Neal Band (Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley), ZOOLOGY - Gene expression in differentiation and virulence of amoebae.

Helmut Bertrand (Ph.D., Kansas State), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Genetic regulation of the division and metabolic activity of mitochondria.

Zachary Burton (Ph.D., UCLA), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Regulation of promoter selection by RNA polymerase II; RNA polymerase II-associating proteins; molecular cloning of transcription factors; protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions.

Christina Chan (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennslyvania), CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE - Signal transduction and crosstalk between apoptosis and insulin signaling, i.e. PKR signaling; identifying patheays for drug targets in liver diseases,Aalzhiemer's disease and cancer using experimental and computational techniques

Alex Chen (Ph.D., Southern Illinois), PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY - Cell and molecular vascular biology and disease, including cell- and gene-based therapies of vascular dysfunction in rodent models of human hypertension and diabetes.

Kate J. Claycombe (Ph.D., Univ. of Tennessee), FOOD SCIENCE & HUMAN NUTRITION/NUTRITIONAL IMMUNOLOGY - Effects of nutrients on immune dysfunction in Type II diabetes.

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.

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.

R. William Henry - (Ph.D., Univ. of Alberta), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes; functions and architecture of basal transcription machinery; molecular determination of RNA polymerase specificity.

Donald Jump (Ph.D., Georgetown), PHYSIOLOGY - Molecular endocrinology; liver gene expression.

Laurie Kaguni (Ph.D. UCLA), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Mitochondrial molecular biology and enzymology; regulation of mitochondrial replication and expression during Drosophila development.

Will Kopachik (Ph.D., Princeton), ZOOLOGY - Gene expression in prostate gland development; transcription factors in development.

Donna J. Koslowsky (Ph.D., Washington), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Developmental regulation of mitochondrial RNA editing and processing in the parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma bruceili.

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.

Min-Hao Kuo - (Ph.D., University of Rochester), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Transcriptional activation and dynamic chromatin
modifications, in particular, histone acetylation.

Laura McCabe - (Ph.D., Chicago), PHYSIOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms regulating bone and intestinal cell differentiation.

Richard J. Miksicek (Ph.D., University of Minnesota), PHYSIOLOGY - Molecular endocrinology and breast cancer; steroid hormone receptors; gene expression.

L. Karl Olson (Ph.D., Minnesota), PHYSIOLOGY - Molecular endocrinology; regulation of pancreatic beta cell gene expression.

Ronald J. Patterson (Ph.D., Northwestern), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Cell biology; role of galactins in pre-mRNA splicing.

Richard C. Schwartz (Ph.D., MIT), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Transcriptional regulation of inflammation; hematopoietic differentiation; oncogenesis and regulation of cell growth.

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

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.  

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.

Hongbing Wang (Ph.D., UCLA), NEUROSCIENCE - Cyclic AMP signaling and neuroplasticity.

Robert W. Wiseman (Ph.D., Florida State University), PHYSIOLOGY AND RADIOLOGY - Muscle function, metabolism, gene expression; adaptations to metabolic stress.

Chengfeng Yang (Ph.D., Singapore), PHYSIOLOGY & VETERINARY MEDICINE - Growth factors and hormones-mediated tyrosine kinase and the small Rho GTPase signaling in cancer development and progression. 

Tim R. Zacharewski (Ph.D., Texas A&M), BIOCHEMISTRY AND NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY & TOXICOLOGY CENTER) - Molecular and biochemical toxicology; gene expression; endocrine disruption; functional genomics.

Maija H. Zile (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), FOOD SCIENCE AND HUMAN NUTRITION - Retinoid-regulated development in avian embryo; expression of cardiogenic and asymmetry genes.