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Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

Neil Tsutsui

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

Martyn Smith

School of Public Health

cancer, genomics, toxicology, molecular epidemiology, exposome, leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, carcinogenesis

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

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

Patricia Lang

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant climate change adaptation, historical functional genomics, plant development

Jose M. Carmena

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain-machine interfaces, neural ensemble computation, neuroprosthetics, sensorimotor learning and control

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

Samantha Lewis

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Ehud Isacoff

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Ion channel function, synaptic plasticity, neural excitability, synaptic transmission, the synapse

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

Steven Louie

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids

Sabeeha Merchant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella

Elizabeth Purdom

Dept of Statistics

computational biology, bioinformatics, statistics, data analysis, sequencing, cancer genomics

Raphael Bousso

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Francesco Trebbi

Haas School of Business

American political system, banking, structural econometrics, political economy, applied economics, regulation, lobbying

Elçin Ünal

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Moi Exposito-Alonso

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolution, molecular genetics, genomics, plant biology, ecology, species adaptation or extinction, climate change

Jack P. Moehle

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural engineering, reinforced concrete, performance-based earthquake engineering, high-rise buildings, lifeline systems, rehabilitation (retrofitting), laboratory testing

Allon Wagner

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computational biology, single-cell genomics, immunology, systems biology, metabolism

Barry Shane

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

health and nutrition, nutritional sciences and toxicology, birth defects, nutritional genomics

Luis Ceferino

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

multi-hazard risk analysis, reliability of critical infrastructure systems, climate adaptation and disaster resilience, structural engineering, extreme event modeling

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

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

Chunlei Liu

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

brain imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, remote neural modulation, biosystems and computational biology, signal processing

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