Life Sciences Faculty
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging.
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.
Expertise: Cellular organization and behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
Expertise: Regulation of protein phosphatases and the evolution of cellular signaling.
Expertise: Human spatial orientation and motor control.
Expertise: Self-organization of Living and Active matter.
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems
Expertise: Scientific computing, fluid dynamics and mathematical biology.
Expertise: Macromolecules in suspension; physics of protein crystallization; microfluidics
Expertise: Neural development and behavior.
Expertise: Single-molecule biochemistry and biophysics; transcription and RNA processing; cytoskeletal networks and regulation
Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis.
Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors.
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
Expertise: Cognitive and social neuroscience; influence of age and culture on memory.
Expertise: Self-control; empathy and environmentalism.
Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response.
Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
Expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education.
Expertise: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory-guided behavior in the mammalian brain.
Expertise: Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality and lifespan
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.
Expertise: Dynamics of enzymes, magnetic resonance methods
Expertise: Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry.
Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to spaceflight and autonomous vehicles.
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
Expertise: Modulation of neural networks.
Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.
Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors
Expertise: Mapping the functional repertoire of (bio)inorganic systems and protein metallocofactors; paradigms of (bio)catalysts relevant to the human health and environment
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
Expertise: Self-assembly at the colloidal length scale
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.
Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes.
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.
Biology Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2023
Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions.
Expertise: Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell
Expertise: Evolution, structure, and function of macromolecular complexes
Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Mathematical neuroscience.
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.
Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems
Teaching Faculty
Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change.
Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.
Expertise: Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.
Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function.
Expertise:Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology
Undergraduate Advising Head — Spring 2024