Molecular Evolution

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Goncalo Abecasis, Ph.D Development and application of statistical methods for complex trait gene identification. Active research areas include mental disorders and aging-related diseases. Biostatistics. Bioinformatics.

Julian Adams, Ph.D. Population Genetics. Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. Bioinformatics.

Scott Barolo, Ph.D. Molecular genetics and biochemistry of transcriptional regulation; structure/function analysis of signaling pathway-regulated enhancers, using Drosophila as a model system. Cell & Developmental Biology.

Sally A. Camper, Ph.D. Developmental genetics of the neuroendocrine system; transgenic mice; gene targeting; pituitary dwarfism. Human Genetics. Bioinformatics. Cellular & Molecular Biology. Neuroscience.

Steven Clark, Ph.D. Current research focuses on receptor kinase=mediated signaling pathways regulating stem cell identity and organogenesis, as well as microRNA regulation of stem cell specification. Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology.

Robert Denver, Ph.D. Molecular biology of hormone action in animal development; neuroendocrinology; evolutionary developmental biology Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. Neuroscience.
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Thomas M. Glaser, MD, Ph.D. Genetic analysis of mammalian eye development. Human Genetics.

Jun Li, Ph.D. Genetic studies of complex human diseases, including psychiatric disorders, heart disease, and cancer, with emphases on genetic influence of gene expression, population structure, DNA copy number variation (either inherited or somatic), and application of next-generation sequencing methods to related problems. Human Genetics. Cellular & Molecular Biology. Bioinformatics.

Miriam H. Meisler, Ph.D. Human and mouse disease gene isolation and mutation detection; disease gene isolation neurogenetics; comparative genomics; genetics of sodium and calcium channels expressed in the nervous system. Neuroscience. Human Genetics. Cellular & Molecular Biology. Molecular & Integrative Physiology.

David Mindell, Ph.D. Molecular evolution and phylogenetics of vertebrate genomes and of viruses. Bioinformatics. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

Steve Qin, Ph.D. Statistical genetics, disease mapping, computational biology, comparative genomics, functional genomics. Biostatistics. Bioinformatics.

Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D. Mathematical models in genetics and evolution, human population genetics, statistical methods for inference of human genetic history, role of human genetic variation in disease-gene mapping, human statistical genetics, genetic variation in pathogens, gene trees and species trees, phylogenetics. Bioinformatics. Human Genetics.

Alice Telesnitsky, Ph.D. Retrovirus molecular genetics, reverse transcriptase structure-function studies, HIV-1 and murine leukemia virus genetic recombination and other mechanisms of genetic variation, virus-host interactions on the cellular level. Microbiology & Immunology. Cellular & Molecular Biology.
Lab: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/telesnitsky.lab

Patricia Wittkopp, Ph.D. Genetic and developmental bases of evolutionary change. Molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression and genetic changes that alter regulation are of particular interest. Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

Jianzhi Zhang, Ph.D. Molecular and genomic evolution, with both experimental and computational approaches. Bioinformatics.