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Overview of Genetics Focus Areas at
The University of Arizona

This list is meant to be neither exhaustive nor exclusive, but rather to give prospective graduate students an understanding of the areas under research. For a complete faculty listing and more detailed research descriptions, as well as links to faculty web pages, see the Faculty page.

Plant Genetics

Vicki Chandler
Marc Orbach
David Mount
Sandy Pierson
Hans Van Etten
Ramin Yadegari

Congratulations to Atlantis Russ (Hawaii) and Jason Pugh (Arizona), who will be joining the Genetics GIDP as doctoral students in fall 2008. Both were also awarded a prestigious Science Foundation Arizona Fellowship, which will support the first two years of their education.

(Re)Newed Course fall 2008: GENE 533, Human Genetics. A team taught, 3 unit course covering basic genetic theory and techniques, as applied to the human species, as well as methods of analysis of genetic and environmental variation among individuals and populations.

Genetics Faculty in the News: Dr. Fernando Martinez, Dr. Joyce Schroeder, & Dr. Cari Soderlund.

Human Genetics

Murray Brilliant
Linda Restifo
Donata Vercelli
Qin Chen
Chris Cunniff
Robert Erickson
Michael Hammer
Randall Heidenreich
Jesse Martinez
John Meaney

Population Genetics

Bruce Walsh
C. William Birky, Jr.
Melanie Culver
Jennifer Hall

Model Systems

Carol Dieckmann (yeast)
Murray Brilliant
Linda Restifo
Melanie Culver
Michael Hammer
John Little
Roy Parker (yeast)

Genomics/Bioinformatics

Cari Soderlund
David Mount
Bruce Walsh

Our faculty members hold appointments in the following departments, and their websites have additional research information:

Arizona Respiratory Center
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology & Anatomy
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Natural Resources
Neuroscience
Plant Pathology
Plant Sciences
Pediatrics
Pharmacology