GCD Faculty

Current faculty

Anindya Bagchi, PhD Assistant Professor
bagch005@umn.edu

Vivian Bardwell, PhD Assistant Professor
bardw001@umn.edu

Areas of Research strength: Regulation Gene Expression, Developmental Mechanisms, Human Genetics

Eric Bauer, PhD Professor
bauer001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Pancreatic islet physiology, islet adhesion molecules

Linda B. Baughn, PhD Assistant Professor
lbaughn@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Immunology, B cell malignancy, multiple myeloma, B cell signal transduction, activation induced cytidine deaminase

Judith Berman, PhD Professor
jberman@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Fungal morphogenesis, Chromosome, chromatin and telomere biology, Regulation of Gene Expression, Genetic Mechanisms, Genomics, Nuclear structure and function
Chromosome, chromatin and telomere biology

Susan Berry, MD Professor, Division Director
berry002@umn.edu

Martin Blumenfeld, PhD Associate Professor
blume002@umn.edu

Areas of Research strength: DNA Chip Instrumentation for Genomics, SNP detectio, temperature control, image acquisition

Robert Brooker Professor
brook005@umn.edu

Lihsia Chen, PhD Associate Professor
chenx260@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cell Adhesion and signaling, Membrane cytoskeleton and cell motility, Developmental mechanisms

Duncan Clarke, PhD Associate Professor
clark140@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cell Cycle Checkpoint Controls, Sister Chromatid Cohesion, Chromosome Cycle, Ubiquitin-dependent Proteolysis

Kathleen Conklin, PhD Associate Professor
conkl001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Oncogenesis , retroviruses

Sean Conner, PhD Assistant Professor
sdconner@umn.edu

Karen Echeverri, PhD Assistant Professor
echev020@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Regeneration, control of gene expression and organ size control

Stephen C. Ekker, PhD Adjunct Professor

David Fan, PhD Professor
fanxx002@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Grapical data analysis; mathematical time trend modeling of the impact of persuasive information on public knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.

Cheryl A. Gale, MD Associate Professor
galex012@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: fungal morphogenesis, yeast cell biology, pathogenesis mechanisms

Laura Gammill, PhD Assistant Professor
gammi001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Early vertebrate neural development, molecular embryology

Melissa Gardner, PhD Assistant Professor
klei0091@umn.edu

Stuart Goldstein, PhD Professor
golds004@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility

David Greenstein, PhD Professor
green959@umn.edu

Honors: Associate Editor, Genetics

Courses Taught: BIOL 4950 Ethical and Social Challenges in Genetics, GCD 8131 Advanced Genetics and Genomics, GCD 81661 Advanced Developmental Biology, Directed Research, and Nature of Life.

Areas of Research Strength: Developmental genetics, germline development, cell signaling

Perry Hackett, PhD Professor
hacke004@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Genetic engineering and human gene therapy.

Thomas Hays, PhD Professor, Associate Dean of Research
haysx001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cytoskeleton and cell motility, neuronal transport, Developmental mechanisms

Betsy A. Hirsch, PhD Associate Professor
hirsc003@umn.edu

Victoria Iwanij, PhD Associate Professor
iwani001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Ligand-receptor interaction; Peptide hormone receptor characterization using affinity cross-linking approach

Yasuhiko Kawakami, PhD Assistant Professor
kawak005@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Developmental mechanisms, Pattern formation, Organ regeneration

Vincent Keng, PhD Assistant Professor
kengx001@umn.edu

Research Interests:
Somatic and germline insertional mutagenesis using transposable elements

Richard King, MD, PhD Professor
kingx002@umn.edu

David Kirkpatrick, PhD Associate Department Head, Associate Professor
dkirkpat@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Regulation of Meiotic Recombination Initiation, Genetic Mechanisms of DNA Repair During Meiosis, Genomics and Genome Stability, Chromosome and Chromatin Biology

Deanna Koepp, PhD Associate Professor
koepp015@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cell cycle regulation, Ubiquitination and proteolysis, Genetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis, Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking

Ryoko Kuriyama, PhD Professor
kuriy001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Molecular cell biology of microtubule-organizing centers, mitosis, cell growth, and cell cycle regulation in eukaryotic cells.

