Research Areas - Genetics & Neurobiology
Faculty
Gladys Alexandre
Bacterial chemotaxis and motility
Ranjan Ganguly
Molecular genetics of insecticide resistance; dosage compensation
Rose Goodchild
Cell biology of genetically inherited neurodevelopmental disease; nuclear envelope
Jim Hall
Neural basis of sound recognition in vertebrates; role of nitric oxide in hearing
Ana Kitazono
Cell cycle regulation; mitosis; checkpoints; cyclin-dependent kinases
Mariano Labrador
Chromosomes; structure and function of chromatin boundaries; retroviral integration
Bruce D. McKee
Meiosis; chromosome structure and function
Jae H. Park
Neurogenetics of biological rhythms and behavior; neurodevelopment in Drosophila
Rebecca Prosser
Cellular basis of mammalian circadian rhythms
Sundar Venkatachalam
Development and analysis of mouse models for cancer and aging
Courses
Students in our labs often take some of the following courses
1. Core courses, which are taken by all BCMB graduate students (as well as students from other programs):
- BCMB 511 Advanced Biochemistry: Protein structure, catalysis, binding; membranes
- BCMB 512 Advanced Molecular Biology: Gene regulation, chromatin, RNA
- BCMB 515 Experimental Techniques
2. Specialized BCMB courses. Popular offerings include:
- BCMB 513 Cell Biology: Signaling pathways, cell cycle, cytoskeleton, protein trafficking
- BCMB 530 Experimental Design and Analysis: Scientific writing, building and testing hypotheses
- BCMB 550 Advanced Concepts in Neurobiology/Physiology
- BCMB 562 and BCMB 564 Electron Microscopy
- BCMB 605-608 Journal clubs. Recent: Novel roles of RNA; Protein turnover; Metamorphosis
- BCMB 610 Current topics. Recent: Cancer cell biology; Electron microscopy
- BCMB 615 Special topics. Recent: Membrane dynamics and biogenesis; Analytical techniques in protein biochemistry
3. Courses offered by other programs, such as Genome Science and Technology (Analytical Technologies, Genomics, Bioinformatics), Statistics, Microbiology, and many more.
4. Course credit for miscellaneous activities such as departmental seminars (BCMB 601) and colloquia (BCMB 603), 1st year lab rotations (BCMB 516) and other ‘Thesis’ (BCMB 500) and ‘Dissertation’ (BCMB 600) activities.