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Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (BQBS) Track

BQBS Track Leadership

Faculty

  • Co-Director of Graduate Studies, BQBS Track

    Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Co-Leader, Developmental Therapeutics, Yale Cancer Center; Co-Director Therapeutics/Chemotherapy Program

    Research Interests
    • Molecular Biology
    • Pharmacology
    • Anti-Retroviral Agents
    • HIV Reverse Transcriptase
    • Multifunctional Enzymes
  • Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Ducks
    • Electrophysiology
    • Ion Channels
    • Mechanoreceptors
    • Neurosciences
    • Pacinian Corpuscles
    • Sensory Receptor Cells
    • Trigeminal Ganglion
    • Thermoreceptors
    • Potassium Channels
    • Anseriformes
    • Transient Receptor Potential Channels
    • Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels
  • Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Assistant Professor

    Research Interests
    • Endoplasmic Reticulum
    • Molecular Biology
    • Nuclear Envelope
    • Organelles
    • Caenorhabditis elegans
    • Lamins
    • Lipid Metabolism
    • Diseases
  • William H. Fleming, M.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Genetics and of Therapeutic Radiology

    Research Interests
    • Organelle Biogenesis
    • Genetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Ribonucleoproteins
    • Radiation Oncology
    • RNA Helicases
    • Genes, rRNA
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and of Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Cell Biology
    • Cytoskeleton
    • Endocytosis
    • Kinetics
    • Microscopy
    • Microscopy, Fluorescence
    • Models, Theoretical
    • Schizosaccharomyces
    • Nonlinear Dynamics
    • Microscopy, Confocal
    • Mechanics
    • Systems Biology
    • Mathematical Concepts
    • Machine Learning
    • Single Molecule Imaging
  • Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Physics; Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Cell Nucleus
    • Endoplasmic Reticulum
    • Microscopy, Fluorescence
    • Microscopy, Confocal
    • Cellular Structures
  • Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Professor of Pathology; Vice Chair for Translational Research, Therapeutic Radiology; Scientific Director, Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center; Chief, Pediatrics Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology; Chief, Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology

    Research Interests
    • DNA Repair
    • Glioma
    • Medical Oncology
    • Pediatrics
    • Radiology
    • Therapeutics
    • Central Nervous System Neoplasms
    • Radiation Oncology
    • Genomics
    • High-Throughput Screening Assays
  • Associate Professor of Pathology

    Research Interests
    • Calcification, Physiologic
    • Osteoarthropathy, Primary Hypertrophic
    • Pathology
    • Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
    • Sickle Cell Trait
    • Rare Diseases
    • Vascular Calcification
  • Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chair, Dept Basic Science: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Biochemistry
    • Biology
    • Biotechnology
    • Fungi
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Microbiology
    • Molecular Biology
    • Computational Biology
    • Genomics
    • Metabolomics
  • Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Organelle Biogenesis
    • Cell Compartmentation
    • Cell Cycle
    • Cell Division
    • Cell Biology
    • Homeostasis
    • Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
    • Nervous System Malformations
    • Signal Transduction
    • Genomics
    • Cell Shape
    • Organelle Shape
    • High-Throughput Screening Assays
  • Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry

    Research Interests
    • Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
    • Metalloproteins
    • Molecular Biology
    • Photosynthesis
  • Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Electrophysiology
    • Pharmacology
    • Smell
    • Taste
    • Cryoelectron Microscopy
    • Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Drosophila
    • Smell
    • Taste
    • Mosquito Vectors
  • Yale College Associate Dean for Science & Quantitative Reasoning Education, Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Associate Director, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory

    Research Interests
    • DNA Damage
    • Molecular Biology
    • Pathology
    • Werner Syndrome
    • Telomere-Binding Proteins
    • Early Detection of Cancer
    • Diseases
  • Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology; Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)

    Research Interests
    • China
    • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
    • Hong Kong
    • Medicine, Chinese Traditional
    • Neoplasms by Histologic Type
    • Pharmacology
  • Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Physics and of Neuroscience

    Research Interests
    • Behavior
    • Drosophila
    • Motion Perception
    • Neurobiology
    • Sensation
    • Visual Perception
    • Computational Biology
    • Optogenetics
  • John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, of Pharmacology, and of Management; Executive Director, Yale Center for Molecular Discovery

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Cell Biology
    • Neoplasms
    • Pharmacology
    • Drugs, Investigational
    • Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
    • Proteasome Inhibitors
  • William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Head, Branford College

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Cytoskeleton
    • Kinetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Thermodynamics
    • RNA Helicases
  • Associate Professor on Term of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • RNA, Untranslated
    • Genomics
  • Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology

    Research Interests
    • Calcium
    • Polycystic Kidney Diseases
    • Pharmacology
    • Physiology
    • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
    • Hermeneutics
  • Co-Director of Graduate Studies, BQBS Track

    Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Physics

  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Lipid Bilayers
    • Membranes
    • Molecular Biology
    • Protein Folding
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology; Member, Yale Cancer Biology Institute

    Research Interests
    • Binding Sites, Antibody
    • Biochemistry
    • Cell Membrane
    • Membrane Proteins
    • Phospholipids
    • Protein Binding
    • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
    • Receptor Aggregation
    • Molecular Structure
    • Signal Transduction
    • Oncogene Proteins
    • Protein Structure, Tertiary
    • Crystallography, X-Ray
    • Cryoelectron Microscopy
    • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
    • ErbB Receptors
  • Associate Professor of Cell Biology and of Neuroscience

