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Yale BioDesign Institute
James Rothman
Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Cell Biology and of Chemistry; Chairman, Department of Cell Biology; Director, Yale Biodesign Institute
james.rothman@yale.edu
www.cellbiology.yale.edu/people/james_rothman.profile
Research Interests:
Elucidating the underlying mechanisms of vesicular transport within cells and the secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters.
Alanna Schepartz
Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
alanna.schepartz@yale.edu
www.schepartzlab.yale.edu
Research Interests:
Organic chemistry; chemical biology; biophysical chemistry; and
development of chemical tools to study protein interactions in living cells.
Kyle Vanderlick, Dean, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor; Deputy Director Yale Biodesign Institute
kyle.vanderlick@yale.edu
http://www.seas.yale.edu/faculty-detail.php?id=5
Research Interests:          Properties of synthetic and biological membranes; molecular engineering of structured surfaces; and nanostructures adhesion and surface forces.
Tobias Walther
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
tobias.walther@yale.edu
www.cellbiology.yale.edu/people/tobias_walther-1.profile
Research Interests:
Organelle homeostasis; lipid metabolism; eisosomes; sphingolipid metabolism; RNAi screening; and mass-spectrometry based proteomics.
Jie Yao
Associate Research Scientist, Cell Biology                       (Assistant Professor of Cell Biology as of July 1, 2011) yao.j@yale.edu
Research Interests:
Nucleus; dynamics of transcription factors and chromatin; and cellular biophysics and imaging.
   
Yale Cancer Biology Institute
Joseph Schlessinger
William H. Prusoff Professor of Pharmacology; Chair, Pharmacology; Director, Yale Cancer Biology Institute
joseph.schlessinger@yale.edu
bbs.yale.edu/people/joseph_schlessinger.profile
Research Interests:
Growth factor receptors; intracellular signaling pathways; and response to growth factor stimulation.
   
Yale Chemical Biology Institute
Jonathan Ellman
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology
jonathan.ellman@yale.edu
www.chem.yale.edu/~ellmangroup
Research Interests:
Organic chemistry; organometallic chemistry; inorganic chemistry synthetic; chemistry; and chemical biology.
Andrew Phillips
Professor of Chemistry
andrew.phillips@yale.edu
www.chem.yale.edu/~phillipsgroup
Research Interests:
Organic chemistry; chemical biology; and synthetic chemistry.
Alanna Schepartz
Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Chair, Yale Chemical Biology Institute Advisory Committee
alanna.schepartz@yale.edu
www.schepartzlab.yale.edu
Research Interests:
Organic chemistry; chemical biology; biophysical chemistry; and
development of chemical tools to study protein interactions in living cells.
   
Yale Microbial Diversity Institute
Andy Goodman
Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis andrew.goodman@yale.edu http://bbs.yale.edu/microbiology/people/andrew_goodman.profile http://goodman.commons.yale.edu/
Research Interests:
The human-associated microbiome; human gut microbial ecology; functional genomics; genetic basis for cooperation and competition in the human gut microbiota.
Eduardo A. Groisman
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
eduardo.groisman@yale.edu
medicine.yale.edu/labs/groisman/
Research Interests:
Regulation of bacterial gene expression; virulence determinants; signal sensing mechanisms; and evolution of bacterial gene control.
Nancy Moran
William H. Fleming, M.D. '57 Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
nancy.moran@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/moran/Home.html
Research Interests:
Genomic and experimental approaches to understand the roles of microbial symbionts in hosts and the evolution of symbiotic associations.
Howard Ochman
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Yale Microbial Diversity Institute
howard.ochman@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/ochman/index.html
Research Interests:
Investigations into microbial genome diversity and how bacteria interact with other organisms.
   
Yale Systems Biology Institute
Murat Acar                                                             Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
murat.acar@yale.edu
acarlab.commons.yale.edu
Research Interests:
Systems biology; synthetic biology; gene regulatory networks and noise in gene expression.
Farren Isaacs
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
farren.isaacs@yale.edu
bbs.yale.edu/people/farren_isaacs.profile
Research Interests:
Synthetic biology; systems biology; genomics; and biotechnology.
Anna Pyle
William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology;Professor of Chemistry; Director, Division of Biological Sciences
anna.pyle@yale.edu
bbs.yale.edu/people/anna_pyle.profile
Research Interests:
Structure and function of catalytic RNA; RNA helicase mechanisms; and computational analysis of RNA structure.
Jesse Rinehart
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
jesse.rinehart@yale.edu
bbs.yale.edu/people/jesse_rinehart.profile
Research Interests:
Ion transport; kinase/kinome interactions in physiological systems; and system-wide and targeted phosphoproteomics.
Gunter Wagner
Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Chair, Yale Systems Biology Institute Advisory Committee
gunter.wagner@yale.edu
www.yale.edu/eeb/wagner
Research Interests:
Gene regulatory networks and evolution of complex systems.
   
Yale Center for Genome Anaylsis
Richard Lifton
Sterling Professor of Genetics; Professor of Medicine (Nephrology); Chair, Department of Genetics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute; Executive Director, Yale Center for Genome Analysis
richard.lifton@yale.edu
http://medicine.yale.edu/mdphd/people/richard_lifton.profile
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of common human diseases.
   
Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology
James Rothman
Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Cell Biology and of Chemistry; Chairman, Department of Cell Biology; Director, Biodesign Institute; Executive Director, Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology
james.rothman@yale.edu
www.cellbiology.yale.edu/people/james_rothman.profile
Research Interests:
Elucidating the underlying mechanisms of vesicular transport within cells and the secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters.
   
Yale Small Molecule Discovery Center
Craig Crews
Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Executive Director, Yale Small Molecule Discovery Center
craig.crews@yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/crews/
Research Interests:
Organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry; and chemical biology.