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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Field work in on Oahu

George Roderick

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics

K. Birgitta Whaley

K. Birgitta Whaley

Dept of Chemistry

quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

disease transmission, water, public health surveillance, zoonotic infectious disease, community-acquired antimicrobial resistance

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Psychology

biological rhythms, seasonality, behavioral endocrinology, melatonin, suprachiasmatic nucleus, reproductive physiology, behavior, ultradian rhythms, sex differences

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 Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules

Charles Marshall sitting between skulls of T. rex and a giant extinct marine Mesozoic monster

Charles Marshall

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

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

Yvette adjusting the dial on an electrophysiology rig

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

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

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Photo of Steve Conolly circa 2018

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

instrumentation, medical imaging reconstruction, contrast, MRI, Magnetic Particle Imaging

Alan H. Schoenfeld

Alan H. Schoenfeld

School of Education

thinking, teaching, learning, productive learning environments, professional development, mathematics education, modeling thinking and decision making

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Timmia Hearn DeRoy standing in outdoor setting

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

anti-colonial theatre practice, Caribbean theatre, social justice, disability justice, practice as research

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

Anthony J,, Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

comparative literature, literature, aesthetics, early modern literature, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Spanish Baroque

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein

Dept of Demography

mortality, fertility, aging, social inequality, mathematical demography, economic demography, quantitative methods, United States, Europe

Professor Danica Chen standing in front of audience with microphone in hand

Danica Chen

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

theater, Playwriting, Indie Film, New Music Opera, Asian American, Japanese American