Director:
Deborah Bell-Pedersen
Executive Committee:
Paul Hardin
Alex Keene
Wanhe Li
Christine Merlin
Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Director
Biology – Molecular genetics and genomics of circadian clocks and signaling pathways in fungi
Kira Delmore
Biology – Hybridization, speciation, and behavioral genomics
David Earnest
Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics – Uncovering mechanistic links between emotional states, biological timing, sleep, and development of chronic diseases using interdisciplinary approaches.
Bella Farhy
Biology – Molecular mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron interactions in mammals; regulation of neuronal synapses by astrocytic circadian clock.
Richard Gomer
Biology – Statistical analysis of circadian data
Paul Hardin
Biology – Molecular biology of biological clocks in Drosophila; behavioral neurogenetics; transcriptional regulation.
Yuchao Jiang
Statistics and Biology – computational biology and statistical genomics of circadian rhythms
Jeff Jones
Biology – Understanding the genes, neurons, and circuits regulating circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology
Alex Keene
Biology – Neural regulation of behavior in flies and fish models
Gladys Ko
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences – Mechanisms underlying the circadian regulation of ion channels and their functions
Wanhe Li
Biology – Uncovering mechanistic links between emotional states, biological timing, sleep, and development of chronic diseases using interdisciplinary approaches.
Bani Mallick
Department of Statistics and Director of the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics
Jerome Menet
Biology – Molecular mechanism of the circadian clock in mice
Christine Merlin
Biology – Molecular genetics and genomics of monarch butterfly circadian clocks and long-distance migration
Weston Porter
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences – Roles of transcription factors in mammary gland development and breast cancer migration
Tapasree Roy Sarkar
Biology – Role of circadian disruption on tumor progression & metastasis
Shogo Sato
Biology – Molecular and physiological basis of circadian-metabolic crosstalk in mammals
Gerard Toussaint
Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, TAM Health Science Center – Signal transduction and circadian genes in human glioblastoma and glioma
Chaodong Wu
Nutrition and Food Science – Integrative regulation of metabolism related to obesity and diabetes
Michael Young, Visiting Scholar & Hagler Fellow
Biology
Mark Zoran
Biology – Developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synapse formation; neural regeneration; biological clock control of neural signaling
Lei Zou
Geography – GIScience, disaster resilience, public health, and coastal sustainability
