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Erik Andersen
Contact Information
- erik.andersen@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- barrick@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0409
Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins
Alexis Battle
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Contact Information
- ajbattle@jhu.edu
- Wyman S249
- 410-516-4253
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Genomics and machine learning
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
Education: Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
Alex Bortvin
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contact Information
- bortvin@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3034
Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates
Gregory Bowman
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- gdbowman@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7850
Research Interests: Chromatin structure and nucleosome remodeling
Nichole Broderick
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- nbroder1@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- bcamley@jhu.edu
- Bloomberg 243
- 410-516-7683
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology
Xin Chen
Professor, Department of Biology; Investigator, HHMI
Contact Information
- xchen32@jhu.edu
- 137 Levi Hall
- 410-516-4576 | Lab 410-516-6543
Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages
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
Education: Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
Kyle Cunningham
Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- kwc@jhu.edu
- 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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- jdiruggiero@jhu.edu
- 410-516-8498
Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response
Chen-Ming Fan
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contact Information
- fan@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3022
Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development
Steven A. Farber
Director, CMDB Graduate Program;
Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- sfarber3@jhu.edu
- 410-246-3072
- Group/Lab Website
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
Contact Information
- Karen.Fleming@jhu.edu
- Jenkins 416
- 410-516-7256
Research Interests: Structure, energetics, and folding of membrane proteins
Stephen Fried
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Contact Information
- sdfried@jhu.edu
- Remsen 121
- 410-516-7835
Research Interests: Folding and assembly of proteins and molecular machines in vivo; crosslinking mass spectrometry; ancient proteins and the origins of life; synthetic biology and directed evolution.
Joseph Gall
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contact Information
- gall@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3017
Research Interests: Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development
Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Contact Information
- bertrand@jhu.edu
- 410-516-4497
Research Interests: Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies
Andrew Gordus
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- agordus@jhu.edu
- 207 Biology East
- 410-516-6509
Research Interests: Understanding how novel and innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level
Marc M. Greenberg
Professor, Department of Chemistry
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- mgreenberg@jhu.edu
- New Chemistry Building 313
- 410-516-8095
Research Interests: Nucleic acid damage and repair
Vincent Hilser
Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- hilser@jhu.edu
- Mudd 123
- 410-516-4693
Research Interests: Protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease
William Huang
Assistant Professor, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics (starting Feb 2024)
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Research Interests: Physical principles of biochemical signaling; membrane signal transduction; single-molecule imaging, spectroscopy, and assays
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Erin Jimenez
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- ejimene4@jh.edu
- 253 Levi Hall
Research Interests: Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration
Margaret Johnson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- mjohn218@jhu.edu
- 410-516-2376
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale
Robert Johnston
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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- robertjohnston@jhu.edu
- 410-516-4954
Research Interests: Development and gene regulation in human retinal organoids and fly eyes
Christian Kaiser
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
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- kaiser@jhu.edu
- 410-516-4486
Research Interests: Single-molecule biochemistry studies of the machines and processes in protein translation, translocation and folding
John Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- jnkim@jhu.edu
- 389 UTL
- 410-516-3286
Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome
Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- yumi.kim@jhu.edu
- 385 UTL
- 410-516-6504
Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis
Alfredo Kirkwood
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Contact Information
- kirkwood@jhu.edu
- 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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- rkuruvilla@jhu.edu
- 410-516-2366
Research Interests: Control of neuronal development by target-derived neurotrophins
Juliette Lecomte
Professor, Department of Biophysics
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- lecomte_jtj@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7019
Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and protein structure
Hey-Kyoung Lee
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Contact Information
- heykyounglee@jhu.edu
- 410-516-5712
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation
William Ludington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contact Information
- ludington@carnegiescience.edu
- Rm 317, Maxine Singer Building (Carnegie Institution)
- (410) 246-3003
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Mechanisms of complexity in microbiome-host interactions
Rajiv McCoy
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- rajiv.mccoy@jhu.edu
- UTL 383
- 410-516-0942
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational and statistical genomic approaches for studying human evolution and reproduction
Steven L. Salzberg
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Contact Information
- salzberg@jhu.edu
- Wyman S261
- 410-516-8246
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational biology, genomics, DNA sequence analysis, metagenomics, sequencing technology
Michael Schatz
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Contact Information
- mschatz@jhu.edu
- Malone 323
- (410) 516-5765
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: My research interests are Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics
Trina Schroer
Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- schroer@jhu.edu
- Bio East 203
- 410-516-5373
Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture
Allan Spradling
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Director, Carnegie Institution of Washington;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact Information
- spradling@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3021
Research Interests: Oogenesis; Drosophila genomics
Craig A. Townsend
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Contact Information
- ctownsend@jhu.edu
- Remsen 252
- 410-516-7444
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Biosynthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action
Tatjana Trcek
Assistant Professor, Biology Department
Contact Information
- ttrcekp1@jhu.edu
- Mudd 307
- 410-516-2332 (office) 410-516-1152 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Spatial organization of cellular mRNAs, RNA granules, imaging
Mark Van Doren
Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- vandoren@jhu.edu
- BioEast 16A
- 410-516-4717
Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation
Carl Wu
Professor, Department of Biology
Contact Information
- wuc@jhu.edu
- 387 UTL
- 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
Contact Information
- hzhao@jhu.edu
- Mudd 226
- 410-516-7391
Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons
Yixian Zheng
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington;
Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact Information
- zheng@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3032
Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging