MCO Faculty

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

(Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027) The molecular and neural circuit basis of behavioral individuality.

Gene regulation, epigenetics and single-cell technologies

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

Molecular and neural architecture of social behavior circuits

Computational and quantitative biology

(Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027) Evolution of molecular and developmental mechanisms controlling cell fate decisions

Collective cell behaviors that build tissues in live embryos

Experience-dependent brain development; critical periods

(Not Accepting Graduate Students) The genetic basis of adaptive morphology and behavior.

Development and Regeneration of the Mammalian Skin

C. elegans genetics of intercellular RNAi signaling

(Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027) Evolution of floral developmental genetic pathways

Synaptic structure and competition

mathematical sciences

Reproductive and regenerative biology

Human development, Stem cell biology, Neuroscience, Computational Biology

Biology of aging through the lens of developmental timing and lifespan evolution.

Development, Regeneration, Evolutionary Biology

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

Discovering principles governing regenerative success in tetrapods

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