MCO Faculty

Sensory biology and cell physiology

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

Evolutionary dynamics, experimental evolution, population genetics

Computational and quantitative biology

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

Physics, dynamics, and evolution of proteins; microbial cell physiology.

Synthetic & systems biology, biological circuits, gene regulation, protein engineering, laboratory evolution

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

Understanding and harnessing the complexity of plant chemistry and metabolism

Development, Regeneration, Evolutionary Biology

Chromosome segregation, yeast sex, and evolution