Yearly Archives: 2017

The Kim Laboratory studies transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of pluripotent stem cells such as embryonic stem cells (ES) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). Pluripotent stem cells are of great interest as a model system for studying early developmental processes …

Professor Jiang’s research is focused on systems immunology. A dysfunctional or dysregulated immune system not only fails to offer protection, it can also introduce unnecessary immune responses such as allergies or autoimmune diseases. The key to immune modulation and engineering …

Single nucleotide genetics changes can act alone or in concert to affect the development or homeostasis of tissues and organ systems. The Gray lab takes an integrated approach to understanding this process combining Human genomic data with experimental modeling in …

The Georgiou Lab is currently working primarily on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics and applied immunology by capitalizing on state of the art protein engineering, directed evolution and systems biology technologies. Areas of interest include i) the engineering …

The overarching goal of the Ehrlich lab is to understand the cellular and molecular interactions between thymocytes and heterogeneous stromal cells in the thymic microenvironment that promote development of a healthy, non-autoreactive, and non-malignant T cell repertoire.

I use computationally-predicted RNA secondary structure as a model system to study many aspects evolutionary dynamics. In my models, I consider the primary nucleotide sequence as a genotype and the estimated repertoire of lowest free energy secondary structures as the …

Professor Marcelo Behar’s research focuses on understanding the functional principles underlying how biological networks collect, process, and use different types of information available in their environment. Professor Behar specializes in the dynamical properties of the intracellular information highways that allow …

The Alper lab focuses on engineering biology to produce organic molecules of interest such as biofuels, commodity and specialty chemicals, and protein pharmaceuticals.  To accomplish these tasks, traditional pathway engineering approaches are merged with novel synthetic biology tools, protein engineering …

Pathogenic bacteria make news headlines daily. From hospital outbreaks, to tainted food and water sources, to the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria, we are constantly aware of the impact these microbes have on our health and well-being. The Davies lab …

Mechanism And Regulation Of Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis We are seeking a molecular description of the process in which initiation factors (eIF4A, eIF4B, eIF4F, eIF3, eIF2 and PABP) select, prepare and bind messenger RNA to the 40S ribosome. Plants have a …