Program Faculty

Biopolymers for regenerative medicine, biophysics, biochemistry

Radiation detection and imaging, crystal growth of optical materials, biophysics

Protein structure, biophysics, immunogenicity

Mathematical modeling, data science

Machine learning, mathematical modeling, algorithms, healthcare informatics, data science

Biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics

Machine learning, bioinformatics, mathematical modeling, data science

Cancer genomics and signaling

Biosensors; microfluidic devices for point-of-care; bioreactors

Health disparity informatics, data curation, data science, clinical informatics, bioinformatics

Neuroscience, medical imaging, machine learning

Modeling diffusion, osmosis, ion channels and COVID-19; biophysics; electrophysiology; and introducing computational modeling into the undergraduate curriculum

STEM education; atmospheric studies utilizing sounding rockets; managing classrooms for diverse populations

Nucleic acids, nanopores, sequencing, molecular dynamics, viruses, DNA replication, drug delivery, DNA nanotechnology, filtration and biomolecular separation, all atom simulations

Chemical imaging (IR, Raman), 3D printing, tissue microenvironment, technology & engineering applied to oncology, optical theory and numerical methods, instrumentation & technologies in IR imaging, digital molecular pathology

Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, Computational imaging, and Acoustics

Mechanical processes in biology; how proteins interact with DNA - bending, wrapping, or translocating along the molecule; how cells swim and process information from environment; optical trap

Optical biosensors, nanotechnology, early cancer detection, nanofabrication

Non-equilibrium dynamical systems, including pattern formations in homogeneous systems and inhomogeneous systems with quenched disorder; physics of neuroscience

Bioinformatics and computational biology; theory and algorithms; big data analytics

Neurobiology of time: circadian regulation; Nanoscale processes of dendrogenesis, neural network formation/regeneration

Origins of cellular individuality; in vivo single-molecule measurments; systems biology

RNA and protein folding kinetics, protein dynamics in living cells and in vivo; computational modeling of biological systems

High throughput single cell/virus sequencing, single molecule imaging, and identification of multi-scale functional networks and their system-wide interactions; single-cell omics

Artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and computational biology, database and information systems, text mining

Biomaterials; tissue engineering; cancer

Using supercomputing and DNA sequencing to solve problems in plant, animal, and human genetics; single-cell omics

Ultrasensitive diagnostics for onsite screening, development of cancer targeting agents for site-directed therapy, nanomaterials for biosensors and monitoring live cell dynamics, nanosensor technology, biomedical imaging, phenotyping cancer cells, gold nanorods and dark field plasmon imaging, lateral flow technology, cervical cancer screening, single-cell spectroscopy, super-resolution imaging, epigenetics, phosphorylation, mRNA expression in live cells

RNA in health and disease

Single molecule biophysics, microbiology and computational modeling to study the complexity of living cells at the single-molecule and single-cell levels.

Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering

Membrane structure and function; high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging approaches to visualize cell membrane organization; development of label-free approaches to identify the differentiation states of individual stem and progenitor cells

Plant water use efficiency, photosynthesis, respiration and water relations; Plant responses in natural and agricultural ecosystems to global environmental change; Adaptation of food and fuel crops to global environmental change, especially drought

Cell membrane structure; drug and gene delivery; soft matter

Biomaterials, biomechanics, cancer diagnosis, live imaging, spatiotemporal tumor dynamics, personalized cancer treatment

Bioengineering the photosynthesis process in crops to achieve higher productivity, sustainability, and adaptation to climate change; optimization of chemical pathways

Analysis, modeling, and construction of bacterial gene circuits to uncover biological design principles and advance biotechnological applications; synthetic biology; systems biology

Computational modeling of genome evolution, microbial community dynamics, epidemiological modeling, computational biology, and intracellular networks; systems biology

Molecular genetics and biochemistry of methanogenic Archaea; redox cycling of phosphorus by microorganisms

Inorganic nanomaterials for biological sensing, imaging, and control of cell behavior

Structural and mechanistic studies of biosynthetic enzymes

Genetic engineering, CRISPR-based genome editing, gene therapy, transcriptional regulation

Intracellular networks; bioinformatics and comparative genomics; transcriptional regulation

Applied physics, chemistry, health and bio, manufacturing, security and defense, solid mechanics and materials

Proteomics, genomics and chemical mechanism of oxygenases; receptors, signaling, membrane proteins

Development of new nanomaterials as sensors and optical imaging agents for cells, tissues, and bio-specimens. In particular, application of quantum dots to quantitatively measure proteins or nucleic acids associated with disease, understand how these bio-molecules behave in healthy tissue and malfunction when cells become cancerous, and how therapeutic drugs restore order

Wound repair and tissue regeneration; Drosophila genetics; Development and patterning

Embryonic morphogenesis, gene regulation, cytoskeletal and membrane biology, and live-cell imaging

Integrative genomics to study the interplay among transcription factors, chromatin structure, non-coding RNAs and gene regulation in development and diseases; computational biology; bioinformatics; machine learning; physics of data science; biophysics; functional GWAS; interactive data visualization

Information retrieval, text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, bioinformatics, and Web information management, electronic health record mining

Optogenetic dissection of intracellular signaling pathways in mammalian cells and in Xenopus embryos, light-controlled protein- protein interaction, protein engineering, protein trafficking in neurons, fluorescence microscopy

Statistical genomics, high-dimensional statistics, survival analysis