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Core Faculty

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Frances Arnold
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry
Biofuels, protein
engineering, metabolic engineering, biological circuit design, directed
evolution, biocatalysis |
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Michael
Elowitz
Professor of Biology, Bioengineering and Applied Physics; Bren
Scholar; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Biophysics; biocomputing; gene regulation networks and variation in living
cells |
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Chinlin
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 |
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Richard
Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and
Bioengineering
Application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological
systems |
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Rob
Phillips
Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology
Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies |
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Niles
Pierce
Professor of Applied & Computational
Mathematics and Bioengineering;
Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering
Small conditional RNAs that interact and change conformation to execute molecular logic in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Molecular instruments for readout and regulation of cell state. Conditional chemotherapies that selectively treat diseased cells, leaving normal cells untouched. |
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Lulu Qian (arriving Summer 2013)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Designing and constructing artificial molecular systems that exhibit programmable behaviors such as recognizing molecular events from their environment, processing information, making decisions, taking actions, learning, and evolving. |
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Michael
L. Roukes 
Robert M. Abbey Professor
of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering; Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute
Nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, nanoscale physics, nanoscale and molecular
mechanics |
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Erik
Winfree
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 |
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Changhuei
Yang
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Biophotonics, bioimaging |
Affiliated Faculty

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Alexei Aravin
Assistant Professor of Biology
Non-coding RNAs: Study of natural functions of non-coding RNAs in the cell and programming of RNA pathways for new functions in vivo. Non-coding RNAs as determinants of epigenetic states. The link between RNA- and chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms. |
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Kaushik
Bhattacharya
Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanics of muscles, multiphase lipid bilayer membranes,
mechanics of materials, multi-scale modeling, active materials,
shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics, mechanics of hierarchical
biological structures |
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Joel
Burdick 
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Bioengineering
Robotics, neural prosthetics, and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries |
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Long Cai
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Single cell systems biology, super-resolution barcoded FISH, single molecule microscopy |
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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 |
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Azita Emami-Neyestanak Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Implantable and wearable devices for neural recoding and stimulations. Microelectronic and optoelectronic systems for drug delivery and diagnostics. |
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Mory
Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering
Biofluid dynamics, biomechanics, cardiac assist devices, advanced diagnostics |
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Lea Goentoro
Assistant Professor of Biology
Design principles of biological systems, signal transduction in animal cells, network architecture of embryonic development, cellular and developmental basis of evolution |
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Viviana Gradinaru
Assistant Professor of Biology
Reverse engineering brain circuits, optogenetics, protein engineering, technology development for neuroscience |
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Julia Greer
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics
Bioinspired design, biomechanics |
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Ali Hajimiri
Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering
Chip-based magnetic, optical, and electrical integrated biosensors for low-cost point-of-care diagnostics and sequencing applications. Self-healing circuits and systems
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James Heath
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor and Professor of Chemistry |
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Rustem Ismagilov
John W. and Herbeta M. Miles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Microfluidics, complex networks of reactions, cells and organisms, microbial communities, spatial structure, human health in resource-limited settings |
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Henry
A. Lester
Bren Professor of Biology; Executive Officer for Neurobiology
Neuroscience—study of nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system
levels |
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Elliot
M. Meyerowitz
George W. Beadle Professor of Biology
Computational modeling of plant development, computational analysis of microscope
images |
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Thanos Siapas
Professor of Computation and Neural Systems
Brain mechanisms of learning and memory, large-scale electrophysiology, computational neuroscience |
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Paul
Sternberg
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular genetics of development, nematodes, cancer genes |
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Yu-Chong
Tai
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), micromachines, sensors/actuators,
microfluidics, biochips |
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David
Tirrell
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering
Polymer chemistry; materials chemistry; biomaterials |
Research Faculty

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Paul W.K. Rothemund
Senior Research Associate in Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Computation and Neural Systems
Molecular programming and algorithms, DNA computation,
nucleic acid structure and thermodynamics, principles of self-assembly,
nanotechnology, bionanolithography, using DNA nanostructures as
instrumentation for biochemistry and biophysics |

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