People of qBio
The qBio program is composed of faculty and students of five Departments: Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Physics, and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program spanning three academic Divisions across the campus. The program aims to equip students with critical theoretical and experimental skills towards discovering the organizing principles of living systems. The core of the QBIO program comprises both theory and lab courses, features our unique ‘hacker lab’, and is built flexibly upon the basic requirements of the participating departments.
Faculty
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Barrett, Kim Professor Rheumatology |
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Bennett, Eric Associate Professor Cell & Developmental Biology |
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Bier, Ethan Professor Cell & Developmental Biology |
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Chao, Lin Professor Ecoology/Behavior & Evolution
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Cooper, Kim Assistant Professor Cell & Developmental Biology |
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Daugherty, Matthew Assistant Professor Molecular Biology Our lab studies the evolution of host-pathogen interactions and host immunity against infectious diseases |
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del Alamo, Juan Professor Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering |
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Desai, Arshad Professor Cell & Developmental Biology |
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Dudko, Olga Professor Physics |
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Farley, Emma Assistant Professor Molecular Biology |
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Fraley, Stephanie Assistant Professor Bioengineering Biophysics of Cell Migration, Morphogenesis, Cancer, Microfluidics, Molecular Detection Technologies |
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Golden, James Professor Molecular Biology Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology of Cyanobacteria |
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Golden, Susan Professor Molecular Biology Circadian Clock Mechanism in Cyanobacteria |
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Groisman, Alex Associate Professor Physics
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Hao, Hao Associate Professor Molecular Biology Cellular Aging, Single-cell Dynamics, Gene Regulation |
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Hasty, Jeff Professor Molecular Biology Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology, Microfluidic Devices |
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Hwa, Terry Professor Physics |
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Ideker, Trey Professor Medicine Biological Networks, Cellular Modeling, Hierarchical Network Models |
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Jun, Suckjoon Associate Professor Physics Fundamental Quantitative Principles in Growth Physiology. |
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Kleinfeld, David Professor Physics |
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Koslover, Elena Assistant Professor Physics Intracellular Transport, Polymer Physics, Stochastic Modeling |
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Kryazhimskiy, Sergey Assistant Professor Ecology/Behavior & Evolution |
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Li, Bo Professor Mathematics Develop Mathematical Theories and Computational Tools for Biomolecular Interactions and Cellular Dynamics. |
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McCulloch, Andrew Professor Bioengineering |
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Meyer, Justin Assistant Professor Ecology/Behavior & Evolution |
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Murre, Cornelis Professor Molecular Biology |
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Oegema, Karen Professor Cellular Molecular Medicine |
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Perry, Michael Assistant Professor Cell & Devlopmental Biology
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Rangamani, Padmini Associate Professor Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering Mathematical Modeling; Mechanobiology; Systems Biology; Membrane Mechanics
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Rappel, Wouter Researcher Physics Eukaryotic Cell Migration and Cardiac Arrhythmias. |
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Rifkin, Scott Associate Professor Ecology/Behavior & Evolution
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Sen, George Associate Professor Dermatology Stem cells, Epigenetic, Regeneration
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Sharpee, Tatyana Professor Salk Institute of Biological Sciences |
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Suel, Gurol Professor Molecular Biology Emergent behavior in microbial biofilm communities and the role of ion flux modulation in bacterial resilience.
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Tsai, Phil Teaching Professor Physics
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Tsmiring, Lev Research Scientist The BioCircuits Institute / Bio Dynamics Lab
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Vergassola, Massimo Professor Physics
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Villa, Elizabeth Assistant Professor Molecular Biology |
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Wang, Peter (Yingxiao) Professor Bioengineering
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Williams, Ruth Professor Mathematics
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Zengler, Karsten Associate Professor Pediatrics Microbiome, Host-Microbe Interaction, Modeling |
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Zhong, Shen Professor Bioengineering Genomics, RNA, In vitro Diagnosis.
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Zid, Brian Assistant Professor Chemistry/Biochemistry mRNA Localization, mRNP Granules, Translational Regulation |
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Current Students
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1st Year Students |
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Borin, Josh Meyer Lab Bacteriophage Evolution, Host range, Trade-offs I am studying how bacteriophages evolve to infect new hosts and overcome host resistance, with an interest in applying this to understand and improve phage therapies |
Coker, Joanna Zengler Lab Microbiome, Glycobiology Developing a method using glycan binding proteins to selectively remove Staphylococcus aureus from atopic dermatitis skin microbiome samples for autograft treatments of this disease. |
Dinh, Cong Dutton Lab Metagenomics, Gene Transfer Looking at rates and factors contributing to horizontal gene transfers in simple cheese rind microbiomes
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Garcia-Arceo, Ximena |
Grober, Dan |
Holness, Shayna |
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Lau, Rebecca Corbett Lab
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Miano, Arianna Hasty Lab Microfluidics Synthetic Biology Microbiology Development of synthetic genetic circuits based on orthogonal quorum sensing to engineer complex bacterial population dynamics. |
Mlynaryk, Nicole Komiyama Lab
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Manzanarez, Gabriel |
Puri, Palka |
Rawson, Brandon |
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Tyree, Timothy |
Umale, Saransh |
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2nd Year Students |
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Bloom, Jessica Rifkin Lab |
Guessous, Ghita Hwa Lab |
Karanam, Aravind Rappel Lab |
Kuo, Huan-Yu Kryzashimskiy Lab Evolutionary System Biology I am interested in evolutionary and quantitative biology. I'm currently working on stochastic model and computation to analyze fitness from lineage tracking experiment.
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Naigles, Beverly Hao Lab Dynamics, Microfluidics, Gene Expression I am studying signaling and gene expression dynamics in mammalian cells using microfluidics and quantitative time-lapse imaging. |
Narla, Avaneesh Vergassola Lab Drosophila Development I am looking at how actomyosin-mediated cytoplasmic flows regulate the cell cycle and lead to self-organised positioning of the nuclei
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Robertson, Jacob Hwa Lab |
Thiermann, Ryan Jun Lab |
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3rd Year Students |
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Agarwal, Anamika Koslover Lab Theoretical Biophysics I study the regulation of metabolism in neurons through mathematical and physical models. |
Croxford, Matt Villa Lab
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Goel, Tapan
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Harvey, Alex Zid Lab |
Kikuchi, Kaito Suel Lab |
Lam, Vinson Villa Lab |
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Palmer, Nathan Mali Lab
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Tang, Man-ho (Marco) Rappel Lab Cell Motility, Chemotaxis Study Chemotactic Behavior of Amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) in cAMP Waves with Experiments and Modeling |
Pan, Xia Kleinfeld Lab
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4th Year Students |
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Fang, Zheng Abarbanel Lab |
Gupta, Animesh Meyer Lab |
O'Laughlin Ricky Hasty Lab |
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Paxman, Julie Hao Lab Sir2, Aging, Proteostasis The Dynamic Cellular Responses to Loss of Sir2 Activity During Aging. |
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Shi, Chao Chao Lab Evolution Aging Ecoli I'm working on evolution of an aging landscape of E.coli population. |
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Taylor, Brian Hwa Lab
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Zhou, Yuansheng (Fred) Sharpee Lab Computational Biology Develop computation algorithms to explore high dimensional biological datasets. |
Alumni
