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Michael McKeown, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Biochemistry

Professor McKeown is interested in the way genes interact to control processes in complex organisms, with particular emphasis on generation of complex behaviors and neural degeneration. His lab uses the non-pathogenic fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model. Since a major fraction of critical genes, proteins, and developmental and neural mechanisms are conserved between flies and vertebrates, a substantial fraction of our findings are directly or indirectly informative about humans. Much of his current work focuses on the gene and neural networks controlling sexual behavior and orientation.

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1981
Biology

B.S. Stanford University, 1975
Biological Sciences

For more information, please see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Michael_McKeown