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 & applications
Jessica Garb's Research Lab
Chemical and molecular ecology, arthropod genomics & evolutionary biology; production & evolution of spider silks & venoms
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 & 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 & neuroscience
Rick Hochberg's Research Lab
Invertebrate morphology, the functions of invertebrate organ systems, ecology & evolution
Nicolai Konow's Research Lab
Comparative morphology, physiology & 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 & development
Natalie Steinel's Research Lab
Comparative immunology of fish, B cell biology, host-pathogen interactions/co-evolution & ecoimmunology
Thomas Shea's Laboratory for Neuroscience - Development & 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