MCO Faculty

Sensory biology and cell physiology

Cellular fat metabolism and inter-organelle communication

Molecular and neural architecture of social behavior circuits

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

High resolution dynamic and spatial studies of prokaryotic cellular organization

Development and Regeneration of the Mammalian Skin

C. elegans genetics of intercellular RNAi signaling

Mechanisms of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance

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.

mathematical sciences

Understanding and harnessing the complexity of plant chemistry and metabolism

Multicolor and time-resolved electron microscopy of cell signaling

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

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

Microbial development and gene regulation

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