Faculty

Department

	Murat Acar Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Areas of interest: Understanding how gene networks are rewired while cells evolve in controlled laboratory environments using experimental, theoretical and computational approaches Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Cell Fate, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology
	Shirin Bahmanyar 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
	Sean Barrett Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics Areas of interest: Experimental condensed matter physics; NMR method development Research Thrust(s): Method Development
	Julien Berro 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
	Joerg Bewersdorf Department(s): Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology Areas of interest: Super resolution imaging; nanoscopy Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining
	Marcus Bosenberg Department(s): Dermatology, Pathology Areas of interest: Melanoma biology; soft tissue tumors Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Informatics & Data Mining, Cell Fate
	Stuart Campbell 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
	Hui Cao Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics Areas of interest: Biophotonics; Nanophotonics; Complex optical materials and phenomena Research Thrust(s): Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design
	John Carlson Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Areas of interest: Chemosensory preception in insects Research Thrust(s): Systems & Synthetic Biology
	Damon Clark Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Areas of interest: Neuronal computation Research Thrust(s): Systems & Synthetic Biology
	Enrique De La Cruz 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
	Thierry Emonet 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
	Rong Fan 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
	Paul Forscher 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
	Ziad Ganim Department(s): Chemistry Areas of interest: Developing and applying single molecule spectroscopies with structural resolution. Research Thrust(s): Force Generation & Sensing, Method Development
	Mark Gerstein 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
	Scott Holley 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
	Valerie Horsley 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
	Joe Howard 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
	Jay Humphrey 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
	Farren Isaacs 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
	Christine Jacobs-Wagner Department(s): Microbial Pathogenesis, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Areas of interest: Spatial and temporal mechanisms in bacterial physiology, including chromosome dynamics, cell division, cell morphogenesis, and RNA biology Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Cell Fate
	Erdem Karatekin Department(s): Cellular and Molecular Physiology Areas of interest: Membrane fusion, dynamics of lipid membranes, imaging Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Method Development
	Jaehong Kim 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
	Megan King 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
	Yuval Kluger 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
	Anthony Koleske 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
	Alex Kwan 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
	Andre Levchenko 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
	Ben Machta 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
	Michael Mak 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
	Nikhil Malvankar 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
	David McCormick Department(s): Neurobiology, Psychology Areas of interest: Cellular mechanism of cortical function Research Thrust(s): Systems & Synthetic Biology
	Kathryn Miller-Jensen 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
	Andrew Miranker 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
	Simon Mochrie 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
	John Murray Department(s): Psychiatry Areas of interest: Computational neuroscience Research Thrust(s): Method Development, Informatics & Data Mining, Modeling Biological Processes, Systems & Synthetic Biology
	Michael Murrell 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
	Corey O'Hern 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
	Chinedum Osuji Department(s): Chemical & Environmental Engineering Areas of interest: Structure and dynamics of soft matter and complex fluids; directed self-assembly; development of functional materials and devices Research Thrust(s): Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design
	Thomas Pollard Department(s): Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Areas of interest: Molecular basis of cell motility and cytokenesis Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics, Force Generation & Sensing, Informatics & Data Mining
	Richard Prum 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
	Anna Marie Pyle 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
	Lynne Regan Department(s): Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Areas of interest: Protein engineering and biomaterials; structure, function and stability; and protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Biomaterials & Bioinspired Design
	Alvaro Sanchez 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
	Charles Sindelar Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Areas of interest: Molecular motors; cytoskeleton; cryo-electron microscopy Research Thrust(s): Cell Shape & Dynamics
	Patrick Sung Department(s): Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Therapeutic Radiology Areas of interest: Homologous recombination; DNA souble strand repair in Eukaryotes Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate
	Madhusudhan Venkadesan 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
	Elsa Yan Department(s): Chemistry Areas of interest: Biomolecular interactions at interfaces; signal transduction across biomembranes; molecular mechanism of vision Research Thrust(s): Cell Fate
	Yongli Zhang 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
	Steven Zucker 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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