Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Faculty
James Aspnes
Professor of Computer Science
Kei-Hoi Cheung
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Medical Informatics) and of Genetics
Research Interests:Genetic database and tool interpolation
Ronald Coifman
Phillips Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science
Chris Cotsapas
Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Genetics
Research Interests:We use genetics, computational biology and cell-based approaches to discover and understand the mechanisms that give rise to disease. We are particularly interested in disorders of the immune system and brain.
Forrest Crawford
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Xing Wang Deng
Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Plant Biology at Yale
Director of Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics & Agrobiotechnology
Research Interests:Plant Biology, Genome and Epigenome, Development mechanism, Hybrid Vigor, Agribiotechnology Light Regulation
Thierry Emonet
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Physics
Research Interests:Computational Biology chemotaxis, olfaction, immunology
Donald Engelman
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Helix Interactions; Lipid Bilayers; Membranes; Physical Biochemistry; Protein Folding; Proteins
Alison Galvani
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests:Applications of epidemiology and evolutionary ecology in the study of numerous diseases
Mark Gerstein
Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Co-Director, Yale Computational biology and Bioinformatics Program
Research Interests:Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Biophysics; Computational Biology; DNA; Genomics; Molecular Simulation; Proteins; Sequence Alignment; Structural Biology
Antonio Giraldez
Associate Professor of Genetics
Member of the Yale Cancer Center
Member of the Stem Cell Center
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Non-coding RNAs, Post-transcriptional regulation; microRNAs; Developmental Biology; Gene regulatory networks; Systems Biology; Zebrafish
William Jorgensen
Sterling Professor of Chemistry
Director, Division of Physical Sciences & Engineering
Kenneth Kidd
Professor of Genetics, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Complex Human Disorders; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Human Population ; Genetics; Human Evolution
Tae Hoon Kim
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Member, Yale Cancer Center
Member, Yale Stem Cell Center
Research Interests:Transcriptional Regulatory Elements and Chromatin Structure; Expression of the Cancer Genome; Epigenomics
Steven Kleinstein
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:Computational immunology; Systems biology; Disease/tissue/pathway/process modeling and simulation; Statistical and model-based analysis of experimental and clinical data
Yuval Kluger
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:Signal processing and dimensional reduction of genome-wide data; Local and non-local genomic pattern recognition; Identification of cancer subclones with proliferation and invasion potential in heterogeneous cancer biopsies
Michael Krauthammer
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:Molecular interaction networks: computational analysis, pathway discovery, knowledge representation; Statistical modeling and analysis; Text mining in biology: term identification, information extraction
Paul Lizardi
Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:Cancer Genetics/Epigenetics; Cancer biology; Dynamics of abnormal chromatin states in neoplasia and metastasis; DNA amplification technology (MDA, RCA); DNA microarray technology for epigenetic analysis, array-CGH; Proteomics analysis of cancer tissues
Elias Lolis
Professor of Pharmacology
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Cancer; Inflammation; Infectious disease; macromolecular X-ray crystallography; Signaling pathways; Drug design; High throughput screening (HTPS)
Shuangge Steven Ma
Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Bioinformatics; Survival analysis; Semiparametric methods; Cancer study; Mental disorders; Health economics
Perry Miller
Professor of Anesthesiology (Medical Informatics)
Research Interests:Biomedical informatics; Clinical informatics; Bioinformatics; Neuroinformatics
Andrew Miranker
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Conformational changes in proteins which give rise to a special class of protein complex known as amyloid fibrils
James Noonan
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Member, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Member, Yale Cancer Center
Research Interests:Human Evolution; Evolutionary Dynamics of Gene Regulation; Synthetic Biology; Applications of Ultra-High Throughput Sequencing Technologies; Comparative and Functional Genomics in Vertebrates
Corey O'Hern
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics
Assoc Prof Dept of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics
Associate Professor
Research Interests:protein-protein interactions; intrinsically disordered proteins; active media; cell motion; wound healing in epithelial tissue; molecular dynamics simulations; statistical mechanics; Markov state modeling
Anna Marie Pyle
William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Division of Biological Sciences
Research Interests:Structure and function of catalytic RNA; RNA helicase mechanisms; Computational analysis of RNA structure
Lynne Regan
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Chemistry
Research Interests:Mental retardation; protein-protein interactions; Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP); protein-based nanomaterials
Valerie Reinke
Associate Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:Functional genomic analysis of global gene expression mechanisms; C. elegans germline development; germline stem cells
Martin Schultz
Arthur K. Watson Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Dieter Soll
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests:Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthesis; Functional Genomics; Life Science Biological; Mechanism of Translation
Jeffrey Townsend
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Asst Prof Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
Gunter Wagner
Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests:evolution of development gene regulation molecular evolution transcription factor evolution uterus function and evolution parturition limb development
Zuoheng Anita Wang
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Statistical Genetics; Bioinformatics; Genomics
Heping Zhang
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Statistics
Research Interests:Biostatistics; Genomics; Epidemiology; Psychiatry; Pregnancy; Infertility; Substance Use; Bioinformatics
Jing Zhang
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Hongyu Zhao
Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Genetics and of Statistics
Research Interests:statistical genomics; computational biology; genetic epidemiology; genome wide association studies; complex diseases; risk prediction; high dimensional data; dimension reduction; network models; graphical models; bioinformatics; next generation sequencing analysis; cancer genomics; epigenetics; herbal medicine; microbiome; proteomics
Steven Zucker
David and Lucille Packard Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
