Division of Biological Sciences

It is critically important to teach undergraduates about biology more effectively and to retain...

The recent discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) has revolutionized our understanding of gene control....

Our laboratory is interested in how synaptic activity modulates the molecular make-up of...

The goal of our laboratory is to understand how mitochondrial function is coupled to neuronal...

One of the most interesting questions in biology is how the complexity of the nervous system is...

Education As an assistant teaching professor, I bring bioinformatics and genomics—key tools for...

A gene's chromosomal position and local chromatin structure can have profound consequences for...

Evolution of the microbial cytoskeleton Prokaryotic cells have a complex subcellular...

Our research is organized around three key themes: Cellular organization and dynamics: What are...

The driving interest of our lab is in the mechanisms by which cell-cell signaling pathways and...

We study the mechanisms by which proteins control normal calcification of bone and prevent...

Most organisms live in environmental conditions that oscillate with a 24 hour period and evolved...

Eukaryotic cells use microtubule tracks to move cargo over long distances. There are two types...

The Reinagel lab studies perceptually guided selection of action in the visually behaving rat....

My laboratory studies how stochastic, genetic, and environmental variation is filtered through...

Sensory systems detect features of the external world, which are represented in the activity of...