Wendy C. Champness (Ph.D., Michigan State), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Microbial molecular genetics and biotechnology; genetic regulation of Streptomyces antibiotics; developmental genetics.

Dean DellaPenna (Ph.D., U.C. Davis), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Plant biochemistry, especially relating to phytochemicals of importance to human nutrition, and structural and functional aspects of the plant cell wall.

Jerry B. Dodgson (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Genome mapping; regulation of gene expression.

Susan L. Ewart  - (D.V.M., Michigan State; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University), PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms of inherited diseases in animals and humans.

Michele M. Fluck (Ph.D., Geneva), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Viral Oncology; oncogene activation of transcription factors and their effect on chromatin structure and DNA replication; mammary gland oncogenesis in mice and dependence upon estrogen.

Karen Friderici (Ph.D., MSU), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Molecular pathology of genetic disease; genetics of hearing loss.

John C. Fyfe (Ph.D., Pennsylvania; D.V.M., Oregon State), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Molecular, cellular, and clinical pathogenesis of inherited metabolic disease. Animal models of human genetic disease.

Jon Kaguni (Ph.D. Univ. of California), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - DNA replication and its regulation in Escherichia coli, protein-DNA interactions.

Lee Kroos (Ph.D., Stanford), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Regulation of gene expression during development; prokaryotic RNA polymerases and regulatory proteins; Bacillus sporulation; cell-cell interactions in Myxococcus.

Veronica M. Maher (Ph.D., Wisconsin), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Mechanisms of chemical- and radiation-induced and genetic recombination in human cells; DNA repair: role of oncogenes in transformation.

J. Justin McCormick (Ph.D., Catholic University of America), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms of the chemical- and radiation--induced malignant transformation of human cells and the role of oncogenes in transformation..

Thomas M. Schmidt (Ph.D., Ohio State), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Microbial ecology and evolution. Analysis of microbial diversity in the environment using molecular techniques.

Barbara Sears (Ph.D., Duke Univ.), PLANT BIOLOGY - Genetics of replication, recombination, and repair in plant organelles.

Shin-Han Shiu (Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), PLANT BIOLOGY - Evolution of duplicate genes; identifying novel genes and novel cis-regulatory elements.

Loren R. Snyder (Ph.D., Chicago), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Use of specific enzymes of bacteriophage defense mechanisms to study cellular regulation.

Suzanne M. Thiem (Ph.D., Idaho), ENTOMOLOGY - Molecular biology and genetics of baculoviruses; viral pathogenesis.

Michael F. Thomashow (Ph.D., UCLA), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Regulation and function of genes induced in response to environmental stresses.

Steven J. Triezenberg (Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Eukaryotic gene regulation; transcriptional activation; herpesviruses; plant chromatin and histone acetylation.  

Steven R. van Nocker (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), HORTICULTURE - Plant molecular biology; genetics of flowering regulation; DNA methylation.

Donna H. Wang (M.D., Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, China), MEDICINE - Study of salt-sensitive hypertension using a combination of molecular, cellular, and functional genomics approaches.