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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

Robert Tjian

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Amitai Shenhav

Dept of Psychology

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

Karthik Shekhar

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

cellular and systems biology, statistical inference, single-cell genomics

Avishay Tal

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation

David Drubin

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development

Hei Sook Sul

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis

Helen Bateup

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease

Sanjay Kumar

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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

Georjana Barnes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging

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

Xavier Darzacq

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Ziyang Zhang

Dept of Chemistry

synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, peptides, proteins, drug discovery, cellular signal transduction, cancer, autoimmune diseases

Olga Holtz

Dept of Mathematics

numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity

Donald Rio

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

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Jen-Chywan (Wally) Wang

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, molecular physiology, Metabolic Diseases, Type 2 diabetes, cellular signaling, factors regulated glucose/insulin homeostasis, fatty liver

Mark D'Esposito

Dept of Psychology

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

Ellen Robey

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii

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

Rowland Taylor

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Silvia Bunge

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Rebecca W. Heald

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

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