All Faculty & Research Interests

QCB Faculty	Research Interests
Andolfatto, Peter Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolution and genetics
Austin, Robert Professor, Physics	What physics can do for biology, what biology can do for physics. Dynamics of proteins, DNA and cells
Bassler, Bonnie Professor, Molecular Biology	Intercellular communication and quorum sensing in bacteria
Berry, Michael J. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Neural computation in the retina
Bialek, William Professor, Physics	Coding, computation and learning in the nervous system; noise and the physical limits to biological functions; statistical mechanics and information theory
Botstein, David Professor, Molecular Biology	Genome-wide studies of gene expression through the life cycle and experimental evolution of budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae); quantitative analysis and intuitive display of genome-scale biological information.
Brangwynne, Cliff Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering	Biophysical approaches to understanding growth of RNA/protein assemblies, cells, and tissues; The intersection of Soft Matter Physics and Biology; Biologically-Inspired Materials
Brody, Carlos Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Quantitative and computational systems neuroscience
Callan, Curtis Professor, Physics	Theoretical problems in genomics
Car, Roberto Professor, Chemistry	Chemical physics and materials science; electronic structure theory and ab-initio molecular dynamics. Computer modeling and simulation of solids, liquids, disordered systems, and molecular structures. Structural phase transitions and chemical reactions
Carmona, Rene Professor, ORFE	Statistical data analysis. Signal and image reconstructions. The mathematics of functional imaging of the brain.
Chazelle, Bernard Professor, Computer Science	Theoretical computer science, with a particular emphasis on the theory of algorithms and data structures
Cinlar, Erhan Professor, ORFE	All aspects of stochastic modeling and applied probability: Markov processes, particle systems with creation and annihilation, dynamic population models, and transport by stochastic flows.
Cohen, Jonathan Professor, Psychology	Neural mechanisms underlying higher mental function
Coller, Hilary Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology	Molecular characterization of quiescence in human cells
Couzin, Iain Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Collective Animal Behavior
Cox, Edward Professor, Molecular Biology	The genesis of spatial patterns in simple systems, the biophysics of DNA in confined environments
Dismukes, G. Charles Professor, Chemistry	Biophysical studies of enzyme structure and mechanisms
Dobkin, David Professor, Computer Science	Research lies between the areas of computational geometry and computer graphics
Dobson, Andrew P. Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Conservation biology and disease control; population dynamics and coevolution of parasites and their hosts; population dynamics and life-history strategies of birds, primates, and elephants
Enquist, Lynn Professor, Molecular Biology	Neurovirology
Fan, Jianqing Professor, Operations Research & Financial Engineering	Biostatistics, data-analytic modeling, functional data analysis, survival analysis, and computational biology. Primary research focuses on developing and justifying statistical methods that arise from various scientific disciplines.
Finkelstein, Adam Professor, Computer Science	Computer graphics
Floudas, Christodoulos A. Professor, Chemical Engineering	Chemical process systems engineering at the interface of chemical engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, computer science, and molecular biology
Funkhouser, Thomas Professor, Computer Science	Structural bioinformatics and computer graphics.
Garcia, Benjamin A. Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology	Biochemistry, Quantitative mass spectrometry based proteomics for analysis of eukaryotic chromatin structure and function
Gitai, Zemer Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Bacterial Cell Biology: Fundamentals of Cytoskeletal Dynamics, Polarity,and Mitosis
Gregor, Thomas Assistant Professor, Physics	Biophysics, Quantitative approaches to systems and developmental biology
Grenfell, Bryan Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School	Population biology and control of infectious diseases; 'phylodynamic interactions of epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics
Groves, John T. Professor, Chemistry	The interface of organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry
Hasan, Zahid Professor, Physics	Quantum many-body systems, macroscopic co-operative phenomena, macromolecular dynamics, protein folding, biophysics
Hecht, Michael Professor, Chemistry	Design of de novo proteins
Hedin, Lars O. Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Ecosystem analysis, with emphasis on the emergence and maintenance broad-scale patterns in the cycling of nutrients and trace gases
Holmes, Philip Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	Nonlinear dynamics and differential equations, developing qualitative and analytical methods for studying mathematical models of solid, fluid, and biological systems
Hopfield, John Professor, Molecular Biology	Computational neurobiology/biophysics
Hughson, Fred Professor, Molecular Biology	Structural foundations of intracellular transport and secretion
Kastner, Sabine Professor, Psychology	Neural mechanisms for visual perception and its modulation by cognitive processes such as attention, memory and learning in the human brain
Kruglyak, Leonid Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Genetic basis of common diseases and other traits, using mathematical and computational methods.
