Brad A. Amendt, PhD

• Mouse models for craniofacial anomalies
• Transcriptional gene networks for craniofacial and tooth development
• New approaches and mouse models for microRNA function
• The role of Hippo Signaling in craniofacial growth

Botond Banfi, MD, PhD

• NADPH oxidase regulation in hair-cell development in the inner ear 

Robert Cornell, PhD

• Use of zebrafish as a model to understand the gene-regulatory pathways that establish and maintain neural-crest lineages
• Mechanisms affected by those disruptions of the ion channel TRPM7 that cause melanocyte death and embryonic paralysis
• Roles of transcription factor AP-2 proteins in neural-crest specification and survival
• Role of transcription factor Irf6 in normal craniofacial development

Martine Dunnwald PharmD, PhD

• In vivo function of novel cleft-associated genes in craniofacial development
• Role of cleft-associated genes in epidermal development and differentiation

John F. Engelhardt, PhD 

• Transcriptional control of submucosal-gland formation in the airway
• Somatic-cell reprogramming by nuclear transfer and the development of new genetic models

C. Andrew Frank, PhD

• Development of the Drosophila neuromuscular junction in the context of unstable synaptic function

Fang Lin, MD, PhD

• Investigation of G protein signaling in zebrafish embryogenesis

Hank Qi, MD, PhD

•  Histone modifications and signaling pathways in craniofacial development using PHF8 knockout mouse model

 Tina Tootle, PhD

• Use of Drosophila, in particular oogenesis, to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying prostaglandin action