Faculty & Research
Research Faculty
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: Self-organization of Living and Active matter.
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: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response.
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
Expertise: Molecular neurobiology and RNA metabolism.
Expertise: Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality and lifespan
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
Gene expression in cellular stress responses
Mitochondrial genetics and metabolism in health and neurodegenerative disease
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells.
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
Expertise: Self-assembly at the colloidal length scale
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
Expertise: Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell
Expertise: Evolution, structure, and function of macromolecular complexes
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems
Emeriti Faculty
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
Master's Advising Head
Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics