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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 |
Olfaction, taste and pheromone perception |
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Hattie Chung hattie.chung@yale.edu Website |
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 Website |
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
Neuronal computation |
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Martina Dal Bello martina.dalbello@yale.edu Website |
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 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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Aaron Kuan aaron.kuan@yale.edu Website |
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 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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Liang Liang liang.liang@yale.edu Website |
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 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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Christopher Lynn christopher.lynn@yale.edu Website |
Physics |
Understanding how structure and function emerge in complex living systems, particularly the brain. |
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Zongming Ma zongming.ma@yale.edu Website |
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 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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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 |
Systems level understandings of biological function and dysfunction; mathematical modeling |
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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 |