Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876

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Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty

Erik Andersen

Professor and Vice Chair of Biology

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

Gira Bhabha

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography

Nichole Broderick

Assistant Professor

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

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xin Chen

Professor, HHMI Investigator

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Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Kyle Cunningham

Professor

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Research Interests: Drug Resistance and Virulence mechanisms in Pathogenic Yeasts

Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Damian Ekiert

Associate Professor

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

Steven 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

Andrew Gordus

Assistant Professor

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

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Yuan He

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Structural Biophysics and Chromatin Biology

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Research Interests: Structure and mechanism of how cells read, write and repair the genome; biophysics, structural biology, large protein-DNA assemblies

Edward Hedgecock

Professor

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Research Interests: Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans

Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Vincent Hilser

Ralph S. O'Connor Chair; Professor and Chair of Biology

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

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

M. Andrew Hoyt

Professor

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Research Interests: Yeast chromosome segregation with emphasis on mitotic motor proteins; cell cycle regulation

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Erin Jimenez

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate inner ear regeneration

Robert Johnston

Professor

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

Education: PhD, Columbia University

John Kim

Associate Professor

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

Rejji Kuruvilla

Professor, Vice Dean for Natural Sciences

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

Education: PhD, University of Houston

William Ludington

Associate Professor, Biology

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of complexity in microbiome-host interactions

Rajiv McCoy

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Computational and statistical genomic approaches for studying human evolution and reproduction

Education: PhD, Stanford University

Evangelos Moudrianakis

Professor

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Research Interests: Assembly and dynamics of nucleoproteins and chromosomes; bacterial and chloroplast bioenergetics

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Ana Pombo

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

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Education: Ph.D. University of Oxford, UK

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

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

Education: PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Tatjana Trcek

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Spatial organization of cellular mRNAs, RNA granules, imaging

Education: PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Carl Wu

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

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Research Interests: Chromatin accessibility, nucleosome remodeling and the regulation of gene expression

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Haiqing Zhao

Professor

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Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons

Education: PhD, Yale University

Joint Appointments

Douglas Barrick

Professor, Department of Biophysics

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

Brian Camley

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Biophysics

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

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.

Bertrand E. Garcia-Moreno

Professor, Department of Biophysics; Executive Vice Dean

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

Margaret Johnson

Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics

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

Hey-Kyoung Lee

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

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

Craig A. Townsend

Alsoph H. Corwin Professor, Department of Chemistry

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Research Interests: Synthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action

Adjunct Appointments

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.

Alex Bortvin

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

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

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

Chen-Ming Fan

Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology

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

Marnie Halpern

Chair and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, adjunct Professor, Biology

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Research Interests: Zebra fish neural development

Christian Kaiser

Professor, Utrecht University

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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

George Scangos

CEO & Director, Vir, Adjunct Professor, Biology (Biogen Idec.)

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Allan Spradling

Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology

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Research Interests: Drosophila genomics

Yixian Zheng

Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Biology

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

Research Faculty

Ian Dobbie

Research Professor and Director of the Integrated Imaging Center

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Research Interests: Building novel super-resolution fluorescence microscopes for cutting edge bioimaging studies

Education: PhD, Randall Institute, King’s College London

Ru Chih Huang

Retired McElroy Honorary Research Professor

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Research Interests: Gene regulation, molecular virology, retrotransposition, and chromosomal structure and function

Yuan Chuan Lee

Academy Professor and Research Professor

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Research Interests: Glycobiology, glycotechnology, and glyconanotechnology

Teaching Faculty

Anna Coppola

Lecturer

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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

Emily Fisher

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor

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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)

Robert Horner

Senior Lecturer

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Education: PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

Eric Johnson

Senior Lecturer

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Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Carolyn Norris

Senior Lecturer

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Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin

Rebecca Pearlman

Senior Lecturer

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Research Interests: Innovations in Undergraduate Biology Education

Education: PhD., University of Wisconsin; B.S. Hons., University of Michigan

Katie Tifft

Associate Teaching Professor; Assistant Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology Master's Program

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Education: Vassar College - B.A. in Biology 2001, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine PhD in Cell Biology 2009

Professor Emeriti

Karen Beemon

Professor Emerita

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Research Interests: Role of TERT and microRNAs in oncogenesis, retroviral RNA stability

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Ernesto Freire

Henry Walters Professor
Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests: Structure-based thermodynamics of molecular recognition and function

Education: PhD, University of Virginia

Robert Schleif

Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions and regulation of gene activity

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley