Garland Allen

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Allen is a historian of science. The major focus of his present research is on the history of genetics and its relationship to eugenics and agriculture in the United States between 1900 and 1950. In addition to an interest in Mendelian genetics, agriculturists and eugenicists also believed that the ...

Chase

Jonathan M. Chase, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the university's Tyson Research Center, focuses his research on the rules (or lack thereof) underlying the diversity, distribution, and abundance of animal and plant species from the population/community/ecosystem ...

Criss

Criss specializes in hydrogeology, the geology of water and systems of water. Much of his work has an environmental slant. He investigates the transport of aqueous fluids in environments such as rivers, cool potable groundwater systems essential to civilization, and deeper, hotter hydrothermal systems. ...

Roy Curtiss

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Has developed a Salmonella-based oral vaccine for livestock that can free animals from the virulent strain of Salmonella that causes food-poisoning in humans. His vaccine has received FDA approval for swine and poultry and is on the market. Curtiss also has obtained patents for the use of transgenic ...

Sarah Elgin

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A highly respected developmental biologist, Sarah C.R. Elgin has spearheaded a drive in St. Louis to share the Washington University science faculty expertise with area elementary and secondary school science programs. She organized the Washington University/University City Science Education Partnership ...

Ursula Goodenough

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Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served ...

The circadian system of unicellular and multicellular organisms is a biological timekeeper that coordinates most physiological and hebavioral events on a daily schedule. The primary interest in Herzog's laboratory is the cellular and molecular basis for circadian rhythms, or our bilogical clocks. ...

Knight

Knight is an ecologist who studies the population ecology of rare and invasive plant species, and addresses questions related to the causes and consequences of their abundances and distributions. Why are some species rare, while their closely related congeners are widespread? How does dispersal ability ...

Barbara Kunkel

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Kunkel is part of a research team that has discovered a brand new class of disease resistance genes in a model plant. The breakthrough is akin to finding the components of the immune system in humans. It is one of the biggest accomplishments in plant science in recent years. It offers plant breeders ...

Losos

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The primary focus of the Losos Lab is on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards. Major questions concern how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard lineages have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional ...

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Alan Templeton

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Templeton applies molecular genetic techniques and statistical population genetics to a variety of problems in evolutionary and conservation biology. He explores natural selection in various species, genetic variability, the role of lipid metabolic genes in coronary artery disease in humans, and the ...

Karen Wooley

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Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D, professor of chemistry, has done important research in polymers and nanoparticles. Her interests include bioorganic chemistry; nanotechnology; material science; and atomic force microscopy. These interests are broadly focused upon the design, synthesis and characterization ...

Yin

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Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...