9935
Pattern formation, Morphogenesis, Signaling pathways, Congenital malformation
Yasushi Nakagawa email: nakagawa@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4497
Development of the mouse forebrain
Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang email: ymyang@d.umn.edu | ph: 218-726-7818
Research Statement: neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, developmental plasticity
Yue Chen email: yuechen@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-3340
Functional proteomics and protein posttranslational modification networks in diseases