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image Frances Arnold
Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry
Biofuels, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biological circuit design, directed evolution, biocatalysis
image Anand Asthagiri
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Biomolecular cell engineering, cell-biomaterial interactions, cell signaling and regulatory networks, developmental and multicellular patterning, systems biology, tissue engineering
image Kaushik Bhattacharya
Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science Mechanics of muscles, multiphase lipid bilayer membranes, mechanics of materials, multi-scale modeling, active materials, shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics, mechanics of hierarchical biological structures
image Joel Burdick
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Deputy Director, Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
Robotics, neural prosthetics, and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries
image John O. Dabiri
Assistant Professor Aeronautics and Bioengineering
Mechanics and dynamics of biological propulsion, fluid dynamic energy conversion

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image Michael Dickinson
Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering
Physiology and mechanics of flight behavior in insects
image John Doyle
John G Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering
Theoretical foundations and software infrastructure for complex technological and biological networks
image Michael Elowitz
Assistant Professor of Biology and Applied Physics; Bren Scholar
Biophysics; Biocomputing; Gene regulation networks and variation in living cells
image Scott Fraser
Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering; Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center
Developmental neurobiology, light microscopy, advanced imaging techniques
image Mory Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bioengineering
Biofluid dynamics, biomechanics, cardiac assist devices and advanced diagnostics

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image Chin-Lin Guo
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics
Investigating cellular mechanisms of self-organization in biological systems, particularly the biomechanics that enhance and stabilize spatiotemporal control, where collective locomotion usually leads to integrated global behaviors
image Jared R. Leadbetter
Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology
Physiology, ecology and phylogeny; microbial interactions and symbioses
image Henry A. Lester
Bren Professor of Biology
Neuroscience—Study of nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system level
image Elliot M. Meyerowitz
George W. Beadle Professor of Biology; Chair, Division of Biology
Computational modeling of plant development, computational analysis of microscope images
image Richard Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems
Application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological systems

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  Danny Petrasek
Senior Research Fellow Bioengineering and Applied Mathematics
Bridging molecular biology and cell biology to the macroscopic organismic physiology
image Rob Phillips
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics
Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies
image Niles Pierce
Associate Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering,
Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering

Programming biomolecular function. Biomolecular mechanisms for detection, transduction, amplification and locomotion. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Biomolecular technologies for therapeutics, bioimaging, biosensing, and active transport.
image Jerome Pine
Professor of Physics
Learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity in cultured neural networks
image Michael L. Roukes
Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering
Nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, nanoscale physics, nanoscale and molecular mechanics

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image Christina D. Smolke
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Biomolecular engineering, RNA device design, synthetic biology, metabolic pathway engineering, biomedical engineering, therapeutic molecule design, gene expression control strategies
image Paul Sternberg
Professor of Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular genetics of development, nematodes, cancer genes
image Yu-Chong Tai
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), micromachines, sensors/actuators, microfluidics, and biochips
image David Tirrell
Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Ross McCollum - William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Polymer chemistry; materials chemistry; biomaterials
image Erik Winfree
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering
Biomolecular computation, DNA based computation, algorithmic self-assembly, in vitro biochemical circuits, noise and fault-tolerance, DNA and RNA folding, evolution.
image Changhuei Yang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Biophotonics, Bioimaging

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