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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Dr. Ünal in the lab

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Tyrone B. Hayes

Tyrone B. Hayes

Dept of Integrative Biology

genetics, amphibians, developmental endocrinology, steroid hormones, metamorphosis, sex differentiation, hormonal differentiation, African clawed frog, Japnanes Kajika, Pine Barrens treefrog

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Zakaria Al Balushi

Zakaria Al Balushi

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

electronics, magnetic and optical materials, quantum materials synthesis, optoelectronics

Dept of Art Practice

art, digital media installations, photography, data science, new technology, video games

Dept of Statistics

applied statistics, functional genomics, translational bioinformatics, high dimensional and integrative genomic/genetic data analysis, network modeling, hierarchical multi-lable classification

John F. Hartwig

John F. Hartwig

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, organic chemistry

Peng Ding

Dept of Statistics

Statistical causal inference, missing data, Bayesian statistics, applied statistics

Dept of Architecture

Cold war history, California Counterculture, History of Exhibitions, Architectural history, Indigenous Australian art, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

Goldman School of Public Policy

School of Information

applied microeconomics, behavioral science, machine learning

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

Dorian Liepmann

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, cell culture, biocatalyst engineering, microsystems, extremozymes, genomics of extremophiles, metabolic flux analysis, enzyme technology, bioactive materials

Prof. Hannah Sande interacting with children during a research trip in Gnagbodougnoa, Côte d'Ivoire

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, enzymology, synthetic biology, biophysics

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Haas School of Business

intergroup processes, diversity, prejudice & discrimination, implicit bias, intergroup relations, inequality in America

Matt F. Traxler

Matt F. Traxler

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Hiroshi Nikaido

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

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis

Professor Gronert in Front of a Mass Spectrometer

Karsten Gronert

School of Optometry

inflammatory diseases, innate immune responses, lipid mediators, lipidomics, leukocytes, inflammatory resolution, eicosanoids, omega-3 PUFA, Dry Eye, lipxoygenase, cycloooxygenase, resolution pharmacology, neuroprotection, adaptive immunity, glaucoma

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dept of Economics

behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges