(Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Cell signaling, behavior, and phenotypic diversity in bacterial populations. Chemotaxis in gut mucus and soil. dufourya@msu.edu

(Horticulture), Plant Genome Evolution, Phylogenomics, Polyploidy, Hybridization and Subgenome Dominance. edgerpat@msu.edu

(Animal Science), Transcriptional regulation and QTL discovery in pigs; genetics of skeletal muscle development and behavior. ernstc@msu.edu

(Large Animal Clinical Sciences), Genetic and epigenetic risk factors for asthma and allergic disease; gene x environment interactions. ewarts@msu.edu

(Plant Biology), Plant circadian clock and its role in plant growth and development. farre@msu.edu

(Integrative Biology), DNA isolation and profiling from forensic samples, technique development, forensic casework. foran@msu.edu

(Integrative Biology), The Gallant lab is interested in understanding the genomic basis for the orgin and diversification of electrogenesis in teleost fishes. jgallant@msu.edu

(Integrative Biology), Development and regeneration of the enteric nervous system (ENS) in zebrafish; Zebrafish CRISPR gene knock-out models for ENS diseases; Signaling pathways in neural crest development. ganz@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Structure and function of membrane proteins involved in organelle biogenesis and maintenance; protein crystallography. garavito@msu.edu

(Animal Science) Genetic architecture of complex traits and genomic prediction, livestock genetics, particularly beef cattle and beef quality, artificial Intelligence and computational statistics methods applied to genomics. gondroce@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Systems biology approaches to understand plant gene regulation, metabolism and functions of plant specialized metabolites. grotewol@msu.edu

(Horticulture), Molecular genetics and genomics of plant development and disease resistance grumet@msu.edu

(Physiology), Genomic alterations to specific cells in the nervous system that contribute to neuroinflammation in gastrointestinal disease. gulbrans@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) An emerging field — synthetic biology — is attempting to broadly address the need for more nutritious food, improved prevention and treatment of diseases, renewable energy sources and protection for the environment. hamberge@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by tumor suppressor proteins. Role of the RB tumor suppressor family in non-coding RNA gene transcription.henryrw@msu.edu

(Animal Science) Impact of seasonal changes in day length on genetic control of reproduction, transgenic mouse models, transcriptional control of gene expression. hanne@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), The role of lipids and small molecules in intracellular and long-distance signaling in plant development and the response to environmental changes.hoffma16@msu.edu

(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), Hormone signaling for control of plant growth, defense, and energy partitioning. howeg@msu.edu

(Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) Using experimental and computational approaches to study genome-wide mRNA translation and identify novel peptides; plant responses under diurnal cycles and environmental stress; circadian rhythms. pollyhsu@msu.edu

(Plant Biology & DOE Plant Research Lab), Molecular regulation of the dynamics of plant energy organelles peroxisomes and mitochondria. huji@msu.edu

(Animal Science), Genetics and evolution of complex quantitative traits using a combination of computational and empirical approaches. huangw53@msu.edu

(Plant Biology and Horticulture), Genetics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of Arabidopsis thaliana and crop species. jiangjm@msu.edu