People
Encompassing the full breadth of research in the life sciences, the Department of Biology comprises a growing number of faculty engaged in both teaching and research, a diverse community of about 100 graduate and 900 undergraduate students, and a capable technical and administrative staff.
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Our Faculty
Jelle Atema's laboratory focuses on three research areas: chemical ecology of lobsters, navigation in sharks, and dispersal in larval reef fishes.
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Michael Baum's research is aimed at the mechanisms controlling the sexual differentiation and adult display of courtship behaviors in mice.
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Cynthia Bradham's research is focused on understanding secondary (dorsal-ventral) axis specification and patterning in the sea urchin.
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Gloria Callard's research focuses on the biosynthesis and actions of estradiol.
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Ian Callard's research involves the cellular and molecular actions of estrogen and progesterone associated with the evolution of live-bearing (viviparity) from an egg laying (oviparous) mode of reproduction.
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John Celenza's research focuses on plant development, molecular biology, and genetics.
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Geoffrey Cooper's laboratory studies the roles of proto-oncogene proteins in the signal transduction pathways that control proliferation and survival of mammalian cells.
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Vincent Dionne's research examines the cellular mechanisms underlying detection, discrimination, and encoding of sensory information.
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William Eldred's research is studying how the neurons in the retina communicate with one another using biochemical pathways.
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Horacio Frydman's research generally focuses on understanding how microorganisms and their hosts interact at different biological levels (e.g., molecular, cellular, genetic, ecological and evolutionary).
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Tim Gardner's laboratory studies neural circuits and their development, specifically vocal learning in songbirds.
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Thomas Gilmore's research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which certain genes can transform normal cells into malignant cells, and the normal control of cellular growth by these genes.
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Stjepko Golubic's research concerns the relationship between microorganisms and mineral deposits.
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Ulla Hansen's research involves understanding how regulation of gene expression in mammalian cells controls cell growth and responses to hormones.
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Angela Ho's research concerns the molecular and cellular basis of synaptic function and alzheimer’s disease.
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Hans Kornberg's current research focuses on the metabolic routes by which mutants of E coli, which are devoid of the genes that normally affect utilization of fructose are able to grow on fructose as sole carbon source.
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Thomas Kunz's laboratory focuses on roosting behavior and ecology, physiological ecology, population dynamics, life-history evolution, and conservation biology of temperate and tropical bats.
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Jen-Wei Lin's main research focus is on the biophysical events underlying neurotransmitter release.
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Phillip Lobel is interested in fundamental concepts of fish biology and in applying this knowledge to scientific issues and to societal concerns of fisheries management and conservation.
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Edward Loechler's lab investigates the DNA polymerases involved in mutagenic and non-mutagenic bypass of DNA damage.
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Hengye Man is interested in understanding the cellular/molecular mechanisms underlying AMPAR synaptic localization and synaptic plasticity.
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Kim McCall's laboratory is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of programmed cell death and its role in development.
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Frank Naya's research includes dissecting the in vivo role of the myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2) family of transcription factors in muscle development.
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Richard Primack's lab is investigating the impact of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds in Massachusetts, Japan, and South Korea.
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Christopher Schneider's laboratory combines field studies with a variety of molecular genetic and phenotypic analyses to study adaptation, population biology, systematics, biogeography, and speciation of amphibians and reptiles.
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Daniel Segrè develops theoretical approaches and computational models for the study of complex biological networks.
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Cassandra Smith's research brings novel approaches at the interface of genomics/genetic and biotechnology to complex disease studies.
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Michael Sorenson's research emphasizes molecular genetic approaches to problems in avian systematics, population biology, and behavioral ecology.
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Sidney Tamm takes advantage of the experimental virtues of comb jellies (ctenophores) and termite protozoa to investigate basic problems in cell biology and motility.
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Pamela Templer is interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling, retention, and loss.
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Dean Tolan is interested in biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and human genetics, evolution, and the developmental biology of aldolases.
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James Traniello studies the ecological factors that have influenced the genetics of colonies and populations, the behavioral mechanisms of cooperation, and the neural basis of social behavior.
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Matt Wachowiak studies how the nervous system encodes odor information and how the brain processes this information.
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Karen Warkentin's laboratory examines developing organisms in an ecological context.
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David Waxman is interested in molecular endocrinology and cell signaling through transcriptional networks, cancer gene therapy and pharmacology, liver genes and transcriptional control, and orphan receptors and responses to environmental chemicals.
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Eric Widmaier is primarily interested in the molecular and behavioral mechanisms that result in obesity or weight gain in mammals.
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