Michael J. Bannon, Professor (also with Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, and Pharmacology); Ph.D., Yale, 1982. Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating neurotransmission, with a special emphasis on dysfunction of neurotransmission in drug abuse, Parkinson disease, and other CNS disorders.

Leon R. Carlock, Associate Professor (also with Anatomy and Cell Biology); Ph.D., Purdue, 1981. Molecular neurobiology; Huntington's disease; neuron-specific gene expression; demyelinating disease.

Gerald Feldman, Professor; M.D., Ph.D., Richmond, 1984. Use of molecular technologies in the diagnosis of genetic diseases, clinical genetics, and dysmorphology; educational programs in medical genetics residency training.

Russell L. Finley, Jr., Associate Professor (also with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Member, Karmanos Cancer Institute); Ph.D., SUNY at Syracuse, 1990. Regulatory networks that control cell proliferation; cell cycle regulation during development; high throughput technologies to study protein interaction networks.

James Y. Garbern, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); Ph.D., 1979, M.D., 1981, Baylor. Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and other inherited myelin diseases; metabolism of myelin lipids; magnetic resonance imaging techniques; neurofibromatosis; clinical neurogenetics.

Craig N. Giroux, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1979. Functional genomics of gene-environment interactions; genetic toxicology and pharmacogenetics; genome stability and meiotic differentiation; cellular biosensors and biotechnology.

Morris Goodman, Distinguished Professor (also with Anatomy and Cell Biology); Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1951. Molecular evolution, with emphasis on globin genes and primate phylogeny.

Alexander Gow, Associate Professor (also with Pediatrics and Neurology); Ph.D., Queensland (Australia), 1990. Role of the unfolded protein response in neurodegenerative diseases; molecular characterization of the regulation of axoglial junction assembly in CNS myelin; molecular characterization of the claudin family of integral membrane tight junction proteins during development in brain, testes, and inner ear using transgenic and homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells.

Anne E. Greb, Assistant Professor; M.S., Wisconsin, 1986. Educational programs in human genetics and genetics counseling; multicultural issues related to genetic counseling and the provision of clinical genetics services.

Lawrence I. Grossman, Professor and Director (also with Internal Medicine); Ph.D., Yeshiva (Einstein), 1971. Molecular genetics and evolution of the electron transport chain; cytochrome c oxidase; mitochondria and mitochondrial diseases.

Henry H. Q. Heng, Associate Professor (also with Karmanos Cancer Institute and Pathology); Ph.D., Toronto, 1994. Molecular cytogenetics; high order structure of chromosomes; genome structure and function; genetic and physical mapping; genomic instability and cancer.

Maik Hüttemann, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Marburg (Germany), 1999. Function of cytochrome c oxidase isoforms, oxygen sensing, and role of mitochondria in cancer.

John Kamholz, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); M.D., 1980, Ph.D., 1984, Pennsylvania. Regulation of myelination; molecular pathophysiology of demyelinating disease.

Gregory Kapatos, Professor (also with Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences); Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1978. Cellular and molecular biology of monoamine neurotransmitter secreting neurons.

Stephen A. Krawetz, Charlotte B. Failing Professor (also with Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Institute for Scientific Computing); Ph.D., Toronto, 1983. Gene therapy; control of development and differentiation; expression of connective tissue genes and genes controlling spermatogenesis; computer-assisted sequence analysis.

S. Helena Kuivaniemi, Professor and Associate Director (also with Surgery); M.D., 1984, Ph.D., 1985, Oulu (Finland). Molecular biology and genetics of aortic aneurysms.

Markku Kurkinen, Professor (also with Pathology); Ph.D., Helsinki, 1979. Extracellular matrix; metalloproteinases; gene regulation; development.

Wayne D. Lancaster, Professor (also with Obstetrics and Gynecology); Ph.D., Wayne State, 1973. Papillomaviruses: molecular biology, evolution, and role in human carcinogenesis; cancer cell genome instability; ovarian carcinogenesis.

Susan J. Land, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1993. Genomics.

Li Li, Associate Professor (also with Internal Medicine); Ph.D., Texas, 1991. Gene regulation during cardiovascular and hematopoietic development.

Jeffrey A. Loeb, Associate Professor (also with Neurology); Ph.D., 1987, M.D., 1989, Chicago. Developmental neuroscience; molecular mechanisms in synapse formation; neuroregulins and neurotrophins in synaptic development; functional genomic study of the pathogenesis of epilepsy.

Laura S. Martin, Associate Professor (also with Pediatrics); MD, 1981, University of Florida-Gainesville, Florida; Maternal-Fetal-Placenta unit and its relationship in Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Etiology of Mental Retardation; Educational programs for genetic counseling and medical genetics training programs; Consultant for children/adults with their families for inherited/genetic disorders .

Michael E. Shy, Professor (also with Neurology); M.D., SUNY at Albany, 1979. Molecular biology of Schwann cell axonal interactions; gene therapy in the peripheral nervous system.

Michael A. Tainsky, Professor (also with Karmanos Cancer Institute and Pathology); Ph.D., Cornell, 1977. Cancer genetic studies of familial cancers to determine the inherited cancer genes, analyze the mechanism of their action, and factors affecting genetic penetrance of the cancer phenotype.

Angela M. Trepanier, Assistant Professor; M.S., Minnesota, 1994. Educational programs in human genetics and genetic counseling; cancer genetics.

Gerardus C. Tromp, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1989. Genetic epidemiology and linkage analysis; molecular biology and genetics of intracranial aneurysms; the Blau syndrome; bioinformatics and genomics.

Derek E. Wildman, Assistant Professor (also with Obstetrics and Gynecology; Member Perinatology Research Branch); Ph.D., New York University, 2000. Molecular Evolution of Birth and Reproduction; Comparative Genomics; Aerobic Metabolism; Molecular Anthropology; Primate Evolution; Phylogeography; Mammalian Systematics.

David D. Womble, Associate Professor (also with the Institute for Scientific Computing);Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1976. Control of DNA replication and segregation; regulation of the cell division cycle; bioinformatics.