The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

Research in the Department of Genetics covers such areas as genetic regulation and cellular differentiation in eukaryotes; genetic control of cell-cycle; interactions between chromosomes and the nuclear envelope; regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level; effects of chromatin on the regulation of eukaryote gene expression; the role of RNA processing events on the regulation of gene expression; developmental, genetic and molecular analysis of complex characteristics in the nematodes, in chicken and in the mouse; human genetics; stem cell research; molecular analysis of oncogenesis; evolution and population genetics in humans, animals and plants; molecular mapping of complex genomes; molecular analysis of photosynthesis; molecular biology of plants; improvement by genetic engineering of crop plants.