Prospective applicants should request the booklet Graduate Studies in Biological Sciences from the department. This essential material has been excerpted from a current Peterson's print publication. You will find significant additional information in a Peterson's graduate guide . Studies use the absorption organelles of phages to address the question of how the process of assembly is controlled at the molecular level. One interest is the structure and function characterization of such molecules and correlation to physiological responses such as inflammation, hypersensitivity, and epithelial cell loss.
Research is aimed at understanding morphogenesis in developing multicellular animals.
Current work is focused on the morphogenesis of the primary mesenchyme cells and in cell-cell interactions that regulate the choice of cell fates during embryogenesis in the sea urchin embryo. The analysis of phospholipid synthesis in the laboratory involves studies of cytoplasmic and membrane-associated enzymes. Chlamydomonas represents an excellent model system because, both in structure and function, its centrioles and flagella closely resemble the homologous organelles of most other eukaryotes, including humans. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is amenable to genetic, biochemical, molecular biological, and cell biological analysis. The common ground is the use of high-resolution light microscopy in the study of motile function in live cells and in reconstituted model systems.