Use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to address important problems in sustainable energy, the environment, industry and human health

Biophysics, cell engineering, protein interactions, phase separation in cells

Bacterial persistence, host-pathogen interactions, network biology of bacterial stress

Bioengineering; biomaterials; materials science; biomechanics; swarm behavior

Microscopy and bioimaging; bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and nanotechnology; cell and developmental biology; tissue engineering; neuroscience

Understanding and engineering of biomolecular condensates; multiscale computer simulations; biophysics; protein self-assembly

Protein engineering, peptides, natural products, antibiotics, microbiology, genomics, and supramolecular chemistry

Mammalian tissue morphogenesis/morphodynamics; microfabrication/bioMEMS for tissue engineering; cell adhesion and mechanics

Understanding and controlling complex cell behaviors

Defining and engineering plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions at plant-microbe interfaces

Physics and engineering of soft materials; transport through porous media; biophysics; biological polymers; microfluidics; microbial communities

The cell biology of tissue polarity and epithelial patterning

Nonlinear optics and photonics for biomedical imaging

Theoretical and computational materials science; physics of materials; physical biology; microstructure formation

Waste treatment systems;  environmental remediation; biogeochemically mediated dynamics

Biogenesis, function and engineering of the eukaryotic CO2-fixing organelle, the pyrenoid

Chemical biology approaches to investigate RNA dynamics and post-transcriptional regulation

Design and mechanics of metamaterials with unusual material properties; Mechanics in morphogenesis during embryo development

Our lab seeks to understand how patterns of neural activity generate animal behavior.

How noncoding regions of the genome function to control the differential patterns of gene expression, both spatial and temporal, that define cell behavior

How the brain converts sensory stimuli into meaningful representations, and how these representations drive behavioral responses

CRISPR-based technologies for studying viral and cellular RNA

Molecular architecture and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton

Applying statistics, machine learning and efficient algorithms to biology and medicine with integrative analysis of multi-dimensional data

Polymeric formulations for drug encapsulation, delivery, and release

Developing and applying computational and mathematical methods to address biological questions at the molecular and cellular level

Integrated circuits and chip-scale systems operating across RF-THz-optical frequencies in low-cost, smart biomedical devices for point-of-care use

Using techniques from machine learning and social computing to extract brain structure from light and electron microscopic images

Quantitative analysis of pattern formation in developing tissues; genetics, genomics and computational studies of signaling pathways

Computational biology and bioinformatics; computational science

Animal coloration and patterning, avian color vision, evolution of eggs

Theory, simulation and experiments in surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation and surfactants; flow of lipids and motions of suspended particles

Micronanofabricated technologies for electronics, displays, and bio-interfacing devices.

Genomic data integration; bioinformatics, algorithms and machine learning.

Machine learning, computational and structural biology, 3D computer vision, biological imaging