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

Developmental plasticity, epigenetics and cell fate specification; environmental signaling in development (not taking students)

Chromosome segregation, yeast sex, and evolution

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

Developmental Genetics and Neurobiology (not taking students)

Biophysical studies with nanopores

Reversible phosphorylation and cell proliferation

Fundamental questions in cell signaling and homeostasis