Developmental Biology Center

DBC Faculty:

Anindya Bagchi email: bagch005@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-7598

Vivian Bardwell email: bardw001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-7028
Regulation of Gene Expression; Developmental Mechanisms; Human Genetics

Lihsia Chen email: chenx260@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1299
Cell Adhesion, Cytoskeleton, Signal Transduction, cell migration, axon guidance, embryogenesis

Duncan Clarke email:clark140@umn.edu| |ph: 612-624-3442
The programmatic goal of our research is to understand cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms that maintain genome stability.

Sean Conner email: sdconner@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3707

Karen Echeverri email: echev020@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-7320

Laura Gammill email: gammi001@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-6158
Early vertebrate neural development, molecular embryology

Melissa Klein Gardner email: klei0091@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-6906

Daniel Garry email: garry@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2178

Michael Georgieff email: georg001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2971

Susan Gibson email: gibso043@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-7408
Signal transduction pathways and gene expression in plants; genomics; plant development; metabolic pathways and regulation of carbon partitioning

William Gray email: grayx051@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3042
Molecular mechanisms of the hormone auxin in the control of plant growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis

David Greenstein email: green959@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3955
Developmental genetics, germline development, cell signaling

Brock Grill email: bgrill@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-8837

Jennifer Hall email: hall068@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4114
Regulation of gene expression and signal transduction in the heart and vasculature.

Tom Hays email: haysx001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2949
Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Developmental mechanisms

Dan Kaufman email: kaufm020@umn.edu

Yasuhiko Kawakami email: kawak005@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-9935
Pattern formation, Morphogenesis, Signaling pathways, Congenital malformation

Nobuaki Kikyo email: kikyo001@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-0498

Deanna Koepp email: koepp015@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-4201

Naoko Koyano email: koyano@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-7687
Neuronal differentiation Transcriptional regulation in neurodevelopment

Michael Kyba email: kyba@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-5869

Lorene Lanier email: lanie002@umn.edu | ph: 612 626-2399
Cytoskeletal mechanisms of growth cone motility, Neurodevelopment, Cell motility and live cell imaging.

Paul Letourneau email: letou001@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-5999

G.W. Gant Luxton email: gwgl@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-8343

David Marks email: marks004@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-6737
Molecular genetic analysis of genes controlling epidermal cell fate in plants.

Steve McLoon email: mcloons@umn.edu| ph: 612-624-9182
Development of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly mechanisms that regulate cell division, cell differentiation and the pattern of axonal connections

Yasushi Nakagawa email: nakagawa@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4497
Development of the mouse forebrain

Hiroshi Nakato email: nakat003@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1727
Function of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in pattern formation

Thomas Neufeld email: neufe003@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-5158
Genetic control of cell growth during development; signal transduction.

Min Ni email: nixxx008@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3702
Light signal transduction and seed development

Michael O'Connor email: moconnor@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-2642
Molecular genetics of development, growth factor signaling and gene regulation.

Neil Olszewski email: neil@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-3129
Molecular mechanisms of hormone action; molecular genetic analysis of DNA viruses of plants

Hans G Othmer email: othme001umn.edu | ph: 612-624-8325

Rita Perlingeiro email: perli032@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-4984

Anna Petryk email: petry005@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-6370
Mouse development, organogenesis, birth defects, bone biology

Mary Porter email: porte001@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-1901

Ann Rougvie email: rougv001@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-4708
Temporal Control of Development; Gene Expression; Protein-DNA Interactions

Lisa Schimmenti email: las@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-5613
The genetics of ocular birth defects, pattern formation in the developing eye, role of PAX genes in eye development, the role of genetic testing in newborn hearing screening.

Jocelyn Shaw email: shawx005@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-1912
Cell interactions, Cytoskeleton and cell motility, Developmental mechanisms, Neuroscience, Genetic mechanisms

Jeff Simon email: simon004@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-5097
Developmental Gene Expression; Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions.

Jonathan Slack email: slack017@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-8293

Saeko Takada email: takad003@umn.edu | ph: 612-624-3613
DNA damage responses and cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms during development.

Meg Titus email: titus004@umn.edu| ph: 612-625-8498

Dan Voytas email: voytas@umn.edu | ph: 612-626-4509

David Zarkower email: zarko001@umn.edu | ph: 612-625-9450
Genetic and molecular control of sexual development.

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