People

Below are our Professor Emeriti, Tenured And Tenure Track Faculty, Joint Appointments, Adjunct Appointments, Research Faculty, and Lecturers grouped by designation. To see the Department’s full faculty directory listed alphabetically, please visit our Biology Faculty (Alphabetical) page.

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  • Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty

  • Karen Beemon

    Karen Beemon

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley
    • 410-516-7289 | Lab 410-516-8236
    • klb@jhu.edu
    • 20A Biology East
    • Research Interests: Role of TERT and microRNAs in oncogenesis, retroviral RNA stability
  • Nichole Broderick

    Nichole Broderick

    Assistant Professor

    PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • nbroder1@jhu.edu
    • 138 Levi
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms by which the microbiome affects animal development, physiology and immunity
  • Xin Chen

    Xin Chen

    Professor

    PhD, University of Texas at Austin
    • 410-516-4576 | Lab 410-516-6543
    • xchen32@jhu.edu
    • 137 Levi Hall
    • Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages
  • Jeff Coller

    Jeff Coller

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

  • Kyle Cunningham

    Kyle Cunningham

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
    • 410-516-7844 |Lab 410-516-6638
    • kwc@jhu.edu
    • 203 Bio East
    • Research Interests: Mechanisms of calcium signaling and cell death
  • Ernesto Freire

    Ernesto Freire

    Henry Walters Professor

    PhD, University of Virginia
    • 410-516-7743 | Lab 410-516-7742
    • ef@jhu.edu
    • 114A Biology East
    • Research Interests: Structure-based thermodynamics of molecular recognition and function
  • Andrew Gordus

    Andrew Gordus

    Assistant Professor

    PhD, Harvard University
    • 410-516-6509
    • agordus@jhu.edu
    • 207 Biology East
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Understanding how novel and innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level
  • Rachel Green

    Rachel Green

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

  • Edward Hedgecock

    Edward Hedgecock

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
    • Lab 410-516-8381
    • ehedgec1@jhu.edu
    • 007 Biology East
    • Research Interests: Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Vincent Hilser

    Vincent Hilser

    Professor and Chair

    PhD, Johns Hopkins University
    • 410-516-4693 | Lab 410-516-6757
    • hilser@jhu.edu
    • Mudd 123
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease
  • M. Andrew Hoyt

    M. Andrew Hoyt

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley
    • 410-516-7299 |Lab 410-516-7293
    • hoyt@jhu.edu
    • Mudd 206
    • Research Interests: Yeast chromosome segregation with emphasis on mitotic motor proteins; cell cycle regulation
  • Robert Johnston

    Robert Johnston

    Associate Professor

    PhD, Columbia University
    • 410-516-4954
    • robertjohnston@jhu.edu
    • 309 Mudd Hall
    • Research Interests: Stochastic gene expression and nuclear architecture in fly eyes and human retinal organoids
  • Christian Kaiser

    Christian Kaiser

    Assistant Professor

    Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; Germany Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
    • 410-516-4486
    • kaiser@jhu.edu
    • 205 Biology East
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Single-molecule biochemistry studies of the machines and processes in protein translation, translocation, and folding
  • John Kim

    John Kim

    Associate Professor

    • 410-516-3286 | Lab 410-516-3463
    • jnkim@jhu.edu
    • 389 UTL
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome
  • Yumi Kim

    Yumi Kim

    Assistant Professor

  • Rejji Kuruvilla

    Rejji Kuruvilla

    Professor

    PhD, University of Houston
  • Rajiv McCoy

    Rajiv McCoy

    Assistant Professor

    PhD, Stanford University
  • Evangelos Moudrianakis

    Evangelos Moudrianakis

    Professor

    PhD, Johns Hopkins University
    • 410-516-7305 | Lab 410-516-7303
    • vanm@jhu.edu
    • 20 B Bio East
    • Research Interests: Assembly and dynamics of nucleoproteins and chromosomes; bacterial and chloroplast bioenergetics
  • Ulrich Mueller

