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Erik Andersen

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Research Interests: Genetics and genomics of complex traits; host-pathogen genomics and drug resistance; evolutionary genetics

Douglas Barrick

Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins

Brittany Belin

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution

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Research Interests: Cell biology of symbiotic bacteria and their associations with plants

Education: Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.

Alex Bortvin

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates

Nichole Broderick

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the microbiome affects animal development, physiology and immunity

Brian Camley

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology

Xin Chen

Professor, Department of Biology; Investigator, HHMI

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Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages

Phillip Cleves

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Research Interests: Genetic and cellular bases of coral-algal symbiosis and its breakdown due to stress

Education: Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.

Kyle Cunningham

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Calcium signaling and mechanisms of gene expression in yeast

Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response

Damian Ekiert

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Microbiology, parasitology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular biology, host-pathogen interactions

Chen-Ming Fan

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development

Steven A. Farber

Director, CMDB Graduate Program;
Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Real-time imaging of lipid metabolism in live zebrafish; cell and molecular biology of lipids; identification of genes which regulate digestive organ lipid metabolism using biochemical and genetic strategies

Karen Fleming

Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Structure, energetics, and folding of membrane proteins

Stephen Fried

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

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Research Interests: Folding and assembly of proteins and molecular machines in vivo; crosslinking mass spectrometry; ancient proteins and the origins of life; synthetic biology and directed evolution.

Joseph Gall

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Research Interests: Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno

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Research Interests: Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies

Andrew Gordus

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Understanding how novel and innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level

Vincent Hilser

Professor and Chair, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease

William Huang

Assistant Professor, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Physical principles of biochemical signaling; membrane signal transduction; single-molecule imaging, spectroscopy, and assays

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Erin Jimenez

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration

Margaret Johnson

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics

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Research Interests: Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale

Robert Johnston

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Development and gene regulation in human retinal organoids and fly eyes

John Kim

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome

Yumi Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis

Alfredo Kirkwood

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

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Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms that control learning and the formation of new memories throughout the lifespan

Rejji Kuruvilla

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Control of neuronal development by target-derived neurotrophins

Hey-Kyoung Lee

Associate Professor, School of Medicine

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Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation

William Ludington

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of complexity in microbiome-host interactions

Michael Schatz

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology

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Research Interests: My research interests are Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics

Trina Schroer

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture

Allan Spradling

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Director, Carnegie Institution of Washington;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Research Interests: Oogenesis; Drosophila genomics

Mark Van Doren

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation

Carl Wu

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin structure and function. Biochemistry of nucleosome remodeling and gene transcription, and live cell-single molecule imaging of histone and nuclear protein dynamics

Haiqing Zhao

Professor, Department of Biology

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Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons

Yixian Zheng

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology;
Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging

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