Training Grants

Training Faculty

  • Sosnick, Tobin R.: Protein biophysics; folding and dynamics combining experimental and computational approaches to characterize protein behavior in diverse contexts, design & function​
  • Adams, Erin: Immunology, t-cell receptor, molecular recognition, signaling, membrane channels
  • Arac-Ozkan, Demet: Structural biology of adhesion-type G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), GAIN domains, brain functions and diseases
  • Basu, Anindita: Development of microfluidics and next-generation sequencing for single-cell epi- genomic and transcriptomic profiling of mammalian, bacteria, yeast; basic, translational research
  • Bezanilla, Francisco: Structure-function relation in voltage dependent membrane proteins
  • Chang, Eugene: Host-microbial interactions of the intestine, signals/pathways involved in intestinal homeostasis
  • Chen, Mengjie: Development of statistical methods for data emerging from biomedical studies, such as epigenetics and cancer genomics, to help predict clinical outcomes by analysis of genomic features
  • Chevrier, Nicolas: Characterization of the multi-scale processes during protective immune responses, with applications to manipulate immunity​
  • Cobey, Sarah: Coevolution of pathogens and hosts' adaptive immunity
  • Coleman, Maureen: Microbial evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry
  • DePablo, Juan: Thermophysical properties of fluids and solids at a molecular level
  • Dickinson, Bryan: Protein engineering and molecular evolution to produce new tools for cell biology and novel systems to study protein biochemistry
  • Dinner, Aaron: Modeling gene regulation and repair
  • Drummond, D. Allan: Error-induced protein misfolding influence on the progression of neurodegenerative diseases
  • Engel, Gregory: Quantum dynamics in biology with a specific focus on photosynthetic energy transfer and photochemical dynamics​
  • Esser Kahn, Aaron: Vascular Tissue Engineering, Immune Programming Polymers, Carbon Capture Methods
  • Fang, Yun: Pathophysiological mechanisms of vascular diseases, particularly the modulation of vascular health by non-coding genome in the context of cardiovascular complication (atherosclerosis) and pulmonary disease (acute lung injury)
  • Fei, Jingyi: RNA biophysics and cell biology with cutting-edge single-molecule and cell imaging techniques
  • Ferguson, Andrew: Molecular Simulation, Statistical Thermodynamics, Machine Learning, Inverse Materials Design, Enhanced Sampling, Protein Folding, Self-Assembly
  • Gardel, Margaret: Cytoskeleton, cellular mechanotransduction, biopolymer networks, cell adhesion and migration
  • Glick, Benjamin: Dynamics of membrane domains; directed evolution of fluorescent proteins
  • Glotzer, Michael: Mechanism of cytokinesis using genetics, biochemistry, and live cell imaging
  • Greenberg, Jean T.: Induced systemic resistance, plant immunity, Posttranslational Modifications, Pseudomonas syringae, systemic acquired resistance, type III pathogen effector
  • He, Chuan: DNA repair, metalloregulation, suppression of virulence in pathogens
  • He, Xin: Genetic variants that influence susceptibility to disease, mechanisms that link genetic changes to phenotypic consequences​
  • Horne-Badovinac, Sally: Dynamic regulation of cell shape, polarity and adhesion across cell populations
  • Huang, Jun: T-cell recognition, the immunosuppressio n of regulatory T- cells, the immune regulation of NK cells, and single- cell systems immunology
  • Jabri, Bana: Regulation of memory/effector T cell mediated immune responses in normal and diseased conditions; interface between innate and adaptive immunity​
  • Keenan, Robert: Structural biology, directed evolution, fluorescent proteins, N-acetyltransferases
  • Koh, Andrew: Immune defense and human disorders
  • Kossiakoff, Anthony: Hormone-receptor interactions, enzyme-inhibitor interfaces, synthetic proteins
  • Kovar, David: Actin assembly; recapitulated cytoskeleton structures by single filament microscopy
  • Krishnan, Yamuna: Synthetic Biology, DNA nanodevices, DNA-based nanomachines, microRNA biogenesis, functional bioimaging
  • Kron, Stephen: Cell cycle, checkpoint and signaling pathways in yeast. Novel methods for functional biochips
  • Lee, Ka Yee: Membrane, lipid-protein interactions, lung surfactant, Alzheimer's amyloid-beta peptide, antimicrobial peptides
  • MacLean, Jason: Observational and theoretical approaches to how the brain encodes and stores information
