Research Faculty
Leighton Core
Assistant Professor; PhD
RNA transcription and processing; maintenance of cellular states; genomic techniques and bioinformatics
Core Lab Website
Kenneth Campellone
Associate Professor; PhD
Inherited diseases; genetic modifiers of disease; aging, autophagy, and apoptosis
Campellone Lab Website
Jelena Erceg
Assistant Professor; PhD
4D genome architecture, functional genomics, epi/genetics, gene regulation, developmental biology, evolution
Erceg Website
Stacey Hanlon
Assistant Professor; PhD
B chromosome biology - Meiotic drive in Drosophila - Chromosome segregation dynamics during meiosis
Hanlon Lab
Barbara Mellone
Professor; PhD
Genome inheritance and stability, chromosome dynamics during cell division, epigenetics
Mellone Lab Website
Craig Nelson
Associate Professor, PhD
Molecular biological, genetic, genomic, and computational analysis of the evolution of developmental processes and organismal complexity. Nelson Lab Website
Michael O’Neill
Associate Professor; PhD
Molecular genetics of vertebrate development; molecular mechanisms of genomic imprinting; evolution of genomic imprinting; genetics of imprinting and behavior
Rachel O’Neill
Professor; PhD
Genome stability; cancer genomics; genome function, evolution, and remodeling; retroelements; epigenetics
O'Neill Lab Website
Ping Zhang
Associate Professor; PhD
Drosophila chromosome structure and function; P element insertional mutagenesis; unusual transcriptional regulation of heterochromatin; Y chromosome genes required for spermatogenesis.
Teaching Faculty
Dylan Audette
Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Hartford
Teaches in the fields of biology and genetics
Mark Longo
Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Teaches in the field of genetics, bioinformatics and RNA biology
Colleen Spurling
Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Teaches in the field of genetics, genomics, and forensics
Emeritus
Linda Strausbaugh
Professor Emeritus, PhD
Structure, function, and evolution of multigene families; fungal communities in human health and disease; historical and forensic genetics.