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 ...

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. ...

Ho

Has discovered a single gene in barley that controls several traits--height, maturity, drought resistance and strength. Moreover, he has genetically engineered a molecular switch that could turn on the process of such a gene. Impacts on agriculture could be immense. American farmers could save more ...

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 ...

Walter Lewis

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Lewis is an internationally known ethnobotanist who has made the importance of preserving the Latin American rain forest abundantly clear to worldwide publics. He and his wife, Memory, have brought back hundreds of novel plants from the rain forest and have worked hand-in-hand with one of the most ...

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 ...

Barbara Schaal

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Barbara A. Schaal's reserach investigates the evolutionary process within plant populations using a wide variety of techniques, from field observations to quantitative genetics and molecular biology. Schaal has studied hosts of plant species ranging from oak trees to Mead's milkweed, a midwestern ...

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 ...