FACULTY
- Hank W. Bass
Meiosis in higher plants; telomere dynamics; molecular
cytology; maize genomics.
- P. Bryant Chase
Biomechanics of cardiac and skeletal muscle.
- Wu-Min Deng
Cell-cell communication, cell-extracellular martix interaction, Cell Polarity,
Drosophila genetics and development, Drosophila model for muscular dystrophy.
- W. Ross Ellington
Biochemical adaptation; enzyme structure, function, and evolution.
- Peter Fajer
Muscle contraction; structure-function of proteins; cellular
physiology.
- David Gilbert
Eukaryotic Chromosome Replication and Genome Plasticity.
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- Laura R. Keller
Molecular genetics; signal transduction and regulation
of gene expression.
- Thomas C.S. Keller
Cell and molecular biology of the cytoskeleton; cytoskeleton
regulation and energetics.
- Timothy S. Moerland
Muscle physiology, energetics, and adaptation; biological
NMR.
- Thomas M. Roberts
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton.
- Kenneth A. Taylor
Macromolecular structure determination by 3-D electron microscopy; muscle, cytoskeleton and cell adhesion structure.
- Dr. Hong-Guo Yu
Chromosome structural formation, meiotic recombination and genomic integrity.
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Research groups offering graduate training in the area of Cell Structure and Motility
focus their research efforts on understanding the molecular morphology and dynamics of
nuclei, flagella, muscle, and nonmuscle cell motility systems. These groups use a variety
of experimental approaches (e.g., sophisticated light & electron microscopy, molecular
biology, genetics, protein biochemistry, NMR) to gain greater understanding of the
structural components, molecular organization, assembly, and movement of dynamic systems
in vertebrate and invertebrate animal cells, plant cells, and unicellular algae. The
individual labs are well equipped and focused on graduate training. Graduate students are
encouraged to use state-of-the-art equipment in the departmental Biological Science
Imaging Resource (BSIR), Molecular Cloning Facility, Hybridoma Facility, and at the
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for their research projects.
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