Faculty

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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
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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