College faculty

Building synthetic cells and creating new architectures for life for use in foundational research and practical applications.

Structural biology of protein-nucleic acid interactions relevant to virology and cancer

We use genomics, genome engineering, and synthetic biology to study how natural genetic variation shapes gene expression and complex traits.

Merging microbial experimental evolution and bioprospecting to evaluate causal factors and integrate across ecology and evolution.

My lab investigates how and why animals communicate using acoustic signals to convey information in social and reproductive interactions.

Our lab studies how signal transduction pathways are spatially organized within cells.

Studying how environmental bacteria make themselves and their world conductive, and how we can harness them in biotechnology or bioelectronics.

We investigate inflammation and metabolic dysregulation in older individuals to generate mechanistic understanding of the pathways involved.

Plant biochemistry and cell biology with a focus on the molecular basis of plant-pollinator and plant-microbe interactions.

Evolutionary basis of variation in plant phenotypes and spectral properties, community assembly, remote biodiversity sensing, ecosystem change

We study how cells coordinate their behaviors across great distances during embryonic development.

Functional proteomic analysis and biochemical characterization of metabolic-sensing PTMs in protein homeostasis, signaling and epigenetics

Revealing cell cycle mechanisms that regulate chromosome segregation to avoid aneuploidy, cancer and birth defects for potential cancer therapy

We take a systems and integrative biology approach to studying drug resistance in breast cancer

We study how microbes influence and are influenced by aquatic environments.

I am an infectious disease ecologist and I lead a lab aiming to understand infectious disease dynamics in animal populations.

Can we enhance beneficial legacy effects of soybean sanctions against mediocre nitrogen-fixing symbionts?

I am interested in determinants of abundance, community composition, and diversity of trees and lianas in temperate and tropical forests.

Molecular basis of muscular dystrophy

Research interests involve engaging students in structural biology/biophysics collaborations including instrument development, XRC, NMR, Cryo-EM/ET, etc.

My lab investigates the ecology of freshwater ecosystems, and their interactions with surrounding natural and human-altered landscapes.

We study the development and post-translational regulation of the neural crest, an embryonic migratory vertebrate stem cell population

Brian Gibbens performs pedagogical research on a variety of topics including student motivation, gamification, career relevance, mental health issues, and DEI issues.

We study the regulation of gene expression by RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleases during development and in diseases.