Faculty list by name

Following is a list of all IBiS Faculty by name. Please click on a name for more information about that person.

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Ravi Allada, MD: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
Luis A. Nunes Amaral, PhD: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
Guillermo Ameer, PhD: Biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biotechnology
Vadim Backman PhD: Early cancer screening using biophotonics technologies, early physiological and molecular events in carcinogenesis, mechanisms of microvascular blood supply increase in early carcinogenesis, alteration of cell nanoarchitecture in carcinogenesis.
Neda Bagheri, PhD: Computational systems biology and complex regulatory networks. Dynamical systems and control theory.
Joseph Bass, MD PhD: Cell biology of diabetes mellitus
Greg Beitel, PhD: Molecular genetics of organ morphogenesis
Thomas Bozza, PhD: Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Olfaction
Jason Brickner, PhD:
Cell biology of transcription
Linda J. Broadbelt, PhD:
Modeling of complex reacting systems, including synthesis of silicon nanoparticles, formation of ozone in the troposphere, and evolution of biochemical reaction pathways
Jianhua Cang, PhD: Functional development of visual cortex
Richard Carthew, PhD: Cell differentiation and morphogenesis of Drosophila development
Peter Dallos, PhD: Biophysics and neurobiology of the cochlea
Daniel A. Dombeck, PhD: Optical dissection of the neuronal circuits underlying mammalian navigation
David Ferster, PhD: Mammalian visual cortex
Richard F. Gaber, PhD: Nutrient sensing and molecular chaperones
Erwin Goldberg, PhD: Biochemistry and molecular biology of mammalian spermatogenesis
Bartosz Grzybowski, PhD: Self-assembly in dynamic and biological systems, interactions between cells/biomolecules and nanostructured materials, cell motility and cytoskeletal dynamics, and biomimetic chemical systems
Brian Hoffman, PhD: Long-range inter-protein electron transfer
Robert A. Holmgren, PhD: Cell-fate specification during development
Curt Horvath, PhD: Signal transduction and gene regulation in innate immune responses to cancer and viruses
Michael C. Jewett, PhD: Engineering cell-free systems for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology
Neil Kelleher, PhD: Enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, mass spectrometric-based studies of the "Histone Code," and development of Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS) for Top Down Proteomics
David Kelso, PhD: Antibody and DNA binding reactions in solution and on solid phases
William L. Klein, PhD : Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
Carole LaBonne, PhD: Gene regulatory networks controlling stem cell formation and invasive cell behavior
Robert A. Lamb, PhD: Viral glycoproteins, ion channels, and RNA-binding proteins
Joshua Leonard, PhD: Engineering cellular systems and biomolecules for immunotherapy, synthetic biology, and biotechnology
Robert A. Linsenmeier, PhD: Retinal microenvironment
Shu Q. Liu, PhD: Molecular regenerative engineering for enhancing endothelial cell retention and reducing intimal hyperplasia in arterial substitutes.
John F. Marko, PhD: Protein-DNA interactions; chromosome structure and dynamics; single-molecule biophysics
Andreas Matouschek, PhD: Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
Kelly E. Mayo, PhD : Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
David McLean, PhD: Development and plasticity of motor networks
Thomas J. Meade, PhD: Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
William M. Miller, PhD: Expansion and controlled differentiation of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells
Chad Mirkin, PhD: Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale
Alfonso Mondragon, PhD: DNA topoisomerases, catalytic RNA molecules, and the molecular basis of spectrin flexibility
Richard I. Morimoto, PhD: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD: Metalloregulatory proteins
Christian Petersen, PhD: Molecular and cellular basis of regeneration
Raphael Pinaud, PhD: Neural mechanisms of sensory processing and plasticity
Heather Pinkett, PhD: Membrane proteins with emphasis on the structure and function of membrane-embedded transporters and their mechanisms of regulation
Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD: Structure, function and dynamics of proteins involved in eukaryotic gene regulation
Indira Raman, PhD: Neuronal ion channels and synaptic transmission
Amy C. Rosenzweig, PhD: Structural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake, transport and storage, oxygen activation by metalloenzymes, biological methane oxidation, membrane protein crystallography
Aryeh Routtenberg, PhD: Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying memory formation
Karl A. Scheidt, PhD: Drug discovery, bioorganic chemistry, and small molecule-driven chemical biology
Mark A. Segraves, PhD: Systems and cognitive neuroscience
Lonnie Shea, PhD: Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
Richard B. Silverman, PhD: Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD: Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
Alexander Statsuk, PhD: Chemical biology, protein degradation pathways, cancer
Fred W. Turek, PhD: Sleep and circadian rhythms, seasonal reproductive cycles
Keith E.J. Tyo, PhD: Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbial engineering, systems biology, resource-poor healthcare delivery, biofuels
Olke Uhlenbeck, PhD: RNA biochemistry
Vinzenz Unger, PhD: "Life at the Edge" - Transport of Transition Metals; Structure and Function of Membrane Associated Synaptic Scaffolds; Methods Development for Membrane Protein Crystallization and Single Particle Approaches 
Xiaozhong (Alec) Wang, PhD: Genetic analysis of protocadherin diversity in the central nervous system
Yun Wang, PhD: Medical and environmental microbiology, aquatic geochemistry
Eric Weiss, PhD: Spatially and temporally coordinated cell growth and cell division
Sadie Wignall, PhD: Spindle assembly and chromosome segregation during cell division
Teresa Woodruff, PhD: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth
Catherine S. Woolley, PhD: Neuroendocrinology; Hormonal effects on hippocampal synaptic structure and function
Tai Te Wu, PhD: Structural and functional relations of proteins and DNA