The Norgard Laboratory is engaged in three areas of infectious disease research: syphilis, Lyme disease, and tularemia.

The Luo lab studies hypoxia stress in human cancers with a focus on epigenetic and metabolic alterations. 

The research in the Johnson lab is focused on vertebrate nervous system development during the transition from proliferating neural stem cells to differentiating neurons and glia. 

D'Orso Lab studies gene regulatory networks in normal and disease states as well as in the context of host-pathogen interactions.