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MCO Research Faculty

Paola Arlotta

Developing approaches to aid neuronal regeneration in the context of neurodegenerative diseases of the cortical output circuitry; modulating neuronal function in psychiatric diseases affecting cortical microcircuitry

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Emily Balskus

Elucidation and study of biosynthetic pathways and enzymes as well as the development of synthetic methods that are compatible with microbial chemistry.

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Ben De Bivort

The molecular and neural circuit basis of behavioral individuality.

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Jason Buenrostro

Gene regulation, epigenetics and single-cell technologies

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Colleen Cavanaugh

Ecology and evolution of microbial symbioses.

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Philippe Cluzel

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

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Adam Cohen

Combining optics, protein engineering, chemistry, electrophysiology, simulation, and theory, at the levels of individual molecules, single cells, and whole, genetically modified, organisms.

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Victoria D'Souza

Molecular mechanisms underlying viral genomic RNA – host interactions

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Vlad Denic

Mechanisms of membrane-associated cell biological processes.

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Michael Desai

Evolutionary dynamics, experimental evolution, population genetics (On sabbatical 2023-24)

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Carolyn Elya

Mechanisms of parasitic behavior manipulation across molecules, cells and circuits.

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Florian Engert

Synaptic plasticity: cellular mechanisms, development of functional networks and links to behaviour

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Cassandra Extavour

Evolution of molecular and developmental mechanisms controlling cell fate decisions

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Ethan Garner

High resolution dynamic and spatial studies of prokaryotic cellular organization

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Rachelle Gaudet

Structural biology of signaling and transport through biological membranes

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Peter Girguis

Microbial eco-systems biology; Microbial physiology; Marine biogeochemistry (On sabbatical 2023-24)

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Marissa Gredler

Collective cell behaviors that build tissues in live embryos

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Doeke Hekstra

Study of the mechanics of biomolecules, and more generally the role of physical and evolutionary forces in shaping biological systems

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Takao Hensch

Experience-dependent brain development; critical periods

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Robin Hopkins

Evolutionary, ecological, and genetic basis of speciation

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Nancy Kleckner

Chromosomes: motion, mechanics, DNA dynamics and spatial patterning

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Elena Kramer

Evolution of floral developmental genetic pathways

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Brian Liau

Development of chemical and molecular biology tools to allow new measurements and perturbations in biological systems; study mechanisms of gene regulation and dysregulation in cancer.

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James Mallet

Study evolution, hybridization, and speciation - mainly in butterflies (Not accepting graduate students 2023-2024)

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Vinothan N. Manoharan

Virus biophysics; imaging techniques for studying self-assembly

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Kara McKinley

Reproductive and regenerative biology

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Daniel Needleman

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

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David Nelson

Force-induced denaturation of DNA, sequence heterogeneity and the dynamics of motor proteins, population growth and mutation in disordered media

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Ryan Nett

Understanding and harnessing the complexity of plant chemistry and metabolism

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Mara Prentiss

Theoretical and experimental studies of self-assembly, DNA/chromosome structure, homology recognition, Roles for Mechanical Force Probes Using Single Molecules

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Pardis Sabeti

Evolutionary forces in humans and pathogens

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Matthew Shair

Small molecule probes and therapeutics controlling gene expression, epigenetics, and cell states

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Mansi Srivastava

Development, Regeneration, Evolutionary Biology

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Naoshige Uchida

Neurobiology of perception and decision making

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Amy Wagers

Uncovering the intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of stem cell function, and revealing how changes in stem cell activity impact tissue regeneration throughout life

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Amanda Whipple

Non-coding RNA biology, imprinted gene expression regulation, neurobiology

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Jessica Whited

Discovering principles governing regenerative success in tetrapods

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Christina Woo

Development and application of chemical proteomic methods to study the interactions of therapeutics, natural products, and metabolites within the cellular proteome

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Yun Zhang

Molecular and circuit mechanisms underlying behavior and plasticity

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Xiaowei Zhuang

Single-molecule and super-resolution studies of cellular processes

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Bence Ölveczky

Neural mechanisms underlying motor sequence learning

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MCO Advising Faculty

Sam Kunes

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

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Elena Rivas

Computational methods to identify functional genomic sequences and structures. Quest for conserved RNA structures

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Joshua Sanes

Assembly and function of neural circuits in the visual system (currently not taking students)

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