Faculty
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Shirin Bahmanyar
Associate Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: 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 -
Sean Barrett
Professor; Physics and Applied PhysicsResearch Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development -
Julien Berro
Associate Professor: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Cell BiologyResearch Interests: Actin and cytoskeleton; clatherin mediated endocytosis; mathematical modeling combined with experiment; imaging -
Joerg Bewersdorf
Professor: Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and PhysicsResearch Interests: Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy -
Marcus Bosenberg
Professor; Dermatology, Pathology, and ImmunobiologyResearch Interests: Melanoma biology; soft tissue tumors -
Stuart Campbell
Associate Professor; Biomedical Engineering & Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyResearch Interests: Understanding mechanisms that underlie genetics forms of heart disease using computational and experimental tools and approaches. -
Hui Cao
Professor; Applied Physics, Physics, and Electrical EngineeringResearch Interests: Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena -
John Carlson
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Molecular basis of olfaction, taste, and pheromone perception -
Alicia Che
Assistant Professor; PsychiatryResearch Interests: Structure and function of cortical networks: neuronal circuits; optical imaging -
Hattie Chung
Assistant Professor; Cardiovascular Medicine and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: 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, with applications to cardiovascular disease and ovarian aging. -
Damon Clark
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Physics, and NeuroscienceResearch Interests: Neuronal computation -
Martina Dal Bello
Assistant Professor; Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyResearch Interests: 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. -
Caitlin Davis
Assistant Professor; ChemistryResearch Interests: 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 -
Enrique de la Cruz
Professor; Molecular Biophysics & BiochemistryResearch Interests: Molecular motors, cytoskeleton, polymer mechanics -
Allison Didychuk
Assistant Professor; Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryResearch Interests: Herpesvirus transcription and viral genome packaging -
Purushottam Dixit
Assistant Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Build machine learning methds that are rooted in statistical physics to analyze high quality high dimensional “omics” data from biological systems -
Thierry Emonet
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and PhysicsResearch Interests: We combine theory and experiments to understand the computations organisms perform to navigate chemical environments. Bacteria: we analyze information processing in individual cells, the molecular basis of individuality, and how biological diversity benefits populations. Fruit flies: we examine how insects perform goal oriented olfactory navigation, and how they adapt decision-making strategies in real time as odor signal statistics and environmental conditions change -
Rong Fan
Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Combining single-cell analysis technology and systems biology to study cell-cell communication and cellular heterogeneity in human cancers and the immune system -
Paul Forscher
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Actin assembly; cytoskeletal protein dynamics; cellular motion; microscopy -
Josh Gendron
Associate Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: 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. -
Mark Gerstein
Professor: Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Computer Science, and Statistics & Data ScienceResearch Interests: Bioinformatics; biological database design, genomics; human genome annotation; gene expression analysis; data mining; macromolecular structure and function -
Amir Haji-Akbari
Assistant Professor; Chemical & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests: Our group uses techniques rooted in molecular thermodynamics and computational chemistry to study the thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanism of phase transitions. We are interested in phenomena characterized as rare events. We are currently pursuing three active areas of interest: (i) crystal nucleation, (ii) hindered transport of ions and solutes through nanoporous membranes and channels, (iii) protein dynamics, folding and aggregation. -
Scott Holley
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: The systems biology, biomechanics and molecular biophysics of early spinal column development -
Valerie Horsley
Associate Professor: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and DermatologyResearch Interests: Stem cells; wound healing; cellular mechanics -
Joe Howard
Professor; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and PhysicsResearch Interests: Microtubules and molecular motors. Branching morphogenesis of neurons. Motility of cilia and flagella. Nerve nets. -
Jay Humphrey
Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: ascular mechanics; mechanobiology; design of tissue engineering constructs; computational modeling of vascular development, homeostasis, and disease -
Farren Isaacs
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, Engineered biomaterials & RNAs -
Erdem Karatekin
Associate Professor; Cellular & Molecular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics & BiochemistryResearch Interests: Membrane fusion and fission mechanisms, Cell membrane dynamics, Membrane trafficking, Optical tweezers, imaging, Electrophysiology -
Jaehong Kim
Professor; Chemical & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests: Antimicrobial/biocidal surface development and application of nanomaterials for water treatment -
Megan King
Associate Professor; Cell Biology and Molecular, Cellular & Development BiologyResearch Interests: Nuclear mechanics; DNA repair; chromatin, nuclear envelope and cytoskeletal interconnectedness and structure -
Yuval Kluger
Professor; PathologyResearch Interests: Method development and analysis of genomic patters; cancer biomaker discovery; epigenetics -
Anthony Koleske
Professor; Molecular Biophysics & BiochemistryResearch Interests: Cellular shape and motility; biochemical dissection of signaling pathways; regulation of normal and cancer cell migration; and formation, function and stability of neural connections -
Aaron Kuan
Assistant Professor; Neuroscience and Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: 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. -
Roy Lederman
Assistant Professor; Statistics and Data ScienceResearch Interests: Cryo-EM; numerical analysis and signal processing; geometry of data; computational biology algorithms; mathematics of data science -
Andre Levchenko
Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Systems Biology; Signal Transduction and Cell-Cell Communication; Cell Decision Making; Microfluidics and Micro- and Nano-fabrication; Stem Cell Engineering -
Liang Liang
Assistant Professor; NeuroscienceResearch Interests: Synaptic and neural circuit mechanisms underlying visual information processing; combining recording of neural activity in awake behaving animals, image processing, and computational modeling -
Chenxiang Lin
Associate Professor; Cell Biology and Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: DNA nanotechnology enabled molecular tools and biomimetic systems -
Yimin Luo
Assistant Professor; Mechanical Engineering & Materials ScienceResearch Interests: Regulated cell alignment and tissue organization are vital in health and disease. To systematically investigate how cells respond to patterns, we achieve precise control over their arrangement through molecularly defined scaffolds. We innovate a continuous imaging platform tracking thousands of cells over days. Leveraging reams of data, we develop a hybrid procedure that utilizes statistical learning approaches to extend the state-of-the-art physics models. -
Christopher Lynn
Assistant Professor; PhysicsResearch Interests: Understanding how structure and function emerge in complex living systems, particularly the brain. -
Zongming Ma
Professor; Statistics and Data ScienceResearch Interests: Developing machine learning and statistical tools to gain biological insights from spatial and single-cell data -
Benjamin Machta
Assistant Professor; PhysicsResearch Interests: Statistical physics of biological systems; critical points and phase transitions, membrane systems -
Michael Mak
Assistant Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Multiscale mechanobiology in cancer and development, from molecular to multicellular levels, integrating microfluidics, wet-lab experiments, and computational approaches. -
Nikhil Malvankar
Associate Professor; Molecular Biophysics & BiochemistryResearch Interests: We are developing electronic Imaging & Control of Microbial Functions, by studying how environmentally and clinically important microbes build & use hair-like “nanowires” to export electrons outside their cell body, during respiration, communication, and pathogenesis and by tuning nanowire conductivity using light, pressure, temperature, electromagnetic fields, and non-natural ‘click’ chemistry. -
Harry McNamara
Assistant Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: Synthetic developmental biology: measuring and controlling stem cells to understand how they self-organize multicellular structures in vitro (organoids, embryoids) -
Kirstin Meyer
Assistant Professor; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: We seek to understand molecular mechanisms of emergent gene regulatory behavior, with a focus on temporal information transmission, mechanosensing, and chromatin biophysics. -
Kathryn Miller-Jensen
Associate Professor; Biomedical Engineering and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: HIV latency; signaling pathways; high-throughput single cell analysis; computational, experimental and systems-level approaches -
Andrew Miranker
Professor; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemical & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests: Protein self-assembly; protein folding and dynamics; amyloid -
Simon Mochrie
Professor; Physics and Applied PhysicsResearch Interests: Quantitative microscopy and image analysis. Chromatin organization and dynamics. Nuclear envelope physics. Phase transitions of soft matter -
Binyam Mogessie
Assistant Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive SciencesResearch Interests: The Mogessie lab studies cytoskeletal organization and function with a special focus on chromosome segregation in mammalian eggs and the molecular origins of female reproductive aging and infertility. -
Michael Murrell
Associate Professor; Biomedical Engineering and PhysicsResearch Interests: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, active matter, biophysics, synthetic biology, cytoskeletal mechanics. -
Corey O'Hern
Professor; Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics, Applied Physics and Graduate Program in Computational Biology & BioinformaticsResearch Interests: Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems; glass and jamming transitions in soft matter; computational biology; protein structure, interactions, and design. -
Amir Pahlavan
Assistant Professor; Mechanical Engineering & Materials ScienceResearch Interests: Bacterial chemotaxis and biofilm formation in complex environments using both experiments and modeling. -
Richard Prum
Professor; Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyResearch Interests: Avian feather evolution; structural color; avian color vision; avian phylogenetics and behavioral evolution -
Anna Marie Pyle
Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and ChemistryResearch Interests: RNA remodeling enzymes; RNA tertiary structure; molecular virology; computational studies of RNA structure -
Hesper Rego
Associate Professor; Microbial PathogenesisResearch Interests: Imaging (including building microscopes), single-cell level experiments, mycobacterial infections, drivers of heterogeneity -
Shreya Saxena
Assistant Professor; Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Investigating topics at the interface of statistical inference, recurrent neural networks, control theory, and neuroscience -
Edward Stites
Associate Professor; Laboratory Medicine & PathologyResearch Interests: mathematical modeling, informed machine learning, cancer biology/disease biology, systems biology, synthetic biology -
Xiaolei Su
Assistant Professor; Cell BiologyResearch Interests: Membranes, phase separation, and regulation of immune signaling; single molecule imaging and cell engineering -
Alison Sweeney
Associate Professor; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and PhysicsResearch Interests: Self-assembly and optical properties of molecular structures, biophysics, evolution of deep sea squid camouflage, combining theory with experiment -
John Tsang
Professor; Immunobiology and Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Systems and quantitative immunology; human immunology; single cell biology; predicting and modeling immune responses; synthetic immunology: predictive engineering of immune cell trafficking and sensing; immune homeostasis maintenance and set point establishment mechanisms; integrating dynamical modeling and machine learning to understand emergent immune system behavior across temporal and spatial scales. -
Paul Turner
Professor; Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyResearch Interests: 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 -
David van Dijk
Assistant Professor; Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Computer ScienceResearch Interests: Machine Learning; Computational Biology; Genomics; Single-cell Analysis; Deep Learning; Computational Neuroscience; Machine Learning in biophysics and biochemistry -
Madhusudhan Venkadesan
Associate Professor; Mechanical Engineering & Materials ScienceResearch Interests: biomechanics and control of animal movement; muscle rheology and biophysics; inverse problems in elasticity and morphoelasticity. -
Min Wu
Associate Professor; Cell BiologyResearch Interests: Single cell oscillations and travelling waves, membrane curvature, mitosis, cell size -
C. Shan Xu
Professor; Cellular & Molecular PhysiologyResearch Interests: 3D volume electron microscopy, instrumentation development -
Elsa Yan
Professor; ChemistryResearch Interests: Biomolecular interactions at interfaces; signal transduction across biomembranes; molecular mechanism of vision -
Jing Yan
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental BiologyResearch Interests: 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 -
Yongli Zhang
Professor; Cell BiologyResearch Interests: Folding and assembly of proteins involved in membrane fusion; chromatin remodelers and ATP dependent translocases; single-molecule biophysics; optical tweezers -
Steven Zucker
Professor; Computer Science and Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interests: Computational vision, machine learning of neuroscience data, manifold inference and neural circuits.