People | Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering; William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

Biological Engineering; Systems Biology;

Feedback and control in biological circuits, synthetic biology, molecular programming.

Cheryl Nakashima

Administrative Assistant

Violana Nesterova

Dianne K. Newman

Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Executive Officer for Molecular Biology

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology;

Bioenergetics and cell biology of metabolically diverse, genetically-tractable bacteria. Biofilm biology in the context of human chronic infections and crop rhizospheres.

Alex Nisthal

Visitor in Biology & Biological Engineering

John O'Doherty

Professor of Psychology

Computation and Neural Systems;

Decision, Behavior, Neuroscience

Yuki Oka

Professor of Biology and Chen Scholar

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Understanding the neural and molecular basis of motivated behaviors toward homeostatic regulation.

Alison E. Ondrus

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Systems Biology;

Victoria J. Orphan

James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology; Alan V.C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions; Director, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions

Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Systems Biology;

Ker-Hwa T. Ou

Ray D. Owen

Lior S. Pachter

Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Biological Engineering; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Systems Biology;

Computational and experimental methods for genomics. Currently focused on the development of single cell sequencing based technologies and their application to RNA biology.

Joseph Parker

Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Genetic, genomic and neurobiological basis of symbiotic interactions in animals.

Alina Patke

Research Assistant Professor

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Neuroscience;

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Neuroscience.

Paul H. Patterson

Shirley S. Pease

Director, Transgenic Core

Pietro Perona

Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering

Computation and Neural Systems;

Vision, Audition, Olfaction, Learning and Computation, Psychophysics, Decision, Behavior, Artificial Systems, Robotics

Isabelle Peter

Research Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Biological Engineering; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Systems Biology;

Danny Petrasek

Visiting Associate in Medical Engineering

Robert B. Phillips

Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biological Engineering; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Systems Biology;

Physical Biology of the Cell; Biophysical Theory; Single-molecule Experiments; Single-cell Experiments

Niles A. Pierce

Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering;

Biological engineering, chemical engineering, computational mathematics, molecular programming, chemical biology, synthetic biology.

Lillian Porter

Administrative Assistant

David Prober

Professor of Biology

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Genetic and Neural Circuits that Regulate Sleep

Carmie Puckett Robinson

Visiting Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering

Lulu Qian

Professor of Bioengineering

Biological Engineering;

Designing and constructing artificial molecular systems that exhibit programmable behaviors such as recognizing molecular events from their environment, processing information, making decisions, taking actions, learning, and evolving

Steven Quartz

Professor of Philosophy

Computation and Neural Systems;

Decision, Behavior

Antonio Rangel

Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, and Economics; Head Faculty in Residence

Computation and Neural Systems;

Neuroeconomics

Andrew J. Ransick

Dinesh S. Rao

Visiting Associate in Biology

Douglas C. (Doug) Rees

Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Microbiology and Immunology;

Jean-Paul Revel

Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Ian Ross

Visiting Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering

Paul Rothemund

Research Professor of Bioengineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Computation and Neural Systems

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering;

Ellen Rothenberg

Distinguished Professor of Biology

Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Systems Biology;

Transcriptional networks underlingT-cell development and signaling.

Michael L. Roukes

Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering

Biological Engineering; Neuroscience;

Nanobiotechnology; Nanotechnology; Nanoscale Physics; Nanoscale and Molecular Mechanics

Ueli Rutishauser

Visiting Associate in Biology and Bioengineering

Alex L. Sessions

Professor of Geobiology

Microbiology and Immunology;

Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

Shu-ou Shan

Altair Professor of Chemistry; Executive Officer for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Systems Biology;

Bruce Shapiro

Lead Computational Specialist

Mikhail G. Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering; Neuroscience;

Molecular and cellular engineering, non-invasive imaging and control of biological function, neuroscience, nanotechnology, synthetic biology.

Shinsuke (Shin) Shimojo

Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Psychophysics

Thanos Siapas

Professor of Computation and Neural Systems; Executive Officer for Computation and Neural Systems

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Network Mechanisms of Learning and Memory, Systems Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Neurotechnology.

Jessica Silva

HR and Division Admin

Melvin I. (Mel) Simon

Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus

Bryan P. Simpson

Lisa Sledd

Lab Manager/Administrative Support

Angelike Stathopoulos

Professor of Biology

Developmental Biology and Genetics; Systems Biology;

Developmental Biology and Genetics; Systems Biology.

Paul W. Sternberg

Bren Professor of Biology

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Systems biology of C. elegans development; Neural circuits underlying sex and sleep; Nematode functional genomics and chemical ecology; Text mining.