Department Research
Specialty Areas, Groups, and Centers
Specialty Areas
Ecosystems, Animal behavior and communication.
Bio or Agro-terrorism defense.
Repairing our environment.
Study of plants, animals, and protists together, spanning both the cellular- and nano-scales.
Increasing th understanding of the evolution of plant pathogens.
Understanding the origins of hearing loss.
Unveiling of the map of the human genome.
Discovering the fundamental processes of biology, including mechanisms of cellular function, genomics, and an understanding of environmental processes.
Study of tiny molecular machines and processes studied at the nanoscale, using x-ray crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and advanced computational tools.
Study of basic cellular, molecular and developmental processes, and promises discoveries that could revolutionize the field of agriculture.
Pioneering the scientific exploration of virus structure.
Structural cell biology of biomachinery and self-assembling materials will yield biomedical applications as well as inform the quest for nanomachines of artificial manufacture.
Enhance our fundamental understanding of vision.
