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Shirin Bahmanyar
shirin.bahmanyar@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Nuclear dynamics during cell division and organismal development, mechanisms that divide organelle structure, defining functions of inner nuclear membrane proteins in the organization of single cells and complex tissues. |
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Sean Barrett
sean.barrett@yale.edu
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Applied Physics; Physics |
Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development |
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Julien Berro
julien.berro@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry |
Actin and cytoskeleton; clatherin mediated endocytosis; mathematical modeling combined with experiment; imaging |
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Joerg Bewersdorf
joerg.bewersdorf@yale.edu
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Cell Biology; Biomedical Engineering |
Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy |
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Marcus Bosenberg
marcus.bosenberg@yale.edu
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Dermatology; Pathology |
Melanoma biology; soft tissue tumors |
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Stuart Campbell
stuart.campbell@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering; Cellular and Molecular Physiology |
Understanding mechanisms that underlie genetics forms of heart disease using computational and experimental tools and approaches. |
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Hui Cao
hui.cao@yale.edu
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Applied Physics; Physics |
Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena |
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John Carlson
john.carlson@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Olfaction, taste and pheromone perception |
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Hattie Chung
hattie.chung@yale.edu
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Cardiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
We study the molecular basis of cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization in health and disease through the lens of systems biology by pioneering novel computational and experimental tools |
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Damon Clark
damon.clark@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Neuronal computation |
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Martina Dal Bello
martina.dalbello@yale.edu
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Research in the Dal Bello lab focuses on how microbes respond to and modify their environment, and how these feedback processes shape species interactions, assembly processes, and the function of microbial communities. |
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Caitlin Davis
c.davis@yale.edu
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Chemistry |
Using time-resolved spectral imaging at multiple scales, from in vitro to single cell to whole organism, to make connections between molecular mechanisms and cellular function. |
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Enrique De La Cruz
enrique.delacruz@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry |
Molecular motors, cytoskeleton, polymer mechanics |
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Purushottam Dixit
purushottam.dixit@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Build machine learning methds that are rooted in statistical physics to analyze high quality high dimensional “omics” data from biological systems. |
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Thierry Emonet
thierry.emonet@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Physics |
Live cell and animal information processing and decision making; combining experiments and computational modeling |
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Rong Fan
rong.fan@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Combining single-cell analysis technology and systems biology to study cell-cell communication and cellular heterogeneity in human cancers and the immune system |
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Paul Forscher
paul.forscher@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Actin assembly; cytoskeletal protein dynamics; cellular motion; microscopy |
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Josh Gendron
joshua.gendron@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
How protein degradation controls the circadian clock in plants. Plant biology, circadian clock, light sensing, protein degradation, abiotic plant interactions, biological timing mechanisms, plant development. |
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Mark Gerstein
mark.gerstein@yale.edu
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Biomedical Informatics; Computer Science |
Bioinformatics; biological database design, genomics; human genome annotation; gene expression analysis; data mining; macromolecular structure and function |
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Amir Haji-Akbari
amir.hajiakbaribalou@yale.edu
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Chemical and Environmental Engineering |
molecular thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; computational materials science and molecular simulations; rare events and path sampling techniques; applied mathematics; protein folding and aggregation |
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Scott Holley
scott.holley@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Systems biology and biomechanics of musculoskeletal axis development in zebrafish. |
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Valerie Horsley
valerie.horsley@yale.edu
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Dermatology; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Stem cells; wound healing; cellular mechanics |
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Jonathon Howard
jonathon.howard@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Physics |
Biochemical and biophysical basis of cell shape and motion; cytoskeletal mechanics |
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Jay Humphrey
jay.humphrey@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Vascular mechanics; mechanobiology; computational modeling and wet lab experiments |
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Farren Isaacs
farren.isaacs@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Systems biology; genome engineering; complex biological behaviors; engineered RNAs |
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Erdem Karatekin
erdem.karatekin@yale.edu
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Cellular and Molecular Physiology |
Membrane fusion, dynamics of lipid membranes, imaging |
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Jaehong Kim
jaehong.kim@yale.edu
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Chemical and Environmental Engineering |
Antimicrobial/biocidal surface development and application of nanomaterials for water treatment |
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Megan King
megan.king@yale.edu
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Cell Biology |
Nuclear mechanics; DNA repair; chromatin, nuclear envelope and cytoskeletal interconnectedness and structure |
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Yuval Kluger
yuval.kluger@yale.edu
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Pathology |
Method development and analysis of genomic patters; cancer biomaker discovery; epigenetics |
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Anthony Koleske
anthony.koleske@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Neurobiology |
Cellular shape and motility; biochemical dissection of signaling pathways; regulation of normal and cancer cell migration; and formation, function and stability of neural connections |
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Aaron Kuan
aaron.kuan@yale.edu
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Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering |
Electron microscopy and X-ray imaging techniques to enable 3D imaging of neuronal circuits combined with behavior and functional imaging to reveal how circuit connectivity underlies brain activity and cognition. |
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Roy Lederman
roy.lederman@yale.edu
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Statistics and Data Science |
