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Biology

Marina Kalyuzhnaya, PhD
One-carbon metabolism: systems biology and engineering.
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Scott T. Kelley, PhD
Metagenomics and Bioinformatics
Studying microbiomes, metabolomes and viromes of human and built environments. Developing new bioinformatics software and performing big data analysis of microbial community data.
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Lluvia Flores-Renteria, PhD
Evolutionary ecology and conservation genetics
Special Interest: Our lab studies population genomics, phylogenomics and metagenomics to understand plants and their symbionts.
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Dwayne Roach, PhD
Microbiology (bacteriophage), immunology, genomics/bioinformatics, in vivo and mathematical models, and clinical research.
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Forest Rohwer, PhD
Viruses, Human Microbiome, Marine Ecosystems
Metagenomics, phage and coral reef ecology
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Anca Segall, PhD
Biology
Functional Genomics, phage
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Jeet Sukumaran, PhD
Biology
Computational Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics
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E Waters Elizabeth Waters, PhD
Evolutionary Biology
Special Interest: Molecular Adaptation and the Origin of Land Plants
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Ricardo Zayas, PhD
Stem Cell Biology
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R Zeller Robert Zeller, PhD
Molecular Biology
Special interests Gene regulatory networks in primitive chordates
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Arun Sethuraman, PhD
Computational Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics
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C Zuniga Cristal Zuñiga, PhD
Computational Systems Biology, Constrain-based Metabolic Modeling
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S Haricharan Svasti Haricharan, PhD
Cancer Biology, DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms, Genomics, Multi-omics
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Chemistry & Biochemistry

Mikael Bergdahl, PhD
Organic Chemistry
Special interests: Synthases
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John Love, PhD
Biochemistry
Special Interest: Protein design and engineering: Driving novel protein/protein associations by computational and experimental design
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Manal Swairjo, PhD
Biochemistry
Special interests: Structural bioinformatics and metabolic pathways.
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Laura-Isobel McCall, PhD
Biochemistry
Special interests: 3D metabolomics of host-microbe-environment interactions to guide drug development
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Engineering

Parag Katira, PhD
Biomolecular Motors, Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, Tissue Dynamics, Soft Matter Interactions, Design of Active Materials
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 S Kumar Sunil Kumar, PhD
Electrical Engineering
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Y Ozturk Yusuf Ozturk, PhD
Electrical Engineering
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Mathematics & Statistics

B Bailey Barbara Bailey, PhD
Ecology of cystic fibrosis, Nonlinear time series
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 photo_not_available Jianwei Chen, PhD
Statistics
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 J Fan Juanjuan Fan, PhD
Statistics
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Richard Levine Richard Levine, PhD
Statistics, biostatistics, and Environmental Statistics
Special Interest: Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods and Bayesian decision theory
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CD Lin Chii-Dean Lin, PhD
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Physics

U Sinha Usha Sinha, PhD
Medical Physics
Special Interest: Imaging Informatics
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Public Health

Faramarz Valafar, PhD
Infectious Disease Genomics, Genomic Dark Matter, Epigenetics, de novo Genome and Methylome Assembly, Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
Special interests: Functional and evolutionary consequences of variations in genetic dark matter, genomic structure, and methylome in emergence of drug resistance in infectious diseases, especially in pathogenesis of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
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JD Baek Jong-Deuk Baek, PhD
Health Management and Policy
Special interests: Health IT
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S Kiene Susan Kiene, MD, MPH
HIV prevention
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Luwen (Vivian) Huangfu, PhDArtificial intelligence, business analytics, public health, machine learning, and data mining.>> Visit Dr. Huangfu, Google Scholar

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