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Mike Boots Mike Boots
Dept of Integrative Biology
ecology and epidemiology, evolution of infectious disease
headshot of Robert T. Knight Robert Thomas Knight
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection
Fei Xu Fei Xu
Dept of Psychology
cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy
Michael Ranney Michael Ranney
School of Education
Dept of Psychology
Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking
Michael Silver Michael Silver
Dept of Neuroscience
School of Optometry
cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging
Geoege A. Brooks George A. Brooks
Dept of Integrative Biology
exercise & environmental physiology, metabolism, lactate shuttle, crossover concept, lactate, lactic acidosis, traumatic brain injury, obesity, diabetes, the Warburg Effect in cancer, aging biology, isotope tracer technology, arterial-venous difference measurements, clamp technology, muscle biopsies, cell culture, mitochondrial biogenesis, energy substrate partitioning, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism, fatty acid reesterification, menopause
headshot of Verónica Gómez Sánchez Verónica Gómez Sánchez
Dept of Philosophy
philosophy of science, metaphysics, cognitive science
Rebecca Tarvin in the field holding a snake Rebecca Tarvin
Dept of Integrative Biology
natural history, molecular genomics, phylogenetics, amphibians, chemical ecology, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary biology, adaptation, evolution, molecular evolution, physiology, molecular phylogenetics, educational equity, biodiversity, diversity of team members, equity and inclusion in academia, decolonization, collaboration, reptiles, Drosophila, genomes, evolution of novelty, conservation, nudibranchs
David Weisblat David Weisblat
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Chung-Pei Ma Chung-Pei Ma
Dept of Astronomy
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Kriegsfeld Image Lance Kriegsfeld
Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Psychology
Dept of Neuroscience
Neuroendocrinology, NeuroendocrinologyCircadian Biology, cognition, mental health, Neuroimmunology, animal behavior
wdt William (Bill) D. Thompson
Dept of Psychology
cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks
Alva Noë Alva Noë
Dept of Philosophy
cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins
Jack Tseng Jack Tseng
Dept of Integrative Biology
paleontology, jaws, bite force, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, mammals, vertebrates, evolution, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, mammalian systematics, evolution of form and function
Portrait on campus, 2023 Ksenia Krasileva
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi
John W. Morris John W. Morris, Jr
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics
Headshot 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
Ming_Hsu in outside environment Ming Hsu
Haas School of Business
decision-making, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, consumer neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics
headshot of Moi Exposito-Alonso Moi Exposito-Alonso
Dept of Integrative Biology
evolution, molecular genetics, genomics, plant biology, ecology, species adaptation or extinction, climate change
Gary Karpen Gary Karpen
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
Brem photo Rachel Brem
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics
Yoko Hasegawa Yoko Hasegawa
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics
headshot of Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel
Dept of Physics
physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies
Nicole King Nicole King
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues
Caroline Williams Caroline Williams
Dept of Integrative Biology
evolution, physiology, ecophysiology, metabolism, insect, winter, adaptation, thermal biology
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