Training Faculty Areas of Interest
Catherine Armbruster
Assistant Professor
Biofilms, polymicrobial interactions, microbial ecology and evolution, genomics, microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis, cystic fibrosis, built environment microbiology, bioinformatics
Bruce A. Armitage
Professor, Chemistry
Co-Director, CNAST
Bioorganic and supramolecular chemistry; DNA/RNA analogs; photochemistry in supramolecular assemblies; probes for RNA structure and function; sensors for hybridization of nucleic acid probes
Alison L. Barth
Professor
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
Bacterial group behaviors; biofilm communities; bacterial signal transduction; live-cell imaging
En Cai
Assistant Professor
T-cell signaling and activation; cancer immunotherapy; lattice light-sheet microscopy; single molecule fluorescence microscopy; super-resolution imaging
Phil Campbell
Research Professor, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
Growth factors; musculoskeletal physiology; tissue engineering
Dannie Durand
Associate Professor
Computational molecular biology and computational genomics; especially the evolution of genomic organization and function
Charles A. Ettensohn
Professor
Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; early patterning and cell fate specification; morphogenetic cell movements; cell signaling; biomineralization
Aryn H. Gittis
Professor
Synaptic physiology; optogenetics; behavior; mechanisms of circuit dysfunction in movement disorders
Jonathan Henninger
Assistant Professor
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
N. Luisa Hiller
Associate Professor
Bacterial pathogenesis; comparative genomics; intercellular communication; strain evolution; biofilms
Veronica F. Hinman
Department Head
Professor
Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; evolution of developmental mechanisms
Kate Hong
Assistant Professor
Sensory-guided behavior, systems neuroscience, in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, cortical-subcortical interactions, recovery after brain injury
Irene Kaplow
Assistant Professor
Comparative genomics, transcriptional regulation, computational biology
Zheng Kuang
Assistant Professor
Host-microbial interactions; genomics; gnotobiotics; laser capture microscopy
Frederick Lanni
Associate Professor
Biophysics, cell motility, cytoskeleton, signal transduction, microscopy
Tina H. Lee
Associate Professor
Mammalian cell biology, membrane trafficking, organelle structure and dynamics, regulation of ER-to-Golgi transport, osmotic stress
Brooke M. McCartney
Associate Professor
Mechanisms of signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization during Drosophila development
C. Joel McManus
Associate Professor
Genomics; Evolution of Gene expression; and RNA structural biology
Jonathan S. Minden
Professor
Proteomics; developmental biology; cell biology; cell death; fluorescent reagent development
Carl R. Olson
Professor, CNBC
Brain mechanisms of cognition; spatial vision; visual pattern recognition and executive control
Andreas R. Pfenning
Associate Professor, Department of Computational Biology
Computational and experimental genomics/epigenomics of the brain; aging and Alzheimer's disease; the evolution of speech/language
Elizabeth Ransey
Assistant Professor
Protein engineering; structural and molecular biology; intercellular communication and signaling; flow cytometry; microscopy
Gordon S. Rule
Professor
Protein structure; molecular recognition; NMR spectroscopy; x-ray diffraction
Russell S. Schwartz
Professor
Computational biology; biological modeling
John L. Woolford
Professor
Co-Director, CNAST
Yeast ribosome biogenesis; pre-ribosomal particles; RNA-protein interactions, dynamics of RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein complex assembly
Eric Yttri
Eberly Family Associate Professor
Systems neuroscience, optogenetics, Parkinson's disease, behavior, motor system, computational neuroscience, network interactions, dopamine
Huaiying Zhang
Assistant Professor
Protein/ RNA phase transition; cancer cell biology; optogenetics; synthetic organelles
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Associate Professor
Biological imaging; expansion microscopy; optogenetic reporters; biomolecular engineering; synapse typing; complex diseases