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Albeanu, Dinu Florin (CSHL Fellow)
Neuronal circuits; sensory coding and synaptic plasticity; neuronal correlates of behavior; olfactory processing

Atwal, Gurinder (Assistant Professor)
Population genetics; bioinformatics; cancer; stochastic processes; statistical mechanics and information theory

Churchland, Anne (Assistant Professor)
Decision-making; electrophysiology; sensory processing; vision; audition; neural computation; modeling; behavior

Dubnau, Joshua (Associate Professor)
Learning; memory; genetics; behavior

Egeblad, Mikala (Assistant Professor)
Tumor microenvironment; intravital imaging; tumor-associated myeloid cells; breast cancer

Enikolopov, Grigori (Associate Professor)
Stem cell; neurogenesis; development; signal transduction

Furukawa, Hiro (Assistant Professor)
Structural biology; neurodegenerative diseases; intramembrane proteolysis; ion channels; membrane proteins; x-ray crystallography

Gingeras, Thomas (Professor)
Genome-wide organization of transcription and the functional roles of non-protein coding RNAs

Hammell, Christopher (Assistant Professor)
Post-transcriptional gene regulation; control of animal developmental timing; RNA biology

Hannon, Gregory (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Growth control in mammalian cells; post-transcriptional gene silencing

Huang, Z. Josh (Professor)
Neuroscience; experience-dependent development of the neocortex; mouse genetics; neurotrophins

Iossifov, Ivan (QB Fellow)
Computational biology; molecular networks; human genetics; human disease; applied statistical and machine learning; biomedical text-mining; molecular evolution

Jackson, David (Professor)
Plant development; stem cell signaling; genomics and imaging

Joshua-Tor, Leemor (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Structural biology; nucleic acid regulation; RNAi; molecular recognition; X-ray crystallography

Kepecs, Adam (Assistant Professor)
Decision-making; neural circuits; behavioral electrophysiology; theoretical neuroscience; neuroeconomics

Kinney, Justin (QB Fellow)
Sequence-function relationships; biophysics; deep sequencing; machine learning; transcriptional regulation; DNA replication

Koulakov, Alexei (Associate Professor)
Theoretical neurobiology; quantitative principles of cortical design; computer science; applied mathematics

Krainer, Adrian R. (Professor)
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression; pre-mRNA splicing mechanisms, fidelity and genetic diseases; alternative splicing; RNA-protein interactions; cancer

Krasnitz, Alexander (Assistant Professor)
Genomics of cancer; machine learning for biology; inference from noisy biological datal; large-scale numerical computing

Lazebnik, Yuri (Professor)
Cancer; cell fusion; apoptosis

Li, Bo (Assistant Professor)
Neuroscience; glutamatergic synapse; synaptic plasticity; schizophrenia; depression; rodent models of psychiatric disorders

Lippman, Zachary (Assistant Professor)
Plant developmental genetics; molecular mechanisms of phase transitions for flowering time and inflorescence branching; heterosis

Lowe, Scott (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Modulation of apoptosis; chemosensitivity; senescence by cancer genes

Lucito, Robert (Assistant Professor)
Genome microarrays; copy number fluctuation; cancer genomics; amplification; deletion; oncogene; tumor suppressor

Martienssen, Rob (Professor)
Epigenetics; DNA methylation; chromatin and chromosome biology; transposable elements; RNA interference; stem cells; germline specification; plant genomics; plant evolution; aquatic plants

McCombie, W. Richard (Professor)
Genome structure; human sequence variation; schizophrenia; cancer; computational molecular biology; Human Genome Project

Mills, Alea A. (Associate Professor)
Cancer; development; aging; senescence; epigenetics

Mitra, Partha P. (Professor)
Neuroinformatics; theoretical engineering; animal communications; neural prostheses; brain imaging; developmental linguistics

Muthuswamy, Senthil K. (Associate Professor)
Understanding cancer initiation using three-dimensional epithelial structures

Osten, Pavel (Associate Professor)
Neurobiology of autism and schizophrenia; gene expression-based mapping of brain activity; anatomical mapping of brain connectivity; high throughput microscopy

Pappin, Darryl (Associate Professor)
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein chemistry

Powers, Scott (Associate Professor)
Cancer genome; molecular targets and therapeutics; functional genomics; cancer biology

Schatz, Michael (Assistant Professor)
Genomics; genome assembly & validation; sequence alignment; high performance and multicore computing; parallel algorithms; cloud computing

