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 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
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Structural Biophysics and Chromatin Biology
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
Ralph S. O'Connor Chair; Professor and Chair of Biology
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
Associate 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
Research Interests: Understanding how RNA editing in cephalopods modifies molecular functions
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
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
