{"id":214,"date":"2009-10-13T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/research\/research-areas\/cell-and-molecular-biology\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:13:47","slug":"molecular-biology-and-genetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/molecular-biology-and-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Biology and Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-41-1024x384.png); background-position: 62% 43%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Molecular Biology and Genetics\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"biology-professors\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology Professors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/kyle-biggar\/\">Dr. Kyle Biggar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Functional Proteomics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drug development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protein lysine methylation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jenny-bruin\/\">Dr. Jenny Bruin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pancreas Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/catherine-cullingham\/\">Dr. Catherine Cullingham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Landscape, population, and conservation genetics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/eugene-fletcher\/\">Dr. Eugene Fletcher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Industrial biotechnology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Synthetic biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fermentation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metabolism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microbial physiology and stress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=639]\">Dr. Ashkan Golshani<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Functional genomics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microbiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Molecular biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interaction networks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Systems biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=649]\">Dr. Root Gorelick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evolution of sex<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolutionary theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Classical botany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematical biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Climate change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=654]\">Dr. Shelley Hepworth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plant molecular genetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developmental biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=660]\">Dr. Iain Lambert<\/a> <em>&#8211; Professor Emeritus<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Molecular biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genetic toxicology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Dr. Heath MacMillan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Integrative and comparative animal ecophysiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/bruce-mckay\/\">Dr. Bruce McKay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Molecular Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cell Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genomics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cancer Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=669]\">Dr. Owen Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plant molecular biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biotechnology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=687]\">Dr. Myron Smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fungal molecular genetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antimicrobial drug discovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=709]\">Dr. William G. Willmore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biochemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biotechnology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=713]\">Dr. Tim Xing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plant genomics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=571]\">Dr. Susan Aitken<\/a> <em>&#8211; Affiliated Faculty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Protein and pathway engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enzymology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amino acid metabolism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pyridoxal phosphate biochemistry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"teaching-stream-faculties\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching Stream Faculties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Teaching stream faculties can supervise undergraduate research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/iain-mckinnell\/\">Dr. Iain McKinnell<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Embryology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developmental Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anatomy &amp; Physiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/martha-mullally\/\">Dr. Martha Mullally<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biology Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Evidence Based Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"adjunct-professors\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adjunct Professors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Adjuncts are able to co-supervise undergraduate and graduate research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/francescomarchetti\/\">Dr. Francesco Marchetti<\/a>&nbsp;<em>&#8211; 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