Faculty
Timothy Currier
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Joining the Huck in January 2027. Open to taking graduate students. Developmental mechanisms that build properly functioning. . .
Santhosh Girirajan
- Professor of Genomics
- Professor of Anthropology
Understanding the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Joshua Gross
- Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Biobehavioral Health
Cellular- and transgenic mouse model-based approaches to investigate the molecular mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptor. . .
Timothy Jegla
- Emphasis Area Representative, Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics
- Associate Professor of Biology
Functional evolution of eukaryotic ion channels and evolution of neuronal signaling and cell structure.
Janine Kwapis
- Director of the Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders
- Associate Professor of Biology
Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying learning and memory and age-related memory impairments.
Aimin Liu
- Associate Professor of Biology
Biogenesis and function of cilia in mammalian embryonic development.
Yingwei Mao
- Professor of Biology
Regulation of neurogenesis using cellular and mouse models; analysis of abnormal neural progenitor cell (NPC) proliferation. . .
David Puts
- Huck Associate Director for Graduate Education
- Professor of Anthropology
Understanding both the endocrine mechanisms underlying human sexual differentiation and the evolution of these mechanisms,. . .
Melissa Rolls
- Lead Huck Graduate Chair
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons. The cellular basis of neuronal polarity and neuronal responses to injury. . .
Moriah Szpara
- Professor of Biology
How genetic variation influences the outcomes of viral infection, particularly for neurotropic viruses such as herpes simplex. . .
Ruobo Zhou
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Quantitatively and functionally understanding the compartmentalization and spatiotemporal organization of protein-protein and. . .