The Life Sciences faculty comprises more than 60 professors drawing from five academic departments and three research centers. Internationally recognized, the Life Sciences faculty includes: six members of the National Academy; four Howard Hughes Investigators; a MacArthur Fellow; four Searle Scholars, and three Pew Scholars.
Each professor is associated with one or more graduate
programs according to his/her research interests. However,
students may choose to work with any of the Life Sciences
faculty regardless of program affiliation.
To find a Life Science faculty member, you can choose from
one of the departments listed above, select from the complete
list of faculty members or search for the faculty member
below:
| Faculty Member |
Department |
Lab Website |
Jeffrey Agar, Assistant Professor
High resolution mass spectrometry studies of protein
post-translational modification |
Chemistry |
|
Susan J.
Birren, Associate Professor
Developmental neurobiology |
Biology |
|
Carolyn Cohen, Professor
Protein structure, dynamics, and assembly |
Biology |
|
Li
Deng, Professor
Organic chemistry. DNA demethylation. |
Chemistry |
|
David DeRosier, Professor Emeritus
Macromolecular Assemblies, Motors, Actin Cytoskeleton |
Biology |
|
Paul
DiZio, Associate Professor
Human spatial orientation and motor control |
Psychology |
|
Zvonimir
Dogic, Assistant Professor
Complex fluids and biological physics |
Physics |
|
Irving
R. Epstein, Professor
Oscillating chemical reactions |
Chemistry |
|
József Fiser, Assistant Professor
Visual information processing and learning |
Psychology |
|
Seth
Fraden, Professor
Macromolecules in suspension. Physics of
protein crystallization. Microfluidics. |
Physics |
|
Chandler Fulton, Professor Emeritus
Cell Differentiation and Cell Death |
Biology |
|
Paul
Garrity, Associate Professor
Nervous system development and behavior
in Drosophila |
Biology |
|
Jeff
Gelles, Professor
Motor enzymes |
Biochemistry |
|
Anne
Gershenson, Assistant Professor
Fluorescence probes of biophysical systems |
Chemistry |
|
Bruce Goode, Associate Professor
Cytoskeletal Assembly and Dynamics in Yeast |
Biology |
|
Leslie
C. Griffith, Professor
Learning and memory |
Biology |
|
Nikolaus
Grigorieff, Professor
Electron microscopy of large protein
complexes |
Biochemistry |
|
James E.
Haber, Professor
Mechanisms of recombination and DNA repair |
Biology |
|
Michael Hagan, Assistant Professor
Statistical physics of assembly and organization. |
Physics |
|
Jeffrey C.
Hall, Professor Emeritus
Drosophila neurogenetics |
Biology |
|
K.C. Hayes, Professor
Lipid metabolism |
Biology |
|
Lizbeth
Hedstrom, Professor
Enzymology and protein engineering |
Biochemistry |
|
Judith
Herzfeld, Professor
Light-driven ion pumps |
Chemistry |
|
Pengyu
Hong,
Assistant Professor
Dynamics of biological networks |
Computer Science |
|
Derek
Isaacowitz
, Associate Professor
Emotion in adulthood and old age |
Psychology |
|
Donald
Katz,
Assistant Professor
Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and
learning |
Psychology |
|
Dorothee
Kern, Professor
Structure, dynamics and function of enzymes |
Biochemistry |
|
Jané Kondev, Associate Professor
Statistical physics of macromolecules |
Physics |
|
Melissa
Kosinski-Collins,
Assistant Professor
Protein Biochemistry and Biology
Education |
Biology |
|
James
Lackner, Professor
Human spatial orientation and motor control |
Psychology |
|
John Lisman, Professor
Signal transduction and memory |
Biology |
|
Susan T.
Lovett, Professor
Genetics and biochemistry of recombination
in E. coli and yeast |
Biology |
|
John
M. Lowenstein, Professor
Regulation and function of adenosine
production in heart |
Biochemistry |
|
Eve Marder, Professor
Modulation of neural networks |
Biology |
|
Michael Marr, Assistant Professor
Mechanisms Controlling Gene Expression |
Biology |
|
Nathalie
McIntosh, Professor
Genetic Counseling |
Biology |
|
Robert Meyer, Professor
Complex fluids |
Physics |
|
Christopher
Miller, Professor
Structure and mechanism of ion channels and
transporters |
Biochemistry |
|
Paul
Miller, Assistant Professor
Computational neuroscience |
Biology |
|
James
Morris, Assistant Professor
Epigenetics and biology education |
Biology |
|
Sacha B.
Nelson, Professor
Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex |
Biology |
|
Daniela
Nicastro
, Assistant Professor
Cryo-Electron Tomography of Macromolecular
Machines, Organelles and Cells |
Biology |
|
Daniel
Oprian, Professor
Structure-function studies of cell surface
receptors |
Biochemistry |
|
Suzanne
Paradis, Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of synapse development |
Biology |
|
Dan L.
Perlman, Associate Professor
Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation
Biology |
Biology |
|
Gregory
A. Petsko, Professor
Protein crystallography |
Biochemistry |
|
Thomas
C. Pochapsky, Professor
Protein structure |
Chemistry |
|
Joan Press, Associate Professor
Immunogenetics of B cell differentiation |
Biology |
|
Ruibao Ren, Associate Professor
Signal transduction |
Biology |
|
Dagmar Ringe
, Professor
Protein crystallography |
Biochemistry & Chemistry |
|
Michael
Rosbash, Professor
RNA processing; Drosophila neurogenetics |
Biology |
|
Azadeh
Samadani, Assistant Professor
Understanding directional sensing mechanisms
in eukaryotic cells |
Physics |
|
Robert
Sekuler, Professor
Visual perception and visual memory |
Psychology |
|
Piali
Sengupta, Professor
Development and function of chemosensory
neurons |
Biology |
|
Neil
E. Simister, Associate Professor
Immunoglobulin transport |
Biology |
|
Barry
B. Snider, Professor
Organic Synthesis |
Chemistry |
|
Douglas
Theobald, Assistant Professor
Evolution, structure, & function of
macromolecular complexes |
Biochemistry |
|
Judith
Tsipis
, Professor
Genetic Counseling |
Biology |
|
Gina
Turrigiano, Professor
Synaptic plasticity in cortical networks |
Biology |
|
Lawrence
J. Wangh, Associate Professor
Reproduction Biology and Molecular Cytology |
Biology |
|
Kalpana
White, Professor
Neural development |
Biology |
|
Arthur
Wingfield, Professor
Cognitive aging |
Psychology |
|
Jinquan
Yu, Assistant Professor
C-H bond activation and biomimetic oxidation |
Chemistry |
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