Research
The Department currently represents research on a wide range of biological problems and systems – its internationally recognized strengths include:
- invertebrate and vertebrate development
- plant development and plant pathogen interactions
- molecular biology
- microbiology
- cellular structure and function
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Faculty Research Topics
How do living cells organize and coordinate their many activities in space and time? CMB faculty address this question through studies of cell and tissue polarity, membrane trafficking, self-organized cytoskeletal dynamics that underlie cell motility, shape change and cell division, cell cycle control and circadian dynamics.
Robert Carrillo
Richard Fehon
Benjamin Glick
Michael Glotzer
Jean Greenberg
Sally Horne-Badovinac
David Kovar
Stephen Kron
Heng-Chi Lee
Jocelyn Malamy
Edwin Munro
David Pincus
Micheal Rust
Aaron Turkewitz
Much of organismal development is governed by the actions of individual cells that must be coordinated to produce coherent tissue-level behaviors. CMB researchers study the collective dynamics of cells that underlie spatiotemporal control of cell identity, growth control, tissue morphogenesis, the elaboration of neural circuits, and the neural control of animal behavior.
Richard Fehon
Edwin Ferguson
Michael Glotzer
Sally Horne-Badovinac
Jocelyn Malamy
Edwin Munro
Ilaria Rebay
An enduring challenge in cell biology is to understand how cells control the flow of genetic information, within and across generations, through dynamic regulation of genome organization, the synthesis, modification, repair and destruction of nucleic acids. CMB researchers address this challenge through studies of transcriptional control, RNA splicing, meiotic recombination and DNA repair, regulation of chromatin architecture and dynamics, and genome surveillance.
Douglas Bishop
Stephen Kron
Heng-Chi Lee
Laurens Mets
David Pincus
Ilaria Rebay
Lucia Rothman-Denes
Alexander Ruthenburg
Jonathan Staley
Cells use elaborate biochemical circuits to integrate information and make informed decisions. CMB researchers explore core principles of biological circuit design that underlie cell cycle control, cell fate determination, cellular metabolism, cell and tissue homeostasis, disease resistance, maintenance of genome integrity, and the neural control of behavior.
Robert Carrillo
Richard Fehon
Edwin Ferguson
Michael Glotzer
Jean Greenberg
Elizabeth Heckscher
Steve Kron
Edwin Munro
David Pincus
Illaria Rebay
Michael Rust
