MCO Faculty

Sensory biology and cell physiology

Cellular fat metabolism and inter-organelle communication

Molecular and neural architecture of social behavior circuits

Computational and quantitative biology

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

High resolution dynamic and spatial studies of prokaryotic cellular organization

Collective cell behaviors that build tissues in live embryos

How venoms direct the evolution of organisms and how they can improve human lives

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

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.

Immunology, microbiome, and diet.

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

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