Department of Genetics & Development  Faculty

Ed Laufer

Molecular genetic analysis of vertebrate pattern formation.
elaufer@columbia.edu
 

Virginia E. Papaioannou
Genetic control of mammalian development from peri-implantation stages through organogenesis; determination of the role of T-box genes in development, using embryonic stem-cell technology and targeted mutagenesis.
vep1@columbia.edu
 

Rodney Rothstein
Yeast genetics and cell biology cellular responses to DNA damage; recombination; control of genome stability.
rothstein@cancercenter.columbia.edu
 

Eric A. Schon
Molecular genetics of neurological and neuromuscular disorders with focus on mitochondrial genetics and diseases.
eas3@columbia.edu
 

Gary Struhl
Developmental genetics in Drosophila.
gs20@columbia.edu
 

Joseph Terwilliger
Population genetic epidemiology and gene mapping.
jdt3@columbia.edu

Andrew Tomlinson
Cellular interactions in Drosophila development.
at41@columbia.edu
 

Dorothy Warburton
Human cytogenetics and molecular cytogenetics; epidemiology of congenital malformations and miscarriages; human gene mapping.
dw9@columbia.edu
 

I. Bernard Weinstein
Molecular biology of cancer; genetic toxicology; signal transduction.
ibw1@.columbia.edu
 

Debra J. Wolgemuth
Molecular developmental genetics of mammalian gametogenesis and embryogenesis; regulation of the cell cycle during germ cell mitosis and meiosis: role of cyclin A1 in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis.
djw3@columbia.edu
 
 

Adjunct Faculty in Genetics and Development

T. Conrad Gilliam
Human genetics; disease gene mapping and characterization; multigenic inheritance.
cgilliam@bsd.uchicago.edu

Jurg Ott
Laboratory of Statistical genetics, Rockefeller University
Human linkage analysis.
ott@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
 

Claudio D. Stern
Early embryonic development and control of pattern formation at cellular and molecular levels.
c.stern@ucl.ac.uk
 

Leonardus H.T. Van der Ploeg
Merck Research Laboratories
Mechanism-based drug research in human health.
lex_van_der_ploeg@merck.com
 

Michael H.Wigler
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Genetic approaches to understanding growth control.
wigler@cshl.org
 
 

Additional Genetics Training Faculty

Jane Dodd
Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Neuronal differentiation and axonal patterning in the developing vertebrate central nervous system.
jd18@columbia.edu
 

Max E. Gottesman
Biochemistry and Microbiology Departments
Gene regulation and protein folding in the bacterium Escherichia coli and in temperate coli phages; differentiation and oncogenesis in thyroid cells; retinoic acid metabolism in the mouse.
meg8@columbia.edu
   

Iva Greenwald
Biochemistry Department
Cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development.
isg4@columbia.edu
 

Oliver Hobert
Biochemistry Department
Genetic programs that control neural development in C.elegans
or38@columbia.edu

Thomas Jessell
Biochemistry Department
Molecular mechanisms of neural differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in vertebrate development.
tmj1@columbia.edu
 

Richard S. Mann
Biochemistry Department
Development in Drosophila menalogaster
rsm10@columbia.edu
 

Aaron P. Mitchell
Microbiology Department
Molecular genetics of meiosis and its regulation in yeast.
apm4@columbia.edu