Ludmil Alexandrov<\/strong> The Alexandrov Lab is focused on mapping and understanding the mutagenic processes that cause cancer. By developing novel computational approaches and applying them to large datasets from cancer patients, our lab aims to provide a detailed roadmap for preventing human cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jacob Allgeier<\/b> Rebuilding marine fisheries requires solutions that sustainably increase the productivity of ecosystems. The Allgeier Lab uses artificial reefs, modeling, and community-based conservation programs to understand how an unlikely but renewable source of fertilizer, fish excretion, can be used to stimulate fish production and improve food security in tropical coastal ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Peter Behroozi Behroozi\u2019s lab will generate a complete, transformative picture of how supermassive black holes (like those imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope) form in galaxies. This will resolve key questions about black holes\u2019 radiative efficiencies and spins, as well as constrain the rates of black hole mergers and detectable gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Yi-Wei Chang In biology, function arises from structure. The Chang lab uses cutting-edge electron and optical imaging methods combining with innovative analytical tools to look into cells in unprecedented details, aiming to decipher the principle and mechanism of cellular processes through direct molecular structural investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves Planet formation is complex, both physically and chemically. Cleeves studies the dusty disks around young stars where planet formation happens. Using both computer models and observations, her group aims to figure out how the properties of disks lead to robust planet formation, especially with respect to potentially habitable planets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Courtney Dressing Currently, the Earth is the only planet known to harbor life. The Dressing group is advancing the search for life on planets orbiting nearby stars by using a variety of ground-based and space-based telescopes to discover new planets, determine their characteristics, and assess their suitability for life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ankur Jain A single human cell contains several billion macromolecular building blocks. We investigate the design principles that cells use to organize their contents, and how defects in the cellular organization can contribute to human disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Shimon Kolkowitz Optical atomic clocks are the most precise devices ever constructed by humankind. The Kolkowitz group is researching ways to harness this precision to shed light on some of the big open questions in physics, such as the nature of dark matter, and the connections between quantum mechanics and gravity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bronwen Konecky The relationship between tropical rainfall and global climate depends on complex interactions between the oceans, atmosphere, and land surfaces. The Konecky group integrates field, lab, and climate model experiments in order to disentangle these hydroclimatic processes on scales from molecular to global, from the geologic past to today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Wesley Legant Microscopy has enabled fields ranging from chemistry and materials science to biology. Work in the Legant Lab spans the development of cutting-edge fluorescent microscopes, machine learning algorithms for intelligent instrument control and image analysis, and applications to fundamental biological phenomena including cell division, cell migration, and cell differentiation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jingchun Li The natural world is not always red in tooth and claw \u2013 species collaborate. The Li lab studies how animals and algae closely work together to efficiently convert solar power to organic nutrients. She explores the genetic and biochemical mechanisms behind this collaboration and applications to agriculture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Aleksandr Logunov In the 19th century Napoleon set a prize for the best mathematical explanation of Chladni\u2019s resonance experiments. Nodal geometry studies the zeroes of solutions of elliptic differential equations such as the visible curves that appear in these physical experiments. Logunov\u2019s research focuses on problems in nodal geometry, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and geometrical analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kyle Loh An enduring mystery is how all the amazingly different types of cells within the human body emerge from a single cell. By understanding the biological principles underlying how cells become different, Loh\u2019s laboratory seeks to artificially build various types of human cells in a Petri dish from pluripotent stem cells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kirstin Petersen Petersen\u2019s research involves design and coordination of large robot collectives able to achieve complex behaviors beyond the reach of single robot systems, and corresponding studies on how social insects do so in nature. The goal is to achieve robust autonomous systems for applications in construction, agriculture, exploration, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jose Rodriguez Molecules can\u2019t be seen with the naked eye. Instead, we rely on their interaction with quanta to interrogate their structures. The development of new technologies and methods makes that possible, particularly our use of electron microscopy. These tools and techniques can reveal undiscovered structures important to both chemistry and biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Alvaro Sanchez Microbes are most often found forming complex ecological communities that carry out essential functions throughout the biosphere.By tightly integrating genomic information, dynamic metabolic models, and high-throughput experimentation, the Sanchez lab seeks to quantitatively predict how microbial communities will assemble, and how they will evolve in a given environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Daniel Scolnic We don\u2019t understand 95% of the universe, which is made up of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter. Scolnic\u2019s research group is using a `cosmic distance ladder\u2019 to measuring the current expansion rate of the universe and the components of the universe driving the expansion. Scolnic\u2019s group is doing this by measuring thousands of exploding stars to map out the history of the universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sichen Shao Maintaining protein homeostasis is essential for cell viability, fate, and function. Shao\u2019s lab aims to understand the molecular mechanisms that detect and handle problems at different steps of protein biosynthesis by biochemically rebuilding cellular pathways for mechanistic and structural dissection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ashleigh Theberge Communication across cell types \u2013 within the human body and across microbial communities \u2013 is central to life. Theberge\u2019s group develops new approaches to decipher chemical dialog across cells using open microfluidic culture systems and particle-based extraction methods to selectively isolate chemical signals from complex biological systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Matt Thomson We seek to understand and program collective behavior in biological systems across different scales of organization ranging from the molecular to cellular scale. We construct and apply mathematical models to control processes ranging from the self-organization of active matter to the development of neural circuits in the brain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Da Yang The Yang group uses a combination of satellite observations, computer models and theory to study the Earth\u2019s weather and climate. We focus on understanding the physics of rainstorms to address what sets their temporal and spatial scales, and how the collective effect of individual rainstorms shapes the Earth\u2019s climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Lauren Zarzar Understanding how to program life-like dynamic characteristics into what otherwise would be a static system is an important aspect of designing functional materials. Zarzar\u2019s lab investigates how chemical and mechanical pathways couple in soft materials, such as droplets and gels, to yield such adaptive behaviors and also explores laser writing to synthesize and integrate diverse microscale materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Physics<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Geosciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Engineering \u2013 Chemical or Biological<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Mathematics, Princeton University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Mathematics<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Developmental Biology and Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Engineering \u2013 Electrical or Computer<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Chemistry<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology; Biotechnology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Physics Department, Duke University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Cell Biology, Harvard University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Chemistry, University of Washington<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Engineering \u2013 Chemical or Biological<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Biological Sciences; Biotechnology<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Geosciences<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University<\/em>
\nDiscipline: Chemistry<\/em><\/p>\n