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
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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
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Xin Chen
Professor, HHMI Investigator
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
- xchen32@jhu.edu
- 137 Levi Hall
- 410-516-4576 | Lab 410-516-6543
- Research Interests: Epigenetic regulation of stem cell lineages
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Jeff Coller
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
- jmcoller@jhmi.edu
- PCTB 503, 725 N Wolfe Street (School of Medicine)
- 410-614-0199
- Group/Lab Website
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Kyle Cunningham
Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- kwc@jhu.edu
- 203 Bio East
- 410-516-7844 |Lab 410-516-6638
- Research Interests: Mechanisms of calcium signaling and cell death
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Steven Farber
Director, CMDB Graduate Program;
Professor, Department of Biology- sfarber3@jhu.edu
- 253 Levi Hall
- 410-246-3072
- Group/Lab Website
- 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
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Andrew Gordus
Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University
- agordus@jhu.edu
- 207 Biology East
- 410-516-6509
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Understanding how novel and innate behaviors are encoded at the cellular and genetic level
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Edward Hedgecock
Professor
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
- ehedgec1@jhu.edu
- 007 Biology East
- Lab 410-516-8381
- Research Interests: Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans
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Vincent Hilser
Professor and Chair
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
- hilser@jhu.edu
- Mudd 123
- 410-516-4693 | Lab 410-516-6757
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: protein conformational fluctuations and their role in function, adaptation and disease
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M. Andrew Hoyt
Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- hoyt@jhu.edu
- Mudd 206
- 410-516-7299 |Lab 410-516-7293
- Research Interests: Yeast chromosome segregation with emphasis on mitotic motor proteins; cell cycle regulation
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Robert Johnston
Associate Professor
PhD, Columbia University
- robertjohnston@jhu.edu
- 309 Mudd Hall
- 410-516-4954
- Research Interests: Development and gene regulation in human retinal organoids and fly eyes
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Christian Kaiser
Associate Professor
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; Germany Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
- kaiser@jhu.edu
- 205 Biology East
- 410-516-4486
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Single-molecule biochemistry studies of the machines and processes in protein translation, translocation, and folding
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John Kim
Associate Professor
- jnkim@jhu.edu
- 389 UTL
- 410-516-3286 | Lab 410-516-3463
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Deciphering the biological function of microRNAs and other small RNAs expressed in the genome
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Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor
- yumi.kim@jhu.edu
- 385 UTL
- 410-516-6504 | Lab 410-516-6502
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis
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Rejji Kuruvilla
Professor
PhD, University of Houston
- rkuruvilla@jhu.edu
- 227 Mudd Hall
- 410-516-2366 | Lab 410-516-7641
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Control of neuronal development by target-derived neurotrophins
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Rajiv McCoy
Assistant Professor
PhD, Stanford University
- rajiv.mccoy@jhu.edu
- Levi 249
- 410-516-0942
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Computational and statistical genomic approaches for studying human evolution and reproduction
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Evangelos Moudrianakis
Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
- vanm@jhu.edu
- 20 B Bio East
- 410-516-7305 | Lab 410-516-7303
- Research Interests: Assembly and dynamics of nucleoproteins and chromosomes; bacterial and chloroplast bioenergetics
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Joel Schildbach
PhD, Harvard University
- joel@jhu.edu
- UTL 379
- 410-516-5966
- Research Interests: Structural biology of bacterial conjugation
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Michael Schatz
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
- mschatz@jhu.edu
- (410) 516-5765
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: My research interests are Genome sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology, Bioinformatics
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Trina Schroer
Professor
PhD, University of California, San Francisco
- schroer@jhu.edu
- 203 Biology East
- 410-516-5373 | Lab 410-516-5374
- Research Interests: Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture
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Tatjana Trcek
Assistant Professor
PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- ttrcekp1@jhu.edu
- Mudd 307
- 410-516-2332 (office) 410-516-1152 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Spatial organization of cellular mRNAs, RNA granules, imaging
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Mark Van Doren
Professor
PhD, University of California, San Diego
- vandoren@jhu.edu
- BioEast 16A
- 410-516-4717 | Lab 410-516-4830
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Germ cell development and gonad formation
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Carl Wu
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
- wuc@jhu.edu
- 387 UTL
- 410-516-7496
- 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
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Haiqing Zhao
Professor
PhD, Yale University
- hzhao@jhu.edu
- 226 Mudd Hall
- 410-516-7391 | Lab 410-516-7641
- Research Interests: Function and development of olfactory sensory neurons
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Joint Appointments
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Douglas Barrick
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
- barrick@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0409
- Research Interests: Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins
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Alexis Battle
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- ajbattle@jhu.edu
- Wyman S249
- 410-516-4253
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Gregory Bowman
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
- gdbowman@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7850
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Chromatin structure and nucleosome remodeling
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Brian Camley
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- bcamley@jhu.edu
- Bloomberg 243
- 410-516-7683
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Cell motility, chemotaxis, collective motion, soft matter, and fluid mechanics in cell biology
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Karen Fleming
Professor, Department of Biophysics
- karen.fleming@jhu.edu
- 410-554-1244
- Research Interests: Structure, energetics and folding of membrane proteins
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Stephen Fried
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
- sdfried@jhu.edu
- Remsen 121
- 410-516-7835
- 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.
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Bertrand E. Garcia-Moreno
Professor, Department of Biophysics; KSAS Vice Dean for Natural Sciences
- bertrand@jhu.edu
- 410-516-4497
- Research Interests: Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies
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Marc M. Greenberg
Professor, Department of Chemistry
- mgreenberg@jhu.edu
- New Chemistry Building 313
- 410-516-8095
- Research Interests: Nucleic acid damage and repair
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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
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Margaret Johnson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics
- mjohn218@jhu.edu
- 410-516-2376
- Research Interests: Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale
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Alfredo Kirkwood
Professor, Department of Neuroscience (School of Medicine)
- kirkwood@jhu.edu
- 410-516-6410
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Juliette Lecomte
Professor, Department of Biophysics
- juliette@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7019
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and protein structure
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Hey-Kyoung Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
- heykyounglee@jhu.edu
- 410-516-5712
- Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation
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Sua Myong
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
- smyong@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 168
- 410-516-7245
- Research Interests: Single molecule and single cell imaging of biological pathways including RNA interference, neurodegeneration, G-quadruplex, nucleosome and telomere processes
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Steven L. Salzberg
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
PhD
- salzberg@jhu.edu
- Wyman S261
- 410-516-8246
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Computational biology, genomics, DNA sequence analysis, metagenomics, sequencing technology
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Craig A. Townsend
Professor, Department of Chemistry
- ctownsend@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7444
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Synthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action
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Sarah Woodson
Professor, Department of Biophysics
- swoodson@jhu.edu
- 410-516-2015
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Determination of three-dimensional folding of RNA
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Adjunct Appointments
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Brittany Belin
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution
Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- belin@carnegiescience.edu
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Cell biology of symbiotic bacteria and their associations with plants.
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Alex Bortvin
Staff member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- bortvin@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3034
- Research Interests: Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates
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Phillip Cleves
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Staff, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Carnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- cleves@carnegiescience.edu
- Research Interests: Genetic and cellular bases of coral-algal symbiosis and its breakdown due to stress
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Victor Corces
Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Biology, Emory University
Adjunct Professor, Biology- vcorces@emory.edu
- 404-727-4250
- Research Interests: Genetics, cell and developmental biology
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Chen-Ming Fan
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- fan@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3022
- Research Interests: Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development
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Joseph Gall
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- gall@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3018
- Research Interests: Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development
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Marnie Halpern
Chair and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Adjunct Professor, Biology- Marnie.E.Halpern@dartmouth.edu>
- Research Interests: Zebra fish neural development
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William Ludington
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- ludington@carnegiescience.edu
- (410) 246-3003
- Research Interests: Mechanisms of complexity in microbiome-host interactions
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George Scangos
CEO & Director, Vir
Adjunct Professor, Biology (Biogen Idec.) -
Allan Spradling
Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- spradling@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3021
- Research Interests: Drosophila genomics
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Yixian Zheng
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, BiologyCarnegie faculty will be leaving Johns Hopkins University at the end of 2025 and are no longer accepting JHU students into their labs.
- zheng@carnegiescience.edu
- 410-246-3032
- Research Interests: Mechanisms of cell division and genome organization in development, homeostasis, and aging
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Research Faculty
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Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Associate Research Professor
- jdiruggiero@jhu.edu
- 235B Levi Hall
- 410-516-8498 | Lab 410-516-7744
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology of extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of stress response
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Ian Dobbie
Research Professor and Director of the Integrated Imaging Center
PhD, Randall Institute, King’s College London
- ian.dobbie@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Building novel super-resolution fluorescence microscopes for cutting edge bioimaging studies
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Ru Chih Huang
McElroy Honorary Research Professor
- rhuang@jhu.edu
- 250 Levi Hall
- 410-516-5181 | Lab 410-516-7314
- Research Interests: Gene regulation, molecular virology, retrotransposition, and chromosomal structure and function
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Yuan Chuan Lee
Academy Professor and Research Professor
- yclee@jhu.edu
- Levi 141 A
- 410-516-7322
- Research Interests: Glycobiology, glycotechnology, and glyconanotechnology
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Richard McCarty
Professor Emeritus
- rem1@jhu.edu
- 410-516-5356
- Research Interests: Structure, mechanism, and regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase; chloroplast metabolite transport
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Lecturers
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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.
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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)
- efishe21@jhu.edu
- 181 UTL
- 410-516-8044
- Research Interests: How and with whom students work to learn biology. Development of effective teaching practices in science communication.
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Robert Horner
Senior Lecturer
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
- rdhorner@jhu.edu
- 179 UTL
- 410-516-8067 | Lab 410-516-7281
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Eric Johnson
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- ejohn@jhu.edu
- Office - Macaulay 107, Lab - UTL 172
- 410-516-4147
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Carolyn Norris
Senior Lecturer
PhD, University of Wisconsin
- crn@jhu.edu
- 279 UTL
- 410-516-8288 | Lab 410-516-4666
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Rebecca Pearlman
Senior Lecturer
PhD., University of Wisconsin; B.S. Hons., University of Michigan
- pearlman@jhu.edu
- 281 UTL
- (410) 516-5479
- Research Interests: Innovations in Undergraduate Biology Education
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Richard Shingles
Lecturer
PhD, University of Guelph; B. Ed., University of Toronto
- shingles@jhu.edu
- 281 UTL
- 410-516-4679
- Research Interests: Membrane biochemistry, Membrane transport mechanisms, Stopped-flow fluorescence
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Katie Tifft
Associate Teaching Professor; Assistant Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology Master's Program
- ktifft@jhu.edu
- 183 UTL
- 410-516-7855
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Professor Emeriti
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Karen Beemon
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- klb@jhu.edu
- 20A Biology East
- 410-516-7289 | Lab 410-516-8236
- Research Interests: Role of TERT and microRNAs in oncogenesis, retroviral RNA stability
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Ernesto Freire
Henry Walters Professor
Professor EmeritusPhD, University of Virginia
- ef@jhu.edu
- 114A Biology East
- 410-516-7743 | Lab 410-516-7742
- Research Interests: Structure-based thermodynamics of molecular recognition and function
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Robert Schleif
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- schleif@jhu.edu
- 239 Mudd Hall
- 410-516-5206
- Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions and regulation of gene activity
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