Faculty Profiles

Sensory biology and cell physiology

Motile behavior of bacteria: sensory transduction in bacterial chemotaxis (in E. coli), dynamics of the flagellar rotary motor, propulsion of non-flagellated bacteria

Real-time systems analysis of signal transduction and genetic networks at the single cell level

Mechanisms of membrane-associated cell biological processes.

High resolution dynamic and spatial studies of prokaryotic cellular organization

Molecular mechanisms of social behaviors, specifically self versus non-self recognition, in bacteria

C. elegans genetics of intercellular RNAi signaling

Mechanisms of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance

Chromosomes: motion, mechanics, DNA dynamics and spatial patterning

Development of the nervous system, synaptic plasticity, behavior and evolution

Chromosome segregation, yeast sex, and evolution

Quantitative studies of biological self-organization, and the architecture and dynamics of subcellular structures.

Multicolor and time-resolved electron microscopy of cell signaling

Biophysical studies with nanopores

Reversible phosphorylation and cell proliferation

Developmental Genetics and Neurobiology (not taking students)

Fundamental questions in cell signaling and homeostasis