All Faculty & Areas of Specialization

Physics of Living Systems: Cell and Tissue mechanics, Collective cell dynamics, Cytoskeletal dynamics, Bacterial physiology, Learning and adaptation.

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Transport and Mixing in the Ocean, Bio-Physical Interactions in the Ocean, Climate Dynamics, Modeling

Evolutionary Microbiology, Bacterial Social Life, Virulence and Drug Resistance

Dynamical Networks, Dynamical and Stochastic Systems

Locomotion, Neuromechanics, Motor Control, Neurophysiology

Computational Neuroscience, Neural Coding, Neural Networks, Mathematical Biology, Dynamical Systems

Cell Mechanics, Molecular Biophysics, Bionanotech, Optical Manipulation

Lipidomics, enzymology, neurochemistry, targeted metabolomics, spectroscopy, membrane protein biochemistry, chemical biology, nanodisc technology

Environmental Microbiology, Contaminant Biodegradation, Biogeochemistry, Climate change

Social evolution, quorum sensing, biofilms, infection, antimicrobial resistance

Complex Systems, Pattern Formations, Physics of Living Systems

Metabolomics, Microbial Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Natural Product Biosynthesis, Chemical Biology, Biochemistry

Geochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Greenhouse Gas Cycling

Nonlinear Dynamics, Behavior, Robotics, Granular Media

Evolution, Ethics, Genomics, Animal Behavior

Membrane Proteins, Ribosome, Molecular Dynamics

Bacterial Genetics, Signal Transduction, Small RNAs, Vibrio Biology, Biofilms

Community Ecology, Chemical Ecology, Marine and Aquatic Ecology

Discrete Mathematical Biology, RNA Secondary Structure, Combinatorics

Probability Theory and Applications, Aspects of Bioinformatics and Statistics

Biofluidics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Locomotion, Behavior

Nucleic Acid Structure, Function and Evolution

Computational Modeling of Climate and Biogeochemical Processes

Biodiversity, Community Assembly, Phylogenetic Community Ecology

Computational biology, computational chemistry, enhanced sampling approaches, protein evolution, enzyme design

Infectious Diseases, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Single-event kinetics, Biomolecular Dynamics and Simulation, Optical Microscopy and Image Analysis

Single-Molecule Biophysics, DNA-Protein Interactions, Gene Regulation, Chromatin Dynamics, Statistical Physics.

Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiomes, Bioremediation, Climate Change

Chemical Ecology; Chemical Signaling; Natural Products Chemistry; Metabolomics; Drug Discovery

Darwinian Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Theoretical Population Genetics

Membrane Proteins, Protein Misfolding, Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Crystallography

genomics, eukaryotic microbes, molecular evolution, host-microbe interactions

Ocean Circulation and Climate, Isotope Geochemistry

Joints, biomechanics, organismal biology, vertebrate evolution

Soft Matter Physics, Geometry, Mechanics, Soft Materials, Applied Mathematics

Quantitative Genetics, Behavior, GPCR-ligand Binding, Epistasis

spatial ecology, paleontology, climate change, ecological modeling, terrestrial systems

Protein Structure/Function, Immunology, De Novo Protein Design/Engineering, NMR Spectroscopy, Biophysics

Visual intelligence, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neuroimaging, neural networks

Systems, behavioral & computational neuroscience; Cognition, perception & sensorimotor learning; Predictive processing & error detection; Brain regions (cortex & cerebellum) interactions, Cell-type specific population coding

Cellular Mechanisms of Collective Cell Migration, Coordination of Cytoskeletal Regulators, Cell-Matrix Interaction During Cell Migration, Mathematical Modeling of Cell Migration.

Genomics, Quantitative Genetics, Experimental Evolutionary Biology

Sensory Control of Locomotion, Peripheral Nerve Injury, Osseointegrated Limb Prostheses, Artificial Sensory Feedback, Neuromechanical Modeling

Major Transitions in Evolution (mainly multicellularity). The Evolution of Cooperation. Bet Hedging / Evolution in Fluctuating Environments. The Evolution of Aging. Life Cycle Evolution.

Biogeochemistry, Planetary Science, Paleoceanography

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.

Terrestrial Locomotion, Neuromechanics, Wearable Robotics, Human Augmentation, Elastic Mechanisms

Attention, Cognitive Control, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory

Theoretical neuroscience, sensory systems, behavioral modeling, neural data analysis, neural models.

Computational Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Protein Structure Prediction

Neuromechanics, Neurophysiology, Dynamics of Locomotion, Multiscale Physics of Muscle

Developmental biology, neuroscience, cell biology, gene regulation, genome engineering

Genomics, Development, Behavior

Protein Biology and Biochemistry; Cell Signaling; Mass Spectrometry; Proteomics

Motor Control, Neuroimaging, Signal Processing, Cortical Networks, Action Encoding

microbiology, genomics, infectious disease, antimicrobial resistance, sociomicrobiology

Viral Ecology and Evolution, Nonlinear Dynamics, Network Science, Physics of Living Systems

Origins and Evolution of the Ribosome

Mechanics of Hierarchical Materials Materials; Mechanical Properties of Multicellular Organisms; Hydrodynamics of Cell Packings