  • Maurer, Peter: Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing, Solid-State Spin Systems, Single-Molecule Biophysics, Physical Chemistry​
  • Mendoza, Juan: Protein Engineering, Structural Biology, Computational Biology, Immunology, Cell Signaling
  • Moellering, Raymond: Use of chemoproteomics to characterize and selectively modulate protein‒ ligand and protein‒ protein interactions in normal and diseased biological settings
  • Munro, Edwin: Dynamics of embryonic cell and tissue behavior emerging through the interplay between regulatory biochemistry, cytoskeletal dynamics and cytomechanics
  • Murugan, Arvind: Quantitative biology, materials design, non- equilibrium dynamics, disordered systems, and theoretical computer science
  • Özkan, Engin: Biochemical basis of nervous system development, protein-protein interaction, structural biology of extracellular proteins
  • Palmer, Stephanie: Neurons ability to encode info present in their inputs and to perform computations on these signals
  • Pan, Tao: RNA genomics, RNA folding
  • Perozo, Eduardo: Ion channels, membrane transport and protein dynamics, energy transduction, over-expression of membrane protiens
  • Piccirilli, Joseph: Chemistry and RNA splicing and catalysis
  • Pincus, David: System mechanics of cellular stress responses
  • Ranganathan, Rama: Protein biophysics and the evolution of biological systems and cellular signaling; electric field crystallography
  • Rice, Phoebe: Structural biochemistry of DNA recombination
  • Riesenfeld, Samantha: Computational Biology, Genomics, Systems Immunology​
  • Rock, Ronald: Myosin molecular motors, single-molecule enzymology, actin cytoskeletal dynamics
  • Roux, Benoit: Ion channels, lipid membranes, crystallography, solvation, Poisson-Boltzmann theory, free energy perturbation, ligand binding
  • Rust, Michael: Developing understanding of the function of bimolecular circuits
  • Rzhetsky, Andrey: Bioinformatics and phylogenetics applied to analysis of genes, proteins, molecular pathways, and human disease and application of statistics to sequence analysis and analysis of molecular networks
  • Scherer, Norbert: Macromolecular formation, single molecule dynamics, pointillist and super-resolution nonlinear optical microscopies
  • Sosnick, Tobin: Protein biophysics; folding and dynamics combining experimental and computational approaches to characterize protein behavior in diverse contexts, design & function
  • Squires, Allison: Single-Molecule Biophysics, Biomedical Devices, Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging, Nanoscale Manipulation and Sensing​
  • Stephens, Matthew: Bayesian and computational statistics, particularly when applied to problems in population genetics
  • Swartz, Melody: Lymphatic Physiology, Cancer Research, Immunotherapy​
  • Tang, Wei-Jen: Structural basis of cell signal transduction and its application to human health
  • Tang, Weixin: Cellular recording and lineage tracing enabled by CRISPR technology ​
  • Tay, Savas: How biological systems work from an engineer’s perspective; using this knowledge to manipulate cells and gene pathways to help cure diseases​
  • Tian, Bozhi: Molecular-nano interface between biological and semiconductor systems, novel material synthesis and device concept
  • Tirrell, Matthew: Surface properties of polymers, surface phenomena, self-assembly of synthetic and bio-inspired materials
  • Tokmakoff, Andrei: Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in solution and biological processes
  • Vaikuntanathan, Suriyanarayanan: Develop and use tools of equilibrium and non- equilibrium statistical mechanics to understand the behavior of complex systems in physical chemistry, soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics
  • Voth, Gregory:  Behavior of complex systems, biomolecular & liquid state phenomena
  • Wei, Wei: Strategies for circuit assembly and development in the visual system​
  • Weinstein, Joshua: Biophysics, Numerical Analysis, Molecular Biology​
  • Westneat, Mark: Phylogenetic systematics and the study of function in an attempt to generate an integrative approach to evolution
  • Zhao, Minglei: Understanding the structure and mechanism of biomolecules using biochemical and biophysical approaches, in particular X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy
  • Zhao, Yingming: Mass spectrometry-based proteomics technologies to dissect PTM pathways