Section of Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty
Intracellular responses to bacterial pore-forming toxins, development of new anthelmintics, Bt toxin resistance .
Bennett, Eric Assistant Professor
Molecular and genetic analysis of Drosophila neural development.
Embryonic stem cell fate; plant resistance to infectious disease.
Genetics of neuronal and epidermal morphogenesis in C. elegans.
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Plant molecular biology, control of gene expression and ion transport.
Molecular genetics of plant hormone action; the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in plants.
Mechanisms regulating gene expression and cell differentiation during development. G. proteins and signal transduction mechanisms.
Nuclear transport in vitro; nuclear pore structure; nuclear assembly
Genetics and molecular biology of protein degradation in yeast.
Cell biology of morphogenesis. Molecular mechanisms of organ development in mice
Systems biology of circadian clocks in plants and mammals.
Cellular morphogenesis. Functional genomic analysis of cell shape changes in Drosophila development.
Developmental biology; molecular genetics of development in Dictyostelium
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the specification of neuronal identity, growth cone motility and navigation, target selection and the generation of neuronal arbors.
Speciation and adaptation to novel environments; Mating system evolution; Drosophila evolutionary genetics.
Molecular genetics of Drosophila development and epidermal wound repair.
Cell fate specification by cell-cell signaling and transcriptional regulation; enhancer architecture and evolution.
Unraveling transcriptional networks underlying the circadian regulation of plant pathogen responses.
Plant molecular biology, molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene expression in maize.
Cellular, molecular and systems level identification of drought and salinity-stress resistance signal transduction mechanisms in plants. Plant CO2 sensing and signal transduction.
Genetic, molecular, and proteomic analysis of division plane orientation in plant cells.
Vertebrate blood cell development, biology of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
Investigating host/pathogen interactions in the roundworm C. elegans, including extracellular and intracellular pathogens.
Molecular genetic analysis of signal transduction in Drosophila development and immunity.
mRNA localization, translational control, and membrane trafficking in
Drosophila melanogaster.
Molecular and genetic analyses of fruit development.
Organogenesis: genetic regulation of heart development in zebrafish
Plant Biology, Molecular mechanisms of auxin homeostasis and signal transduction.
