Faculty Directory

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Name	Primary Focus Group	Secondary Focus Group	Faculty Department	Research Interest
Zhao, Xinyu Faculty xzhao69@wisc.edu Website	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Transcriptional Mechanisms	Neuroscience	Epigenetic regulation, neural stem cells, neurodevelopment, noncoding RNA, RNA binding protein, learning and memory
Zhang, Jing Faculty zhang@oncology.wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Oncology	Hematopoietic stem cell, leukemic stem cell, cytokine signaling
Zhang, Su-Chun Faculty zhang@waisman.wisc.edu Website	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine		Neuroscience	Neural pathway of human embryonic stem cells
Yin, Jerry Faculty, Alumni jcyin@wisc.edu Website	Transcriptional Mechanisms	RNA	Genetics	Cellular/molecular mechanisms of memory formation and psychiatric dysfunction
Yin, John Faculty yin@engr.wisc.edu Website	Virology	Transcriptional Mechanisms	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Molecular virology, systems biology, biotechnology
Yen, Eric Faculty yen@nutrisci.wisc.edu Website	Molecular Metabolism	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Biology	Nutritional Sciences	Intestine, assimilation of dietary fat, and energy balance
Xu, Wei Faculty wxu@oncology.wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Transcriptional Mechanisms	Oncology	Epigenetic control of estrogen receptor (ER) regulated transcription
Xing, Yongna Faculty xing@oncology.wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Immunology	Oncology	Cell signaling related to caner, structural biology, biochemistry, proteomics.
Woods, Jon Faculty jpwoods@wisc.edu Website	Immunology		Medical Microbiology	Fungal pathogenesis, gene regulation, and host interactions
Wildonger, Jill Faculty wildonger@wisc.edu Website	Membrane Biology & Protein Trafficking	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton	Biochemistry	Microtubule-based transport in developing neurons
Wickens, Marvin Faculty wickens@biochem.wisc.edu Website	RNA		Biochemistry	RNA and gene control; role of RNA regulation in development and the nervous system
Wheeler, Deric Faculty dlwheeler@wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Membrane Biology & Protein Trafficking	Human Oncology	Mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies
Weibel, Douglas Faculty weibel@biochem.wisc.edu Website	Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton	Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes	Biochemistry	Microbial cell biology and engineering
Weaver, Beth Faculty baweaver@wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton	Cell & Regenerative Biology	Mitosis, chromosome segregation, aneuploidy and cancer
Watters, Jyoti Faculty jjwatters@wisc.edu Website	Immunology	Transcriptional Mechanisms	Comparative Biosciences	Signal transduction in microglia by extracellular ATP and estrogens
Wassarman, David Faculty dawassarman@facstaff.wisc.edu Website	Transcriptional Mechanisms		Cell & Regenerative Biology	Transcriptional regulation in Drosophila
Wassarman, Karen Faculty wassarman@bact.wisc.edu Website	RNA	Transcriptional Mechanisms, Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes	Bacteriology	Small RNA regulation of gene expression
Vierstra, Richard Faculty vierstra@wisc.edu Website	Plant Biology	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Genetics	Protein degradation in plants; functions of the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway; plant photomorphogenesis and phytochrome
Tibbetts, Randal Faculty rstibbetts@facstaff.wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology		Human Oncology	DNA damage responses, genetic instability, ataxia-telangiectasia and PI3 kinase-related kinases
Thomson, James Faculty jthomson@morgridgeinstitute.org Website	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine		Cell & Regenerative Biology	Human ES cells and the biology of pluripotency
Svaren, John Faculty jpsvaren@wisc.edu Website	Transcriptional Mechanisms		Comparative Biosciences	Transcriptional regulation of peripheral nerve myelination
Sussman, Michael Faculty msussman@wisc.edu Website	Plant Biology	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Biochemistry	Genome technologies applied to the plasma membrane of eukaryotes: signal transduction and bioenergetics
Suresh, M. Faculty sureshm@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu Website	Immunology	Virology	Pathobiological Sciences	T cell responses to viral infections
Sun, Xin Faculty xsun@wisc.edu Website	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine		Genetics	Molecular genetics of vertebrate organogenesis
Sugden, William Faculty sugden@oncology.wisc.edu Website	Cancer Biology	Virology	Oncology	Molecular biology of transforming functions of Epstein-Barr virus
Striker, Robert Faculty rtstriker@wisc.edu Website	Virology	Cancer Biology	Medicine	Biochemistry and genetics of Flaviviridae replication
Stretton, Antony Faculty aostrett@facstaff.wisc.edu Website	Membrane Biology & Protein Trafficking		Zoology	Nematode neurobiology
Sridharan, Rupa Faculty rsridharan@discovery.wisc.edu Website	Transcriptional Mechanisms		Cell & Regenerative Biology	Epigenetics, Somatic cell reprogramming, Cell fate change
Splitter, Gary Faculty gas@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu Website	Immunology	Virology	Pathobiological Sciences	Molecular mechanisms of host defense and pathogen survival strategies
Spalding, Edgar Faculty spalding@facstaff.wisc.edu Website	Plant Biology	Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Botany	Plant functional genomics and physiology