Department members' research projects include gene expression and regulation, the cell cycle, signal transduction, developmental biology, microbial pathogenesis, immunology, DNA transposition, telomeres, RNA catalysis and the molecular biology of vision and olfaction. Many faculty members are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Former faculty members Hamilton Smith and the late Daniel Nathans received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery and use of site-specific restriction enzymes. Faculty participate in eight School of Medicine graduate programs.
Director
Carol Widney Greider, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Oncology
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Professor of Oncology
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Research Interests:
Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer and age related degenerative disease
Jeffry L. Corden, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Research Interests:
RNA polymerase II phosphorylation and transcription regulation
Brendan P. Cormack, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Director, Infectious Disease, Translational Science Intersessions
Director, Infectious Disease, Translational Science Intersessions
Research Interests:
Fungal pathogenesis
Rachel Green, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Research Interests:
In vitro selection approaches, Mechanism of translation, Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), Ribosomes
Andrew Jon Holland, M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Associate Professor of Oncology
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests:
Cell cycle control, Genome instability, Chromosome segregation.
Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of visual system development, function and disease
Sergi Regot, M.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Assistant Professor of Oncology
Assistant Professor of Oncology
Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery
Vice Dean for Basic Research
Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery
Vice Dean for Basic Research
Research Interests:
RNA granules, phase transition, intrinsically-disordered proteins, genome engineering
