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N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization
Niklaus Largier sitting in office Niklaus Largier
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of German
theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature
Jacob Steinhardt Jacob Steinhardt
Dept of Statistics
artificial intelligence, machine learning
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Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging
Suzanne MJ. Fleiszig Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig
School of Optometry
immunology, eye, microbiology, infectious disease, corneal physiology, tear film physiology, bacterial pathogenesis, contact lenses, pseudomonas aeruginosa, epithelial cell biology, innate immunity
John Arnold John Arnold
Dept of Chemistry
organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, materials chemistry, coordination chemistry
George F. Smoot George F. Smoot
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
Carolina Reid Carolina Reid
Dept of City & Regional Planning
Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)
Karen Trapenberg Frick Karen Trapenberg Frick
Dept of City & Regional Planning
political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning
Patrick Hsu in the lab Patrick Hsu
Dept of Bioengineering
generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Gerald Westheimer Gerald Westheimer
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation
Shawn Shadden Shawn Shadden
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling
Mathew Welch Matthew Welch
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
Dennis Baldocchi Dennis Baldocchi
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Richard A. Mathies 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
Douglas Dreger Douglas Dreger
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
wave propagation, Inverse theory, geophysics, Earthquake strong ground motion, Seismic source modeling, Seismic forensics, Nuclear explosion monitoring, Induced seismicity, Volcanic seismicity
Ellen Robey Ellen Robey
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii
David Shuster David Shuster
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, cosmogenic nuclide, alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts, magnetism, Martian meteorites, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission
Sung-Hou Kim Sung-Hou Kim
Dept of Chemistry
computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity
Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building. Marié Abe
Dept of Music
sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology
Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front Teresa Head-Gordon
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Dept of Chemistry
Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science
Pradeep Chhibber Pradeep Chhibber
Dept of Political Science
political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Frederic Theunissen Frederic Theunissen
Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience
Gloria Brar Gloria Brar
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses
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