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Browse labs by their listed college affiliationTed Abel Lab
University of Iowa
Ted Abel · Professor, Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
How does an experience become a lasting memory? Ted Abel investigates the molecular machinery of memory formation and the biological mechanisms of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. His group uses molecular genetic approaches to connect neural circuits with behavior, including how sleep deprivation alters neuronal function. Another focus is epigenetic control of gene regulation during memory storage. These projects connect changes inside cells to changes in cognition, offering a research setting for interests spanning genetics, neuroscience, sleep, and the biology of learning.
The Armbruster Lab
Georgetown University
Peter Armbruster · Davis Family Professor
How do mosquitoes adapt to new environments and survive seasons that interrupt growth? The lab studies the interaction between ecological conditions and genetic mechanisms in natural populations, using container-breeding mosquitoes as experimental systems. Researchers combine field ecology, quantitative and population genetics, and molecular biology to investigate evolutionary change. Research themes include range expansion, adaptation genomics and diapause, a period of developmental arrest. Recent doctoral work examined how temperature affects survival, energy use and development in dormant Asian tiger mosquitoes, linking seasonal biology with adaptation.
The Bansal Lab
Georgetown UniversityShweta Bansal · Professor
How do social connections and population structure change the paths taken by infectious diseases? The lab develops quantitative models using network theory to study transmission in people and livestock. Research examines how particular population structures affect disease spread and how interventions can be designed to work in practical settings. The group also studies interactions between hosts and pathogens, including the evolutionary consequences of those interactions. Documented study systems include human influenza and livestock foot-and-mouth disease, connecting disease ecology with epidemiology and public and animal health.
The Meyer Lab
Boston College
Michelle Meyer · Professor, Associate Chair
Which RNA molecules regulate biology without providing instructions for making proteins? The Meyer Lab searches genome and transcriptome data for noncoding RNAs that remain poorly characterized. Comparative genomics and transcriptomics help the group discover candidates and trace how these molecules change across evolutionary history. It also develops ways to compare and cluster RNAs, examining how selection preserves regulatory features. Research spans computational biology, molecular evolution, and RNA and protein structure, linking large sequence datasets to questions about the evolution and conservation of gene regulation.
Thomas G. Forsthuber Research Group
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Thomas G. Forsthuber · Professor
Thomas Forsthuber investigates what happens when immune responses attack the body’s own tissues. His group studies T-cell contributions to autoimmune disease, including experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis as a model of multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune myocarditis. Research aims to understand immune mechanisms and explore ways to modulate them, with biomarkers and potential treatments as translational goals. Collaborations also examine T-cell responses in childhood brain tumors. The work connects cellular immunology with neurological and cardiac disease, emphasizing how the same immune machinery can protect or damage tissues.
Thomas H. Epps III Research Group
University of Delaware
Thomas H. Epps III · Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor
Thomas Epps designs polymers whose nanoscale organization gives them useful properties. Research directions include ion-conducting membranes for batteries, polymer thin films and coatings, and responsive assemblies for drug delivery and gene therapy. His group also investigates materials made from biological feedstocks and plastic waste, asking how recovered resources can become higher-value products. Synthesis and characterization connect molecular design with structure and function. The work brings soft-material science into energy storage, biomedical delivery, and plastics sustainability, with nanostructured assembly linking these otherwise different applications.
Thomas Thundat Research Group
University at BuffaloThomas Thundat · SUNY Distinguished Professor
A sensor array can reveal more than a single detector if its measurements are integrated effectively. Thundat researches systems for detecting physical, chemical, and biological information using micro and nanoscale mechanical platforms. His work examines engineered interfaces and their interactions with electromagnetic fields to improve sensitivity and selectivity. Related research investigates molecular interactions at boundaries between solids and fluids, and approaches to delivering power to sensors. Applications span health, environmental monitoring, and safety, connecting fundamental interface science with compact sensing technologies.
Independently curated · UnclaimedThorsten Joachims Research Group
Cornell University
Thorsten Joachims · Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and Information Science
Clicks, choices, and text edits contain learning signals—but they also carry bias. Thorsten Joachims and his students develop machine-learning methods for using that feedback in search, recommendation, education, and language models. Their work connects counterfactual evaluation, policy learning, ranking, and personalization. POTEC tackles learning from logged decisions when the action space is large; coactive learning studies how a user’s edits can help personalize an LLM without requiring a perfect reference answer. This faculty-led research group offers a route into both the theory of interactive learning and its application to human-centered systems.
Tim Roughgarden Research Group
Columbia University
Tim Roughgarden · Professor of Computer Science
How can mechanism design create incentives for truthful behavior in decentralized blockchain systems? The research explores theoretical foundations connecting algorithms and mechanism design to model strategic behavior in networks and markets. The group develops algorithms and rigorous analysis from algorithmic game theory to characterize equilibrium outcomes and computational complexity. Work on blockchains studies incentive-compatible protocol design and consensus mechanisms to align participant behavior in decentralized systems. Researchers apply game-theoretic proofs and complexity bounds to evaluate robustness, optimality, and trade-offs of mechanisms and algorithms.
Timothy K. Lu Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy K. Lu · Associate Professor
Can engineered bacteriophages and microbes detect and selectively treat infections and disease-relevant states in vivo? They engineer bacteriophages integrated with microfluidic platforms for real-time, on-site detection of foodborne pathogens. The group equips bacteria with biosensors that recognize molecular markers of inflammatory bowel disease and trigger release of anti-inflammatory compounds in animal models. Researchers construct gene regulatory circuits and engineer mammalian cells to improve production of therapeutic proteins and to build synthetic devices for gene therapy. They develop scalable genetic and bioprocessing platforms, including integrated microfluidic and high-throughput approaches, for discovery of antibiotics and engineered probiotics.
Timothy Wood Research Group
George Washington UniversityTimothy Wood · Professor
How can virtualization and new network programmability improve cloud performance and reliability? The GW Cloud Systems Lab develops systems-level tools that use virtualization and programmable network elements to improve performance, efficiency, and reliability in cloud data centers. Researchers build and evaluate serverless and edge platforms (Mu Serverless, EdgeOS) to tackle autoscaling, placement, and fast startup for edge/cloud functions. The group combines programmable switches, SmartNICs, and hosts to design terabit-scale network monitoring and NFV-aware load balancing. Experimental work uses implementation, benchmarking, and deployment studies to measure performance and isolation tradeoffs in real systems.
Tissa H. Illangasekare Research Group
Colorado School of Mines
Tissa H. Illangasekare · Research Professor
What happens to water and contaminants after they disappear underground? Tissa Illangasekare investigates flow and transport through porous and fractured materials using theory, numerical models, and experiments at multiple scales. His research includes saturated and unsaturated soils, groundwater pollution, environmental monitoring, remediation, and interactions between the land surface and atmosphere. Controlled laboratory systems help test how processes change across scales. The work connects subsurface physics with practical questions about pollution cleanup, energy development, hydrologic prediction, and the environmental consequences of moving fluids through complex geological systems.
Tissue Instructive Materials Laboratory
Drexel University
Christopher Rodell · Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
An injectable material can become a platform for delivering treatment and influencing immune activity. Christopher Rodell studies biomaterials, supramolecular chemistry, and drug delivery, with applications in organ injury, cardiovascular engineering, immune engineering, and biomedical imaging. His research background includes injectable supramolecular hydrogels and platforms for innate immune activation in cancer immunotherapy. The lab connects molecular material design with therapeutic delivery problems. It is a useful research match for interests in minimally invasive biomaterials and the interaction between engineered materials and disease biology.
Independently curated · UnclaimedTITANS Lab
The University of Alabama
Mahmoud Mahmoud · Associate Professor
TITANS Lab advances trustworthy and adversarially robust AI for autonomous systems, cyber-physical infrastructure, and safety-sensitive decision environments.
Independently curated · UnclaimedTom M. Mitchell Research Group
Carnegie Mellon University
Tom M. Mitchell · Founders University Professor, Machine Learning Department
How can machine learning decode human brain activity to reveal the neural representations of language meaning during reading? The group uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to capture three-dimensional images of human brain activity and trains machine learning algorithms to decode mental states from those images. The group develops temporal models and classifiers for extremely high-dimensional, noisy fMRI data to discover spatial-temporal activity patterns associated with cognitive tasks. The group builds intelligent workstation assistants that learn from users' email, calendar and text files, focusing on automatic information extraction and cumulative long-term learning. The group applies large language models and student-knowledge tracing to improve online education systems and to select effective teaching actions.
