Research Faculty
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Dinu Florin Albeanu
Neuronal circuits; sensory coding and synaptic plasticity; neuronal correlates of behavior; olfactory processing
Gurinder Atwal
Population genetics; bioinformatics; cancer; stochastic processes; statistical mechanics and information theory
Anne Churchland
Decision-making; electrophysiology; sensory processing; vision; audition; neural computation; modeling; behavior
Josh Dubnau
Learning; memory; genetics; behavior
Mikala Egeblad
Tumor microenvironment; intravital imaging; tumor-associated myeloid cells; breast cancer; pancreatic cancer; chemoresistance; metastasis
Grigori Enikolopov
Stem cells; neurogenesis; development; signal transduction
Hiro Furukawa
Membrane proteins, x-ray crystallography, electrophysiology, neurodegenerative disease
Jesse Gillis
Gene networks; gene function prediction; guilt by association; neuropsychiatric; hub genes; multifunctionality; computational genomics
Thomas Gingeras
Genome-wide organization of transcription and the functional roles of non-protein coding RNAs
Christopher Hammell
Post-transcriptional gene regulation; control of animal developmental timing; RNA biology
Molly Hammell
Gene regulatory networks; integrated genomic analysis; bioinformatics; RNA biology; small RNAs
Gregory Hannon
Growth control in mammalian cells; post-transcriptional gene silencing
Z. Josh Huang
Neuroscience; experience-dependent development of the neocortex;
mouse genetics; neurotrophins
Ivan Iossifov
Computational biology; molecular networks; human genetics; human disease; applied statistical and machine learning; biomedical text-mining; molecular evolution
David Jackson
Plant development; genetics; cell-to-cell mRNA and protein trafficking
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Structural biology; nucleic acid regulation; RNAi; molecular recognition; X-ray crystallography
Adam Kepecs
Decision-making; neural circuits; behavioral electrophysiology; theoretical neuroscience; neuroeconomics
Alexei Koulakov
Theoretical neurobiology; quantitative principles of cortical design; computer science; applied mathematics
Adrian R. Krainer
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression; pre-mRNA splicing mechanisms, fidelity and genetic diseases; alternative splicing; RNA-protein interactions; cancer
Alexander Krasnitz
Genomics of cancer; machine learning for biology; inference from noisy biological data; large-scale numerical computing
Dan Levy
Computational biology; human genetics; phylogenetics; copy number variation
Bo Li
Neuroscience; glutamatergic synapse; synaptic plasticity; schizophrenia; depression; rodent models of psychiatric disorders
Zachary Lippman
Plant development; genetics; flowering; inflorescence architecture; sympodial growth, phase transition, heterosis; quantitative genetics.
Scott Lowe
Modulation of apoptosis; chemosensitivity; senescence by cancer genes
Gholson J. Lyon
Human genetics, neuropsychiatric diseases, whole genome sequencing, ethics
Robert Martienssen
Plant genetics; transposons; development; gene regulation; DNA methylation
W. Richard McCombie
Genomics of psychiatric disorders; genomics of cancer; computational genomics; plant genomics
Alea A. Mills
Cancer; development; aging; senescence; epigenetics
Partha P. Mitra
Neuroscience; theoretical biology
Pavel Osten
Gene expression-based mapping of brain activity; anatomical mapping of brain connectivity; neurobiology of autism and schizophrenia.
Darryl Pappin
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein chemistry
Scott Powers
Cancer Genes
Michael Schatz
Genomics; genome assembly & validation; sequence alignment; high performance and multicore computing; parallel algorithms; cloud computing
Stephen Shea
Olfaction; audition; communication behaviors; in vivo electrophysiology; individual recognition
Raffaella Sordella
Molecular therapeutics; signal transduction
David L. Spector
Cell biology; gene expression; nuclear structure; microscopy
Arne Stenlund
Papillomavirus; cancer; DNA replication
Bruce Stillman
DNA replication; chromatin assembly; biochemistry; yeast genetics; cancer; cell cycle
Marja Timmermans
Small RNA regulation, pattern formation, stem cell function, plant development
Nicholas Tonks
Posttranslational modification; phosphorylation; phosphatases; signal transduction; protein structure and function
Lloyd Trotman
Molecular mechanisms of tumor suppression; cancer modeling and treatment; molecular cancer visualization; PTEN regulation
Glenn Turner
Neural coding; learning and memory; sensory processing; Drosophila; electrophysiology
David Tuveson
Pancreatic cancer, experimental therapeutics, diagnostics, mouse models, cancer genetics
Chris Vakoc
Chromatin; transcriptional regulation; acute myeloid leukemia; BET bromodomains; lysine methyltransferases
Linda Van Aelst
Signal transduction; Ras and Rho proteins; tumorigenesis; neural development and disorders
Doreen Ware
Computational biology; comparative genomics; genome evolution; diversity; gene regulation; plant biology
Michael Wigler
Genomics; cancer genes; signal transduction; yeast genetics; bioinformatics
Anthony Zador
Neural circuits; sensory processing, attention and decision making; attention; molecular tool development; connectomics
Hongwu Zheng
Malignant gliomagenesis; animal modeling; stem cell renewal/differentiation; genetic and epigenetic regulation
Yi Zhong
Neurophysiology; Drosophila; learning and memory; neurofibromatosis; signal transduction