David Weisblat Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Matthew Welch 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
David E. Wemmer Dept of Chemistry nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers
K. Birgitta Whaley Dept of Chemistry quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics
Noah Whiteman Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Christine Wildsoet School of Optometry optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
Evan R. Williams Dept of Chemistry spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing
Fred Wilt Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology molecular embryology; cell biology, the regulation of gene expression, of sea urchin embryos, blastomeres, endoskeletal spicule of the larva, glycoproteins, immunoelectron microscopy, fluorescent labeling
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
Omar M. Yaghi Dept of Chemistry Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air.
Ahmet Yildiz Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules
Wenjun Zhang Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery
Qiang Zhou Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy
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
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