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Erik Andersen
Professor, Department of Biology
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- 410-516-1282
Research Interests: Genetics and genomics of complex traits; host-pathogen genomics and drug resistance; evolutionary genetics

Douglas Barrick
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- 410-516-0409
Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins

Alexis Battle
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
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- Wyman S249
- 410-516-4253
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Research Interests: Genomics and machine learning

Gira Bhabha
Department of Biology
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- Mudd Hall 205
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Research Interests: Structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography

Gregory Bowman
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- 302 Jenkins Hall
- 410-516-7850
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Research Interests: Chromatin structure and nucleosome remodeling

Nichole Broderick
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- 138 Levi
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the microbiome affects animal development, physiology and immunity

Brian Camley
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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- Bloomberg 243
- 410-516-7683
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Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology

Xin Chen
Professor, Department of Biology; Investigator, HHMI
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- 137 Levi Hall
- 410-516-4576 | Lab 410-516-6543
Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages

Kyle Cunningham
Professor, Department of Biology
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- 204 Biology East
- 410-516-7844
Research Interests: Calcium signaling and mechanisms of gene expression in yeast

Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology
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- Levi Hall 235
- 410-516-8498
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Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response and ribosome rescue; archaea

Damian Ekiert
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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Research Interests: Microbiology, parasitology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular biology, host-pathogen interactions

Steven A. Farber
Director, CMDB Graduate Program;
Professor, Department of Biology
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- 410-246-3072
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Research Interests: Real-time imaging of lipid metabolism in live zebrafish; cell and molecular biology of lipids; identification of genes which regulate digestive organ lipid metabolism using biochemical and genetic strategies

Karen Fleming
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- Jenkins 416
- 410-516-7256
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Research Interests: Structure, energetics, and folding of membrane proteins

Stephen Fried
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
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- Remsen 121
- 410-516-7835
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Research Interests: Structural proteomics; Protein folding, chaperones, and quality control; Structure and function of biomolecular condensates; Computational structural biology; Molecular basis of ageing; Extremophiles; Origin of Life.

Andrew Gordus
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- Biology East 207
- 410-516-6509
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Research Interests: Understanding how innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level in invertebrate systems

Marc M. Greenberg
Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
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- New Chemistry Building 313
- 410-516-8095
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Research Interests: Nucleic acid damage and repair

Yuan He
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- Mergenthaler 169
- 401-516-0770
Research Interests: Structure and mechanism of how cells read, write and repair the genome; biophysics, structural biology, large protein-DNA assemblies

Vincent Hilser
Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
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- Mudd 123
- 410-516-4693
Research Interests: Protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease

William Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- Mergenthaler Hall 168
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Research Interests: Biochemical reactions at the cell membrane; signal transduction; single-molecule imaging, spectroscopy, and assays

Erin Jimenez
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- 222A Maxine F. Singer Building
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Research Interests: Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration

Margaret Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- Mergenthaler Hall 121C
- 410-516-2376
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Research Interests: Self-assembly control and dynamics in living systems; theory, modeling, and computation.

Robert Johnston
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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- Mudd Hall 309
- 718-406-2901
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Research Interests: Development and gene regulation in human retinal organoids and fly eyes

John Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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- UTL 389
- 410-516-3286
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Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome

Yumi Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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- 385 UTL
- 410-516-6504
Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis

Alfredo Kirkwood
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
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- 410-516-6410
Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms that control learning and the formation of new memories throughout the lifespan

Rejji Kuruvilla
Professor, Department of Biology
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- 410-516-2366
Research Interests: Sympathetic nervous system: connectivity, development, and functions

Hey-Kyoung Lee
Professor, Mind/Brain Institute, Department of Neuroscience (School of Medicine)
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- Dunning Hall 348
- 410-516-5712
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Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation

William Ludington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Division of Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science
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- Maxine Singer Building (Carnegie Institution), Rm 317
- (410) 246-3101
Research Interests: Mechanisms of microbiome-host interactions

Rajiv McCoy
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- Levi 249
- 410-516-0942
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Research Interests: Computational and statistical genetics of human evolution and reproduction

Ana Pombo
Research Professor, Department of Biology
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- Levi Hall 253
Research Interests: Genome biology, gene regulation, neuroepigenetics, addiction, neurodevelopmental disorders, genome architecture, single cell genomics, early mammalian development, spatial genomics.

Kavita Rangan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- Maxine F. Singer Building 355
Research Interests: RNA editing in cephalopods

Steven L. Salzberg
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
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- Wyman S261
- 410-516-8246
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Research Interests: Computational biology, genomics, DNA sequence analysis, metagenomics, sequencing technology

Michael Schatz
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Biology
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- UTL 391/Malone 323
- (410) 516-5765
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Research Interests: Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics

Trina Schroer
Professor, Department of Biology
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- Bio East 203
- 410-516-5373
Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture

Craig A. Townsend
Professor, Department of Chemistry
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- Remsen 252
- 410-516-7444
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Research Interests: Biosynthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action

Tatjana Trcek
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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- Mudd 301
- 410-516-2332 (office) 410-516-1152 (lab)
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Research Interests: Spatial organization of mRNAs, regulation of post-transcriptional gene expression, RNA granules, imaging

Mark Van Doren
Professor, Department of Biology
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- BioEast 16A
- 410-516-4717
Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation

Carl Wu
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology
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- UTL 387
- 410-516-7496
Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin structure and function. Biochemistry of nucleosome remodeling and gene transcription, and live cell-single molecule imaging of histone and nuclear protein dynamics

Haiqing Zhao
Professor, Department of Biology
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- Mudd 226
- 410-516-7391
Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons
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Brittany Belin
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution
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Research Interests: Cell biology of symbiotic bacteria and their associations with plants
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Alex Bortvin
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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- 410-246-3034
Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates
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Phillip Cleves
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Research Interests: Genetic and cellular bases of coral-algal symbiosis and its breakdown due to stress
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Chen-Ming Fan
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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- 410-246-3022
Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development
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Allan Spradling
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Director, Carnegie Institution of Washington;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- 410-246-3021
Research Interests: Oogenesis; Drosophila genomics
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Yixian Zheng
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- 410-246-3032
Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging
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