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School of Life Sciences
Genomics, Evolution and Bioinformatics
This faculty group focuses research and education on empirical, experimental, computational and theoretical studies of the patterns and processes that shape the diversity of genomes and their products.
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Professor
Dr. Anderson is a tumor biologist who studies how the immune system can be harnessed to detect and alter cancer development.
480-965-6982
Biodesign A220A 1001 S. McAllister Ave
Professor
Buetow is a human genetics and genomics researcher who leverages computational tools to understand complex traits such as cancer, liver disease, and obesity.
480-727-9413
Associate Professor
Cadillo-Quiroz studies how microbes participate in ecosystem and applied processes.
480-965-4482
LSE 723 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Assistant Professor
Cartwright is a geneticist who develops computational and statistical methodologies to explore evolutionary questions.
480-965-9949
Professor
Chang is an immunologist who studies the development and function of the immune system and uses DNA nanostructure to design and construct more useful vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents.
480-965-8672
BIODESIGN BLDG A
Professor and Biocollections Director
Franz is an insect systematist who specializes in New World weevil diversity and evolution. He curates the Hasbrouck Insect Collection and directs the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) and ASU Biocollections.
480-965-2036
Natural History Collections, Alameda Building AB 145
Professor and Center Director
Garcia-Pichel is the dean of natural sciences for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He studies the roles, adaptations and impacts of microbes in natural environments, from desert soils to shallow marine waters.
480-727-7534
LSE 218
Assistant Professor
Gile is an evolutionary microbiologist who studies single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and symbiosis.
480-727-4761
Asst Professor
The Harris lab uses genetic, molecular and imaging techniques to explore the genetics that underlie regeneration, and how we can improve the ability to repair and re-grow tissues after they're damaged.
480-965-7543
LSE 342 (Lab), LSE 333 (Office)
Professor
Jensen is a population geneticist who develops population genetic theory and statistical methodology for describing and quantifying evolutionary processes in both natural and experimental populations.
Center for Evolution & Medicine LSC 222
Professor, Associate Dean and Director
Director of the School of Life Sciences and associate dean for strategic partnerships in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Kusumi's research focuses on vertebrate genomics.
480-965-9215
Life Sciences E-wing, Room 219, 427 E Tyler Mall
Associate Professor
Lake is a cellular and molecular immunologist who is working on biologic inhibitors of tumor cell metastasis. He is also developing a new test for Valley Fever that provides a diagnosis for patients with acute disease.
480-301-4993
Mayo Clinic Collaborative Research Bldg Room 2-113
Center Director & Professor
Michael Lynch's research focuses on mechanisms of evolution at the gene, genomic, cellular, and phenotypic levels, with special attention being given to the roles of mutation, random genetic drift, and recombination.
Associate Professor
Mangone is interested in study how eukaryotic RNA transcription is terminated and how the messenger RNA is regulated on its way to the expression into proteins, using the wound worm C. elegans as model system.
480-965-7957
BDA 220F
Associate Professor
Newbern's research is centered on developmental neuroscience. His laboratory studies the biochemical mechanisms that direct the formation of the brain and spinal cord.
480-727-3120
ISTB1 Rm 320 Arizona State University
Associate Professor
Oddo focuses his research on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease.
480-727-3490
Assistant Professor
Susanne Pfeifer is a computational evolutionary biologist who studies genetic and evolutionary processes by combining large-scale, high-throughput sequence data analysis, model-based statistical inference, and modeling.
480-727-1553
School of Life Sciences LSC 340
Associate Professor
Rawls is an associate professor of genomics, evolution and bioinformatics in the School of Life Sciences and executive director of clinical partnerships in the Office of the University Provost.
480-727-6676
Office of Clinical Partnerships INTDSA, rm A121
Assistant Professor
Geiler-Samerotte is an assistant professor in the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution and School of Life Sciences. Her lab investigates how basic features of cells influence the way those cells can evolve.
1001 S McAllister Ave Biodesign C
Associate Professor
Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.
480-727-2093
Foundation Professor and SoLS Associate Director
Vermaas and his team conduct basic and applied research on cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic microbes, using these organisms as a chassis to produce useful compounds (biofuels, green chemicals) from sunlight and CO2.
480-965-6250
LSE 549
Assistant Professor
Wang is an applied microbiologist, working at the interface between microbial genetics and metabolic engineering to develop new microbial production processes.
480-965-7789
LSE 523 427 E. Tyler Mall
Assistant Professor
Wilson is a computational evolutionary biologist studying sex-biased processes including human and non-human health and disease.
480-727-6366
Associate Professor
Wilson-Rawls' research focuses on understanding the regulation of cell fate during development and regeneration with an emphasis on skeletal muscle stem cells and gametogenesis.
480-727-6675
LSC 550
Associate Professor and Associate Dean
Martin Wojciechowski is an evolutionary biologist who studies plants, with an emphasis on the genomics, biogeography, and phylogenetics of legumes (family Leguminosae) and cacti (family Cactaceae).
480-727-7767
Office LSE 711
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