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)
Rebecca W. Heald Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cell division, Xenopus, mitotic spindle assembly and function, size control of intracellular structures
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
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
Arash Komeili Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles
Elçin Ünal Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development
Terry E. Machen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology physiology pathophysiology secretory epithelial cells, airway, ion transport, cell regulationm, imaging microscopy, calcium pH redox, electrophysiology, green fluorescent protein, genetic targeting, innate immune defense
Eunyong Park Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins
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
David Savage Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering
Grigory Tikhomirov Division of Computer Science (EECS) bioengineering, nanofabrication, nanorobotics, biosystems and computational biology, energy, integrated circuits, micro/nano electro mechanical systems, physical electronics
Felix Raoul Fischer Dept of Chemistry Organic and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Electronics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Graphene Nanomaterials
David Drubin Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development
Ahmet Yildiz Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules
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
John Gerhart Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm
Ali Javey Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter
Carlos Bustamante Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes
James Olzmann Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology lipid droplet, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, proteasome, ER protein quality control, metabolism, cancer, drug resistance, metabolic disease
James Hurley Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Structural Biology, reconstitution, membrane biology, autophagy, HIV, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy
Benjamin Wong Blonder Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management climate change, science education