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Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt. Samantha Lewis
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Randy Schekman Randy Schekman
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
saccharomyces cerevisiae, human cells, including stem cells, organelle assembly, intracellular protein transport, extracellular vesicles and exosomes, neurodegenrative disease(1551)
Arash Komeili Arash Komeili
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles
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
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
Rebecca Heald Rebecca W. Heald
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cell division, Xenopus, mitotic spindle assembly and function, size control of intracellular structures
Eva Nogales in lab Eva Nogales
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics
David Drubin David Drubin
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development
Karthik Shekhar Karthik Shekhar
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
cellular and systems biology, statistical inference, single-cell genomics
Ting Xu in lab looking at samples Ting Xu
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles
Donald Rio Donald Rio
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host
headshot Hei Sook Sul
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis
Photo of Sanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
biomaterials, molecular and cellular bioengineering, stem cells, cancer biology, translational medicine
Professor Ahmad Omar sitting in front of a glass whiteboard marked with equations related to his research. Ahmad Omar
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly
Georjana Barnes Georjana Barnes
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging
Helen Bateup Helen Bateup
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease
Xavier Darzacq Xavier Darzacq
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization
Carlos Bustamante 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
Michael Marletta Michael A. Marletta
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases
Ziyang Zhang Ziyang Zhang
Dept of Chemistry
synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, peptides, proteins, drug discovery, cellular signal transduction, cancer, autoimmune diseases
Robert Tijian Robert Tjian
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging
Robert Zucker Robert S. Zucker
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator
Dr. Ünal in the lab Elçin Ünal
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development
Wally Wang standing in front of a white board Jen-Chywan (Wally) Wang
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, molecular physiology, Metabolic Diseases, Type 2 diabetes, cellular signaling, factors regulated glucose/insulin homeostasis, fatty liver
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
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