Research Interests: Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development

Research Interests: Actin and cytoskeleton; clatherin mediated endocytosis; mathematical modeling combined with experiment; imaging

Research Interests: Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy

Research Interests: Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena

Research Interests: Structure and function of cortical networks: neuronal circuits; optical imaging

Research 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

Research Interests: Actin assembly; cytoskeletal protein dynamics; cellular motion; microscopy

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: 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: Synaptic and neural circuit mechanisms underlying visual information processing; combining recording of neural activity in awake behaving animals, image processing, and computational modeling

Research 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.

Research Interests: Developing machine learning and statistical tools to gain biological insights from spatial and single-cell data

Research 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.

Research Interests: We seek to understand molecular mechanisms of emergent gene regulatory behavior, with a focus on temporal information transmission, mechanosensing, and chromatin biophysics.

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

Research 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.

Research Interests: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, active matter, biophysics, synthetic biology, cytoskeletal mechanics.

Research Interests: Imaging (including building microscopes), single-cell level experiments, mycobacterial infections, drivers of heterogeneity

Research Interests: Membranes, phase separation, and regulation of immune signaling; single molecule imaging and cell engineering

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