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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

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 Botchan

Michael Botchan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic gene expression, drosophila chromosomes, papilloma viral DNA, chromosomal dynamics

Dept of Physics

physics, astrophysics, geophysics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, turbulence

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

single-molecule spectroscopy, single molecule biophysics, eukaryotic gene expression, protein folding

Sai Balakrishnan

Sai Balakrishnan

Dept of City & Regional Planning

spatial forms of urbanization, land-use changes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Dennis Levi wearing a VR headset

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, pattern vision, abnormal visual development

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

Ellen Evers

Haas School of Business

moral psychology, collecting, judgment and decision making, pattern perception

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and lead of the NASA Psyche mission.

Lindy Elkins‑Tanton

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary formation, magma oceans, planetary differentiation

Dept of City & Regional Planning

income inequality, housing, urbanization, social and spatial inequality, urban and regional economics

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

Photo of Lia Scott

Lia Scott

School of Public Health

breast cancer, structural racism as predictor of breast cancer, spatial epidemiologic methods

Dept of Neuroscience

behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampus replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigationf

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Dan Fletcher holding equipment

Daniel Fletcher

Dept of Bioengineering

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

Robert Van Houweling

Robert Van Houweling

Dept of Political Science

Congress, political parties, voting behavior, spatial models of candidate competition, experimental methods

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Gary Firestone holding a model

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

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Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

biomaterials, molecular and cellular bioengineering, stem cells, cancer biology, translational medicine

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation