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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Faculty Listing
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Professor Pamela Raymond, Chair (7/1/08-6/30/14)
Associate Professor Matthew Chapman, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor Anuj Kumar, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Professor Robert Denver, Associate Chair for Research and Facilities
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Mohammed Akaaboune, Neurobiology
James Bardwell (Rowena G. Matthews Collegiate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology), Catalysis of protein folding
Kenneth Cadigan, Cell Signaling and Gene Regulation
Steven Clark, Plant development, molecular genetics
Robert Denver, Developmental Neuroendocrinology
Cunming Duan, Molecular animal physiology
Richard I. Hume (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Director, Program in Neuroscience), Developmental neurobiology and cellular neurophysiology
Ursula Jakob, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Daniel J. Klionsky (Alexander G. Ruthven Professor of Life Sciences), Cell biology
John Y. Kuwada, Developmental neurobiology
Jianming Li, Plant Molecular Physiology
Laura Olsen (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Director, Program in Biology), Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Janine Maddock, Microbial development
Laura Olsen (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Eran Pichersky (Michael M. Martin Collegiate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology), Molecular genetics
Pamela Raymond (Stephen S. Easter Collegiate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology), Neurobiology and Animal Physiology
John W. Schiefelbein, Jr., Plant molecular genetics and development
Associate Professors
Amy Chang, Cell Biology
Matthew Chapman, Biochemistry and Microbiology
Gyorgyi Csankovszki, Cell Biology
Anuj Kumar, Cell Biology and functional genomics
Erik Nielsen, Cell Biology, Development, and Plant Molecular Biology
Yanzhuang Wang, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Patricia Wittkopp, Evolution of Development
Haoxing Xu, Neurobiology and Animal Physiology
Assistant Professors
Sara Aton, Systems nerobiology, Neurobiology of sleep
Blaise Boles, Biochemistry, Cell Bioloy and Microbiology
Laura Buttitta, Developmental Control of the Cell Cycle
Catherine Collins, Cell Biology, Develoment, Neurobiology, Animal physiology
Ann Miller, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Jayakrishnan "JK" Nandakumar, Structural biology, Cell biology, Biochemistry
Orie Shafer, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Animal Physiology
Lyle Simmons, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Development, Microbiology
Stefan Walter, Biochemistry and Microbiology
Andrzej Wierzbicki, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Plant Molecular Biology
Kwoon Wong, Neurobiology and Animal Physiology
Lecturers
Rafiqa Ameziane, Neurobiology
Marc Ammerlaan (Hiroshi Ikuma Collegiate Lecturer in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology), Microbiology
Kenneth Balazovich, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Lynn Carpenter, Phylogeography and Paleoecology
Sushama Denver, Animal physiology
Santhadevi Jeyabalan, Genetics and development
Diane Spillane, Molecular Biology
Associate Research Scientist
Raymond Barbehenn, Biochemical aspects of plant-herbivore interactions
Assistant Research Scientist
Nicholas Tolwinski, Development
Professors Emeriti
Julian P. Adams, Population genetics
Robert A. Bender, Microbiology
Wesley M. Brown, Molecular evolution
Stephen S. Easter, Jr., Neuroscience
Lewis J. Kleinsmith (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Molecular biology
John Langmore, Cell biology
Larry D. Noodén, Plant developmental physiology
Bruce Oakley, Neuroscience
Charles F. Yocum (Alfred S. Sussman Professor of Biology), Cell biology, photosynthesis
Professors Emeriti of Biology
Richard D. Alexander, Animal behavior, entomology
Charles B. Beck, Paleobotany, plant anatomy
James N. Cather, Invertebrate embryology
William R. Dawson, Environmental physiology
Harry A. Douthit, Bacterial physiology
David M. Gates, Biophysics
Peter B. Kaufman, Plant developmental physiology
Michael M. Martin (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Chemical ecology
Thomas E. Moore, Entomology
Robert Shaffer, Plant taxonomy, basidiomycetes
David G. Shappirio (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Comparative physiology and biochemistry, cellular and developmental biology
Conrad S. Yocum, Plant biophysics