Faculty List of Graduate Program
Organismal Biology and Anatomy

Michael Coates  <mcoates@uchicago.edu> Vertebrate paleontology, systematics and phylogenetics, origins of major taxa including gnathostomes, early jawed fishes and basal tetrapods, historical patterns of biodiversity and morphology, and the integration of paleo- with developmental biology.

Martin Feder  <m-feder@uchicago.edu> Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics; evolutionary physiology; molecular adaptation; role of heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones in stress tolerance in Drosophila; evolution of transcriptional regulation

Edwin L. Ferguson  <elfergus@midway.uchicago.edu> Developmental genetics of cell fate specification and stem cell maintenance in Drosophila

Elizabeth Grove  <egrove@drugs.bsd.uchicago.edu> Mammalian cerebral cortical is organized into a map of functional areas. Our goals are to understand the mechanisms of map formation, how species-specific maps arise, and how new areas appear in cortical evolution.

Melina Hale  <mhale@midway.uchicago.edu> Combining neurobiology and functional morphology to examine how neural circuits in the hindbrain and the spinal cord control musculoskeletal mechanics and generate locomotor movements.

Nicholas Hatsopoulos  <nicho@midway.uchicago.edu> Population coding in primate motor cortex

Robert Ho  <rkh@midway.uchicago.edu> The evolution of developmental patterning mechanisms in teleost fish.

Michael LaBarbera  <mlabarbe@midway.uchicago.edu> Biomechanics, especially in marine invertebrates including bizarre extinct forms

Raphael Lee  <rlee@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu> Sealing holes in the cell membrane after ischemic injury

Eric Lombard  <elombard@midway.uchicago.edu> Comparative, functional, and evolutionary studies on feeding and sensory adaptations in lower vertebrates

Daniel Margoliash  <dan@bigbird.uchicago.edu> Combining neurobiology and behavior to study neural coding. The analysis is at multiple levels, cellular, systems, computational, behavioral. The primary research focus is song learning and perception in birds but we also collaborate on human studies.

Jill Mateo  <jmateo@uchicago.edu> Mechanisms, genetics and functions of kin recognition, nepotism and mate choice in small mammals; MHC; predator-prey interactions and development of survival behaviors; sexual selection; behavioral endocrinology

Thomas Nagylaki  <none> Theoretical population biology, especially geographical variation; gene conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural selection

Vicky Prince  <vprince@midway> Mechanisms of patterning the anterior-posterior body axis during development of zebrafish and other teleosts, using molecular, cellular and comparative approaches

Clifton Ragsdale  <cliff@drugs.bsd.uchicago.edu> Molecular and cellular studies of brain development in higher vertebrates (chicks and mice) and higher invertebrates (cephalopods)

Jan-Marino (Nino) Ramirez  <jramire@midway.uchicago.edu> Brainstem control of respiratory rhythms

Paul Sereno  <dinosaur@midway.uchicago.edu> Fossils, phylogenetic analysis, biogeography, dinosaur and avian radiations, molecular evolution

Neil Shubin  <nshubin@midway.uchicago.edu> I use paleontological and developmental approaches to understand the origin of new taxa, new morphological structures and new patterns of variation in evolution.

Philip Ulinski  <pulinski@midway.uchicago.edu> Function of cortical circuitry

Mark Westneat  <westneat@fmnh.org> Combining phylogenetics with biomechanics to study evolution in coral reef fishes and other animals- the lab does field work and uses molecular, physiological and whole animal approaches to the evolution of feeding and locomotion