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Rebecca W. Heald

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Robert Tjian

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Meng-meng Fu

Dept of Integrative Biology

glial function, cell biology

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Mark D'Esposito

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, psychology, working memory, frontal lobe function, functional MRI, neurology, brain imaging, dopamine

Rowland Taylor

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Silvia Bunge

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Ahmad Omar

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly

Matthew Welch

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

Eunyong Park

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins

Ehud Isacoff

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

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

Mark Tanouye

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

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Samantha Lewis

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Randy Schekman

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

saccharomyces cerevisiae, human cells, including stem cells, organelle assembly, intracellular protein transport, extracellular vesicles and exosomes, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

Kenneth A. Polse

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, tear mixing, epithelial barrier function, contact lens extended wear

Jack Tseng

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology, jaws, bite force, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, mammals, vertebrates, evolution, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, mammalian systematics, evolution of form and function

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

Michael A. Marletta

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

Scott Shenker

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, internet architecture, software-defined networking, network function virtualization, game theoretic approaches to resource allocation, large-scale distributed systems, edge computing

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

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics

Anne Collins

Dept of Psychology

learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions

Amitai Shenhav

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, motivation, decision-making, executive functions, computational modeling

Ahmet Yildiz

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules

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