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Hans Hofmann |
Dr. Hofmann is an associate professor with the Section of Integrative Biology. The research in Dr. Hofmann's laboratory seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution. |
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Claus Wilke |
Dr. Wilke is an assistant professor with the Section of Integrative Biology. His current research covers three broad but interconnected areas: 1. biophysical mechanisms of molecular evolution; 2. microbial adaptation and experimental evolution; 3. disease dynamics. A recurring theme in my research is evolution; modern biomedical research is deeply connected to evolutionary biology. |
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Jeffrey Barrick |
Dr. Jeffrey Barrick is a professor with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research uses experiments with microorganisms, nucleic acids, and digital organisms to study evolution in action with the ultimate goal of understanding and harnessing evolution as a creative force. To ask how different types of mutations impact evolutionary potential, we are using deep sequencing to monitor the competitive dynamics of spontaneous beneficial mutations in these populations and also engineering specific genomic changes. Systems biology and biochemistry approaches are used to link the effects of mutations on cell physiology to how they affect competitive fitness at the organism level, and bioinformatics and comparative genomics are used to investigate whether similar mutational pathways are important in nature. Other research interests include investigating the functions of cryptic genomic elements and using mark-recapture techniques on microbial genomes to watch them as they evolve in the context of complex wild and pathogenic communities. |
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Robert Jansen |
Dr. Jansen is a professor in the Section of Integrative Biology. He is also the current chairman. His research involves studies of molecular systematics and evolution, evolution and systematics of the Asteraceae, Campanulaceae, and Geraniaceal chloroplast genome evolution, and the origin and evolution of oceanic island floras. |
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Risto Miikkulainen |
Dr. Risto Miikkulainen is a professor with the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as neural networks and genetic algorithms. On the one hand, the goal is to better understand biological information processing, and on the other, to develop more intelligent artificial systems that learn and adapt by observing and interacting with the environment. The three main focus areas are: (1) Cognitive Science, i.e. models of natural language processing, concept learning, and schema-based vision; (2) Computational Neuroscience, i.e. episodic memory and development, plasticity, and function of the visual cortex; (3) Neuroevolution, i.e. evolving neural networks with genetic algorithms for sequential decision tasks such as robotics, games, and artificial life. |
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Tandy Warnow |
Dr. Tandy Warnow is a professor with the Department of Computer Science. Her research combines mathematics, computer science,and statistics to develop improved models and algorithms for reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories in both biology and historical linguistics. |
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Lauren Meyers |
Dr. Meyers is professor of Integrative Biology and Director of the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computing. Her research interests are mathematical epidemiology and theoretical evolutionary biology. |
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William (Bill) Press |
Dr. Press is professor of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology. He is President-Elect of the AAAS, serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). His work is in computational biology, especially whole-genome studies. |
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David |
Dr. Hillis is professor of Natural Sciences. He is best known for his studies of molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics. He created the popular Hillis Plot depiction of the evolutionary tree of life. |
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Dan |
Dr. Miranker is a professor of Computer Science. His research is in Bioinformatics, The Semantic Web, Intelligent Information Systems, Data Indexing, Search and Warehousing. In Bioinformatics his specific current projects concern comparative RNA sequence analysis and proteomic mass-spectroscopy. His Semantic Web projects concern data integration, the automated mapping of legacy relational databases to the Semantic Web, and Image-Based Ontologies with applications to Biodiversity and Systematic Biology. |
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Andrew Ellington |
Dr. Ellington is interested in the evolutionary engineering of molecules, pathways, and organisms, and the application of these methods to real-world problems. In particular, he evolves functional RNA molecules to serve as diagnostic and therapeutic reagents, including those that inhibit the replication of HIV-1 and the growth of tumor cells. |
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Vishwanath Iyer |
Dr. Iyer aims his research at understanding how gene expression is regulated on a genome-wide scale. He employs genomic, molecular, and computational approaches to study important aspects of global regulators and to reconstruct the transcriptional control of stress responses. |
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Edward Marcotte |
Dr. Marcotte is engaged in the quantitative modeling of the behavior of cells and their constituents. His work is evenly split between computational and experimental approaches for studying thousands of genes/proteins in parallel. |
