Faculty Participants of CCBB

 Biological Sciences | Biomedical Engineering | Chemistry | Computer SciencesGeological Sciences | Mathematics | Pharmacy | Physics


Biological Sciences

Lauren Ancel: Evolutionary theory, microbial evolution, and epidemiology.

Jim Bull:  Evolutionary genetics, molecular, classical, and theoretical  biology.

David Cannatella: Comparative biology and phylogenetics.

Z. Jeffrey Chen: Genetic, epigenetic, and evolutionary consequences of polyploidy on genome function.

David Crews: Neuroendocrinology and behavior.

Larry Gilbert: Animal-plant interactions, tropical ecology.

Robin Gutell: Computational biology and bioinformatics, RNA structure and  folding, molecular evolution.

Muhammad Hamid Zaman: Computational modeling of cell adhesion and migration. Protein-substrate and
protein-protein interactions.

David M. Hillis: Evolutionary patterns and processes as revealed by molecular genetic techniques.

Robert K. Jansen: Molecular systematics, molecular evolution, chloroplast DNA evolution.

Tom Juenger - Evolutionary ecology & genetics, quantitative genetics, QTL & LD mapping.

Timothy H. Keitt - Land use change and conservation in Madagascar, Network theory applied to habitat-based conservation planning

Mark Kirkpatrick: Evolutionary theory; population and quantitative genetics.

Craig R. Linder: Evolutionary Ecology, hybridization, molecular systematics and evolution, plant evolutionary ecophysiology.

Tom J. Mabry: Chemistry and bioactivity of natural products including enzymatic and molecular processes in their metabolic pathways.

Ian Molineux: Bacteriophage evolution, modeling of viral developmental life-cycles.

Ulrich Mueller: Behavioral, molecular and chemical ecology, phylogenetics, evolution of organismal interactions.

Jose Panero: Plant systematics, molecular systematics.

David M. Parichy: Development, genetics, evolution.

Eric R. Pianka: Population and community ecology, evolutionary ecology, phylogenetic systematics, computer simulation of model systems, natural history of desert lizards.

Michael Ryan: Animal communication, evolution of behavior.

Sahotra Sarkar: Computational ecology and conservation biology

Beryl Simpson: Biogeography and systematics.

Michael C. Singer: Evolution of insect diet.

John Sisson: Molecular mechanics controlling animal cell cytokinesis.

Edward C. Theriot: Diatom systematics, systematic theory and applications to ecological and paleontological problems.

Claus Wilke: I work in the areas of computational and theoretical evolutionary biology. My research can be broadly subdivided into three areas: (1) RNA virus evolution, (2) theoretical population genetics, (3) evolution of biopolymers (RNA, proteins).


Biomedical Engineering

Orly Alter: genomic signal processing and systems biology

Mia Markey: The design of cost-effective, computational medical decision aids that will help physicians better diagnose, treat, and manage cancer.

 

Chemistry/Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering

Isaac B. Bersuker: Computational drug design, molecular modeling for large biological systems.

Andy Ellington: Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of aptamers, protein and metabolic engineering.

Dmitrii Makarov: Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of protein folding and unfolding, mechanical properties of proteins, kinetics of biochemical reactions at the single molecule level, RNA folding.

Edward Marcotte: Protein function and interactions, bioinformatics, proteomics, biological networks, evolution of genomes, proteomes, and protein interactions.

John Robertus: Protein crystallography, genetic engineering, structure-based drug design.

Thomas Truskett:  Hydrophobic hydration and ordering in aqueous solution; nano-confined phases; complex fluids; granular packings and disordered media.

 

Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chandra Bajaj: Scientific visualization, computer graphics, distributed processing, algebraic computation.

Inderjit Dhillon: Large-scale data mining, statistical pattern recognition, data visualization, numerical linear algebra, parallel computation.

Risto Miikkulainen: Genetic algorithms, computational neuroscience, cognitive science.

Daniel P. Miranker: Parallel computer architecture, active/expert database systems, high performance artificial intelligence systems.

Ray Mooney: Machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, natural language processing.

William H. Press: Bioinformatics and computational genomics, data mining, and patern recognition algorithms.

Vijaya Ramachandran: Parallel algorithms, graph algorithms, data structures.

Tandy Warnow: Combinatorial algorithms for phylogenetic estimation, experimental performance analysis of algorithms, statistical inference.

 

Geological Sciences

Timothy Rowe: Vertebrate morphology, paleontology and systematics; computed tomography, informatics and visualization.

 

Mathematics

Irene Gamba: Applied mathematics, partial differential equations.

Oscar Gonzalez: Numerical analysis and multi-scale modeling of DNA.

John Luecke: Knot theory and DNA modeling.

Lorenzo Sadun: Differential geometry, mathematical physics.

 

Pharmacy

Sean Kerwin: Bio-organic chemistry, molecular recognition and rational drug design.

 

Philosophy

Sahotra Sarkar: Computational ecology and conservation biology

Physics

Richard A. Matzner: General relativity and cosmology, kinetic theory, black hole physics, gravitational radiation.


last updated: Oct 13, 2003

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