Jay D. Keasling Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
David Savage Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering
Denis Titov Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition metabolism, aging, systems biology, computational biology
Douglas Clark Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, extremozymes, bioactive materials, bioprocess engineering, biofuels and bioenergy, biocatalysis
Anastasios Melis Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D
Anders Näär Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies
Andreas Stahl Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants
Wenjun Zhang Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery, human microbiome, specialized metabolism
Rebecca Abergel Dept of Chemistry Dept of Nuclear Engineering Heavy element coordination and biological chemistry for new decontamination, separation, radiotherapeutic strategies
Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization
Allon Wagner Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Division of Computer Science (EECS) computational biology, single-cell genomics, immunology, systems biology, cell metabolism
Kevan Shokat Dept of Chemistry chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction