Research Faculty
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Dinu Florin Albeanu
Neuronal circuits, sensory coding and synaptic plasticity, neuronal correlates of behavior, olfactory processing
Gurinder Mickey 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
Alexander Dobin
Computational genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, gene regulation, big data, precision medicine
Camila dos Santos
Breast cancer, mammary gland development, stem cells, enhancer biology, gene regulation
Mikala Egeblad
Tumor microenvironment, intravital imaging, tumor-associated myeloid cells, breast cancer
Tatiana Engel
Neural dynamics and computation, neural circuit models, machine learning, stochastic processes, dynamical systems theory, decision-making, attention
Douglas Fearon
Cancer immunology, pancreatic cancer, mouse models
Hiro Furukawa
Membrane proteins, x-ray crystallography, electrophysiology, neurodegenerative disease
Jesse Gillis
Co-expression, meta-analysis, single cell expression, gene networks, multifunctionality
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
Z. Josh Huang
Development and function of the GABAergic inhibitory circuitry in neocortex, cortical circuits, mouse genetics, developmental plasticity, neurogenomics, autism
Ivan Iossifov
Computational biology, molecular networks, human genetics, human disease, applied statistical and machine learning, biomedical text-mining, molecular evolution
David Jackson
Plant development, stem cell signaling, genomics and imaging
Tobias Janowitz
Host response to cancer, metabolism, immunology, cancer immunotherapy, cachexia and physiology of patients with cancer
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
Justin Kinney
Sequence-function relationships, machine learning, biophysics, transcriptional regulation
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
In silico genomics of cancer, single-cell genomics, early detection of cancer, inference from noisy biological data
Je H. Lee
Single-cell, in situ RNA-seq, non-coding RNA, spatial genomics, cancer microenvironment, pancreatic cancer
Dan Levy
Computational biology, human genetics, phylogenetics, copy number variation
Bo Li
Synapse, physiology and plasticity, neural circuits, fear processing, reward processing, rodent behaviors related to mental disorders
Zachary Lippman
Plant developmental genetics, mechanisms of phase transitions for flowering time and inflorescence branching, heterosis
Robert Martienssen
Plant genetics, transposons, development, gene regulation, DNA methylation
David McCandlish
Computational biology, sequence-function relationships, population genetics, protein evolution, machine learning
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
Neurobiology of autism and schizophrenia, gene expression-based mapping of brain activity, anatomical mapping of brain connectivity, high throughput microscopy
Darryl Pappin
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein chemistry
Ullas Pedmale
Plant growth, signaling, genomics, development, plant-environment interactions
Stephen Shea
Olfaction, audition, communication behaviors, in vivo electrophysiology, individual recognition
Adam Siepel
Computational biology, population genetics, computational genomics, molecular evolution, gene regulation
Raffaella Sordella
Molecular therapeutics, signal transduction
David L. Spector
Cell biology, gene expression, nuclear structure, microscopy, non-coding RNAs
Arne Stenlund
Papillomavirus, cancer, DNA replication
Bruce Stillman
Cancer, cell cycle, DNA replication, chromatin assembly, biochemistry, yeast genetics
Jessica Tollkuhn
Transcriptional regulation, chromatin, critical periods in neurodevelopment, steroid hormones and behavior
Nicholas Tonks
Posttranslational modification, phosphorylation, phosphatases, signal transduction, protein structure and function
Lloyd Trotman
Cancer modeling and treatment, senescence and tumor progression, cancer visualization, PTEN regulation
David Tuveson
Pancreatic cancer, experimental therapeutics, diagnostics, mouse models, cancer genetics
Christopher 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
Genomics, genome evolution, genetic diversity, gene regulation, plant biology, computational biology
Michael Wigler
Human genetic disorders, population genetics, cancer genomics
Anthony Zador
Neural circuits, sensory processing, attention and decision making, attention, molecular tool development, connectomics