Krishna K. Niyogi Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration
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
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
James Nuñez Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genetics, epigenetics, CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing
Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Sung-Hou Kim Dept of Chemistry computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity
Abby Dernburg 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
Michael B. Eisen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genomics, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, animal development
Kathleen Collins Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology retrotransposon, reverse transcriptase, genome engineering, RNA sequencing
Ksenia Krasileva Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi
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
David Weisblat Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Douglas Koshland Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics
Samantha Lewis Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Nilah Ioannidis Division of Computer Science (EECS) computational biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, genomics, personal genome interpretation, precision health, rare diseases, statistical genetics, molecular biology, biophysics
Xavier Darzacq Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization
David V. Schaffer Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, stem cell biology, gene therapy
Richard Kern Dept of French literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education
Britt Glaunsinger Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology virology, gene expression, herpesvirus
Hannes Bajohr Dept of German digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory