MCO Faculty

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

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

Evolutionary dynamics, experimental evolution, population genetics

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

Development and Regeneration of the Mammalian Skin

C. elegans genetics of intercellular RNAi signaling

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

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

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.

Human development, Stem cell biology, Neuroscience, Computational Biology

Chromosome segregation, yeast sex, and evolution