David Largaespada, PhD Professor
larga002@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: cancer genetics, insertional mutagenesis, transposons, Sleeping Beauty, murine leukemia viruses, brain tumors, sarcoma, myeloid leukemia, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, Neurofibromatosis type 1

Bonnie LeRoy, MS Associate Professor
leroy001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Ethical and Professional Issues in Genetic Medicine, Professional Education

Richard Linck, PhD Professor
linck001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Investigations of Ciliary and Flagellar Microtubules at Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Levels

G.W. Gant Luxton, PhD Assistant Professor
gwgl@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Organelle positioning, nuclear cell biology, the cytoskeleton, cell polarity, cell migration, and virology

York Marahrens, PhD Associate Professor
marah005@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Chromatin, Genome Instability, DNA Repair, Repetitive DNA Sequences, Bioinformatics

David Matthes, PhD Teaching Associate Professor
dmatthes@umn.edu

R. Scott McIvor, PhD Professor
mcivo001@umn.edu

Hiroshi Nakato, PhD Associate Professor
nakat003@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Proteoglycan functions in development, Growth factor signalin, Morphogen gradient formation

Thomas Neufeld, PhD Associate Professor
neufe003@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Developmental Mechanisms, Genetic Mechanisms, Cell Interactions, Signal Transduction, Cell Cycle Regulation

Michael O'Connor, PhD Department Head, Professor
moconnor@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Molecular genetics of development, Growth factor signaling, Gene regulation

William Oetting, PhD Professor
oetti001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Analysis of Complex genetic disorders

Harry T. Orr, PhD Professor
orrxx002@umn.edu

Anna Petryk, MD Associate Professor
petry005@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Craniofacial development; bone biology; mammalian embryogenesis; organogenesis

Mary Porter, PhD Professor
porte001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cytoskeleton; Cell motility

Ann Rougvie, PhD Professor
rougv001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Gene expression, Developmental mechanisms, Genetic mechanisms

Lisa Schimmenti, MD Associate Professor
las@umn.edu

Jocelyn Shaw, PhD Associate Professor
shawx005@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cell interactions, Cytoskeleton and cell motility, Developmental mechanisms, Neuroscience, Genetic mechanisms

Naoko Shima, PhD Assistant Professor
shima023@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Mouse Cancer Genetics, Chromosome instability, Replication stress

Jeffery Simon, PhD Professor
simon004@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Control of gene expression, Chromatin structure and function, Animal development

Akhouri Sinha, PhD Professor
sinha001@umn.edu

Jonathan Slack, PhD Professor, Director of Stem Cell Institute
slack017@umn.edu

Nikunj Somia, PhD Associate Professor
somia001@umn.edu

Robert Sorenson, PhD Professor
soren001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Hormone regulation of islet structure and function; Adaptation of islets to pregnancy

Clifford Steer, MD Professor
steer001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Membranes and receptors; Cell interactions; Gene expression; Gene Therapy; Apoptosis

Margaret Titus, PhD Professor
titus004@umn.edu

Brian Van Ness, PhD Professor
vanne001@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Gene expression; Cancer genetics; Immunology; Genetic diagnostics; Mouse transgenics

Daniel Voytas, PhD Professor, Director of the Center for Genome Engineering
voytas@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Molecular biology and genetics

Robin Wright, PhD Associate Dean
wrightr@umn.edu

Areas of Research Strength: Cell biology, with emphasis on regulation of organelle biogenesis; Membrane structure and dynamics; Sterol metabolism; Protein targeting and localization; Genetic and genomic approaches to organelle biogenesis; Microscopic analysis of cell structure; Undergraduate education