List of All BMB Faculty
Frances H. Arnold
Enzyme design and evolution, AI/ML, biocatalysis, protein engineering, synthetic biology
David Chan
Mitochondrial dynamics: Molecular mechanisms, physiological functions, and perturbations in disease.
Shasha Chong
Transcription; intrinsically disordered regions; single-molecule imaging and biophysics; cancer biology
William M. (Bil) Clemons, Jr.
Membrane protein structure; protein synthesis and translocation; X-ray crystallography
Gözde Demirer
Nanotechnology, Nano-bio interactions, Plant genome editing, Synthetic biology and bioengineering, Sustainable agriculture
Michael B. Elowitz
Synthetic and systems biology; gene circuit dynamics in cell and developmental circuits.
Mitchell Guttman
Mechanisms of large non-coding RNA mediated regulation of gene expression and cell state
André Hoelz
Structure-function studies of the nuclear pore complex and the histone-modifying machinery; X-ray crystallography
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson
Synthetic and combinatorial chemistry; neurobiology; protein structure and function
Markus Meister
Problems in neuronal circuit function including: (1) Mechanisms of rapid learning; and (2) Task control.  Electrophysiology, optophysiology, molecular genetics, psychophysics, theory and modeling.
Hosea M. Nelson
new electron microscopy techniques; new chemical reactions that enable the efficient and rapid synthesis of bioactive compounds
Lior S. Pachter
Computational and experimental methods for genomics. Currently focused on the development of single cell sequencing based technologies and their application to RNA biology.
Alina Patke
Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Neuroscience.
Niles A. Pierce
Biological engineering, chemical engineering, computational mathematics, molecular programming, chemical biology, synthetic biology.
Mikhail G. Shapiro
Molecular and cellular engineering; Non-invasive imaging and control of biological function; Cell and gene therapy; Neuroscience; Cancer; Nanotechnology; Synthetic biology
Paul W. Sternberg
Systems biology of C. elegans development; Neural circuits underlying sex and sleep; Nematode functional genomics and chemical ecology; Text mining.
Pamela J. Bjorkman
HIV, coronaviruses, protein design, antibody therapeutics, structural immunology.
Judith L. Campbell
DNA replication in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae dynamics in
signaling transductions and exploring biological interactions in single cells
Zhen Chen
Cell development, chromatin remodeling, flagellar biogenesis, cytoskeleton dynamics and perturbations in disease. Integration of cell biology and cryo-electron tomography.
Sujit Datta
Transport processes; Soft materials; Biophysics; Bioengineering; Microbiology; Complex fluids; Active Matter; Rheology.
William A. Goddard
Quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, statistical physics, simulation and design of systems; catalysis; prediction of protein structure and function; (bio)nanotechnology
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Global health; microbiome; microfluidics; single molecule and single cell analysis; Complex reaction networks
Sarkis Mazmanian
Developmental Biology and Genetics; Microbiology and Immunology; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology
Richard M. Murray
Application of feedback and control to networked systems in biology and autonomy. Novel control system architectures, biomolecular feedback systems, and networked control systems.
Dianne K. Newman
Bioenergetics and cell biology of metabolically diverse, genetically-tractable bacteria. Biofilm biology in the context of human chronic infections and crop rhizospheres.
Rob Phillips
Physical Biology of the Cell; Biophysical Theory; Single-molecule Experiments; Single-cell Experiments
Shu-ou Shan
Molecular machines in protein folding, targeting, and quality control; mechanism and engineering of molecular chaperones
Alexander J. Varshavsky
The ubiquitin-proteasome system; N-degron pathways of protein degradation; selective targeting of cancer cells; molecular cause(s) of sleep
Erik Winfree
Biomolecular computation, DNA-based computation, algorithmic self-assembly, in vitro biochemical circuits, noise- and fault-tolerance, DNA and RNA folding, evolution.