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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Eric Betzig

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

imaging microscopy, biophysics

Ke Xu in lab with instrumentation in foreground.

Ke Xu

Dept of Chemistry

biophysical chemistry, cell biology at the nanoscale, super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule spectroscopy

Na Ji

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

neuroscience, microscopy techniques, in vivo imaging, biophotonics, biophysics, adaptive optics, optics

Guanghan with "Light Fury"

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

School of Optometry

biomedical optics, clinical science, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience

Robert Tjian Jacket

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities

Gerard Marriott

Dept of Bioengineering

Sensors and biosensors, drug delivery systems, optical spectroscopy and microscopy, high-contrast imaging, biomaterials

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

Evan Miller

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

markita landry in the lab

Markita del Carpio Landry

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

Stephen Brohawn

Stephen Brohawn

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology, Structural Biology, biophysics

Teresa Puthussery in lab setting with pink filtered lighting and machinery in background.

Teresa Puthussery

School of Optometry

retinal neurobiology, retinal neurophysiology, ion channels, glutamate receptor, glaucoma, retinal degeneration, cell biology of photoreceptors, retinitis pigmentosa

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, deep learning

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules

Picture of Professor Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella