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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Prof. David Bilder

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, cancer, Drosophila, cell biology, cell polarity, tumor suppressor, epithelial architecture, polarity, proliferation control, tumor-host interaction, morphogenesis

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, eye development and diseases, lens development

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

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

Daniela Kaufer standing with part of a human skull nearby

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, aging, dementia, stress, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, blood brain barrier, resilience, trauma, psychedelics, glia, myelin

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

Robert Dudley in the Panamanian rain forest

Dept of Integrative Biology

metabolism, biomechanics, butterflies, energetics, flight, gliding, hummingbirds, insects, paleophysiology

Raymond Jenaloz

Raymond Jeanloz

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary geophysics, high-pressure physics, national and international security, science-based policy

Gary Firestone holding a model

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, steroid hormones, molecular endocrinology, tumor biology, growth factors, dietary compounds, tumor cells, glucocorticoids

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

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles

heashot of Ramona Naddaff

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development

Dr. Ünal in the lab

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development

Dept of Architecture

architecture, urban design

medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity

John F. Hartwig

John F. Hartwig

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, organic chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering

Karthik Shekhar

Karthik Shekhar

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

cellular and systems biology, statistical inference, single-cell genomics

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

Richard Harland

Richard Harland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular biology, early vertebrate development, Xenopus, embryo development

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

Stephen Brohawn

Stephen Brohawn

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology, Structural Biology, biophysics

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

visual perception, face processing, comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations