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Erik Andersen

Professor, Department of Biology

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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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Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins

Gira Bhabha

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography

Nichole Broderick

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

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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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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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Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages

Kyle Cunningham

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Calcium signaling and mechanisms of gene expression in yeast

Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response and ribosome rescue; archaea

Steven A. Farber

Director, CMDB Graduate Program;
Professor, Department of Biology

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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

Stephen Fried

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

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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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Research Interests: Understanding how innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level in invertebrate systems

Yuan He

Professor, Department of Biophysics

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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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Research Interests: Protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease

William Huang

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Biochemical reactions at the cell membrane; signal transduction; single-molecule imaging, spectroscopy, and assays

John Kim

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

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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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Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis

Alfredo Kirkwood

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

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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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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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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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Research Interests: Mechanisms of microbiome-host interactions

Ana Pombo

Research Professor, Department of Biology

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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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Research Interests: RNA editing in cephalopods

Steven L. Salzberg

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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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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Research Interests: Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics

Trina Schroer

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture

Craig A. Townsend

Professor, Department of Chemistry

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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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Research Interests: Spatial organization of mRNAs, regulation of post-transcriptional gene expression, RNA granules, imaging

Carl Wu

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology

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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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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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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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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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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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Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging

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