Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms that underlie genetics forms of heart disease using computational and experimental tools and approaches.

Research 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.

Research 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.

Research Interests: Build machine learning methds that are rooted in statistical physics to analyze high quality high dimensional “omics” data from biological systems

Research 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

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; biological database design, genomics; human genome annotation; gene expression analysis; data mining; macromolecular structure and function

Research 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.

Research Interests: The systems biology, biomechanics and molecular biophysics of early spinal column development

Research Interests: Microtubules and molecular motors. Branching morphogenesis of neurons. Motility of cilia and flagella. Nerve nets.

Research Interests: ascular mechanics; mechanobiology; design of tissue engineering constructs; computational modeling of vascular development, homeostasis, and disease

Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, Engineered biomaterials & RNAs

Research 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.

Research Interests: Cryo-EM; numerical analysis and signal processing; geometry of data; computational biology algorithms; mathematics of data science

Research Interests: Systems Biology; Signal Transduction and Cell-Cell Communication; Cell Decision Making; Microfluidics and Micro- and Nano-fabrication; Stem Cell Engineering

Research Interests: Understanding how structure and function emerge in complex living systems, particularly the brain.

Research Interests: Multiscale mechanobiology in cancer and development, from molecular to multicellular levels, integrating microfluidics, wet-lab experiments, and computational approaches.

Research Interests: Quantitative microscopy and image analysis. Chromatin organization and dynamics. Nuclear envelope physics. Phase transitions of soft matter

Research Interests: Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems; glass and jamming transitions in soft matter; computational biology; protein structure, interactions, and design.

Research Interests: Bacterial chemotaxis and biofilm formation in complex environments using both experiments and modeling.

Research Interests: RNA remodeling enzymes; RNA tertiary structure; molecular virology; computational studies of RNA structure

Research Interests: Investigating topics at the interface of statistical inference, recurrent neural networks, control theory, and neuroscience

Research Interests: mathematical modeling, informed machine learning, cancer biology/disease biology, systems biology, synthetic biology

Research 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.

Research 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

Research Interests: Machine Learning; Computational Biology; Genomics; Single-cell Analysis; Deep Learning; Computational Neuroscience; Machine Learning in biophysics and biochemistry

Research Interests: biomechanics and control of animal movement; muscle rheology and biophysics; inverse problems in elasticity and morphoelasticity.

Research Interests: Single cell oscillations and travelling waves, membrane curvature, mitosis, cell size

Research 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

Research Interests: Computational vision, machine learning of neuroscience data, manifold inference and neural circuits.