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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

Steven E. Brenner

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

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Terrence Deacon

Terrence Deacon

Dept of Anthropology

neuroscience, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, neurobiology, semiotics, primates, linguistic theory

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, Turkish studies, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Eva Nogales in lab

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

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Liberty Hamilton

Dept of Neuroscience

auditory cortex, speech perception, EEG/iEEG, computational neuroscience, auditory plasticity

Dept of Bioengineering

computational biology, molecular biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

visual perception, face processing, comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations

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

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Jonathan Sheehan

Jonathan Sheehan

Dept of History

intellectual history, religion, Christianity, Europe, history of science, secularism, Secularization

Lenssen standing at lecturn, delivering speech at a library event

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Derfogail Delcassian

Derfogail Delcassian

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, posthumanism, literature and psychoanalysis, Marxism

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

Stuart Russell in outdoor environment

Stuart J. Russell

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning

Mary Wildermuth

Mary Wildermuth

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant-pathogen interactions