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
Yue Liu School of Optometry epidemiology, optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, eye growth, contact lens, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, aberration, bifocal, emmetropization, multifocal, orthokeratology, pediatric vision exam, RGP, clinical trials
Kathleen Collins Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology retrotransposon, reverse transcriptase, genome engineering, RNA sequencing
Anastasios Melis Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
Jamie H. D. Cate Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
Sydnee Caldwell Dept of Economics Haas School of Business personnel economics, labor economics, gender wage gap, applied microeconomics
Rebecca Bart Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology agricultural sustainability, plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity, crop disease resistance
Peter Sudmant Dept of Integrative Biology genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics
John Tomsick Academic Research Unit black holes, Neutron Stars, X-ray astronomy, NuSTAR, accretion, COSI
Alex Filippenko Dept of Astronomy supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
Donald Rio Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host
Meng-meng Fu Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology glial function, microtubule cytoskeleton, intracellular protein transport, RNA, myelin, neurological disorders
Heather Gray Dept of Physics particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)
Joshua Bloom Dept of Astronomy machine learning, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, time-domain astronomy, data-driven discovery
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
Jonas Wellendorf Dept of Scandinavian Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)
Patricia Lang Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology plant climate change adaptation, plant development, molecular biology, RNA silencing, herbarium genomics, genetics
James Hurley Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Structural Biology, reconstitution, membrane biology, autophagy, HIV, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy
Rhona S. Weinstein Dept of Psychology community psychology, educational inequality and the achievement gap, teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies, classroom and school reform
Andrea Gomez Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology neurobiology, RNA splicing, synaptic plasticity, psychedelic biology, electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, molecular genetics, molecular biology
Sunaura Taylor Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice
John Gerhart Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm
Maurice Obstfeld Dept of Economics economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history
Dmitry Taubinsky Dept of Economics behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges