Alan Attie
Biochemistry
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Molecular genetics of diabetes & insulin resistance; cell biology of lipoprotein assembly and cholesterol trafficking.
David Beebe
Biomedical Engineering
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Design, fabrication, and testing of novel micro fabrication techniques; microdevices and microsystems designed to facilitate advances in biology.
Emery Bresnick
Cell & Regenerative Biology
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Multidisciplinary approaches to understand stem/progenitor cell function, blood cell development, and vascular biology.
Karl Broman
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Statistical problems in genetics, genomics and molecular biology.
Jason Cantor
Biochemistry; Morgridge Inst. for Research
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Studies how environmental factors impact metabolic regulation and requirements with relevance to cancer and immunology
Qiang Chang
Genetics; Waisman Center
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Integrated analyses of epigenetic regulation of brain functions
Joshua Coon
Chemistry
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Development and application of new technologies and instrumentation for automated, large-scale whole protein characterization.
Mark Craven
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Development and application of machine-learning methods to inferring models of, and reasoning about, networks of interactions among genes, proteins, clinmical and environmental factors, and phenotypes of interest.
Colin Dewey
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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Algorithms and statistical models for genomics.
Huy Dinh
Oncology; Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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Computational biology approaches to understand how the immune tissue microenvironment changes toward finding immunotherapeutic biomarkers and targets
Timothy Donohue
Bacteriology
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Studying synthesis and activity of proteins that function in critical energy generating pathways in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
Corinne Engelman
Population Health Sciences
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Genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Vitamin D deficiency.
Catherine Fox
Biomolecular Chemistry
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Genomic and computational analyses of chromsome replication in eukaryotes.
Thomas Friedrich
Pathobiological Sciences
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RNA virus evolution, transmission and pathogenetics
Audrey Gasch
Genetics
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The genomics of yeast responses to environmental stress and starvation.
Anthony Gitter
Morgridge Inst. for Research; Biostat. & Med. Informatics
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Development of computational approaches to reconstruct signally pathways and transcriptional regulatory networks from multiple types of high throughput data.
Jo Handelsman
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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Understanding diversity in microbial communities and their role in infectious disease.
Melissa Harrison
Biomolecular Chemistry
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Understanding of how information encoded in the genome is differentially interpreted during organismal development.
Chris Hittinger
Genetics
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Diversity and evolution of yeast carbon metabolism networks.
Aaron Hoskins
Biochemistry
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Elucidating biochemical mechanisms in eukaryotic RNA metabolism with chemistry, biology, and single molecule analysis
Christina M. Hull
Biomolecular Chemistry
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Molecular biology of human fungal pathogens.
Meyer Jackson
Neuroscience
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Studies of synaptic mechanisms at the molecular, cellular, and circuit levels
Sunduz Keles
Statistics; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Understanding how the genome is regulated: a gateway to understanding developmental and disease mechanisms at a molecular level
Christina Kendziorski
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Development and application of statistical methods for gene mapping and gene expression array studies.
Pamela Kreeger
Biomedical Engineering
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Systems biology, ovarian cancer, endocrine signaling.
Jason Kwan
School of Pharmacy
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Targeted drug discovery; analysis of complex communities of uncultured microorganisms
Carol Lee
Integrative Biology; Centert of Rapid Evolution
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Analysis of evolutionary responses to catastrophic environmental change.
Peter Lewis
Biomolecular Chemistry; WID
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Chromatin dynamics influence on gene expression during mammalian development and tumorigenesis.
Qiongshi Lu
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Development of statistical methods for human genetics research
Megan McClean
Biomedical Engineering

Biological signal processing: signal specificity; determination of in vivo kinetics; transcription factor regulation; controllability.
Katherine McMahon
Bacteriology; Environmental Engineering
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Microbial ecology of both natural and engineered systems
Peter Muir
Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
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Comparative genomics of dogs and horses, investigating mechanisms that influence site-specific ligament and tendon degeneration, as well as late-onset polyneuropathy
Muhammed Murtaza
Surgery
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Analysis of circulating and cell-free tumor DNA and RNA for providing insights Into tumor genomes
Michael Newton
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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Developing statistical methods to address problems with the comparison of expression arrays.
Sean Palecek
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Cellular engineering, intracellular signal transduction, cell and protein biosensors.
Bret Payseur
Genetics
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Population genetic processes that determine patterns and levels of variation throughout the genome, including natural selection, recombination, and mutations.
Francisco Pelegri
Genetics
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Analysis of cellular and developmental genetics in early vertebrate embryonic development and determination of the germ line
Caitlin Pepperell
Medical Microbiology & Immunology; Medicine
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Force that shape evolution of human pahogens; influence of infection diseases on human evolution; effect of environment on population level patterns of infectious disease.
Nicole Perna
Genetics
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Genome scale comparative analysis to identify the genetic elements that distinguish one complete genome from another.
Brian Pfleger
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology, protein engineering, natural products.
John Pool
Genetics
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New inference methods for population genomic sequence data; genetic basis of parallel melanic evolution in Drosophila.
Srivatsan Raman
Biochemistry
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Systems and synthetic biology approach to understanding and designing biology at multiple scales - proteins, microbial pathways and microbiota.
Parmesh Ramanathan
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Characterization of the temporal dynamics of networks of gene interactions; longer-term goal, creation of a virtual foundry for genomic circuits.
Federico Rey
Bacteriology
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Gut bacterial metabolism and human health; microbial cross-feeding.
Philip Romero
Bacteriology
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Protein engineering, computational biology, high-throughput technology
Sushmita Roy
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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Inference of structure and function of regulatory networks; Comparative analysis of expression modules across species.
Kris Saha
Biomedical Engineering
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Use of human stem cells together with emerging engineering methods in material science and synthetic biology to model human disease and advance personalized medicine.
Steven Schrodi
Genetics
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Human genomics of inflammatory diseases, statistical genetics, genetic architecture of diseases
David C. Schwartz
GSTP Program Director
Chemistry / Genetics
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Chemistry and biology of single molecule systems with applications to genomic sciences.
Eric Shusta
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Development of an in vitro model of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB);analysis of membrane proteome of the BBB.
Ahna Skop
Genetics
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Cytokinesis and cell cycle proteomics.
Lloyd Smith
Chemistry
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Development and application of novel methods and approaches for the analysis and manipulation of biomolecules.
Andre Sousa
Neuroscience
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Development of new algorithms for genomic analysis across species; analysis of human brain development and evolution
Rupa Sridharan
Cell & Regenerative Biology
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Epigenetics of cell fate change.
Garret Suen
Bacteriology
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Rumen microbiology; herbivore-associated microbial ecology; metagenomics; biofuels.
Michael Sussman
Biochemistry
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Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana.
Daifeng Wang
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Waisman Center
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Development of machine learning approaches and bioinformatics tools to analyze multimodal data in complex brains and brain disorders
Donna Werling
Genetics
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Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease
John Yin
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Developing experimental and theoretical approaches to study growth, adaptation, and inactivation of viruses.
Mostafa Zamanian
Pathobiological Sciences
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Neglected diseases and pathogens