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Cheeptip Benyajati

Benyajati, Cheeptip

Associate Professor

Director of Student Relations for Biology

Office Location
474 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-8040

Interests: Regulation of gene expression during development of Drosophila; Transcription, chromatin structure, and mechanisms of developmental chromatin structure remodeling

Xin Bi

Bi, Xin

he/him/his

Professor

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Office Location
307 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-6922

Interests: Epigenetic regulation of eukaryotic gene expression; Structural and functional domains of the genome; Chromatin boundary elements; Gene silencing; DNA damage repair and tolerance

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Bickel, Ryan

Professor of Instruction

Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine

Office Location
486 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-7226
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Brisson, Jennifer

she/her/hers

Professor

Research Active

Office Location
310 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-8392
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Interests: Evolution of morphology; Molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity; Evolution and development in the pea aphid; The role of epigenetics in polyphenism

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Chen, Nancy

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Assistant Professor

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Office Location
477 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-7149
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Interests: Population genetics with pedigrees; Contemporary evolution in natural populations; Evolutionary genetics; Conservation genomics; Avian genomics

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Fay, Justin

Professor

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Office Location
319 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-2998
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Interests: Evolutionary genetics; Domestication of yeast; Comparative genomics; Gene regulation

James Fry

Fry, James D

Associate Professor

Director of the Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine

Research Active

Office Location
318 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-7835

Interests: Genetics of ecological adaptation in Drosophila; Evolutionary effects of deleterious mutations; Quantitative-genetic theory and methodology

Dragony Fu

Fu, Dragony

Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor

Professor of Biology

Director, Graduate Affairs and Admissions in Biology

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Office Location
333 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-3346
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Interests: Biological functions of RNA modifications; Human disorders linked to RNA modifications; Regulation of protein synthesis

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Sina Ghaemmaghami

Ghaemmaghami, Sina

George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry

Professor of Biology

Director, Undergraduate Research

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Office Location
326A Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-4829
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Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics

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Glastad, Karl

Assistant Professor

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Office Location
460 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-4891
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Interests: Gene regulation, hormonal signalling, molecular and cellular determinants of aging and lifespan; Mechanisms and evolution of plasticity; Arthropod genomics; Video games

Vera Gorbunova

Gorbunova, Vera

Doris Johns Cherry Professor

Professor of Biology

Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center

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Office Location
434 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-7740
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Interests: Mechanisms of aging; Comparative biology of aging; Comparative biology of aging; DNA repair and genomic instability; Anticancer therapy

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Hibbins, Mark

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Assistant Professor

Coming July 2025

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Interests: Phylogenomics; Phylogenetic methods; Hybridization and introgression; Genome evolution; Evolution of gene regulation; Convergent evolution; Computational biology

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Holz, Jonathan

he/him/his

Professor of Instruction

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Office Location
483 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-8973

Interests: Pedagogy; Open educational resources; Equity in education; Physiology, Anatomy, Toxicology

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J. David Lambert

Lambert, J. David

Professor

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Office Location
344 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-2482
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Interests: The evolution of developmental mechanisms; Early patterning in molluscs and related groups; Cytoskeletal basis of asymmetric cell divisions; Evolution of novel phenotypes

Amanda Larracuente

Larracuente, Amanda

she/her/hers

Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor of Biology

Professor of Biology

Associate Chair, Department of Biology

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Office Location
343 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-1693
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Interests: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Intragenomic conflict and the evolution of selfish DNA; Evolutionary and functional genomics of satellite DNA; Sex chromosome and dot chromosome evolution in Drosophila; Centromere organization and evolution

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Meyer, Anne S.

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Associate Professor

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Office Location
472 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-9290
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Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; Survival strategies of bacteria; Organization of bacterial DNA

Robert L. Minckley

Minckley, Robert L.

Professor of Instruction

Research Active

Office Location
446 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-0272
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Interests: Ecology and evolution of host breadth in bees; Community structure of desert bees; Conservation biology of pollinators

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Murphy, Patrick J.

Assistant Professor

Office Location
2-9619 KMRB
Telephone
(585) 275-0113
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Interests: Regulation of vertebrate gene transcription in vivo; Epigenetics and chromatin; Zebrafish genetics and genomics; Developmental cell state transitions; Bioinformatics

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Allen Orr

Orr, H. Allen

Shirley Cox Kearns Professor

Professor of Biology

Office Location
342 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-3838
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Interests: Genetics of speciation in Drosophila; Genetics and theory of adaptation; Population genetics

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Peter, Benjamin

he/him/his

Assistant Professor

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Office Location
478 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-2634
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Interests: Population genetics; Evolutionary genetics; Human genetic history; Ancient DNA; Population structure

Douglas Portman

Portman, Douglas

Professor

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Office Location
2-9647 KMRB
Telephone
(585) 275-7414
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Interests: Genetics of development and behavior in C. elegans; Neural cell fate specification; Sex differences in neural circuit function; Sexual dimorphism in developmental patterning

Daven C. Presgraves

Presgraves, Daven C.

Dean's Professor

Professor of Biology

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Office Location
481 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-0925
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Interests: Evolutionary genetics ; Speciation genetics; Molecular population genetics; Selfish gene complexes

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Andrei Seluanov

Seluanov, Andrei

Professor

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Office Location
432 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-6636
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Interests: Molecular and cell biology; Tumor suppressor mechanisms in log-lived rodents the Naked Mole-Rat and Eastern Grey Squirrel; Mammalian Sirt proteins in regulation of stress response during aging; Anti-cancer mechanisms in whales

Elaine Sia

Sia, Elaine

she/her/hers

Professor

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Not Research Active

Office Location
334A Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-9275

Interests: Molecular biology and genetics; Mutagenesis and repair of the mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Uy, J. Albert C.

Professor and Chair

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Office Location
450 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-1309
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Interests: Evolutionary Ecology; Behavioral Ecology; Evolutionary Genetics; Speciation; Conservation

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Uy, Floria Mora-Kepfer

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

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Office Location
332 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-3305
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Interests: Evolution of sociality; Neuroethology; Host-parasite interactions; Behavioral Ecology; Conservation

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Wang, Ning

Assistant Professor

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Office Location
436 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-3890
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Interests: Cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics; Organelle biogenesis; Organelle degradation through selective autophagy; Organelle aging and neurodegeneration

Michael Welte

Welte, Michael

he/him/his

Professor

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Office Location
317 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-3897
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Interests: Cell and developmental biology; Intracellular trafficking of proteins, RNAs, and organelles; Regulation of motor-driven transport; Cell biology of lipid droplets; Lipid droplets in protein sequestration and innate immunity

John H. Werren

Werren, John H.

Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor Emeritus of Biology

Research Professor

Office Location
306 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-3694

Interests: Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and proteomics. The unifying theme is how interacting elements shape systems at different levels of biological organization. A current research project focuses on combining computational and molecular evolutionary approaches to investigate protein function and protein-protein interactions relevant to biology and disease. Other research topics include the genetics of speciation, nuclear-mitochondrial coevolution, microbe-host interactions, and parasitism across biological levels.