- 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