People | Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

Bruce N. Cohen

John N. Abelson

George Beadle Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Yaser Abu Mostafa

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computation and Neural Systems;

Learning and Computation

Ralph Adolphs

Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center

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

Psychological and neurological investigations of human emotion and social cognition

John M. Allman

Frank P. Hixon Professor of Neurobiology

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

Neurophysiology, Vision, Audition, Olfaction

Aaron Ames

Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems

Computation and Neural Systems;

Robotics, nonlinear control, hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems

Anima Anandkumar

Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Computation and Neural Systems;

Large-scale machine learning, non-convex optimization and high-dimensional statistics

Richard A. Andersen

James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Brain-Machine Interface Center

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Neural mechanisms for planning, decision making, neural prosthetics, and brain repair

David J. Anderson

Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience

Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Genetic dissection of neural circuits controlling emotional behaviors

Patricia Anguiano

Administrative Assistant

Igor A. Antoshechkin

Director Caltech Genomics Facility

Alexei Aravin

Professor of Biology

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

Non-coding RNAs: Study of natural functions of non-coding RNAs in the cell and programming of RNA pathways for new functions in vivo. Non-coding RNAs as determinants of epigenetic states. The link between RNA- and chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms.

Frances H. Arnold

Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology;

Directed evolution, synthetic biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis, biofuels

Marcela S. Artiga

Kathleen M. Azali

David Baltimore

President Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of Biology

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

Signal transduction, transcriptional regulation and cell cycle controls.

Alan Barr

Professor of Computer Science

Computation and Neural Systems;

Imaging

Elaine L. Bearer

Visitor in Biology and Biological Engineering

Pamela J. Bjorkman

David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Bioengineering; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering

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

HIV, protein design, antibody therapeutics, structural immunology.

Justin S. Bois

Teaching Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Biological Engineering; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Systems Biology;

Lauren Breeyear

Divisional Events Coordinator

Lindsay Bremner

Neuroscience;

Charles J. Brokaw

Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Marianne Bronner

Distinguished Professor of Biology; Director of the Beckman Institute

Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Cellular and molecular studies of neural crest development.

Jehoshua Bruck

Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering

Computation and Neural Systems;

Information and Biology

Joel Burdick

Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist

Computation and Neural Systems;

Artificial Systems, Robotics

Long Cai

Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Biological Engineering; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Microbiology and Immunology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Spatial Genomics

Colin Camerer

Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience

Computation and Neural Systems;

Psychophysics, Decision, Behavior