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Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Gary Firestone holding a model

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, steroid hormones, molecular endocrinology, tumor biology, growth factors, dietary compounds, tumor cells, glucocorticoids

Iswar Hariharan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

growth regulation, regeneration, cancer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

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

Prof. David Bilder

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, cancer, Drosophila, cell biology, cell polarity, tumor suppressor, epithelial architecture, polarity, proliferation control, tumor-host interaction, morphogenesis

Rebecca W. Heald

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell division, Xenopus, mitotic spindle assembly and function, size control of intracellular structures

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

David H. Raulet

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer

Georjana Barnes

Georjana Barnes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging

Kunxin Luo

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis

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

Claire Tomlin standing in front of a project of an aerial device

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

electrical engineering, computer sciences, control, biosystems, control theory, intelligent systems, robotics, hybrid and embedded systems, biological cell networks

Lin He

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

comparative genomics, developmental biology, cell biology, cancer biology

David Auslander

David M. Auslander

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

J. Bradford DeLong

Dept of Economics

economics, globalization, economic growth, convergence, economics of post WWII Europe

Clayton J. Radke

Clayton J. Radke

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, surface & colloid science technology, protein/polymer/surfactant adsorption from solution, two-phase enzymatic catalysis, interfacial surfactant transport, electrokinetics, pore-level fluid mechanics, contact-lens & eye mechanics

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Terry E. Machen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

physiology pathophysiology secretory epithelial cells, airway, ion transport, cell regulationm, imaging microscopy, calcium pH redox, electrophysiology, green fluorescent protein, genetic targeting, innate immune defense

Francesco Borrelli

Francesco Borrelli

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

control, transportation, traffic flow theory and control, nonlinear partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, mixed autonomy transportation

Jorge Otero-Millan

Jorge Otero-Millan

School of Optometry

ocular motor control, vision while moving, measuring eye movements, eye movements for diagnosis

Dan Fletcher holding equipment

Daniel Fletcher

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, biophysics, mechanical properties of cells