Faculty List: Drosophila

Justin Borevitz  <borevitz at uchicago.edu> Quantitative Genetics of Local Plant Adaptation to the Light Environment

Jerry Coyne  <j-coyne@uchicago.edu> I work on a diverse array of topics in the areas of population and evolutionary genetics, speciation, ecological genetics, and molecular evolution.

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

Richard Hudson  <rr-hudson@uchicago.edu> Population genetics, theory and data analysis with a focus on molecular variation within and between species.

Martin Kreitman  <mkre@midway.uchicago.edu> Molecular population genetics, genetics of speciation.

Manyuan Long  <mlong@midway.uchicago.edu> Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics

Urs Schmidt-Ott  <uschmid@uchicago.edu> We study the evolution of insect development. The goal is twofold: (1) to understand the phylogenetic origin of Drosophila’s developmental mechanisms and (2) to understand the developmental and genetic basis of the radiation of true flies (Diptera).

Chung-I Wu  <ciwu@uchicago.edu> Speciation, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, genomics, sexual selection