Cryo-EM; numerical analysis and signal processing; geometry of data; computational biology algorithms; mathematics of data science |
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Andre Levchenko
andre.levchenko@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Systems Biology; Signal Transduction and Cell-Cell Communication; Cell Decision Making; Microfluidics and Micro- and Nano-fabrication; Stem Cell Engineering |
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Liang Liang
liang.liang@yale.edu
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Neuroscience |
Synaptic and neural circuit mechanisms underlying visual information processing; combining recording of neural activity in awake behaving animals, image processing, and computational modeling |
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Yimin Luo
yimin.luo@yale.edu
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Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
Experimental soft matter group working primarily in three types of systems: shear-induced deformation and rearrangements of soft particles, collective behaviors of active colloids, and cell-substrate interactions |
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Christopher Lynn
christopher.lynn@yale.edu
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Physics |
Understanding how structure and function emerge in complex living systems, particularly the brain. |
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Zongming Ma
zongming.ma@yale.edu
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Statistics and Data Science |
Developing machine learning and statistical tools to gain biological insights from spatial and single-cell data |
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Benjamin Machta
benjamin.machta@yale.edu
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Physics |
Statistical physics of biological systems; critical points and phase transitions, membrane systems |
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Michael Mak
michael.mak@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Multiscale mechanobiology in cancer and development, from molecular to multicellular levels, integrating microfluidics, wet-lab experiments, and computational approaches. |
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Nikhil Malvankar
nikhil.malvankar@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry |
Understanding how bacteria employ pili nanowires to carry out respiration, cell-to-cell communication and attachment to host surfaces to cause infections |
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Kathryn Miller-Jensen
kathryn.miller-jensen@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
HIV latency; signaling pathways; high-throughput single cell analysis; computational, experimental and systems-level approaches |
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Andrew Miranker
andrew.miranker@yale.edu
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry |
Protein self-assembly; protein folding and dynamics; amyloid |
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Simon Mochrie
simon.mochrie@yale.edu
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Applied Physics; Physics |
Biomaterials and surfaces; optical tweezers; atomic force microscopy; phase transitions of soft matter |
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Binyam Mogessie
binyam.mogessie@yale.edu
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Molelcular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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Michael Murrell
michael.murrell@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Cytoskeleton, Motor Proteins, Membranes, Cellular Mechanics |
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Corey O'Hern
corey.ohern@yale.edu
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EASMMS Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
EAS School of Engineering and Applied Science |
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Amir Pahlavan
amir.pahlavan@yale.edu
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Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
Transport phenomena in crowded environments; interfacially-driven flows; soft matter; gradient sensing and chemotaxis |
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Richard Prum
richard.prum@yale.edu
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Ornithology |
Avian feather evolution; structural color; avian color vision; avian phylogenetics and behavioral evolution |
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Anna Marie Pyle
anna.pyle@yale.edu
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Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chemistry |
RNA remodeling enzymes; RNA tertiary structure; molecular virology; computational studies of RNA structure |
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Hesper Rego
hesper.rego@yale.edu
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Microbial Pathogenesis |
imaging (including building microscopes), single-cell level experiments, mycobacterial infections, drivers of heterogeneity |
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Shreya Saxena
shreya.saxena@yale.edu
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Biomedical Engineering |
Investigating topics at the interface of statistical inference, recurrent neural networks, control theory, and neuroscience. |
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Edward Stites
edward.stites@yale.edu |
Laboratory Medicine |
Systems level understandings of biological function and dysfunction; mathematical modeling |
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Xiaolei Su
xiaolei.su@yale.edu
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Cell Biology |
Membranes, phase separation, and regulation of immune signaling; single molecule imaging and cell engineering |
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Alison Sweeney
alison.sweeney@yale.edu |
Physics; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
self-assenbly and optical properties of molecular structures, biophysics, evolution of deep sea squid camouflage, combining theory with experiment |
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Paul Turner
paul.turner@yale.edu
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of microbes, experimental evolution, virus disease emergence and of virus evolvability, combining microbiology, computational biology, genomics, molecular biology and mathematical-modeling approaches. |
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David van Dijk
david.vandijk@yale.edu
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Internal Medicine, Computer Science |
Machine Learning; Computational Biology; Genomics; Single-cell Analysis; Deep Learning; Computational Neuroscience; Machine Learning in (Bio)Physics and (Bio)Chemistry |
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Madhusudhan Venkadesan
m.venkadesan@yale.edu
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Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
Biomechanics, biologically inspired design, combining theory and experiment |
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Min Wu
wu.min@yale.edu
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Cell Biology |
Single cell oscillations and travelling waves, membrane curvature, cell size homeostasis, applications of non-equilibrium dynamics in biology, quantitative biology |
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Jing Yan
jing.yan@yale.edu
Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Imaging and modeling the developmental process of bacterial communities, characterizing and understanding the soft matter properties of bacterial biofilms, designing new bioinspired materials and surfaces |
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Elsa Chui-Ying Yan
elsa.yan@yale.edu
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Chemistry |
Biomolecular interactions at interfaces; signal transduction across biomembranes; molecular mechanism of vision |
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Yongli Zhang
yongli.zhang@yale.edu
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Cell Biology |
Folding and assembly of proteins involved in membrane fusion; chromatin remodelers and ATP dependent translocases; single-molecule biophysics; optical tweezers |
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Steven Zucker
steven.zucker@yale.edu
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Computer Science; Electrical Engineering |
Computational vision, including early vision, grouping, and generic shape analysis |