Faculty
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My laboratory is interested in the genetic basis and EvoDevo of vertebrate innovations.
Associate Professor
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Computational biology and evolution of gene expression mechanisms
Professor
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Experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Associate Teaching Professor
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Discipline-Based Education Research--student self-efficacy and motivations
Associate Professor
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Microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling in the oceans
Assistant Professor
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Evolution of animal-microbial symbioses
Associate Professor
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Terrestrial paleoecology, niche and community modeling and phylochronology
Professor
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Polymer physics and engineering of cellular and environmental systems
Associate Professor
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Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression during nervous system development
Professor
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Classical molecular dynamics simulations of flexible proteins and nucleic acids.
Professor
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Evolutionary ecology, biogeography and phylogeography of marine invertebrates.
Acting Associate Professor
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The de Alba lab studies the molecular and mechanistic bases of cellular processes essential to life from a biochemical and biophysics perspective.
Professor
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Research focuses on understanding the relationships between morphology, behavior and performance in a variety of vertebrates including bat, carnivoran and avian species.
Assistant Professor
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Ecological, phenotypic, genomic and behavioral evolution of reptiles and amphibians; Conservation genetics/genomics
Assistant Professor
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Our research goal is to understand how molecular interactions and forces across several length scales affect function in biology. We are particularly interested in articulated joints and epithelial...
Professor
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Calcium in cardiac cellular signaling and techniques to study cardiac cells in vivo
Associate Professor
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Plant microbiomes; function, community assembly, transmission, and dispersal.
Associate Teaching Professor
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Discipline-Based Education Research, didactic methods, microbiology
Assistant Professor
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Cell signaling in neural development, brain tumors and neurological disorders
Assistant Professor
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The focus of the Gopinath Lab is to combine experimental observations with minimal analytical models, phenomenological mesoscale theories and agent-based discrete computations to understand the...
Professor
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Theory at the interface of biophysics and soft condensed matter physics
Assistant Professor
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Viral metagenomics, systems immunology, microbiome regulation, viral/antiviral discovery
Professor
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Terrestrial microbial and ecosystem ecology, plant-soil interactions
Assistant Professor
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Epigenetic and transcriptional networks and metabolic engineering of yeasts
Associate Professor
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Immunological tolerance and auto-immune disease, regulatory T cells
Assistant Professor
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Parasite pathogenesis and immunology, toxoplasma and host-immune responses
Assistant Professor
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Numerical Analysis, Fluid Dynamics, Applied Math, Applications in Biology and Oceanography
Assistant Teaching Professor
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Discipline-Based Education Research, biology teaching and learning methods, entomology and aquatic ecology
Assistant Professor
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Cancer imaging, cancer therapy, fluorescence molecular tomography, x-ray imaging, biomedical imaging system and algorithm
Assistant Professor
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Transport of microorganisms in complex environments, mechanics of biological media and mechanical metamaterials
Professor
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The P. LiWang Lab uses protein biochemistry to study HIV prevention, HIV eradication, and anti-inflammatory strategies.
Adjunct Associate Professor
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Limb and skeletal development, genetics of bone metabolism, transcriptomics
Professor
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Developmental immunology, cell fate regulation, hematopoiesis
Assistant Professor
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Genomic control of gene expression, gene regulatory networks in organismal development.
Associate Professor
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Stem cell and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine applications
Assistant Professor
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Large scale evolutionary inference
Data that can be used to answer evolutionary questions is being generated on unprecedented scales.
How can we take advantage of evolutionary information in...
Assistant Professor
Research Program:
Evolutionary ecology of plant responses to environmental change
Professor
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Our group’s research interests are on the areas of biophysics, structural/computational biology and synthetic molecular biology.
Within this broad area we investigate the conformational and...
Assistant Professor
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Gene regulation in vascular development and genetic engineering
Professor
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Host-microbe interactions and microbial ecology. My research as an evolutionary microbiologist spans the bridge between microbial ecology and the evolution of beneficial associations and is best...
Professor
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Insulin resistance; cardiorenal and metabolic disorders; comparative physiology of Northern Elephant Seals.
Associate Professor
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Stem cell regulation, cancer and regeneration in planarians
Assistant Adjunct Professor
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Molecular evolution, gene/genome structure, intragenomic conflict, balancing selection, sex chromosomes and determination
Assistant Professor
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Epigenetics of neuronal gene expression during brain development & function
Associate Professor
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Plant adaptation, species range limits biological invasions and evolutionary conservation science
Associate Professor
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Mathematical biology, dynamical systems and computational biology and bioinformatics
Assistant Professor
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We study evolutionary hypotheses in bacterial and viral systems using a combination of computational and laboratory genomic approaches
Assistant Professor
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Population dynamics, social and cultural evolution, self-organization, mathematical and computational modeling
Assistant Professor
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Ecology, symbiosis, and the environment; microbiome interactions
Assistant Professor
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The Spencer lab is involved in engineering new optical imaging technologies and using these technologies to study, in vivo, the microenvironments and cellular dynamics within tissues.
Assistant Professor
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Synthetic Biology, Soft Matter Physics, Colloid and Interface Science, Microfabrication and Microfluidics
Assistant Professor
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Biophysical chemistry, structural biology; Understanding the interplay between proteins and their environment by combining biophysical methods and live cell microscopy
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Molecular motion is critical for protein function, but it remains challenging to study the structural dynamics of complex molecules in atomic detail. My goal is to develop new types of structural and...
DOE Joint Genome Institute/Associate Adjunct Professor
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Sequence-based approaches to studying microbial community assembly, function and dynamics
Professor
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Biomolecular materials, biologically inspired material synthesis and processing
Adjunct Professor
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Human functional genomics and enhancers in development and disease
Associate Adjunct Professor
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Applications of high-performance computing to big-sequencing data and machine learning
Associate Professor
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Genetic and neural coding of behavior in Drosophila
Assistant Professor
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Tissue morphogenesis, Control of cell migration and cell adhesion during development
Adjunct Associate Professor
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Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that...
Associate Professor
Research Program:
Experimental biophysics, quantitative biology single-molecule analysis of molecular motors
Assistant Professor
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Animal foraging and food web dynamics over space and time
Assistant Professor
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Structural, biochemical and functional studies of membrane transport proteins