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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Physics
Areas of interest: Understanding and controlling aging and replicative lifespan at the single-cell level. We apply quantitative systems biology methods and a high-throughput microfluidic platform to the study of cellular aging.
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: 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.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics
Areas of interest: Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Areas of interest: Actin and cytoskeleton; clatherin mediated endocytosis; mathematical modeling combined with experiment; imaging
Research Thrust(s): Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology
Areas of interest: Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining |
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Department(s): Dermatology, Pathology
Areas of interest: Melanoma biology; soft tissue tumors
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Areas of interest: Understanding mechanisms that underlie genetics forms of heart disease using computational and experimental tools and approaches.
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics
Areas of interest: Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena
Research Thrust(s): Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Chemosensory preception in insects
Research Thrust(s): Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Structure and function of cortical networks: neuronal circuits; optical imaging.
Thrusts: Methods development
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Neuronal computation
Research Thrust(s): Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Chemistry
Areas of interest: 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 Thrust(s): Method Development, Cell Fate, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Areas of interest: Molecular motors, cytoskeleton, polymer mechanics
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Areas of interest: Herpesvirus transcription and viral genome packaging.
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Physics
Areas of interest: Live cell and animal information processing and decision making; combining experiments and computational modeling
Research Thrust(s): Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Combining single-cell analysis technology and systems biology to study cell-cell communication and cellular heterogeneity in human cancers and the immune system.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Actin assembly; cytoskeletal protein dynamics; cellular motion; microscopy
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: 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.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science
Areas of interest: Bioinformatics; biological database design, genomics; human genome annotation; gene expression analysis; data mining; macromolecular structure and function
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s):
Areas of interest: molecular thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; computational materials science and molecular simulations; rare events and path sampling techniques; applied mathematics; protein folding and aggregation
Research Thrust(s): Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Systems biology and biomechanics of musculoskeletal axis development in zebrafish.
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Dermatology, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Stem cells; wound healing; cellular mechanics
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Physics
Areas of interest: Biochemical and biophysical basis of cell shape and motion; cytoskeletal mechanics
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Vascular mechanics; mechanobiology; computational modeling and wet lab experiments
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Systems biology; genome engineering; complex biological behaviors; engineered RNAs
Research Thrust(s): Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Areas of interest: Membrane fusion, dynamics of lipid membranes, imaging
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Method Development |
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Department(s): Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Areas of interest: Antimicrobial/biocidal surface development and application of nanomaterials for water treatment
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Cell Biology
Areas of interest: Nuclear mechanics; DNA repair; chromatin, nuclear envelope and cytoskeletal interconnectedness and structure
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development |
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Department(s): Pathology
Areas of interest: Method development and analysis of genomic patters; cancer biomaker discovery; epigenetics
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Neurobiology
Areas of interest: Cellular shape and motility; biochemical dissection of signaling pathways; regulation of normal and cancer cell migration; and formation, function and stability of neural connections
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics |
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Department(s): Neurobiology, Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Neural basis of attentional and working memory behaviors; neuronal circuits; optical imaging
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Statistics and Data Science
Areas of interest: Cryo-EM; numerical analysis and signal processing; geometry of data; computational biology algorithms; mathematics of data science
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Systems Biology; Signal Transduction and Cell-Cell Communication; Cell Decision Making; Microfluidics and Micro- and Nano-fabrication; Stem Cell Engineering
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology
Areas of interest: DNA nanotechnology to develop molecular tools for studying the structure and function of biomolecular complexes.
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Areas of interest: Cell-material interactions, active nematics, high-throughput imaging, tracking and analysis
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Physics
Areas of interest: Statistical physics of biological systems; critical points and phase transitions, membrane systems
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Multiscale mechanobiology in cancer and development, from molecular to multicellular levels, integrating microfluidics, wet-lab experiments, and computational approaches.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Areas of interest: Understanding how bacteria employ pili nanowires to carry out respiration, cell-to-cell communication and attachment to host surfaces to cause infections
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: HIV latency; signaling pathways; high-throughput single cell analysis; computational, experimental and systems-level approaches
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Areas of interest: Protein self-assembly; protein folding and dynamics; amyloid
Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics
Areas of interest: Biomaterials and surfaces; optical tweezers; atomic force microscopy; phase transitions of soft matter
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: Cytoskeletal organization and dynamics, chromosome dynamics, cell division.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development |
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Department(s): Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Computational neuroscience
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Cytoskeleton, Motor Proteins, Membranes, Cellular Mechanics
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Physics
Areas of interest: Theoretical and computational studies of soft matter; protein folding, aggregation and self-assembly; mechanical properties of cells and tissues
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Areas of interest: Transport phenomena in crowded environments; interfacially-driven flows; soft matter; gradient sensing and chemotaxis
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes |
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Department(s): Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ornithology
Areas of interest: Avian feather evolution; structural color; avian color vision; avian phylogenetics and behavioral evolution
Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Chemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: RNA remodeling enzymes; RNA tertiary structure; molecular virology; computational studies of RNA structure
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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Department(s): Microbial Pathogenesis
Areas of interest: imaging (including building microscopes), single-cell level experiments, mycobacterial infections, drivers of heterogeneity
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Cell Fate, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering
Areas of interest: Advancing multiphoton microscopy along with wavefront shaping techniques for deep tissue in vivo imaging of the nervous system.
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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Department(s): Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Areas of interest: microbial evolution; social strategies within microbial communities; microbial interaction networks and community dynamics; combining mathematical modeling with experiments
Research Thrust(s): Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s):
Areas of interest: The systems of molecular basis of disease, mathematical modeling and experimentation.
Research Thrust(s): Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Cell Biology
Areas of interest: Membranes, phase separation, and regulation of immune signaling; single molecule imaging and cell engineering.
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Physics
Areas of interest: self-assenbly and optical properties of molecular structures, biophysics, evolution of deep sea squid camouflage, combining theory with experiment
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Areas of interest: 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 Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Computer Science, Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: Machine Learning; Computational Biology; Genomics; Single-cell Analysis; Deep Learning; Computational Neuroscience; Machine Learning in (Bio)Physics and (Bio)Chemistry
Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Areas of interest: Biomechanics, biologically inspired design, combining theory and experiment
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Cell Biology
Areas of interest: Single cell oscillations and travelling waves, membrane curvature, cell size homeostasis, applications of non-equilibrium dynamics in biology, quantitative biology
Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology |
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Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Areas of interest: 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 Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development, Modeling Biological Processes, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design |
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Department(s): Chemistry
Areas of interest: Biomolecular interactions at interfaces; signal transduction across biomembranes; molecular mechanism of vision
Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate |
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Department(s): Cell Biology
Areas of interest: Folding and assembly of proteins involved in membrane fusion; chromatin remodelers and ATP dependent translocases; single-molecule biophysics; optical tweezers
Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing |
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Department(s): Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
Areas of interest: Computational vision, including early vision, grouping, and generic shape analysis
Research Thrust(s): Method Development |
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