John G. Flannery Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology School of Optometry neurobiology, optometry, vision science, cell and molecular biology of the retina in normal and diseased states
Robert Tjian Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging
David V. Schaffer Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, stem cell biology, gene therapy
Samantha Lewis Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Massimiliano Fratoni Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear reactor design, fuel cycle analysis, fusion reactors, nuclear power, nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor safety
Hiroshi Nikaido Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall
Karthik Shekhar Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering cellular and systems biology, statistical inference, single-cell genomics
Daniel Nomura Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology chemistry, molecular and cell biology, chemical biology, cancer, drug discovery, chemoproteomics, undruggable
Daniel A. Portnoy Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology
David Weisblat Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Kunxin Luo Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis
Guanghan Meng Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) School of Optometry biomedical optics, clinical science, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine
Trevor Keenan Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management global change, natural climate solutions, Dynamic Vegetation, carbon cycle, ecophysiology, land-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, remote sensing, mathematics and data science
Barbara Meyer Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome
Jasper Rine Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell biology, DNA replication, gene regulation, saccharomyces cerevisiae, genetic analysis, genome, cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, modification of proteins, prenylated proteins
Ke Xu Dept of Chemistry biophysical chemistry, cell biology at the nanoscale, super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule spectroscopy
Irina Conboy Dept of Bioengineering biological aging, biological noise, stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, systemic aging and rejuvenation
Jay T. Groves Dept of Chemistry physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes
Bethanie Edwards Dept of Earth and Planetary Science oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics
Fred Wilt Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology molecular embryology, cell biology, regulation of gene expression, sea urchin embryos, blastomeres, endoskeletal spicule of the larva, glycoproteins, immunoelectron microscopy, fluorescent labeling
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 M. Auslander Dept of Mechanical Engineering control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control
Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science