Tenure Track Faculty
Catherine Armbruster
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Biofilms, polymicrobial interactions, microbial ecology and evolution, genomics, microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis, cystic fibrosis, built environment microbiology, bioinformatics
Alison Barth
Professor
Research Areas
Activity-dependent gene expression in the CNS, the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that underlie learning and memory, and the effect of behavioral training on neural excitability and anatomy
Drew Bridges
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Bacterial group behaviors; biofilm communities; bacterial signal transduction; live-cell imaging
En Cai
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
T-cell signaling and activation; cancer immunotherapy; lattice light-sheet microscopy; single molecule fluorescence microscopy; super-resolution imaging
Dannie Durand
Associate Professor
Research Areas
Computational molecular biology and computational genomics; especially the evolution of genomic organization and function
Charles Ettensohn
Professor
Research Areas
Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; early patterning and cell fate specification; morphogenetic cell movements; cell signaling; biomineralization
Aryn Gittis
Professor
Research Areas
Synaptic physiology; optogenetics; behavior; mechanisms of circuit dysfunction in movement disorders
Jonathan Henninger
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
RNA-directed control of transcription and cell fate in health and disease; biomolecular condensates; RNA biology and therapeutics; mammalian gene expression; transcription; super-resolution and live cell imaging; molecular biology and cellular engineering; developmental biology
Luisa Hiller
Associate Professor
Research Areas
Bacterial pathogenesis; comparative genomics; intercellular communication; strain evolution; biofilms
Veronica Hinman
Professor and Department Head
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Research Areas
Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; evolution of developmental mechanisms
Kate Hong
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas
Sensory-guided behavior, systems neuroscience, in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, cortical-subcortical interactions, recovery after brain injury
Irene Kaplow
Assistant Professor
To start in August 2024
Research Areas
Comparative genomics, transcriptional regulation, computational biology
Zheng Kuang
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas
Host-microbial interactions; genomics; gnotobiotics; laser capture microscopy
Frederick Lanni
Associate Professor
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Research Areas
Biophysics, cell motility, cytoskeleton, signal transduction, microscopy
Tina Lee
Associate Professor
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Research Areas
Mammalian cell biology, organelle structure and dynamics
Adam Linstedt
Professor
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Research Areas
Mechanisms of membrane compartmentalization; trafficking and inheritance
Brooke McCartney
Associate Professor
Research Areas
Mechanisms of signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization during Drosophila development
C. Joel McManus
Associate Professor
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Research Areas
Genomics; Evolution of Gene expression; and RNA structural biology
Jonathan Minden
Professor
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Research Areas
Proteomics; developmental biology; cell biology; cell death; fluorescent reagent development
Elizabeth Ransey
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Protein engineering; structural and molecular biology; intercellular communication and signaling; flow cytometry; microscopy
Gordon Rule
Professor
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Research Areas
Protein structure; molecular recognition; NMR spectroscopy; x-ray diffraction
Russell Schwartz
Professor and Head, Computational Biology Department
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Research Areas
Computational biology; biological modeling
John Woolford
Professor and Co-director, CNAST
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Research Areas
Yeast ribosome biogenesis; pre-ribosomal particles; RNA-protein interactions, dynamics of RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein complex assembly
Eric Yttri
Eberly Family Associate Professor
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Research Areas
Systems neuroscience, optogenetics, Parkinson's disease, behavior, motor system, computational neuroscience, network interactions, dopamine
Huaiying Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Protein/ RNA phase transition; cancer cell biology; optogenetics; synthetic organelles.
