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Erin Adams
View Erin's Full ProfileResearch: Immunology, t-cell receptor, molecular recognition, signaling, membrane channels
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Demet Araç-Özkan
View Demet's Full ProfileResearch: Understanding the structural and functional basis of adhesion in the brain
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Anindita (Oni) Basu
View Anindita (Oni)'s Full ProfileResearch: We use combined expertise from physics, genomics, molecular biology and materials science to study complex biological systems with single cell resolution, at very high throughput, and in context of their native environments
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Eugene Chang
View Eugene's Full ProfileResearch: Host-microbial interactions of the intestine signals/pathways that are involved in maintaining intestinal homeostasis
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Mengjie Chen
View Mengjie 's Full ProfileResearch: Our research group develop computational and statistical tools to address the challenges high-throughput genomics technologies have posed for data analysis and interpretation, particularly for data emerging from biomedical studies
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Nicolas Chevrier
View Nicolas's Full ProfileResearch: We develop interdisciplinary approaches and tools to study how the immune system functions across biological scales ranging from individual molecules and cells, to tissues, to a mammalian organism.
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Sarah Cobey
View Sarah's Full ProfileResearch: Evolution of B cells, RNA viruses, epidemic dynamics, and vaccine design
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Maureen Coleman
View Maureen's Full ProfileResearch: Microbial evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry
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Axel Concepcion
View Axel's Full ProfileResearch: Identification and characterization of novel membrane proteins and ion channels in cells of the immune system in the context of viral infection, autoimmunity and cancer
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Bryan Dickinson
View Bryan's Full ProfileResearch: Protein engineering, molecular evolution, metabolic regulation, chemical biology
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Aaron Dinner
View Aaron's Full ProfileResearch: Apply theoretical and computational approaches to relate biological behavior to underlying molecular interactions.
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D. Allan Drummond
View D. Allan's Full ProfileResearch: Protein and RNA condensation in cellular adaptation to stress
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Greg Engel
View Greg's Full ProfileResearch: Photosynthetic energy transfer, Photochemical dynamics, quantum effects in biology, ultrafast spectroscopy
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Aaron Esser-Kahn
View Aaron's Full ProfileResearch: We use tools that live at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and material science to answer unique questions across different fields
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Yun Fang
View Yun's Full ProfileResearch: Mechano-transduction mechanisms by which cells sense and convert environmental mechanical stimuli into biological signaling and novel nanomedicine approaches
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Jingyi Fei
View Jingyi's Full ProfileResearch: Single-molecule fluorescence imaging and quantitative biology of RNA
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Andrew Ferguson
View Andrew's Full ProfileResearch: We use tools from theory, computation, data science, and machine learning to understand macromolecular folding, engineer self-assembling colloids and peptides, and design antiviral therapies
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Margaret Gardel
View Margaret's Full ProfileResearch: Cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanics, cellular mechanotransduction, physics of biopolymer networks, cell adhesion and migration
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Ben Glick
View Ben's Full ProfileResearch: Dynamics of membrane domains; directed evolution of fluorescent proteins
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Michael Glotzer
View Michael's Full ProfileResearch: Determining the mechanism of cytokinesis using genetics, biochemistry, and live cell imaging
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Jean T. Greenberg
View Jean T.'s Full ProfileResearch: Induced systemic resistance, plant immunity, Posttranslational Modifications, Pseudomonas syringae, systemic acquired resistance, type III pathogen effector
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Cassandra Hayne
View Cassandra's Full ProfileResearch: Understanding the structure, regulation and function of RNA processing complexes that are both essential for life and that also have links to neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disease
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Chuan He
View Chuan's Full ProfileResearch: DNA repair, metalloregulation, suppression of virulence in pathogens
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Xin He
View Xin's Full ProfileResearch: Computational analysis and method development in human genetics and genomics
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Sally Horne-Badovinac
View Sally's Full ProfileResearch: Biophysical basis of epithelial morphogenesis and organ shape
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Jun Huang
View Jun's Full ProfileResearch: T-cell recognition, the immunosuppression of regulatory T-cells, the immune regulation of NK cells, and single-cell systems immunology
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Elizabeth Jerison
View Elizabeth's Full ProfileResearch: Combine experiments with statistical physics and dynamical systems theory to investigate tipping points and collective behavior in immunity and inflammation
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Robert Keenan
View Robert's Full ProfileResearch: Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control
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Andrew Koh
View Andrew's Full ProfileResearch: Understanding the design principles in immune development that allow flexibility in cellular fate and function
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Tony Kossiakoff
View Tony's Full ProfileResearch: Structure and function of hormone-receptor interactions, enzyme-inhibitor interfaces, and synthetic proteins
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David Kovar
View David's Full ProfileResearch: Mechanisms of actin assembly: Real-time observation of recapitulated cytoskeleton structures by single filament microscopy
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Yamuna Krishnan
View Yamuna's Full ProfileResearch: DNA nanodevices for imaging and targeting biological systems
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Stephen Kron
View Stephen's Full ProfileResearch: Cell cycle, checkpoint and signaling pathways in yeast. Novel methods for functional biochips
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Jason MacLean
View Jason's Full ProfileResearch: Observational and theoretical approaches to how the brain encodes and stores information
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Peter Maurer
View Peter's Full ProfileResearch: Development and application of novel sensing and imaging modalities for biological systems
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Juan Mendoza
View Juan's Full ProfileResearch: Understanding basic principles of protein function relevant to human health and disease
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Raymond Moellering
View Raymond's Full ProfileResearch: Proteomics of post-translational modifications and chemical probe development
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Edwin Munro
View Edwin's Full ProfileResearch: How the dynamics of embryonic cell and tissue behavior emerge through the interplay between regulatory biochemistry, cytoskeletal dynamics and cytomechanics
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Arvind Murugan
View Arvind's Full ProfileResearch: Quantitative biology, materials design, non-equilibrium dynamics, disordered systems, and theoretical computer science
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Jasmine Nirody
View Jasmine's Full ProfileResearch: Mechanics and mechanosensing at the intersection of behavior, biophysics, and evolution
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Engin Özkan
View Engin's Full ProfileResearch: Biochemical basis of nervous system development, synaptogenesis and neural wiring; Protein-protein interaction discovery and structural biology of extracellular proteins
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Stephanie Palmer
View Stephanie's Full ProfileResearch: Information encoding and computation in populations of neurons
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Eduardo Perozo
View Eduardo's Full ProfileResearch: Ion channels, membrane transport, membrane protein dynamics, energy transduction mechanisms, voltage dependent processes. Over-expression of membrane proteins
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David Pincus
View David's Full ProfileResearch: System mechanics and feedback regulation in cellular stress responses
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Luka Pocivavsek
View Luka's Full ProfileResearch: We study the geometry and biomechanics of surgical anatomies and biological interfaces. Projects include aortic fragility, seal zone stability between graft stents and the aortic wall, stress focusing phenomena induced by surgical interventions, adhesion and renewal of surfaces, and the wrinkling, folding, and collapse beha
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Rama Ranganathan
View Rama's Full ProfileResearch: We use a combination of statistical genomics, biochemistry, genetics in several model organisms, structural biology, and physical theory to understand the evolutionary design of proteins and macromolecular complexes.
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Samantha Riesenfeld
View Samantha's Full ProfileResearch: Using high-throughput genomic data, the Riesenfeld Group develops approaches to computationally infer the circuits that regulate gene expression and cellular function
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Ronald Rock
View Ronald's Full ProfileResearch: Myosin molecular motors, single-molecule enzymology, actin cytoskeletal dynamics
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Benoît Roux
View Benoît's Full ProfileResearch: Molecular dynamics simulations, ion channels, permeation, gating, lipid membranes, crystallography, Solvation, electrostatics, Poisson-Boltzmann theory, statistical mechanics, free energy perturbation, ligand binding
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Michael Rust
View Michael's Full ProfileResearch: Connect biochemical measurements, the development of novel biophysical assays, and mathematical modeling to build a comprehensive understanding of the function of bimolecular circuits
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Andrey Rzhetsky
View Andrey's Full ProfileResearch: Computational analysis of complex human phenotypes in context of changes and perturbations of underlying molecular networks
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Norbert Scherer
View Norbert's Full ProfileResearch: Dynamics of macromolecular function and structure formation, equilibrium and non-equilibrium single molecule dynamics, pointillist and super-resolution nonlinear optical microscopies
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Tobin Sosnick
View Tobin's Full ProfileResearch: Protein & RNA folding, design & function, simulations & predictions
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Allison Squires
View Allison's Full ProfileResearch: Manipulating, measuring and understanding the properties and behavior of singe biological molecules
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Matthew Stephens
View Matthew's Full ProfileResearch: Bayesian and computational statistics, particularly when applied to problems in population genetics
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Melody Swartz
View Melody's Full ProfileResearch: Biophysics and regulation of lymphatic function as it relates to cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases
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Jack Szostak
View Jack's Full ProfileResearch: Laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems and the origin of life
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Wei-Jen Tang
View Wei-Jen's Full ProfileResearch: Structural basis of cell signal transduction and its application to human health
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Weixin Tang
View Weixin's Full ProfileResearch: Genome engineering using CRISPR, nucleobase modifications, and functionalized peptides
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Savas Tay
View Savas's Full ProfileResearch: Biophysics of cellular information processing in complex environments using microfluidic approaches
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Matthew Tirrell
View Matthew's Full ProfileResearch: Manipulation and measurement of the surface properties of polymers, surface phenomena such as adhesion, friction, and biocompatibility, and new materials based on self-assembly of synthetic and bio-inspired materials
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Andrei Tokmakoff
View Andrei's Full ProfileResearch: Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy to study the molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in solution and biological processes
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Suri Vaikuntanathan
View Suri's Full ProfileResearch: Information processing and control theory in biology, self-assembly and organization far from equilibrium
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Gregory A. Voth
View Gregory A.'s Full ProfileResearch: Development & application of new computational methodologies to explain & predict the behavior of complex systems, theoretical & computer simulation studies of biomolecular & liquid state phenomena
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Wei Wei
View Wei's Full ProfileResearch: Strategies for circuit assembly and development in the visual system.
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Joshua Weinstein
View Joshua's Full ProfileResearch: Development of DNA-based technologies for high-throughput encoding and decoding of biological information with a view toward applications in biology and medicine
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Mark Westneat
View Mark's Full ProfileResearch: Investigate basic biomechanics and functional morphology in organisms and integrate phylogeny with biomechanics to understand the evolution of function in diverse groups of organisms
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Yingming Zhao
View Yingming's Full ProfileResearch: Mass spectrometry-based proteomics technologies, used to dissect PTM pathways
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Minglei Zhao
View Minglei's Full ProfileResearch: Understanding the structure and mechanism of biomolecules using biochemical and biophysical approaches, in particular X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy
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