Faculty Profiles

Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria

Left-right patterning in the vertebrate embryo

Virology meets Proteomics: Cellular Host Defense versus Virus Immune Evasion

Small-molecule-mediated interactions in complex microbial communities

Bacterial cell biology: fundamentals of cytoskeletal dynamics, polarity, and mitosis

Membrane remodeling in human cells and parasites

Molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis

How noncoding regions of the genome function to control the differential patterns of gene expression, both spatial and temporal, that define cell behavior

The molecular basis of evolutionary change.

CRISPR-based technologies for studying viral and cellular RNA

Molecular architecture and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton

Quantitative approaches for understanding mammalian preimplantation embryo formation

Extracellular matrix regulation of cell functions

Protein targeting and signal transduction

Innate immune responses and replication of RNA viruses

Biological modeling; intracellular networks; molecular biophysics

Immune proteins in the formation, function, and modification of neuronal connectivity

Bacterial persistence and host-pathogen interactions

Quantitative approaches to systems and developmental biology

Protein engineering and chemical biology

Investigating the physiochemical basis of protein function in complex systems of biomedical interest with new chemical biology technologies

Utilizing applied statistics, machine learning, and efficient algorithms to address fundamental problems in biology and medicine

Discovery of new small molecules and biosynthetic pathways involved in microbial symbiotic interactions; elucidation of enzyme-catalyzed reaction mechanisms

Computational molecular biology

Quantitative and functional genomics

Genomics of hybrid zones and ecological epigenetics

Neurovirology

Genetic and molecular analysis of oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

Embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster