Below are our Professor Emeriti, Tenured And Tenure Track Faculty, Joint Appointments, Adjunct Appointments, Research Faculty, and Lecturers grouped by designation.
Please note: adjunct Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
Professor
Research Interests: Genetics and genomics of complex traits; host-pathogen genomics and drug resistance; evolutionary genetics
Associate Research Professor
Research Interests: Structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the microbiome affects animal development, physiology and immunity
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor, HHMI Investigator
Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Professor
Research Interests: Drug Resistance and Virulence mechanisms in Pathogenic Yeasts
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response
Research Interests: Microbiology, parasitology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular biology, host-pathogen interactions
Director, CMDB Graduate Program; Professor, Department of Biology
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
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Understanding how novel and innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Research Professor
Research Interests: Structure and mechanism of how cells read, write and repair the genome; biophysics, structural biology, large protein-DNA assemblies
Professor
Research Interests: Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans
Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor and Chair
Research Interests: protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Professor
Research Interests: Yeast chromosome segregation with emphasis on mitotic motor proteins; cell cycle regulation
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Development and gene regulation in human retinal organoids and fly eyes
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis
Professor, Vice Dean for Natural Sciences
Research Interests: Control of neuronal development by target-derived neurotrophins
Education: PhD, University of Houston
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational and statistical genomic approaches for studying human evolution and reproduction
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Professor
Research Interests: Assembly and dynamics of nucleoproteins and chromosomes; bacterial and chloroplast bioenergetics
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Research Professor
Education: Ph.D. University of Oxford, UK
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. The Rockefeller University
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Research Interests: My research interests are Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics
PhD, Harvard University
Research Interests: Structural biology of bacterial conjugation
Professor
Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture
Education: PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Spatial organization of cellular mRNAs, RNA granules, imaging
Education: PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor
Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation
Education: PhD, University of California, San Diego
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
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
Professor
Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons
Education: PhD, Yale University
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Chromatin structure and nucleosome remodeling
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology
Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Structure, energetics and folding of membrane proteins
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
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.
Professor, Department of Biophysics; KSAS Vice Dean for Natural Sciences
Research Interests: Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Nucleic acid damage and repair
Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale
Professor, Department of Neuroscience (School of Medicine)
Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and protein structure
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Computational biology, genomics, DNA sequence analysis, metagenomics, sequencing technology
Education: PhD
Alsoph H. Corwin Professor, Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action
Professor, Department of Biophysics
Research Interests: Determination of three-dimensional folding of RNA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution
Research Interests: Cell biology of symbiotic bacteria and their associations with plants.
Staff member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Research Interests: Genetic and cellular bases of coral-algal symbiosis and its breakdown due to stress
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Chair and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, adjunct Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Zebra fish neural development
Professor, Utrecht University
Research Interests: Single-molecule biochemistry studies of the machines and processes in protein translation, translocation, and folding
Education: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; Germany Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of complexity in microbiome-host interactions
CEO & Director, Vir, Adjunct Professor, Biology (Biogen Idec.)
Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Drosophila genomics
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging
Research Professor and Director of the Integrated Imaging Center
Research Interests: Building novel super-resolution fluorescence microscopes for cutting edge bioimaging studies
Education: PhD, Randall Institute, King’s College London
McElroy Honorary Research Professor
Research Interests: Gene regulation, molecular virology, retrotransposition, and chromosomal structure and function
Academy Professor and Research Professor
Research Interests: Glycobiology, glycotechnology, and glyconanotechnology
Lecturer
Research Interests: Effect of dietary nutrients on metabolic regulatory mechanisms, with particular emphasis on the role of proteins and amino acids in the development of behavioral and metabolic diseases.
Education: Ph.D. in Pharmacology (2005), University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy. B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (2001), University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: How and with whom students work to learn biology. Development of effective teaching practices in science communication.
Education: PhD. in Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008); B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California Santa Cruz (2000)
Senior Lecturer
Education: PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
Senior Lecturer
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Senior Lecturer
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Innovations in Undergraduate Biology Education
Education: PhD., University of Wisconsin; B.S. Hons., University of Michigan
Associate Teaching Professor; Assistant Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology Master's Program
Education: Vassar College - B.A. in Biology 2001, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine PhD in Cell Biology 2009
Professor Emerita
Research Interests: Role of TERT and microRNAs in oncogenesis, retroviral RNA stability
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Henry Walters Professor
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Structure-based thermodynamics of molecular recognition and function
Education: PhD, University of Virginia
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions and regulation of gene activity
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley