Cellular & Molecular Biology

Faculty

Students may choose to work with any Department of Biological Science faculty. With permission from the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, students may also forge collaborative thesis projects between biology faculty and any other faculty at Florida State University.

 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Dr. Hank W. Bass
Meiosis in higher plants; telomere dynamics; molecular cytology; maize genomics.

Dr. George W. Bates
Plant cell and molecular biology; cell fusion, transformation, recombinant DNA, and plant cell culture.

Dr. Brian P. Chadwick
X chromosome inactivation; chromatin organization; epigenetic gene regulation.

Dr. P. Bryant Chase
Biomechanics of cardiac and skeletal muscle.

Dr. Hongchang Cui
Cell fate specification and reprogramming in plants; evolutionary and developmental biology; plant-environment interaction; genomics and epigenomics; proteomics; molecular genetics.

Dr. Wu-Min Deng
Cell-cell communication, cell-extracellular martix interaction, Cell Polarity, Drosophila genetics and development, Drosophila model for muscular dystrophy.

Dr. Jonathan H. Dennis
The biology of chromatin involved in the innate immune response.

Dr. W. Ross Ellington
Structure, function, and evolution of enzymes.

Dr. Debra A. Fadool
Structure and Function of Ion Channel Proteins; Signal Transduction and Neuromodulation by Phosphorylation.

Dr. James M. Fadool

Dr. James M. Fadool
Developmental biology; cellular and genetic analysis of visual system development.

Dr. Peter G. Fajer
Muscle contraction; structure-function of proteins; cellular physiology.

Dr. Jian Feng
Epigenetic regulation of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Dr. Peter Fraser
Regulation of cellular gene expression during differenation and development.

Dr. Betty Jean Gaffney
Magnetic resonance of proteins, lipid mediator mechanisms, metal ion regulation.


Dr. Kathryn M. Jones
Rhizobial/plant symbiotic interactions.

Dr. Laura R. Keller
Molecular genetics; signal transduction and regulation of gene expression.

Dr. Thomas C. S. Keller
Cell and molecular biology of the cytoskeleton; cytoskeleton regulation and energetics.

Dr. Steven Lenhert
Biological membranes; cell-substrate interactions; bionanotechnology.

Dr. Lisa Lyons
Signaling and circadian modulation regulating associative memory.

Dr. Karen McGinnis
Epigenetic gene regulation in maize.

Dr. Darin R Rokyta
Molecular and statistical properties of adaptive evolution.

Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe
3-D electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography of protein complexes involved in mRNA and sulfur metabolism.

Dr. Hengli Tang
Virus-host cell interactions; Cell biology of HCV replication; Cellular co-factors for HIV and HCV infection.

Dr. Kenneth A. Taylor
Macromolecular structure determination by 3-D electron microscopy; structure of muscle and muscle proteins.

Dr. Qian Yin
Biochemist and structural biologist dedicated to delineate individual proteins functions and their interactions in innate immunity, inflammation, pathogen-host interaction, and autophagy.

Dr. Hong-Guo Yu
Chromosome structural formation; regulation of transcription and recombination; molecular genetics and functional genomics.

Dr. Fanxiu Zhu
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV); cell and molecular biology of human DNA tumor virus; viral strategies of immune evasion.