    Research Interests
    • Alzheimer Disease
    • Axonal Transport
    • Lysosomes
    • Parkinson Disease
    • Tauopathies
    • TDP-43 Proteinopathies
    • Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, of Computer Science, and of Statistics & Data Science

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Computer Simulation
    • DNA
    • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
    • Medical Informatics
    • Computational Biology
    • Genomics
    • Proteomics
    • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
    • Wearable Electronic Devices
    • Deep Learning
    • Data Science
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Gene Expression Regulation
    • Molecular Biology
    • RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
    • Protein Biosynthesis
    • Genomics
    • Transcriptome
  • Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Genetics

    Research Interests
    • Microscopy
    • Developmental Biology
    • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
    • Computational Biology
    • Genomics
    • Systems Biology
    • Autism Spectrum Disorder
    • RNA Recognition Motif
  • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

    Research Interests
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
    • Neurons
    • RNA
    • Motor Neuron Disease
    • RNA-Binding Proteins
    • Computational Biology
    • Neurodegenerative Diseases
    • Genomics
    • RNA Transport
    • Frontotemporal Dementia
    • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Assistant Professor of Cell Biology; Directors of Graduate Admission- BBS MCGD Track , Department of Cell Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Cell Membrane Permeability
    • Mass Spectrometry
    • Cell Membrane Structures
    • Membrane Transport Proteins
    • Chemicals and Drugs
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology

    Research Interests
    • Membrane Proteins
    • Pharmacology
    • Crystallography, X-Ray
    • Chemicals and Drugs
  • Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Biochemistry
    • Enzyme Activation
    • Gastrointestinal Diseases
    • Microbiology
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Drosophila
    • Enzymes
    • Genetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    • Transcription Factors
    • Microscopy, Immunoelectron
    • Wolbachia
    • Ubiquitin
    • Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
    • Cell Growth Processes
    • Mutant Chimeric Proteins
    • Sumoylation
  • Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Biomechanical Phenomena
    • Genetics
    • Zebrafish
    • Developmental Biology
    • Organogenesis
    • Systems Biology
  • Co-Director of Graduate Studies, BQBS Track

    Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Dermatology

    Research Interests
    • Dermatology
    • Epithelial Cells
    • Molecular Biology
    • Regeneration
    • Skin Diseases
    • Stem Cells
    • Tissue Survival
  • Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics

    Research Interests
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
    • Genetics
    • Motor Neurons
    • Neurosciences
    • Pediatrics
    • Superoxide Dismutase
    • Protein Folding
    • Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Cilia
    • Microtubules
    • Mitosis
    • Neurobiology
    • Physics
    • Developmental Biology
    • Molecular Motor Proteins
    • Nanotechnology
  • Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • Glioblastoma
    • Genetic Variation
    • Genomics
    • Systems Biology
    • Gene Regulatory Networks
    • Bioengineering
    • Synthetic Biology
    • Gene Editing
  • Associate Professor Tenure

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Exocytosis
    • Membrane Fusion
    • Microscopy, Fluorescence
    • Molecular Biology
    • Synaptic Transmission
    • Neurophysiology
    • Physiology
    • Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
    • Secretory Vesicles
  • Associate Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology; Co-Leader, Radiobiology and Genome Integrity, Yale Cancer Center; Associate Cancer Center Director, Basic Science

    Research Interests
    • Cell Nucleus
    • Cell Biology
    • DNA Repair
    • Microtubules
    • Nuclear Envelope
    • Telomere
  • Professor

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Neurobiology
    • Serotonin
    • Caenorhabditis elegans
    • Neurotransmitter Agents
    • RGS Proteins
  • Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neuroscience; Deputy Dean for Research, (Basic Science)

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Morphogenesis
    • Schizophrenia
    • Stress, Physiological
  • Alfred Gilman Professor and Chair of Pharmacology; Co-director, Cancer Biology Institute; Chair, Pharmacology

    Research Interests
    • Adenocarcinoma
    • Biochemistry
    • Cell Membrane
    • Crystallography
    • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
    • Receptor Aggregation
    • Signal Transduction
    • Protein Structure, Tertiary
    • MAP Kinase Signaling System
    • Protein Kinase Inhibitors
    • ErbB Receptors
    • Single Molecule Imaging
    • Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange-Mass Spectrometry
  • Associate Professor of Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Director, Nanobiology Institute

    Research Interests
    • Biophysics
    • Cell Membrane
    • Cell Biology
    • DNA
    • Lipid Bilayers
    • Membrane Fusion
    • Membranes, Artificial
    • Reference Standards
    • Nucleic Acid Probes
    • Biosensing Techniques
    • Nuclear Pore
    • Nanotechnology
    • Nanostructures
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, and Professor of Genetics, of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and of Dermatology; Director, Yale Stem Cell Center

    Research Interests
    • Cell Biology
    • Genetics
    • Gynecology
    • RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
    • Stem Cells
    • Embryonic Stem Cells
    • Argonaute Proteins
  • Professor of Pharmacology

    Research Interests
    • Education
    • Immune System Diseases
    • Inflammation
    • Neoplasms
    • Parasitic Diseases
    • Pharmacology
    • Crystallography, X-Ray
    • Enzymes and Coenzymes
    • High-Throughput Screening Assays
  • Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Biophysics
    • Chemistry
    • Molecular Biology
    • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    • Protein Folding