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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecology, water resources, pollution, monitoring, water-borne diseases

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Don Tilley in his office

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels

Jack Glaser

Goldman School of Public Policy

policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition

Diana Bautista, Professor of Cell Biology, Development & Physiology, mentoring in the lab.

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

ion channels, sensory physiology, chemosensation, touch, thermosensation, somatosensory system, itch

Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

School of Public Health

public health, mental health services, economic antecendents, stress related illness

Marla Feller in front of physiology equipment

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurophysiology, developmental neuroscience

Professor Michi Taga with Petri plate

Michi Taga

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria

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

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Dept of Physics

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

Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee reviewing bio-inspired materials in a library

Dept of Bioengineering

nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles

Dept of Anthropology

citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas

Ronald Amundson

Ronald Amundson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, environmental science, isotope biogeochemistry, pedology, environmental history & ethics, soilsbiogeochemistry, ecosystems

Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis

Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Kathleen Collins posing in a laboratory.

Kathleen Collins

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

retrotransposon, reverse transcriptase, genome engineering, RNA sequencing

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

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

Photo Berkeley Library

Dept of Linguistics

computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm

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

Don Moore

Haas School of Business

negotiation, judgment and decision making, Overconfidence, biases, forecasting