
Ralph Adolphs
David Anderson
Alexei Aravin
David BaltimorePresident Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of Biology
Molecular immunology; microRNA functions in the immune system; effects of aging on immune function; antibody-based protection against infectious disease; roles and properties of the NF-kB transcription factor; cancer immunotherapy.
Pamela BjorkmanDavid Baltimore Professor of Biology and Bioengineering
HIV, protein design, antibody therapeutics, structural immunology.
Marianne BronnerDistinguished Professor of Biology; Director of the Beckman Institute
Cellular and molecular studies of neural crest development.
Judith CampbellProfessor of Chemistry and Biology
Biochemistry, structural, and molecular cell biology; mechanisms and regulation of DNA replication and repair.
David ChanProfessor of Biology
Mitochondrial dynamics: Molecular mechanisms, physiological functions, and perturbations in disease
William DunphyGrace C. Steele Professor of Biology
Regulation of the cell cycle and maintenance of genomic integrity.
Michael ElowitzProfessor of Biology, Bioengineering and Applied Physics; Bren Scholar; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Executive Officer for Biological Engineering
Synthetic Biology: Designing genetic circuits to program new cellular behaviors; Systems Biology: Analyzing gene circuit dynamics, signaling and noise in individual cells.
Katalin Fejes-Tóth
Thomas Hunt Morgan Senior Research Fellow of Biology
Non-coding RNAs in regulation of gene expression.
David Glover Research Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Mitosis assembly and function of macromolecular machines
Viviana GradinaruProfessor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Reverse engineering brain circuits, optogenetics, protein engineering, technology development for neuroscience.
Mitchell GuttmanProfessor of Biology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
Deciphering the mechanisms of large non-coding RNA (lncRNA) mediated regulation of gene expression and cell state decisions.
Bruce Hay
Professor of Biology; Graduate Biology Option Representative
Genetic engineering mosquito populations.
Elizabeth Hong
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of olfaction.
Grant JensenProfessor of Biophysics and Biology
Structure and function of large macromolecular machines, viral and cellular imaging by cryo-EM.
Mary KennedyAllen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology
Molecular structure and function of central nervous system synapses.
Carlos Lois
Research Professor of Biology
Assembly of Brain Circuits and the Cellular Mechanisms of Behavior.
Steve MayoBren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Protein folding and protein design.
Sarkis MazmanianLuis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
Host-microbial symbiosis during health and disease.
Markus MeisterAnne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences
Brain science, function of neural circuits, sensory processing, neural coding and computation, instruments for recording neural signals.
Elliot MeyerowitzGeorge W. Beadle Professor of Biology
Integrated regulatory networks underlying plant development.
Richard MurrayThomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering; Graduate Option Representative
Feedback and control in biological circuits, synthetic biology, molecular programming.
Dianne NewmanGordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions; Executive Officer for Molecular Biology
Bioenergetics and cell biology of metabolically diverse, genetically-tractable bacteria.
Yuki OkaProfessor of Biology and Chen Scholar
Understanding the neural and molecular basis of motivated behaviors toward homeostatic regulation.
Lior Pacther Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences
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 Research Assistant Professor
Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Neuroscience.
Rob PhillipsFred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology
Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies.
Joe ParkerAssistant Professor of Biology
Genetic, genomic and neurobiological basis of symbiotic interactions in animals.
Lulu QianProfessor of Bioengineering
Designing and constructing artificial molecular systems that exhibit programmable behaviors such as recognizing molecular events from their environment, processing information, making decisions, taking actions, learning, and evolving.
Ellen RothenbergDistinguished Professor of Biology
Transcriptional networks underlingT-cell development and signaling.
Paul SternbergBren Professor of Biology
Systems biology of C. elegans development; Neural circuits underlying sex and sleep; Nematode functional genomics and chemical ecology; Text mining.
Matt Thomson Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
Biological Engineering, Computational Mathematics, Developmental Biology and Genetics,
Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology.
Doris Tsao Professor of Biology; T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience
Biological Engineering, Computation and Neural Systems, Neuroscience, Systems Biology.
David Van Valen Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Biological Engineering,
Microbiology and Immunology,
Systems Biology.
Alexander VarshavskyThomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology
The ubiquitin-proteasome system, the N-end rule pathway, and their roles in health and disease.
Rebecca Voorhees Assistant Professor Biology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
Molecular mechanism of protein biosynthesis and quality control.
Erik WinfreeProfessor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering
Biomolecular computation, DNA-based computation, algorithmic self-assembly, in vitro biochemical circuits, noise- and fault-tolerance, DNA and RNA folding, evolution.
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Developmental plasticity, cell fate specification and morphogenesis in the mouse and human embryo
Kai ZinnHoward and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Biology
Developmental biology and genetics; neuroscience; systems
biology; molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and synaptogenesis.