Faculty Research

Our Faculty

The research interests of the genetics faculty span a wide variety of important and cutting-edge areas of genetics and genomics and include cancer, cellular, computational, developmental, evolutionary, expression regulation, molecular, neuropsychiatric, population, reproductive, statistical, epigenetics, and neurogenetics. Research is being conducted in humans, mice, zebrafish, fruit flies, nematodes, yeast, and bacteria. We also have faculty working in computational and statistical genetics and bioinformatics. For a complete faculty listing and detailed research descriptions, see our faculty list.

Members of the faculty have received competitive research grants from several institutes within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as the State of New Jersey and numerous private foundations such as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks, the March of Dimes, and many others.

Title	Position	Email	Research Focus
David Axelrod	Professor	daxelrod@rutgers.edu	Cell and Molecular Oncology. Breast Cancer. Colon Cancer
Marco Azaro	Assistant Research Professor	azaro@rutgers.edu
Maureen Barr	Distinguished Professor	mmbarr@rutgers.edu	Modeling human genetic diseases in C. elegans
Christina Bergey	Assistant Professor	christina.bergey@rutgers.com	Evolutionary genomics of humans, non-human primates, and disease vectors
Linda Brzustowicz	Distinguished Professor	lbrz@rutgers.edu	Medical and human genetics: the genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders
Chris Ellison	Associate Professor	cee53@rutgers.edu	Evolutionary genomics and genome organization in Drosophila
Derek Gordon	Associate Professor	derekgo@rutgers.edu	Statistical genetics
Gary A. Heiman	Professor- Vice- Chair & Undergraduate Director	heiman@rutgers.edu	Genetic epidemiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
Devanshi Jain	Assistant Professor	dj420@rutgers.edu	Gametogenesis and Genome Integrity
Tara Matise	Distinguished Professor-Chair, Department of Genetics	matise@rutgers.edu	Computational Human Genetics, genetics coordinating center
Kim McKim	Professor	mckim@rutgers.edu	Molecular Genetics of Meiotic Recombination in Drosophila Melanogaster
Tetsuya Nakamura	Assistant Professor	tn241@rutgers.edu	Revealing the genetic mechanisms of the fish diversity and their contribution to the fish-to-tetrapod transition
Bryce Nickels	Professor	bnickels@rutgers.edu	Regulation of gene expression in bacteria
Jessica Rispoli	Associate Teaching Professor, Director of the Genetic Counseling Master's Program	jrj88@rutgers.edu	Genetic Counseling
Christopher Rongo	Professor	crongo@rutgers.edu	Molecular genetics of synapse formation and plasticity in C. elegans
Amrik Sahota	Research Professor	asahota@rutgers.edu	Human Molecular Genetics; Molecular Diagnostics
Karen Schindler	Professor	ks804@rutgers.edu	Understanding the molecular mechanisms that lead to aneuploidy in female gametes
Christine Seymour	Assistant Program Director	seymoucp@rutgers.edu	Genetic Counseling Master's Program
Premal Shah	Assistant Professor	prs114@rutgers.edu	Evolution of coding sequences and regulation of protein synthesis
Gleb Shumyatsky	Professor	gleb@rutgers.edu	Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory as well as social and maternal behavior
Andrew Singson	Professor	singson@rutgers.edu	Reproductive biology and cell-cell interactions in C. elegans
Jay Tischfield	Distinguished Professor, Department of Genetics Executive Director, HGINJ	jaytisch@rutgers.edu	Medical and human genetics: the genetics of somatic cells, mouse models for human diseases and genes for complex human genetic disorders
Michael Verzi	Professor	mv347@rutgers.edu	Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Intestinal Disease
Juan Wang	Assistant Research Professor	juwang07@rutgers.edu
Jinchuan Xing	Professor	jinchuan.xing@rutgers.edu	Mobile Elements, Human Genomic Variation, Evolutionary Genetics, Population Genetics
Samhita Yadavalli	Assistant Professor	sy543@rutgers.edu	Bacterial signaling pathways and regulation of gene expression.
Lei Yu	Distinguished Professor	leiyu8@rutgers.edu	Genetics of compulsive behaviors (such as alcoholism and drug addiction) and neuro-sensory disorders (such as neuropathic pain)
Michael E. Zwick	Senior Vice President for Research and Professor	mz560@oq.rutgers.edu