All Faculty & Areas of Specialization
![Ed Balog](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_717_0.jpg?h=38d72721&itok=IVvpyW87)
Area of Specialization: Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Excitation-Contraction Coupling, Ryanodine Receptors
![Annalisa Bracco](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/annalisa_bracco_square.jpg?h=76dba32e&itok=L0kfA2Ae)
Area of Specialization:
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Transport and Mixing in the Ocean, Bio-Physical Interactions in the Ocean, Climate Dynamics, Modeling
![Sam Brown](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Sam-Brown-New.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=AggTIZ2m)
Area of Specialization:
Evolutionary Microbiology, Bacterial Social Life, Virulence and Drug Resistance
![Leonid Bunimovich](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Bunimovich-qbios.png?h=cdb1cf27&itok=8x2xM6uB)
Area of Specialization:
Dynamical Networks, Dynamical and Stochastic Systems
![Young-Hui Chang](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-2274-1404846046_0.jpg?h=678b3338&itok=_PY7oOmK)
Area of Specialization:
Locomotion, Neuromechanics, Motor Control, Neurophysiology
![Hannah Choi](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/HannahChoiSquare.jpg?h=e2b09c17&itok=euYxU3dj)
Area of Specialization:
Computational Neuroscience, Neural Coding, Neural Networks, Mathematical Biology, Dynamical Systems
![Jennifer Curtis](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1441-1402075861.jpg?h=2cb5fbfa&itok=IfNZfrsx)
Area of Specialization:
Cell Mechanics, Molecular Biophysics, Bionanotech, Optical Manipulation
![Thomas DiChristina](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/DiChristina%20Head%20Shot.jpg?h=69422ee4&itok=O8noS7Re)
Area of Specialization:
Environmental Microbiology, Contaminant Biodegradation, Biogeochemistry, Climate change
![Stephen Diggle](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/StephenDiggle-square.png?h=9e99b585&itok=lEHwxWm-)
Area of Specialization:
Social evolution, quorum sensing, biofilms, infection, antimicrobial resistance
![Flavio Fenton](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/flavio_fenton-qbios.jpg?h=e675c9ba&itok=I5VXIhDh)
Area of Specialization:
Complex Systems, Pattern Formations, Physics of Living Systems
![Jennifer Glass](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/glass-qbios.jpg?h=28ec18b4&itok=q9ZdaCtK)
Area of Specialization:
Geochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Greenhouse Gas Cycling
![Daniel Goldman](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_700.jpg?h=252300c6&itok=LjKT3gYV)
Area of Specialization:
Nonlinear Dynamics, Behavior, Robotics, Granular Media
![Michael Goodisman](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1444-1402076952.jpg?h=158aa573&itok=AjyupaKb)
Area of Specialization:
Evolution, Ethics, Genomics, Animal Behavior
![Brian Hammer](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_685_0.jpg?h=02330b6e&itok=MxITZeOv)
Area of Specialization:
Bacterial Genetics, Signal Transduction, Small RNAs, Vibrio Biology, Biofilms
![Mark Hay](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Mark-Hay-Headshot-Square.jpg?h=979747f2&itok=dP8imrPo)
Area of Specialization:
Community Ecology, Chemical Ecology, Marine and Aquatic Ecology
![Christine Heitsch](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-2276-1404846745.png?h=4c7ac058&itok=oCTdW7pc)
Area of Specialization:
Discrete Mathematical Biology, RNA Secondary Structure, Combinatorics
![David Hu](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1525-1402077068.jpg?h=158aa573&itok=P-6Zavvx)
Area of Specialization:
Biofluidics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Locomotion, Behavior
![Nicholas Hud](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1437-1402077262.jpg?h=158aa573&itok=4kyfdjnh)
Area of Specialization:
Nucleic Acid Structure, Function and Evolution
![Takamitsu Ito](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/ito-qbios.jpg?h=28ec18b4&itok=XnDWA8UZ)
Area of Specialization:
Computational Modeling of Climate and Biogeochemical Processes
![Lynn Kamerlin](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Kamerlin%20Headshot%2C%20Square.jpeg?h=23847cb4&itok=f8MHEAwk)
Area of Specialization:
Computational biology, computational chemistry, enhanced sampling approaches, protein evolution, enzyme design
![Peter Kasson](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Kasson.Headshot.jpg?h=0ad36000&itok=K0iaPrqw)
Area of Specialization:
Infectious Diseases, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Single-event kinetics, Biomolecular Dynamics and Simulation, Optical Microscopy and Image Analysis
![Harold Kim](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1498-1400076027_0.jpg?h=038a9462&itok=N-ibD1rz)
Area of Specialization:
Single-Molecule Biophysics, DNA-Protein Interactions, Gene Regulation, Chromatin Dynamics, Statistical Physics.