Shea, Steven (Assistant Professor)
Olfaction; audition; communication behaviors; in vivo electrophysiology; individual recognition

Sordella, Raffaella (Associate Professor)
Molecular therapeutics; signal transduction

Spector, David L. (Professor)
Cell biology; gene expression; nuclear structure; microscopy; non-coding RNAs

Stein, Lincoln (Professor)
Genome informatics; bioinformatics; mapping; software; World Wide Web

Stenlund, Arne (Associate Professor)
Cancer; Papillomavirus; DNA replication

Stillman, Bruce W. (President and Professor)
Cancer; cell cycle; DNA replication; chromatin assembly; biochemistry; yeast genetics

Timmermans, Marja (Professor)
Plant development; epigenetic regulation of stem cell fate; pattern formation via small RNAs

Tonks, Nicholas (Professor)
Posttranslational modification; phosphorylation; phosphatases; signal transduction; protein structure and function

Trotman, Lloyd (Assistant Professor)
Cancer modeling and treatment; Senescence and tumor progression; cancer visualization; PTEN regulation

Turner, Glenn (Assistant Professor)
Neural coding; learning and memory; sensory processing; Drosophila; electrophysiology

Vakoc, Christopher (CSHL Fellow)
Chromatin; transcription; cancer; histone lysine methylation

Van Aelst, Linda (Professor)
Signal transduction; Ras and Rho proteins; tumorigenesis; neuronal development

Ware, Doreen (Adjunct Associate Professor)
Computational biology; comparative genomics; genome evolution; diversity; gene regulation; plant biology

Wigler, Michael (Professor)
Human genetic disorders; population genetics; cancer genomics

Zador, Anthony (Professor)
Neuroscience; Cortical mechanisms of auditory attention; autism

Zheng, Hongwu (Assistant Professor)
Malignant gliomagenesis; animal modeling; stem cell renewal/differentiation; genetic and epigenetic regulation

Zhong, Yi (Professor)
Neurophysiology; Drosophila genetics; learning and memory; neurofibromatosis; signal transduction


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Faculty


Albeanu, Dinu Florin (Assistant Professor)
Neuronal circuits; sensory coding and synaptic plasticity; neuronal correlates of behavior; olfactory processing

Atwal, Gurinder (Assistant Professor)
Population genetics; bioinformatics; cancer; stochastic processes; statistical mechanics and information theory

Churchland, Anne (Assistant Professor)
Decision-making; electrophysiology; sensory processing; vision; audition; neural computation; modeling; behavior

Dubnau, Joshua (Associate Professor)
Learning; memory; genetics; behavior

Egeblad, Mikala (Assistant Professor)
Tumor microenvironment; intravital imaging; tumor-associated myeloid cells; breast cancer

Enikolopov, Grigori (Associate Professor)
Stem cell; neurogenesis; development; signal transduction

Furukawa, Hiro (Associate Professor)
Structural biology; neurodegenerative diseases; intramembrane proteolysis; ion channels; membrane proteins; x-ray crystallography

Gingeras, Thomas (Professor)
Genome-wide organization of transcription and the functional roles of non-protein coding RNAs

Hammell, Christopher (Assistant Professor)
Post-transcriptional gene regulation; control of animal developmental timing; RNA biology

Henn, Fritz (Professor)
Major depression; human imaging; animal models of depression; astrocytic cell function; role of neurogenesis

Hannon, Gregory (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Growth control in mammalian cells; post-transcriptional gene silencing

Huang, Z. Josh (Professor)
Neuroscience; experience-dependent development of the neocortex; mouse genetics; neurotrophins

Jackson, David (Professor)
Plant development; stem cell signaling; genomics and imaging

Joshua-Tor, Leemor (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Structural biology; nucleic acid regulation; RNAi; molecular recognition; X-ray crystallography

Kepecs, Adam (Assistant Professor)
Decision-making; neural circuits; behavioral electrophysiology; theoretical neuroscience; neuroeconomics

Koulakov, Alexei (Associate Professor)
Theoretical neurobiology; quantitative principles of cortical design; computer science; applied mathematics

Krainer, Adrian R. (Professor)
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression; pre-mRNA splicing mechanisms, fidelity and genetic diseases; alternative splicing; RNA-protein interactions; cancer

Krasnitz, Alexander (Assistant Professor)
Genomics of cancer; machine learning for biology; inference from noisy biological datal; large-scale numerical computing

Lazebnik, Yuri (Professor)
Cancer; cell fusion; apoptosis

Li, Bo (Assistant Professor)
Neuroscience; glutamatergic synapse; synaptic plasticity; schizophrenia; depression; rodent models of psychiatric disorders

Lippman, Zachary (Assistant Professor)
Plant developmental genetics; molecular mechanisms of phase transitions for flowering time and inflorescence branching; heterosis

Lucito, Robert (Assistant Professor)
Genome microarrays; copy number fluctuation; cancer genomics; amplification; deletion; oncogene; tumor suppressor

Martienssen, Rob (Professor and HHMI Investigator)
Epigenetics; DNA methylation; chromatin and chromosome biology; transposable elements; RNA interference; stem cells; germline specification; plant genomics; plant evolution; aquatic plants

McCombie, W. Richard (Professor)
Genomics of psychiatric disorders; genomics of cancer; computational genomics; plant genomics

Mills, Alea A. (Professor)
Cancer; development; aging; senescence; epigenetics

Mitra, Partha P. (Professor)
Neuroinformatics; theoretical engineering; animal communications; neural prostheses; brain imaging; developmental linguistics

Muthuswamy, Senthil K. (Associate Professor)
Understanding cancer initiation using three-dimensional epithelial structures

Osten, Pavel (Associate Professor)
Neurobiology of autism and schizophrenia; gene expression-based mapping of brain activity; anatomical mapping of brain connectivity; high throughput microscopy

Pappin, Darryl (Associate Professor)
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein chemistry

Powers, Scott (Associate Professor)
Cancer genome; molecular targets and therapeutics; functional genomics; cancer biology

Schatz, Michael (Assistant Professor)
Genomics; genome assembly & validation; sequence alignment; high performance and multicore computing; parallel algorithms; cloud computing

Shea, Steven (Assistant Professor)
Olfaction; audition; communication behaviors; in vivo electrophysiology; individual recognition

Sordella, Raffaella (Associate Professor)
Molecular therapeutics; signal transduction

Spector, David L. (Professor)
Cell biology; gene expression; nuclear structure; microscopy; non-coding RNAs

Stein, Lincoln (Professor)
Genome informatics; bioinformatics; mapping; software; World Wide Web

Stenlund, Arne (Associate Professor)
Cancer; Papillomavirus; DNA replication

Stillman, Bruce W. (President and Professor)
Cancer; cell cycle; DNA replication; chromatin assembly; biochemistry; yeast genetics

Timmermans, Marja (Professor)
Plant development; epigenetic regulation of stem cell fate; pattern formation via small RNAs

Tonks, Nicholas (Professor)
Posttranslational modification; phosphorylation; phosphatases; signal transduction; protein structure and function

Trotman, Lloyd (Associate Professor)
Cancer modeling and treatment; Senescence and tumor progression; cancer visualization; PTEN regulation

Turner, Glenn (Assistant Professor)
Neural coding; learning and memory; sensory processing; Drosophila; electrophysiology

Vakoc, Christopher (Assistant Professor)
Chromatin; epigenetics; acute myeloid leukemia; self-renewal; RNAi screening; mouse models of cancer

Van Aelst, Linda (Professor)
Signal transduction; Ras and Rho proteins; tumorigenesis; neuronal development

Ware, Doreen (Adjunct Associate Professor)
Computational biology; comparative genomics; genome evolution; diversity; gene regulation; plant biology

Wigler, Michael (Professor)
Human genetic disorders; population genetics; cancer genomics

Zador, Anthony (Professor)
Neuroscience; Cortical mechanisms of auditory attention; autism

Zheng, Hongwu (Assistant Professor)
Malignant gliomagenesis; animal modeling; stem cell renewal/differentiation; genetic and epigenetic regulation

Zhong, Yi (Professor)
Neurophysiology; Drosophila genetics; learning and memory; neurofibromatosis; signal transduction


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Justin Kinney

Sequence-function relationships; biophysics; deep sequencing; machine learning; transcriptional regulation; DNA replication

 

 

Fritz Henn

Major depression; human imaging; animal models of depression; astrocytic cell function; role of neurogenesis

 

Hongwu Zheng

Malignant gliomagenesis; animal modeling; stem cell renewal/differentiation; genetic and epigenetic regulation

 

Michael Schatz

Genomics; genome assembly & validation; sequence alignment; high performance and multicore computing; parallel algorithms; cloud computing

 
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