Paul Ahlquist

Molecular mechanisms of viral replication, host interactions and oncogenesis

Aseem Ansari

Chemical approaches to dissect and direct the genome decoding machinery

David Brow

Mechanism of DNA transciption and RNA splicing

Elizabeth Craig

Genetics of environmental stress; protein translocation and folding

Michael Culbertson

Yeast genetics

Catherine Fox

The role of chromosome structure in gene expression and DNA replication

Warren Heidman

Using the yeast S. cerevisiae to understand how cells move from quiescence to growth

Thomas Jeffries

Bioconversion of renewable resources; metabolic engineering of pentose fermenting yeasts

Eric Johnson

Clostridium botulinum and its toxins; food and industrial microbiology

Ching Kung

Microbial ion channel proteins

Sean Palecek

Genetics of fungal adhesion and biofilm formation; yeast dimorphism