Faculty Labs
Frederic Chain's Research Lab
Monitoring biodiversity and understanding evolutionary properties of the genome.
Jennifer Fish's Research Lab
Developmental biology, evolution development and variation in development; craniofacial and limb development.
Peter Gaines' Research Lab
Stem cell biology, innate immunology and cell culture methodologies and applications.
Jessica Garb's Research Lab
Chemical and molecular ecology, arthropod genomics & evolutionary biology; production and evolution of spider silks andvenoms.
Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn Research Lab
Climate change and infectious disease in marine organisms.
Hwai-Chen Guo's Research Lab
Structural enzymology, catalytic mechanism, immune responses and genetic diseases.
Alison Hamilton
Biodiversity, conservation biology, evolutionary biology, herpetology, pacific biogeography.
Rachel Melamed's Research Lab
Computational biology, cancer genomics, data science, biomedical informatics.
Garth Hall's Research
Cell biology, neurodegenerative disease and neuroscience.
Rick Hochberg's Research Lab
Invertebrate morphology, the functions of invertebrate organ systems, ecology and evolution.
Nicolai Konow's Research Lab
Comparative morphology, physiology and biomechanics.
Jeffrey Moore's Research Lab
Molecular biomechanics of contractile proteins, the structure & function of motor proteins & calcium regulation of muscle contraction.
Teresa Lee's Research Lab - Epigenetic inheritance of complex traits like longevity; the role of chromatin in regulating gene expression and development.
Research Opportunities in Biology - Assistant Professor Teresa Lee's Lab
Natalie Steinel's Research Lab
Comparative immunology of fish, B cell biology, host-pathogen interactions/co-evolution and ecoimmunology.
Research Opportunities in Biology - Associate Professor Natalie Steinel's Lab
Thomas Shea's Laboratory for Neuroscience
Development and maintenance of the nervous system & its eventual degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease and Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) using molecular, cell culture & transgenic models.
Naomi Wernick's Research
Biology education research to increase student success and retention.