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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Suzanne MJ. Fleiszig

Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig

School of Optometry

immunology, eye, microbiology, infectious disease, corneal physiology, tear film physiology, bacterial pathogenesis, contact lenses, pseudomonas aeruginosa, epithelial cell biology, innate immunity

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Wenbin Lu

Dept of Astronomy

astronomy

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

John Harte

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, ecology, sustainability, energy policy, theoretical ecology, biodiversityl

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

Heather Haveman

Heather Haveman

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, China, careers and social mobility, gender, social history

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Dept of Bioengineering

synthetic biology

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

William Jagust sitting in front of a monitor of brain images.

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, cognition, brain aging, dementia, imaging, Alzheimer's disease

Meng C. Lin

School of Optometry

contact lenses, vision, clinical trials (phase I - Phase IV), clinical trial designs, tear film, biomedical devices, ocular surface

Paul Fine

Dept of Integrative Biology

speciation, plant ecology, plant evolutionary biology, floristics and phytogeography

Adam Arkin

Dept of Bioengineering

Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, bioenergy, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space, green and sustainable manufacturing, sustainability

Roy L. Caldwell

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, evolution, Invertebrates, animal behavior, behavioral ecology, marine biology, stomatopods, crustaceans, cephalopods, octopus, mating systems, communication, sensory ecology, aggressive behavior, coral reef restoration

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

Molly Van Houweling

Molly Van Houweling

intellectual property, technology policy

Bin Yu

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Dept of Integrative Biology

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

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Robert Pilawa-Podgurski

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

power electronics, energy systems, renewable energy, photovoltaics, electric vehicles