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Murat Acar murat.acar@yale.edu Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Understanding how gene networks are rewired while cells evolve in controlled laboratory environments using experimental, theoretical and computational approaches |
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Shirin Bahmanyar shirin.bahmanyar@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Applied Physics; Physics |
Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development |
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Julien Berro julien.berro@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Cell Biology; Biomedical Engineering |
Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy |
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Marcus Bosenberg marcus.bosenberg@yale.edu Website |
Dermatology; Pathology |
Melanoma biology; soft tissue tumors |
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Stuart Campbell stuart.campbell@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Applied Physics; Physics |
Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena |
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John Carlson john.carlson@yale.edu Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Chemosensory preception in insects |
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Damon Clark damon.clark@yale.edu Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Neuronal computation |
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Caitlin Davis c.davis@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry |
Molecular motors, cytoskeleton, polymer mechanics |
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Purushottam Dixit purushottam.dixit@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Actin assembly; cytoskeletal protein dynamics; cellular motion; microscopy |
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Josh Gendron joshua.gendron@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
Dermatology; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Stem cells; wound healing; cellular mechanics |
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Jonathon Howard jonathon.howard@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Biomedical Engineering |
Vascular mechanics; mechanobiology; computational modeling and wet lab experiments |
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Farren Isaacs farren.isaacs@yale.edu Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Systems biology; genome engineering; complex biological behaviors; engineered RNAs |
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Erdem Karatekin erdem.karatekin@yale.edu Website |
Cellular and Molecular Physiology |
Membrane fusion, dynamics of lipid membranes, imaging |
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Jaehong Kim jaehong.kim@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Cell Biology |
Nuclear mechanics; DNA repair; chromatin, nuclear envelope and cytoskeletal interconnectedness and structure |
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Yuval Kluger yuval.kluger@yale.edu Website |
Pathology |
Method development and analysis of genomic patters; cancer biomaker discovery; epigenetics |
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Anthony Koleske anthony.koleske@yale.edu Website |
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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Chun Hay Alex Kwan alex.kwan@yale.edu Website |
Neurobiology; Psychiatry |
Neural basis of attentional and working memory behaviors; neuronal circuits; optical imaging |
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Roy Lederman roy.lederman@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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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Zachary Levine zachary.levine@yale.edu Website |
Pathology |
Integration of Computational Models with Protein Experiments to Deduce the Molecular Basis of Cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, and Human Aging |
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Yimin Luo yimin.luo@yale.edu Website |
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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Benjamin Machta benjamin.machta@yale.edu Website |
Physics |
Statistical physics of biological systems; critical points and phase transitions, membrane systems |
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Michael Mak michael.mak@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry |
Protein self-assembly; protein folding and dynamics; amyloid |
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Simon Mochrie simon.mochrie@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Molelcular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
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John Murray john.murray@yale.edu Website |
Psychiatry |
Computational neuroscience |
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Michael Murrell michael.murrell@yale.edu Website |
Biomedical Engineering |
Cytoskeleton, Motor Proteins, Membranes, Cellular Mechanics |
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Corey O'Hern corey.ohern@yale.edu Website |
EASMMS Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
EAS School of Engineering and Applied Science |
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Amir Pahlavan amir.pahlavan@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 |
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Xiaolei Su xiaolei.su@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
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 Website |
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |
Biomechanics, biologically inspired design, combining theory and experiment |
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Min Wu wu.min@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Chemistry |
Biomolecular interactions at interfaces; signal transduction across biomembranes; molecular mechanism of vision |
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Yongli Zhang yongli.zhang@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Computer Science; Electrical Engineering |
Computational vision, including early vision, grouping, and generic shape analysis |