Matt F. Traxler Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
John D. Coates Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry
Rebecca Abergel Dept of Chemistry Dept of Nuclear Engineering Heavy element coordination and biological chemistry for new decontamination, separation, radiotherapeutic strategies
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
Irina Conboy Dept of Bioengineering stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation
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
Irving Zucker Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Psychology biological rhythms, seasonality, behavioral endocrinology, melatonin, suprachiasmatic nucleus, reproductive physiology, behavior, ultradian rhythms, sex differences
George Roderick Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics
Carlos Bustamante Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes
Yang Dan Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Neuroscience neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep
Ahmet Yildiz Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules
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
Judith P. Klinman Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology catalytic & regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, kinetic, spectroscopic, stereochemical biological techniques, peptide- derived cofactors, nuclear tunneling & role of protein dynamics in catalysis, enzymatic activation of molecular oxygen
Hillel Adesnik Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Neuroscience neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology
Kevan Shokat Dept of Chemistry chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction
Douglas Clark 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
Jay T. Groves Dept of Chemistry physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes
Haiyan Huang Dept of Statistics applied statistics, functional genomics, translational bioinformatics, high dimensional and integrative genomic/genetic data analysis, network modeling, hierarchical multi-lable classification
Felix Raoul Fischer Dept of Chemistry Organic and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Electronics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Graphene Nanomaterials
Kenneth N. Raymond Dept of Chemistry chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands