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