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Associate Professor
Research Areas
Biological imaging; expansion microscopy; optogenetic reporters; biomolecular engineering; synapse typing; complex diseases
Teaching Track Faculty
Mohamed Bouaouina
Associate Teaching Professor, CMU-Q
Office: 2021 (CMU-Q)
Phone: +974 4454-8408
DJ Brasier
Associate Teaching Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Office: MI 415A
Phone: 412-268-1951
Maggie Braun
Teaching Professor and MCS Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Office: DH 1324
Phone: 412-268-6679
Amy Burkert
Teaching Professor and Vice Provost for Education
Office: Warner Hall 609A
Phone: 412-268-5865
Jason D’Antonio
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director, Health Professions Program
Office: DH 1319
Phone: 412-268-8494
Carrie Doonan
Teaching Professor and Director, Undergraduate Laboratories
Office: MI 353
Phone: 412-268-3117
Kenneth Hovis
Associate Teaching Professor and MCS Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives
Office: DH 1322
Phone: 412-268-5934
Annette Vincent
Associate Dean for Diversity and Climate, CMU-Q
Associate Teaching Professor, CMU-Q
Office: 2194 (CMU-Q)
Phone: +974 4454-8523
Stephanie Wong-Noonan
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: MI 409A
Phone: 412-268-3865
Ihab Younis
Associate Teaching Professor, CMU-Q
Office: 2195 (CMU-Q)
Phone: +974 4454-8590
Emeritus Faculty
David Hackney
Professor Emeritus
Chien Ho
Professor Emeritus
Jonathan Jarvik
Professor Emeritus
A. Javier López
Professor Emeritus
Bob Murphy
Professor Emeritus
Alan Waggoner
Professor Emeritus
Affiliated Faculty
Bruce Armitage
Professor, Chemistry and Co-directory, CNAST
Email: army@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: MI 722
Phone: 412-268-4196
Phil Campbell
Research Professor, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
Email: pcampbel@cs.cmu.edu
Office: 1213 Hamburg Hall
Phone: 412-268-4126
Phillip Compeau
Associate Teaching Professor, Computational Biology
Email: pcompeau@cs.cmu.edu
Office: GHC 7403
Phone: 412-268-7876
William Eddy
John C. Warner Professor, Statistics
Email: bill@stat.cmu.edu
Office: 132F Baker Hall
Phone: 412-268-2725
T.D. Jacobsen
Assistant Director and Principal Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Email: tj50@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: HL HI
Phone: 412-268-2434
Robert Kiger
Distinguished Service Professor of Botany, Director and Principal Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Email: rkiger@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: HL HI
Phone: 412-268-2434
Carleton Kingsford
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science, Computational Biology
Email: carlk@cs.cmu.edu
Office: GHC 7719
Phone: 412-268-1769
Philip Leduc
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Email: prl@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: 415 Scaife Hall
Phone: 412-268-2504
Carl Olson
Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)
Email: colson@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: MI 115E
Phone: 412-268-2968
Andreas Pfenning
Assistant Professor, Computational Biology
Email: apfenning@cmu.edu
Office: GHC 7711
Phone: 412-268-3256
Frederick Utech
Adjunct Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Email: fu23@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: HL HI
Phone: 412-268-4819
Adjunct Faculty
Amesh Adalja
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Senior Scholar - Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Email: aa36@andrew.cmu.edu
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Rita Bottino
Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics - Allegheny Health Network
Email: RBottino@wpahs.org
Office: 11th Floor, South Tower
Phone: 412-359-6395
Cellular Therapeutics
Robert Cameron
Adjunct Professor, CalTech-Beckman Institute
Email: acameron@caltech.edu
Phone: 626-395-8421
Yong Fan
Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics - Allegheny Health Network
Email: YFan@wpahs.org
Office: 11th Floor, South Tower
Phone: 412-359-6987
Cellular Therapeutics
Jon Johnson
Adjunct Professor, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry - University of Pittsburgh
Email: jjohnson@pitt.edu
Office: 458 Crawford Hall
Phone: 412-624-4295
Karl Kandler
Adjunct Professor, Professory of Otolaryngology and Neurobiology - University of Pittsburgh
Email: kkarl+@pitt.edu
Office: 152 Eye and Ear Institute
Phone: 412-605-0998
Cynthia Lance-Jones
Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Neurobiology - University of Pittsburgh
Email: clancej@pitt.edu
Office: W1442 BST
Phone: 412-648-9078
Cynthia Morton
Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Curator and Head of Botany - Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Email: mortonc@carnegiemuseums.org
Phone: 412-578-2639
James Post
Adjunct Professor, Allegheny Singer Research Institute
Email: cpost@wpahs.org
Phone: 412-359-8169
Peter Strick
Adjunct Professor, Co-Director - CNBC, Professory of Neurobiology and Psychiatry - University of Pittsburgh
Email: strickp@pitt.edu
Office: BST3 4074
Phone: 412-383-9961
D. Lansing Taylor
Adjunct Professor, Director - University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Professor of Computational and Systems Biology - University of Pittsburgh
Email: dltaylor@pitt.edu
Office: 10045 BST 3
Phone: 412-648-9200
Massimo Trucco
Adjunct Professor, Director - Institute of Cellular Therapeutics, Allegheny Health Network
Email: MTrucco1@wpahs.org
Office: 11th Floor, South Tower
Phone: 412-359-6988
Cellular Therapeutics
Karl Williams
Chief Medical Examiner, Allegheny County
Phone: 412-350-4800