Chromosome Structure and Function

Shawn Ahmed: Telomeres and telomerase

Kerry S. Bloom: Structure and function of a eukaryotic kinetochore

Robert J. Duronio: Cell cycle control of histone biosynthesis and DNA replication

Greg Copenhaver: Regulation of meiotic recombination and crossover interference

Jason Lieb: Histone variants and modifications in chromosome segregation

Greg Matera: Interactions of Cajal bodies with snRNA and histone loci in interphase chromosomes

Steven W. Matson: The role of helicases in DNA metabolism

William F. Marzluff:  Mechanisms of cell cycle regulated histone mRNA biosynthesis

Patricia J. Pukkila: Meiotic chromosome pairing

Ted Salmon: Mechanisms of mitosis and accurate chromosome segregation; kinetochore structure and function

Jeff Sekelsky: DNA repair in mitotic and meiotic cells

Elaine Yeh: Live cell analysis of DNA repair

Please also see the NIH-UNC Graduate Partnership Program in Cell Motility and Cytoskeleton.