Faculty List of Research Subtopic: Molecular adaptation

Joy Bergelson  <j-bergelson@uchicago.edu> Ecology and evolution of resistance in plants, plant-enemy interactions, coevolution, pathogenesis of bacteria on plants

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

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

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.

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

Wen-Hsiung Li  <whli@uchicago.edu> Major interest: Processes and mechanisms of molecular and genomic evolution. I. Evolution of gene regulation. II. Evolution of duplicate genes. III. Development of statistical methods and computational analysis of genomic data.

Manfred Ruddat  <mruddat@uchicago.edu> Basic molecular, genetic and evolutionary mechanisms of interactions among organisms. The specific problems my students and I are investigating concern host-parasite interactions, especially between the anther smut fungus Ustilago violacea (aka Microbotry

Ilya Ruvinsky  <ruvinsky@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu> Evolution of development, particularly the origin and diversification of the nervous system and evolution of transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution