Faculty

Dirk Bohmann
Director, UR Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Professor of Genetics
Research interests: The biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics of signal-transducing transcription factors and their role in development and disease

Wei Hsu
Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics in The Center for Oral Biology
Research interests: Genetic Regulatory Circuits in Development and Disease

Rulang Jiang
Professor of Biomedical Genetics in The Center for Oral Biology
Research interests: Molecular Genetic Basis of Craniofacial Development and Birth Defects

Yu Lan
Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics in The Center for Oral Biology
Research interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Mammalian Palate Development

Hartmut Land
Robert & Dorothy Markin Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Genetics,
Scientific Director, James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
Research interests: The molecular basis of oncogene co-operation, cell cycle control and signal integration mechanisms

Willis Li
Associate Professor of Genetics
Research interests: Signal Transduction and Epigenetic Regulation

Margot Mayer-Pröschel
Associate Professor of Genetics
Research interests: Stem Cells in the CNS

Mark D. Noble
Director, UR Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute
Professor of Genetics
Research interests: Neural Development and Neoplasia

Catherine Ovitt
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics in The Center for Oral Biology
Research interests: Application of Mouse Genetics to the Analysis of Genes Involved in Salivary Gland

Douglas Portman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics in The Center for Aging and Development biology.
Research interests: Genetics and Genomics of Nervous System Development in the Nematode C. elegans

Christoph Pröschel
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research interests: Astrocyte development and White Matter Disease

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Andrew Samuelson
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Research interests: Functional genomics and genetics of aging in c. elegans

Lei Xu
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research Interests: Mechanism of metastasis

Zunyi Zhang
Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Research interests: Genetic and developmental control of mammalian dentition pattern

Jiyong Zhao
Associate Professor of Genetics
Research interests: Control of cell cycle progression and genome stability; pathways for B-lymphoma cell survival

Contact Us

Department of Biomedical Genetics
University of Rochester
Box 633
601 Elmwood Ave.
Rochester, NY 14642

Main Office: MRB 2-9633
585-273-1441
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Affiliated Research Units

Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

UR Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute

James P. Wilmot Cancer Center