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Professor Blackman in the field with sunflowers

Benjamin Blackman

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

Wenbin Lu

Dept of Astronomy

astronomy

Danica Chen

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging

Michael Zaletel

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory

Helen Bateup

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease

Randy Schekman

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

saccharomyces cerevisiae, human cells, including stem cells, organelle assembly, intracellular protein transport, extracellular vesicles and exosomes, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

Douglas Koshland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics

Aditi Krishnapriyan

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, geometric deep learning, differentiable physics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, computational geometry, optimization

Eunyong Park

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins

James Olzmann

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

lipid droplet, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, proteasome, ER protein quality control, metabolism, cancer, drug resistance, metabolic disease

Ben Williams

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant epigenetics, cell identity

Alison Gopnik

Dept of Psychology

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

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

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

Molly Ohainle

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, molecular medicine

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

David Limmer

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry

Ashok Ajoy

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, nanoscale NMR spectroscopy

Franco Zunino

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials

David Foster

Dept of Neuroscience

behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampus replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigationf

Alex Filippenko

Dept of Astronomy

supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe

Jeffery S. Cox

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

TB, mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, genetics, proteomics, transcriptional profiling, host-pathogen interactions, host-directed therapy

Ndola Prata

School of Public Health

community-base access to care, maternal mortality, population and family planning, safe abortion, adolescent reproductive health in developing countries, postpartum hemorrhage

Scott Shenker

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, internet architecture, software-defined networking, network function virtualization, game theoretic approaches to resource allocation, large-scale distributed systems, edge computing

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

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