Landweber, Laura Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Molecular evolution of scrambled genes, the genetic code, RNA; RNA editing, in vitro evolution, DNA computers
Leonard, Naomi Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	Nonlinear control theory; Geometric mechanics and control; Control of underactuated dynamical systems; Cooperative and coordinated control of groups/formations; Mobile sensor networks and adaptive ocean sampling; Underwater gliders and other autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
Levin, Simon A. Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Dynamics of populations and communities; spatial heterogeneity and problems of scale; evolutionary ecology; theoretical and mathematical ecology; biodiversity and ecosystem processes; dynamics of disease
Li, Kai Professor, Computer Science	Computer architecture, operating systems, parallel systems, and networking
Llinás, Manuel Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Molecular mechanisms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Murphy, Coleen Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Molecular mechanisms of aging
Murthy, Mala Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology	Neural codes underlying olfactory and auditory perception in Drosophila
Norman, Ken Associate Professor, Psychology	Using biologically realistic neural network models to explore how the brain gives rise to episodic memory
Ong, Nai-Phuan Professor, Physics	Strange-metal aspects of the cuprate superconductors, vortex lattice melting and dynamics, Josephson plasma oscillations, giant magnetoresistance in manganites, and scanning Hall probe imaging
Pacala, Stephen W. Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Population biology and community ecology of plants; theoretical and mathematical ecology; global interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere
Rabinowitz, Joshua Professor, Chemistry	Uses a robust means of measuring the concentrations and fluxes of numerous intracellular metabolites in parallel.
Rubenstein, Daniel Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Decision-making in animals
Rusinkiewicz, Szymon Associate Professor, Computer Science	Acquisition and use of 3D shape and appearance data of physical objects
Schapire, Robert Professor, Computer Science	Machine learning; using data to make accurate predictions. Classification of learning problems in which the goal is to classify objects of some kind into a fixed set of categories.
Schupbach, Gertrud Professor, Molecular Biology	Genetic and molecular analysis of oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster
Semmelhack, Martin Professor, Chemistry	Organic Synthesis and Organometallic Chemistry: Development of synthesis methodology with transition metal reagents; synthesis of unusual ring systems in natural and unnatural molecules; functional models of the enediyne toxins
Shaevitz, Joshua Assistant Professor, Physics	Experimental research in cellular and molecular biophysics
Shvartsman, Stanislav Y. Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering	Networks of intracellular proteins define the repertoire of cellular responses to environmental inputs
Singh, Jaswinder Pal Professor, Computer Science	Boundary of applications and high-performance (parallel/distributed) systems. Includes development of effective parallel and distributed applications on many high-performance platforms, and studying the implications of these applications for the design of multiprocessor architectures, programming models and software systems.
Singh, Mona Professor, Computer Science	Bioinformatics; Molecular networks, protein interactions and function, structural bioinformatics
Sondhi, Shivaji Professor, Physics	Materials in which the interactions among the electrons are important, even for a qualitative understanding of their behavior.
Steiglitz, Kenneth Professor, Computer Science	Storage of information in states of optical solitons, the transformation of these states when solitons collide, and the computational power of solitonic systems.
Stengel, Robert Professor, Electrical Engineering	Bioinformatic and biostatistical analysis of colorectal cancer; improving the efficiency, performance, and safety of air transportation in the United States by identifying promising targets for development, by conducting associated long-term research, and by educating technological leaders.
Stock, Jeffry Professor, Molecular Biology	Membrane receptors and signal transduction
Storey, John Professor,Molecular Biology	Quantitative and functional genomics
Tank, David Professor, Mol. Biology/Physics	Measurement and analysis of neural circuit dynamics
Troyanskaya, Olga Associate Professor, Computer Science	Computational methods with an experimental component to develop comprehensive descriptions of genetic systems of cellular controls, including those whose malfunctioning becomes the basis of genetic disorders or others whose failure might produce developmental defects in model systems.
Wang, Samuel S.H. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology	Dynamics and learning in neural circuits
Ward, Bess B. Professor, Geology	Marine and global nitrogen cycle, molecular and immunological probes for marine bacteria and bacterial processes (especially nitrification and denitrification), microbial ecology, xenobiotic transformations by bacterial communities
Wieschaus, Eric Professor, Molecular Biology	Patterning in the early Drosophila embryo
Wingreen, Ned Professor, Molecular Biology	Intracellular networks in bacteria
Yang, Haw Associate Professor, Chemistry	Single-Molecule Protein Dynamics