    Ulrich Mueller

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

  • Michael Schatz

    Michael Schatz

    Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology

    • (410) 516-5765
    • mschatz@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: My research interests are Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics
  • Joel Schildbach

    Joel Schildbach

    Professor

    PhD, Harvard University
    • 410-516-5966
    • joel@jhu.edu
    • UTL 379
    • Research Interests: Structural biology of bacterial conjugation
  • Robert Schleif

    Robert Schleif

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley
    • 410-516-5206
    • schleif@jhu.edu
    • 239 Mudd Hall
    • Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions and regulation of gene activity
  • Trina Schroer

    Trina Schroer

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, San Francisco
    • 410-516-5373 | Lab 410-516-5374
    • schroer@jhu.edu
    • 203 Biology East
    • Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture
  • Tatjana Trcek

    Tatjana Trcek

    Assistant Professor

    PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    • 410-516-2332 (office) 410-516-1152 (lab)
    • ttrcekp1@jhu.edu
    • 16A Biology East
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Spatial organization of cellular mRNAs, RNA granules, imaging
  • Mark Van Doren

    Mark Van Doren

    Professor

    PhD, University of California, San Diego
    • 410-516-4717 | Lab 410-516-4830
    • vandoren@jhu.edu
    • 305B Mudd Hall (Temporarily relocated to Mudd 16)
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation
  • Carl Wu

    Carl Wu

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

    • 410-516-7496
    • wuc@jhu.edu
    • 387 UTL
    • Group/Lab Website
    • 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

    Haiqing Zhao

    Professor

    PhD, Yale University
    • 410-516-7391 | Lab 410-516-7641
    • hzhao@jhu.edu
    • 226 Mudd Hall
    • Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons

  • Joint Appointments

  • Douglas Barrick

    Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics

    • 410-516-0409
    • barrick@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins

  • Alexis Battle

    Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Gregory Bowman

    Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics

  • Brian Camley

    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

    • 410-516-7683
    • bcamley@jhu.edu
    • Bloomberg 243
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology

  • Karen Fleming

    Professor, Department of Biophysics

    • 410-554-1244
    • karen.fleming@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Structure, energetics and folding of membrane proteins

  • Stephen Fried

    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

    • 410-516-7835
    • sdfried@jhu.edu
    • Remsen 121
    • 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; KSAS Vice Dean for Natural Sciences

    • 410-516-4497
    • bertrand@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies

  • Marc M. Greenberg

    Professor, Department of Chemistry

    • 410-516-8095
    • mgreenberg@jhu.edu
    • New Chemistry Building 313
    • Research Interests: Nucleic acid damage and repair

  • Taekjip Ha

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine

    • tjha@jhu.edu
    • 169 Mergenthaler
    • Research Interests: Single molecule and single cell analysis of nucleic acids, chromatin and mechanical biology

  • Margaret Johnson

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics

    • 410-516-2376
    • mjohn218@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale

  • Alfredo Kirkwood

    Professor, Department of Neuroscience (School of Medicine)

  • Juliette Lecomte

    Professor, Department of Biophysics

  • Hey-Kyoung Lee

    Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

    • 410-516-5712
    • heykyounglee@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation

  • Sua Myong

    Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics

    • 410-516-7245
    • smyong@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 168
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Single molecule and single cell imaging of biological pathways including RNA interference, neurodegeneration, G-quadruplex, nucleosome and telomere processes

  • Craig A. Townsend

    Professor, Department of Chemistry

  • Sarah Woodson

    Professor, Department of Biophysics

  • Adjunct Appointments

  • Brittany Belin

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

    • Group/Lab Website
    • 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

    • 410-246-3034
    • bortvin@ciwemb@edu
    • 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

  • Victor Corces

    Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Biology, Emory University
    Adjunct Professor, Biology

    • 404-727-4250
    • vcorces@emory.edu
    • Research Interests: Genetics, cell and developmental biology

  • Chen-Ming Fan

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

    • 410-246-3022
    • fan@ciwemb@edu
    • Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development

  • Steven Farber

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

    • 410-246-3072
    • farber@ciwemb.edu
    • Research Interests: Visualization of lipid metabolism and signaling in the zebrafish

  • Joseph Gall

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

    • 410-246-3018
    • gall@ciwemb@edu
    • Research Interests: Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development

  • Marnie Halpern

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

  • Samer Hattar

    Adjunct Associate Professor

  • William Ludington

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

  • George Scangos

    CEO & Director, Vir
    Adjunct Professor, Biology

  • Allan Spradling

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

  • Yixian Zheng

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

    • 410-246-3032
    • zheng@ciwemb.edu
    • Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging

  • Research Faculty

  • Maurice J. Bessman

    Maurice J. Bessman

    Research Professor and Professor Emeritus

    • 410-516-7776
    • zoot@jhu.edu
    • 18 Biology East
    • Research Interests: Metabolism of nucleotides and nucleic acids; proteomics

  • Ludwig Brand

    Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus

    • ludwig.brand@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Conformation and activity of biological macromolecules with emphasis on applications of fluorescence techniques
  • Jocelyne DiRuggiero

    Jocelyne DiRuggiero

    Associate Research Professor

    • 410-516-8498 | Lab 410-516-7744
    • jdiruggiero@jhu.edu
    • 235B Levi Hall
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response

  • Ru Chih Huang

    McElroy Honorary Research Professor

    • 410-516-5181 | Lab 410-516-7314
    • rhuang@jhu.edu
    • 250 Levi Hall
    • Research Interests: Gene regulation, molecular virology, retrotransposition, and chromosomal structure and function
  • Yuan Chuan Lee

    Yuan Chuan Lee

    Academy Professor and Research Professor

    • 410-516-7322
    • yclee@jhu.edu
    • Levi 141 A
    • Research Interests: Glycobiology, glycotechnology, and glyconanotechnology
  • Richard McCarty

    Richard McCarty

    Professor Emeritus

    • 410-516-5356
    • rem1@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Structure, mechanism, and regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase; chloroplast metabolite transport

  • Lecturers

  • Anna Coppola

    Lecturer

    Ph.D. in Pharmacology (2005), University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy. B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (2001), University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy.
    • anna.coppola@jhu.edu
    • Macaulay 107
    • 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.
  • Emily Fisher

    Emily Fisher

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor

    PhD. in Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008); B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California Santa Cruz (2000)
    • 410-516-8044
    • efishe21@jhu.edu
    • 181 UTL
    • Research Interests: How and with whom students work to learn biology. Development of effective teaching practices in science communication.
  • Robert Horner

    Robert Horner

    Senior Lecturer

    PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

  • Eric Johnson

    Lecturer

    Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

  • Carolyn Norris

    Senior Lecturer

    PhD, University of Wisconsin
  • Rebecca Pearlman

    Rebecca Pearlman

    Senior Lecturer

    PhD., University of Wisconsin; B.S. Hons., University of Michigan
    • (410) 516-5479
    • pearlman@jhu.edu
    • 281 UTL
    • Research Interests: Innovations in Undergraduate Biology Education

  • Christov Roberson

    Lecturer

  • Richard Shingles

    Richard Shingles

    Lecturer

    PhD, University of Guelph; B. Ed., University of Toronto
    • 410-516-4679
    • shingles@jhu.edu
    • 281 UTL
    • Research Interests: Membrane biochemistry, Membrane transport mechanisms, Stopped-flow fluorescence

  • Katie Tifft

    Senior Lecturer; Assistant Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology Master's Program

  • Jordan White

    Lecturer

  • Professor Emeriti

  • Michael Edidin

    Professor Emeritus

  • Douglas M. Fambrough

    Professor Emeritus

  • Allen Shearn

    Professor Emeritus

  • In Memoriam

  • Peter Privalov

    Peter Privalov

    In Memoriam: Research Professor

    • Research Interests: Physical basis of the structure of biological molecules and their complexes
  • Nilabh Shastri

    Nilabh Shastri

    In Memoriam: Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (SOM)

    Ph.D., M.Sc.
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