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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

Associate 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

Director, CMDB Graduate Program;  Associate 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

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

Thomas Graham

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Transcriptional regulation, single-molecule biophysics, live imaging of molecular interactions

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

Robert Johnston

Deputy Program Director, CMDB Graduate Program; Professor, Department of Biology

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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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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;
Vice Dean for Natural Sciences, KSAS

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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

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of microbiome-host interactions

Ana Pombo

Bloomberg Distinguished 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

Kim Reynolds

Associate Research Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: High-throughput assays of protein function, bacterial functional genomics and metabolism. Molecular evolution and modeling of fitness landscapes. Design of synthetic proteins, allosteric regulation, and small cellular systems.

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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