Tony Y. Hu Research Group
Tulane UniversityTony Y. Hu · Professor, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation
A useful disease signal may be present in blood but too faint for a conventional assay to detect. Tony Hu develops nanomaterial platforms and proteomic approaches that improve biomarker capture or amplify signals from pathogens and extracellular vesicles. His research aims to improve diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and quantitative measurement in complex biological samples, with applications including tuberculosis and viral identification. The work connects nanotechnology, biomarker discovery, and clinical diagnostic needs, offering a focused research match for interests in analytical tools and personalized diagnosis.
Translational Materials and Biointerfacial Research Laboratory
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Melissa Reynolds · Professor
Reynolds designs materials for the complicated interface between a medical device and the body. Her group develops biomimetic polymers, molecular materials, and extended frameworks with therapeutic functionality, then measures their properties and biological effects. Research includes nitric-oxide-releasing materials, glucose sensing, and metal-organic frameworks for sensing, catalysis, and separations. Methods described by CSU include electrospun nanofibers and analytical measurements such as fluorescence and mass spectrometry. The work connects chemical synthesis with device fabrication and preclinical evaluation, making the material’s interaction with its biological environment a central design question.
Independently curated · UnclaimedTravis Atkison Research Group
The University of AlabamaTravis Atkison · Professor
The group works across cybersecurity, privacy, transportation systems, machine learning, software engineering, and computing education.
Travis E. Huxman Research Group
University of California, IrvineTravis E. Huxman · Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
How do plant traits and water-carbon coupling control ecosystem responses to drought and precipitation pulses? The lab documents ecohydrological consequences of drought and tree die‑off by measuring carbon and water fluxes across arid landscapes to link plant physiology to ecosystem-scale gas exchange. Researchers compare leaf‑ to ecosystem‑level CO2 fluxes and soil respiration sensitivity across gradients of shrub encroachment and soil texture using field flux measurements and synthesis approaches. The group investigates precipitation pulse effects on plant and microbial responses using chamber and isotopic partitioning methods to separate transpiration and evaporation. They use cross‑biome syntheses and modeling to scale cellular and plant processes to landscape carbon‑water coupling.
Independently curated · UnclaimedTu Le Research Group
The University of AlabamaTu Le · Assistant Professor
Tu Le's faculty-led research profile covers Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Generative AI & LLMs, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Ulrich Bierbach Research Group
Wake Forest University
Ulrich Bierbach · Professor
Bierbach designs drug candidates that combine organic molecules with metal-based chemistry. His laboratory investigates platinum-acridine hybrid anticancer agents, linking chemical structure with biological activity and mechanisms of action. Research listed by Wake Forest includes identifying DNA targets, examining how membrane transport influences activity, and studying relationships between gene expression and drug sensitivity. The group also explores delivery formulations, including liposomal approaches. This is a preclinical research setting for people interested in medicinal and inorganic chemistry, where synthesizing a compound is paired with investigating how it reaches and affects cancer cells.
Valerie Horsley Research Group
Yale University
Valerie Horsley · Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Dermatology
How do adult epithelial stem cells and non-epithelial neighbors coordinate to maintain tissue homeostasis, repair wounds, and influence fibrosis or tumorigenesis? The Horsley lab uses mouse genetics, cell culture, genomics, and microscopy to dissect cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic regulators of epithelial regeneration. Researchers study stem cell contributions to wound healing and scarring, the role of adipocytes and myeloid metabolism in skin repair, and molecular biomarkers of keloids and fibrosis. The group leverages clinical resources and collaborates across stem cell and engineering groups to address clinically relevant questions in epithelial biology and dermatology.
Independently curated · UnclaimedVicki May Research Group
Dartmouth College
Vicki May · Professor of Engineering
How can teaching evaluation integrate multiple evidence sources to improve STEM teaching practices? The group is developing a system that integrates student assessments, peer observation, and self-reflection for teaching evaluation. The group pilots augmented student assessments focused on observable best practices rather than impressions. The group implements a consistent peer-observation protocol including guided pre-briefing and debrief sessions to support evidence-based evaluation. The group is assessing the pilot toward broader implementation to inform teaching-evaluation models in STEM.
Vikas Chandhoke Research Group
George Mason UniversityVikas Chandhoke · Professor of Systems Biology
How do metabolic changes contribute to liver disease and declining health? Vikas Chandhoke studies the pathophysiology and biomarkers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver fibrosis. His research interests connect obesity, metabolic syndrome, and the personal metabolome with the longitudinal maintenance of health. The work includes health applications of biotechnology and translational questions about metabolic disease. It offers a research setting for interests in disease biomarkers, systems biology, and the relationship between whole-body metabolic processes and damage to individual organs.
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