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.
Check out these videos for more information about some of the research our faculty is conducting.
 Derek GordonAssociate ProfessorStatistical geneticsVideo: Applications of Statistical Genetics |
 Gary HeimanAssociate Professor- Vice-Chair & Undergraduate Genetic epidemiology of neuropsychiatric disorders Video: Dismantling the Myths and Treating Tourette Disorder |
 Kim McKimProfessor Molecular Genetics of Meiotic Recombination in Drosophila Melanogaster Video: Meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster females |
 Karen SchindlerProfessor Understanding the molecular mechanisms that lead to aneuploidy in female gametes Video: Aneuploidy of Statistical Genetics |
 Jinchuan XingProfessor Mobile Elements, Human Genomic Variation, Evolutionary Genetics, Population Genetics Video: The Human Genome |
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