MCB Faculty Research

Bender, Carol

Evaluating high impact educational experiences, in particular undergraduate research.

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Bolger, Timothy

Regulation of mRNP dynamics in gene expression:

Eukaryotic gene expression is a fundamental cellular activity that is critical for cellular identity, function, and physiology. During gene expression, a messenger RNA (mRNA)... Read More

Bolger, Molly

Modern biologists employ a set of practices and reasoning skills that allow them to construct models of natural phenomena and refine these models through experimentation and hypothesis testing. Expert models... Read More

Capaldi, Andrew

Andrew Capaldi, PhD, researches the signaling pathways and transcription factors in a cell that... Read More

Dieckmann, Carol

The general focus in this lab is on understanding the coordination of organelle/host cell interactions. Two different systems under study are:

-nuclear control of mitochondrial mRNA expression in... Read More

Elfring, Lisa

Lisa Elfring, PhD, teaches graduate-level courses in biology and education in that program. She has taught these courses traditionally taught... Read More

Fares, Johnny

The trafficking of macromolecules between different compartments is an essential process in all eukaryotic cells and is used to maintain cellular integrity, to interact with the extracellular environment, and to... Read More

Gutenkunst, Ryan

Our research group integrates computational systems biology and population genetics to understand the function and evolution of the complex molecular networks that underlie life. We build and analyze mathematical simulations... Read More

Laney, Jeff

Little, John

We seek to understand the behavior of gene regulatory circuitry and to analyze molecular interactions controlling regulatory circuits at the mechanistic level. We use a combination of genetics and biochemistry... Read More

Nagy, Lisa

I am interested in exploring the genetic basis of morphological diversity. To do this, I ask how developmental regulatory networks known to pattern a particular aspect of morphology in one... Read More

Schroeder, Joyce

Joyce Schroeder, PhD, holds... Read More

Serio, Tricia

Tax, Frans

Frans Tax, PhD, understandsplants grow as a result of the... Read More

Tomanek, Debra

My current research interests are focused on two areas: science teacher preparation and undergraduate student learning in biology.

With regard to science teacher preparation, my interest is in understanding how undergraduate... Read More

Weinert, Ted

Genome Instability in Yeast: Getting at the Mechanisms of Genetic Change

In my 20 years here at the University of Arizona, I now find myself in a... Read More

Yao, Guang

What do we do?

We study gene networks that control life and death decisions of cancer cells, and how they differ from normal cells.

What is the goal of our research?

We aim... Read More

Zarnescu, Daniela

1. Translational control in glia-neural stem cell interactions

We have recently discovered a novel role for the RNA binding protein, FMRP, in neural stem cells exit from quiescence, a universal mechanism... Read More