![Julia Kubanek](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_707_0.jpg?h=e904118b&itok=tw8kIrGM)
Area of Specialization:
Chemical Ecology; Chemical Signaling; Natural Products Chemistry; Metabolomics; Drug Discovery
![Joe Lachance](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Lachance-Qbios.jpg?h=4a79a20b&itok=QJegqivN)
Area of Specialization:
Darwinian Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Theoretical Population Genetics
![Abigail Lind](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Lind%20Headshot.jpeg?h=6402db8a&itok=OpZQaBlH)
Area of Specialization:
genomics, eukaryotic microbes, molecular evolution, host-microbe interactions
![Jean Lynch-Stieglitz](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/lynchstieglitz-qbios.jpg?h=28ec18b4&itok=B-9VzPC0)
Area of Specialization:
Ocean Circulation and Climate, Isotope Geochemistry
![Elisabetta Matsumoto](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Sabetta-Matsumoto.jpg?h=6f99fa37&itok=bhi5qH5b)
Area of Specialization:
Soft Matter Physics, Geometry, Mechanics, Soft Materials, Applied Mathematics
![Jenny McGuire](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/jmcguire.jpg?h=4a79a20b&itok=zYiLxmDL)
Area of Specialization:
spatial ecology, paleontology, climate change, ecological modeling, terrestrial systems
![Andrew McShan](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/McShan_Headshot.jpeg?h=63792444&itok=XOjY1vbK)
Area of Specialization:
Protein Structure/Function, Immunology, De Novo Protein Design/Engineering, NMR Spectroscopy, Biophysics
![](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Ratan.Murty_Headshot.jpg?h=c8e05276&itok=Ye1Tz5aL)
Area of Specialization:
Visual intelligence, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neuroimaging, neural networks
![Farzaneh Najafi](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Farzaneh%20Najafi.jpg?h=1451f2a4&itok=ccWYn1Lt)
Area of Specialization:
Systems, behavioral & computational neuroscience; Cognition, perception & sensorimotor learning; Predictive processing & error detection; Brain regions (cortex & cerebellum) interactions, Cell-type specific population coding
![Shuyi Nie](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Shuyi-Nie.jpg?h=4a79a20b&itok=O9ttfGcM)
Area of Specialization:
Cellular Mechanisms of Collective Cell Migration, Coordination of Cytoskeletal Regulators, Cell-Matrix Interaction During Cell Migration, Mathematical Modeling of Cell Migration.
Area of Specialization:
Genomics, Quantitative Genetics, Experimental Evolutionary Biology
![Boris Prilutsky](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/BP4.jpg?h=77b1030e&itok=g0o0ERKu)
Area of Specialization:
Sensory Control of Locomotion, Peripheral Nerve Injury, Osseointegrated Limb Prostheses, Artificial Sensory Feedback, Neuromechanical Modeling
![Chris Reinhard](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Reinhard-Square.jpg?h=2b670080&itok=z3vErz9T)
Area of Specialization:
Biogeochemistry, Planetary Science, Paleoceanography
![Zeb Rocklin](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Rocklin-Headshot.png?h=9f4e5b38&itok=vx0chAdc)
Area of Specialization:
I study how shape and mechanical interactions inform function and locomotion in living systems at scales ranging from the molecular and cellular to the organismal. I also have an interest in living systems as statistical physics, incorporating phenomena such as criticality and entropy production.
![Gregory Sawicki](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Sawicki-HeadShot.jpg?h=f7c886b8&itok=iwJmU6DH)
Area of Specialization:
Terrestrial Locomotion, Neuromechanics, Wearable Robotics, Human Augmentation, Elastic Mechanisms
![Eric Schumacher](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Eric-Schumacher.jpg?h=5aefabc3&itok=_WQVKgqV)
Area of Specialization:
Attention, Cognitive Control, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory
![Audrey Sederberg](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Sederberg_HS.jpg?h=2b447a36&itok=SLDMcFZz)
Area of Specialization:
Theoretical neuroscience, sensory systems, behavioral modeling, neural data analysis, neural models.
![Jeffrey Skolnick](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture-1501-1402079793_0.jpg?h=158aa573&itok=dlJimura)
Area of Specialization:
Computational Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Protein Structure Prediction
![Simon Sponberg](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/sponberg-qbios.png?h=ad16e0a2&itok=lz828feo)
Area of Specialization:
Neuromechanics, Neurophysiology, Dynamics of Locomotion, Multiscale Physics of Muscle
![Todd Streelman](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_678.jpg?h=cdddc6f9&itok=J6x1k6S5)
Area of Specialization:
Genomics, Development, Behavior
![Matthew Torres](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/Matt-Torres-2018.jpg?h=54bb1a56&itok=LnCF6uoW)
Area of Specialization:
Protein Biology and Biochemistry; Cell Signaling; Mass Spectrometry; Proteomics
![Joshua Weitz](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/DSCN0668_mini.jpg?h=7f412c8f&itok=dA7PNhxY)
Area of Specialization:
Viral Ecology and Evolution, Nonlinear Dynamics, Network Science, Physics of Living Systems
![Marvin Whiteley](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/marvinwhiteley_photo.jpg?h=4a79a20b&itok=Nn36wtr8)
Area of Specialization:
microbiology, genomics, infectious disease, antimicrobial resistance, sociomicrobiology
![Kurt Wiesenfeld](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/kwiesenfeld-qbios.jpg?h=5a123d98&itok=z5Y-1qXc)
Area of Specialization:
Viral Ecology and Evolution, Nonlinear Dynamics, Network Science, Physics of Living Systems
![Loren Williams](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/people/picture_675.jpg?h=ae846c10&itok=jDCFRN09)
Area of Specialization:
Origins and Evolution of the Ribosome