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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

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

Michael B. Eisen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genomics, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, animal development

James Nuñez

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, epigenetics, CRISPR-based genome and epigenome editing

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

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

David Weisblat

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

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

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

Douglas Koshland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

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

Britt Glaunsinger

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

virology, gene expression, herpesvirus

Xavier Darzacq

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Fyodor Urnov

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

CRISPR gene editing for clinical applications

David V. Schaffer

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, stem cell biology, gene therapy

David Moore

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

nuclear receptor molecular biology, gene regulation

Haiyan Huang

Dept of Statistics

applied statistics, functional genomics, translational bioinformatics, high dimensional and integrative genomic/genetic data analysis, network modeling, hierarchical multi-lable classification

Elçin Ünal

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development

Megan Martik

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue

Michael Botchan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

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