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Independently curated · UnclaimedMichael Brent Research Group
Washington University in St Louis
Michael Brent · Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering; Professor of Computer Science & Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Genetics
How can a person's genome sequence predict expression levels of any gene in that person? The Brent Lab maps which genes are regulated by each transcription factor in yeast and Cryptococcus using computational and experimental methods to define regulatory targets. The group is applying computational TF-target mapping methods to integrate diverse human datasets and identify regulatory networks across humans. Researchers develop quantitative models that predict gene expression level from genome sequence by combining statistics, network analysis, and machine learning. The lab participates in the Long Life Family Study to find genetic variants associated with longevity by integrating DNA sequence, DNA methylation, and gene expression data.
Independently curated · UnclaimedMichael J. Axtell Research Group
Penn State (Main campus)
Michael J. Axtell · Professor of Biology; Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology
How do plant microRNAs and siRNAs control gene regulation and evolution of plant development? The lab discovers and characterizes plant microRNAs and siRNAs and studies their functions in plant developmental evolution. Projects combine genomics and bioinformatics to identify small RNAs and their targets across plant species. Researchers use genetic, biochemical, and molecular biology approaches to characterize microRNA biogenesis, processing, and target interactions. Current efforts include trans-species RNA mobility studies and assembly and annotation of parasitic plant genomes.
Michael Johnson Research Group
University of KansasMichael A. Johnson · Professor of Chemistry
How do neurons communicate, and how does that communication change in disease? Michael Johnson develops and applies bioanalytical techniques to measure neurotransmitters on physiological time scales. His group uses electrochemical detection, fluorescence microscopy, microfluidics, and related biochemical and behavioral methods to examine neurological disorders, oxidative stress, and drug action. Research described by the group includes altered dopamine release in Huntington’s disease models. The work links chemical measurement with neuroscience for researchers interested in the molecular signals behind brain function.
Michael Kilgard Research Group
University of Texas at Dallas
Michael Kilgard · Professor
Kilgard studies how carefully timed nerve stimulation can help the nervous system learn again after injury. His research pairs brief vagus nerve stimulation with movements or sensory experiences to direct neural plasticity. The work links preclinical mechanisms with rehabilitation research in stroke, spinal cord injury, tinnitus, and PTSD. As director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center, he also develops technology for computer-assisted rehabilitation and closed-loop stimulation. This is a research setting where neural circuits, behavioral training, and biomedical device design meet around a specific question: how can useful connections be strengthened at the right moment?
Independently curated · UnclaimedMichael Levin Research Group
Tufts University
Michael Levin · Professor, Biology
How do groups of cells encode and compute to build complex anatomy and behavior from single cells? The Levin Lab integrates developmental biology, computer science, and cognitive science to study morphological and behavioral information processing. Researchers use biophysical and computational modeling, plus experimental developmental approaches, to investigate collective intelligence of cells and mechanisms driving morphogenesis and regeneration. Projects develop conceptual frameworks for basal cognition and synthetic organisms and apply insights to regenerative medicine, cancer reprogramming, and repair of birth defects.
Michael N. Dawson Research Group
University of California, MercedMichael N. Dawson · Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences
Why does marine biodiversity arise in some places, persist in others, and disappear elsewhere? Michael Dawson investigates these processes from molecular variation to whole ecosystems. His research connects population genomics, ecological genomics, phylogeography, and evolutionary ecology with questions about adaptation, speciation, symbioses, and environmental change. The group integrates biological and physical sciences across small and large evolutionary scales. These projects are relevant to interests in marine diversity, conservation genomics, invasive species, and the reciprocal relationship between environments and biological variation.
Michael Rosbash Research Group
Brandeis University
Michael Rosbash · Professor
Rosbash investigates how biological clocks keep time and translate that timing into behavior. Using Drosophila, his research connects circadian genes, regulation of gene expression, and the neural circuits that coordinate daily rhythms. The laboratory studies transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms, including feedback involving clock proteins, and examines the functions of individual circadian neurons. Biochemical and genetic approaches help identify regulatory mechanisms and clock components. This offers a specific connection between molecular biology and neuroscience: understanding both the cellular timing machinery and how a brain uses that machinery to organize rhythmic activity.
Michael T. Goodrich Research Group
University of California, IrvineMichael T. Goodrich · Distinguished Professor
What efficient algorithms and data structures enable secure, privacy-preserving computation on large distributed systems? His research develops algorithm designs and data structures for diverse computational models including RAM, parallel, distributed, and external-memory. The group works on privacy-preserving data access and efficient solutions for problems like nearest-neighbor searching, convex hulls, and sorting using theoretical and practical algorithmic techniques. Researchers build secure distributed data structures and protocols to support information assurance and cloud security. The group applies these algorithmic methods to networking, machine learning, and geometric computing problems.
