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Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Cindy Looy

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleoecology, paleobotany, palynology

Doris Bachtrog

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolution of sex and recombination, Y degeneration, dosage compensation, sexually antagonistic variation

Irina Conboy

Dept of Bioengineering

biological aging, biological noise, stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, systemic aging and rejuvenation

Rasmus Nielsen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

Peter Nelson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

indigenous archaeology, indigenous environmental studies, settler colonialism, community-based participatory research, California

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

Reed Walker

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

environmental economics, public economics, labor economics

Lucas Davis

Haas School of Business

energy markets, environmental economics, applied microeconomics, public finance, industrial organization

Molly Van Houweling

School of Law

intellectual property, technology policy

James Nuñez

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, epigenetics, CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing

Mary E. Power

Dept of Integrative Biology

freshwater ecology, food webs, trophic dynamics, northern California rivers, watersheds

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Alison Gopnik

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

Joseph L. Napoli

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry

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Peter Sudmant

Dept of Integrative Biology

genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics

Dipti Nayak

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Johan Walden

Haas School of Business

finance, asset pricing, investments, financial modeling, heavy-tailed risks, insurance

Qing Zhou

Dept of Psychology

culture, family, child development, developmental psychopathology, immigrants, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

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Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ecohydrology, remote sensing, satellite experiments, stable isotopes, plant biology, surface hydrology, wetlands, methane

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

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Sean Gailmard

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, bureaucratic organizations, executive branch, public administration, political economy, statistical modeling

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Ian Swinburne

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

vertebrate physiologies, quantitative cell biology, development biology

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