Doris Bachtrog Dept of Integrative Biology evolution of sex and recombination, Y degeneration, dosage compensation, sexually antagonistic variation
Bruce G. Baldwin Dept of Integrative Biology biology, systematics and evolution of vascular plants, floristics, conservation biology, evolutionary processes, historical biogeography, evolutionary ecology
Gregory Barton Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology immunology, cell biology, infectious disease, innate immunity, Microbiome, autoimmune diseases
Robert G. Bergman Dept of Chemistry organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis
Benjamin Blackman Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology
Michael Botchan Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology eukaryotic gene expression, drosophila chromosomes, papilloma viral DNA, chromosomal dynamics
Carlos Bustamante Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes
Ignacio Chapela Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management
John Clarke Dept of Physics nuclear magnetic resonance, physics, noise limitations, applications of superconducting quantum interference devices, low-transition temperature, axion detectors, sensing of magnetically-tagged biomolecules, nondestructive evaluation
Kathleen Collins Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology RNA, reverse transcriptase, retroelement biology, gene integration, RNA sequencing
Laurent Coscoy Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology immunology, viruses, viral infection, immune responses, immune evasion
Xavier Darzacq Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Transcription regulation during cellular differentiation. Linking the biophysical rules of nuclear organization and gene expression control mechanism.
Markita del Carpio Landry Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering
Abby Dernburg Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
Jennifer A. Doudna Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Matthew B. Francis Dept of Chemistry materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification
Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering invention of biotechnology platforms, genome mining and editing, functional genomics, ML-guided protein engineering
John Huelsenbeck Dept of Integrative Biology computational biology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
John Kuriyan Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology structural and functional studies of signal transduction, DNA replication, cancer therapies, phosphorylation
Samantha Lewis Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Richard A. Mathies Dept of Chemistry genomics, biophysical, bioanalytical, physical chemistry; laser spectroscopy, resonance Raman, excited-state reaction dynamics photoactive proteins, rhodopsins, microfabricated chemical biochemical analysis devices, forensics, infectious disease detection