Independently curated · UnclaimedMichele Guala Research Group
University of Minnesota
Michele Guala · Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
What physical mechanisms control interactions between turbulence, sediments, and particles in environmental and geophysical flows? The Guala Research Group conducts experimental studies from wind tunnels to field work to examine vortex dynamics, particle-turbulence interactions, and sediment transport. At SAFL researchers develop novel measurement techniques such as large-scale PIV experiments and 3D particle tracking velocimetry for high-resolution flow characterization. Projects include studying interactions between large turbulent scales and erodible sediment layers to inform stream restoration and hydrokinetic device optimization. Laboratory and field measurements are combined with statistical data analysis tools to quantify mixing, wake behavior, and turbine array performance under migrating bedforms.
Michelle Stocker Research Group
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Michelle Stocker · Associate Professor of Geobiology
How did reptile anatomy and diversity change as ecosystems transformed over geological time? The group investigates macroevolution, comparing fossils with living animals to study diversification and convergent evolution. Research uses comparative anatomy, CT imaging, dissection and fieldwork to connect structural differences with evolutionary relationships. A focus on reptiles examines changes in ecology and the origins of modern faunas through extinction and diversification. The work also asks how evolutionary relationships influence interpretations of fossil ages and ancient geographic distributions, linking specimen-level observations with broader patterns in deep time.
Mihri Ozkan Research Group
University of California, Riverside
Mihri Ozkan · Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Could everyday waste and renewable feedstocks help supply materials for energy storage? Ozkan’s laboratory develops electrode materials, battery technologies, processing methods, and manufacturing approaches. Its work explores sources including discarded bottles, sand, and biomass as inputs for battery materials. Research connects the design of electrodes with the broader challenge of powering vehicles, electronics, and cities with lower emissions. This materials focused program brings electrical engineering together with energy storage development, investigating how unconventional raw materials and new processing ideas can contribute to useful battery systems.
Mingxu You Research Group
University of Massachusetts
Mingxu You · Professor
Can programmable DNA and RNA devices be built to sense metabolites and control cellular information flow with spatial precision? The You Research Group engineers genetically encoded fluorescent RNA sensors for cellular imaging of metabolites and small molecules. The group images force transduction at cell–cell junctions using single-molecule level approaches to study mechanotransduction. Researchers perform in vivo selection and high-throughput evolution of aptamers to discover functional nucleic acid binders inside living cells. The lab designs conditional self-assembly mechanisms for DNA/RNA nanostructures to enable programmable diagnostics and delivery platforms.
Momeni Lab
Boston College
Babak Momeni · Associate Professor
A microbial community’s behavior depends on interactions between its members, not simply on which organisms are present. The Momeni Lab studies how those interactions create community functions. It compares simulated communities, engineered systems with defined interactions, and relatively simple natural communities. Quantitative experiments and mathematical models provide complementary ways to identify the relationships responsible for collective behavior. This research examines principles that could help researchers influence microbial communities in settings such as infection control, waste processing, and biofuel production, while keeping the focus on understanding the underlying biology.
Mon(IoT)r Lab
Northeastern University, US
David Choffnes · Professor
What can measurements of real internet systems reveal about privacy, security and reliability? The group studies deployed systems, including mobile devices and the Internet of Things, to test whether their behavior matches existing models and assumptions. Research investigates the causes of unexpected behavior and develops new models or systems in response. Projects include monitoring connected-device behavior, protecting personal data flows and investigating net-neutrality violations. The work combines networking and distributed systems research with practical measurement of technologies that people use every day.
Independently curated · UnclaimedMonica Anderson Research Group
The University of Alabama
Monica Anderson · Associate Professor & Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies
Monica Anderson's faculty-led research profile covers Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, and Robotics.
Monica Driscoll Research Group
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Monica Driscoll · Distinguished Professor
What allows an organism to stay healthy as it ages? Driscoll’s laboratory uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate mechanisms that maintain health and protect neurons. Research examines strategies involving genetics, chemicals, and exercise that might extend the period of healthy function. The group combines genetics, cell biology, genetic engineering, and imaging to study aging across molecular, cellular, and tissue scales. Its interests include neuronal protein maintenance and resistance to neurodegeneration, using an experimentally accessible animal to explore how biological systems manage age related decline.
Monica Jinwoo Kang Research Group
Texas A&M University
Monica Jinwoo Kang · Assistant Professor
What mathematical structures reveal how quantum gravity encodes low-energy observables and entanglement? The group constructs invariants and leverages dualities to compute correlations and entanglement in quantum field theory and quantum gravity using techniques from conformal and supersymmetric field theory. Researchers develop operator-algebraic and algebraic-geometric methods to study non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theories that lack Lagrangian descriptions. The group applies quantum information concepts and quantum error-correcting structures to analyze holography and gravitational emergence. Work combines lattice gauge theory, string-theory tools and semiclassical gravity to derive rigorous mathematical results about quantum gravity.
Moon Research Lab
Florida International University
Joong Ho Moon · Professor
Moon develops polymers that can carry biological cargo and make cellular processes visible. His research focuses on functional oligomers and polymers for small interfering RNA or protein delivery, fluorescent imaging and sensing of living cells, and selective antimicrobial activity. The laboratory also investigates the self-assembly of conjugated polymers and polymer nanoparticles in water, where structure and surface properties affect cellular interactions. This connects synthetic materials chemistry with biological applications: researchers design the material, control its assembly, and investigate how those choices influence sensing, delivery, or antimicrobial behavior.
Moran Lab
University of Georgia (USA)
Mary Ann Moran · UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor
What happens to carbon and sulfur after marine microbes encounter them? Mary Ann Moran investigates how ocean bacteria process and transform organic compounds, and how their interactions with phytoplankton change those transformations. The research includes the formation of gases relevant to climate. Her group combines molecular microbial ecology with ecological genomics, working with both laboratory model systems and natural marine environments. This connects the biology of individual microbial partnerships with larger questions about chemical cycling and the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate.
Independently curated · UnclaimedMorgan Pitelka Research Group
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Morgan Pitelka · Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor
How did material culture and objects shape political authority and social life in early modern Japan? The research analyzes tea culture, ceramics, and warrior sociability to trace social networks and material practices in sixteenth–seventeenth-century Japan. Scholars in the group study printed matter, visual cultures and objects through archival research and comparative history to reconstruct urban life and destruction in medieval Kyoto. They curate and edit primary sources and translations to make early modern correspondence and art accessible for historical analysis. The team produces monographs and edited volumes on Japanese visual and material culture.
Independently curated · UnclaimedNan-kuei Chen Research Group
University of ArizonaNan-kuei Chen · Professor of Biomedical Engineering
How can MRI acquisition and reconstruction be improved to deliver high-resolution, artifact-free scans for challenging patients within clinical time limits? The research develops novel acquisition and reconstruction approaches, including multiplexed sensitivity encoded (MUSE) MRI, to map human brain connectivity at high spatial resolution. Projects focus on artifact characterization and correction for EPI distortions, susceptibility-induced signal loss, Nyquist and motion-induced phase errors using pulse sequence design and signal processing. Researchers combine fast image acquisition, denoising, and algorithm development to enable multi-contrast and quantitative MRI in clinically-feasible timeframes. The lab implements and validates methods through applied studies, NIH-funded projects, and collaborations on diffusion and functional MRI.
Nanda Lab
Rutgers University–New BrunswickVikas Nanda · Professor
Can proteins be designed to perform functions that natural evolution has not supplied? The Nanda Lab develops computational tools for protein design, structure prediction, and molecular docking. Its projects include designing collagen based extracellular matrices, studying how nonnatural amino acids affect peptide stability, and investigating the relationship between protein digestion and food allergy. Designed matrices are characterized experimentally to examine how their chemical and spatial organization influences cells. The work links structural biology and molecular evolution to biomaterials and possible biomedical applications.
NanoBioengineering Laboratory
University of Texas at DallasZhenpeng Qin · Professor
Qin explores what happens when engineered nanoscale tools meet living systems. His NanoBioengineering Laboratory combines nanomaterials, photonics, and biological measurements to investigate applications in neuroscience and diagnostics. Research includes controlling heating near proteins with plasmonic materials and studying ways to temporarily alter blood-brain barrier permeability for drug delivery. Other projects develop tools to investigate neuropeptides and brain circuits, alongside rapid infectious-disease testing. These directions connect fundamental interactions at the biological interface with experimental technologies; proposed delivery and diagnostic approaches remain research topics rather than blanket claims of clinical readiness.
Nanobiomechanics Laboratory
Drexel University
Lin Han · Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Why does a tiny change in tissue structure alter the way a joint works? Lin Han investigates the nanoscale relationships between the structure and properties of biological materials. His research examines genetic and molecular origins of soft joint tissue diseases, biomaterials under extreme conditions, and the connections between geometry and stimulus response. The work aims to inform disease diagnostics, tissue regeneration, and bio-inspired material design. It connects biomechanics with materials science for researchers interested in understanding tissue function from its smallest structural features.
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