Current Students

Rachael Bay, MAR

Research Interest: genetic/genomic variation associated with ecological & physiological divergence

Julie Bianchini, CMB

Research Interest: exploring chromatin regulation and epigenetics

Tamaki Bieri, CMB

Research Interest: protein misfolding and autophagy and their implication on neurodegenerative diseases

Rachel Bond, CMB

Research Interest: structural biochemistry and virology

Mike Bramson, E/E

Research Interest: adaptive evolutionary genetics, environmental factors on molecular evolution

Tom Cooke, CMB

Research Interest: plant molecular biology & biochemistry; structures & chemistry of nucleic acids

Xintong Dong, CMB

Research Interest: how the complex nervous system is formed and how it functions

Rachel Egger, CMB

Research Interest: cellular signaling that allows plants to adapt genetically

Luke Frishkoff, E/E

Research Interest: responses of animals, especially amphibians, to human modification of landscapes

Conor Jacobs, CMB

Research Interest: elucidation of mechanisms that govern synaptogenesis and plasticity

Melissa Kemp, E/E

Research Interest: how populations respond to changing ecological and geological forces

Dmitriy Kolesnikov, CMB 

Research Interest: the mechanisms of macromolecular interactions at the single-molecule level

Judith Levine, MAR

Research Interest: hourglass model of evolution; diversity of model organisms in evo-devo

Pengpeng Li, CMB

Research Interest: signal transduction research on development biology

I Lin, CMB

Research Interest: defense-regulated gene expression, plant signal transduction and plant-microve interactions

David Lipton, I/O

Research Interest: biology of the neural circuitry encoding animal behavior

Tom Lopez, CMB

Research Interest: regulation of cell signaling & parasitic diseases

Heather Machado, E/E

Research Interest: processes underlying genome changes; role of gene expression in genome evolution

Megha Makam, I/O

Research Interest: exploring the relationship between brain physiology and behavior in mammals

Juliana Matos, CMB

Research Interest: plant physiology with emphasis in developmental biology

Rajiv McCoy, E/E

Research Interest: how habitat variation can maintain genetic diversity

Mike McLaren, E/E

Research Interest: mathematical modeling to understand the origins & dynamics of evolution

Andrew Merrell, E/E

Research Interest: colony organization and task allocation of social insects

Holly Moeller, E/E

Research Interest: How  interactions stabilize species assemblages

Alison Ravenscraft, E/E

Research Interest: tropical & temperate systems, interspecies interactions, & conservation

Lupita Ruiz-Jones, MAR

Research Interest: how marine organisms are affected by changing oceans

Saumya Sankaran, CMB

Research Interest: assembly & regulation of protein or protein-nucleic acid complexes

Koning Shen, CMB

Research Interest: quantitative description of molecular mechanisms, protein-nucleic acid interactions

Jon Turner, CMB

Research Interest: Cellular spatial organization in single-celled organisms and in multicellular development

Sandeep Venkataram, E/E

Research Interest: evolution of the noncoding portion of genomes and transcription factor binding sites

Alex Wilkinson, CMB

Research Interest: mechanisms of gene regulation & expression

Ben Wilson, E/E

Research Interest: development of new population genetics models

Liz Wiltshire, CMB

Research Interest: plant cell communication between individual cells, and within a single cell

Tyler Wittkopp, CMB

Research Interest: industrial microbiology and synthetic biology

Ze Yang, CMB

Research Interest:
Epigenetics relation with cancer & Molecular Biology technology application

Mian Zhang, CMB

Research Interest: cell cycle control, DNA damage and biology basis of emotion