Faculty F-J

Our research explores how we learn from our mistakes. As infants learning to walk, we take unsteady steps, fall, adjust, and eventually develop stable locomotion. This iterative cycle of action, error, and refinement continues throughout life, shaping our...

Taekjip Ha analyzes single molecules to understand how they act in complex biological systems.

Ha and his team combine sophisticated biophysical manipulation techniques with fluorescence imaging to visualize and manipulate protein, RNA, and DNA molecules...

The Farnung Lab is interested in molecular mechanisms at the interface of transcription and chromatin.

We employ biochemical, biophysical, machine learning, and structural biology approaches to understand how the transcription machinery, histone...

Projects in our lab focus on mechanotransduction or the conversion of mechanical signals into electrical signals in the inner ear.  The process underlies our senses of hearing and balance.  We have identified several proteins critical for...

The Hormoz lab’s mission is to control biological systems to understand life and cure disease. We want to understand how different cell states emerge in diverse biological systems (viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells) and use this knowledge to...

Our laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms of the vertebrate immune system.

We are particularly interested in protein aggregates, namely “functional aggregates”, that play increasingly important and common functions in immune systems. Our...

The central aim of my current research is to understand the mechanical basis of protein function, that is, the collective motions and the forces that guide these motions, enabling the conformational and energetic changes required for functional...

The overall objective of our research is to understand how protein interactions determine subcellular structure. We use direct structural approaches – principally X-ray crystallography, often in combination with electron microscopy – to determine the...

Using in vivo dynamics of single molecules to dissect the mechanisms controlling bacterial shape and growth.

 

My group works to understand how cells create long range order: How enzymes, each acting at the nanometer scale, work together to build micron...

Structural biology of signaling and transport through biological membranes.

 

My lab is broadly interested in the mechanisms of signaling and transport across cellular membranes. We use a variety of cell-based and in vitro biochemical assays, x-ray...