James Adair
- Professor of Material Science and Engineering
Nanoscale materials and phenomena for biological, optical and structural applications, property manipulation via novel. . .
Istvan Albert
- Research Professor of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, large scale biological data analysis, microarrays and sequence analysis. Scientific programming, algorithm. . .
Sally Assmann
- Waller Professor of Biology
Molecular biology of plant G-proteins and kinases. Phytohormone regulation of signal transduction and RNA processing. Second. . .
Michael Axtell
- Professor of Biology
- Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology
Discovery and characterization of plant microRNAs and siRNAs. Functions of microRNAs and siRNAs in the evolution of plant. . .
Lu Bai
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Professor of Physics
Single cell / single molecule study of chromatin and gene regulation.
Le Bao
- Professor of Statistics
Bayesian methods, data mining, computational methods, applications in health, environmental and social sciences.
Colin Barnstable
- Professor and Chair of Neural Behavioral Sciences
How interacting networks of transcription factors and signal transduction molecules guide the development of precursor/stem. . .
Arthur Berg
- Professor of Public Health Sciences, Statistics, Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Family & Community Medicine
Unlocking the mysteries of DNA and its connection to human health.
Philip Bevilacqua
- Co-Director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology
- Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RNA folding in vivo and genome-wide; RNA regulation of gene expression; Ribozyme Mechanism; roles RNA may have played in the. . .
Jordan Bisanz
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The interface of microbiology and bioinformatics, with approaches including genomics and metabolomics to investigate the. . .
Seth Bordenstein
- Director of the One Health Microbiome Center
- Huck Chair in Microbiome Sciences
The evolutionary and genetic principles that shape symbiotic interactions between animals, microbes, and viruses and the. . .
James Broach
- Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Liana Burghardt
- Director of the Center for Root and Rhizosphere Biology
- Huck Early Career Chair of Root Biology and Rhizosphere Interactions
Plant-microbe-climate interactions; the evolution and ecology of legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia; the genomic basis and. . .
Laura Carrel
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Genetic, epigenetic, and genomic regulation of expression on the mammalian X chromosome.
Keith Cheng
- Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and of Pharmacology
Computational phenomics, image informatics, and "Geometry of Life" based on x-ray histotomography, population, genomic, and. . .
Francesca Chiaromonte
- Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences
- Professor of Statistics
Developing methods for the analysis of large, high-dimensional and complex data.
Surinder Chopra
- Professor of Maize Genetics
Regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis during plant development and plant-pathogen interaction. Epigenetic regulation and. . .
Emily Davenport
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Understanding the complex relationship humans have with our microbiomes, using high-throughput sequencing technologies and. . .
Claude dePamphilis
- Director of the Center for Parasitic and Carnivorous Plants
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Plant Biology and Evolutionary Genomics
Genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. Origin and diversification of flowers and developmental pathways.. . .
Sinisa Dovat
- Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Science Research, Department of Pediatrics
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Pharmacology
Investigate the role of lymphoid master regulator, IKZF1/Ikaros, in the development of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL);. . .
Kristin Eckert
- Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of human cell mutagenesis and repetitive DNA replication in relation to genome evolution.
Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Erika Ganda
- Emphasis Area Representative, Microbiome Sciences
- Associate Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production. . .
David Geiser
- Professor of Mycology
Genomics of fungi, applied to the evolution of plant and animal disease, toxin production, and beneficial roles. Fungal. . .
Santhosh Girirajan
- Professor of Genomics
- Professor of Anthropology
Understanding the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Jessica Grembi
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
The Grembi lab studies the host-microbiota interplay, with a particular focus on the small intestine, where 90% of nutrient. . .
Mark Guiltinan
- Director, Plant Institute
- J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany
Plant functional genomics, metabolomics and biotechnology. Identification of key genes for disease resistance and important. . .
Wenrui Hao
- Director of the Center for Mathematical Biology
- Professor of Mathematics
Ross Hardison
- Associate Director of the Genome Sciences Institute
- T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Regulation of gene expression during development.
Heather Hines
- Interim Director, Center for Pollinator Research
- Interim Director, Insect Biodiversity Center
Applies genomic, transcriptomic, phylogenomic, and bioinformatic approaches to study the evolution and genetics of diverse. . .
Vasant Honavar
- Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and AI
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
Statistical machine learning algorithms for predictive modeling; modeling and inference of biological networks;. . .
Judie Howrylak
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Christian Huber
- Associate Professor of Biology
How evolutionary mechanisms such as mutation, recombination, and natural selection shape genetic diversity and the. . .
Wen Jiang
- Faculty Advocate of the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility
- Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Seogchan Kang
- Professor of Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology
Genetic and cellular mechanisms underpinning plant-fungal interactions with Arabidopsis thaliana and Fusarium oxysporum as a. . .
Vivek Kapur
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Global Health
- Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The basic mechanisms by which pathogenic microbes successfully infect, colonize, and cause disease in their hosts.
David Kennedy
- Associate Professor of Biology
Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with particular interest in how disease dynamics influence pathogen emergence,. . .
David Koslicki
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Biology
Developing efficient algorithms to extract insight from high-throughput sequencing data.
Jasna Kovac
- Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
- Associate Professor of Food Science
Integrating epidemiological, microbiological, molecular and omics methods to better understand microbial pathogenic. . .
Jesse Lasky
- Professor of Biology
- Director, Penn State (PAC) Herbarium
Ecological and evolutionary genomics, genetic and ecophysiological basis of adaptation to environmental stress, evolutionary. . .
Nina Lauharatanahirun
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Biomedical Engineering
Using computational modeling, behavioral economic paradigms, and functional neuroimaging (fMRI/EEG) to understand the neural. . .
Qunhua Li
- Associate Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Professor of Statistics
Developing statistical and computational methods for analyzing complex omics data and improving quality and reproducibility. . .
Dajiang Liu
- Co-Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Professor of Public Health Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Developing statistical and AI methods and experimental approaches to integrate multi-omics data with GWAS to study host x. . .
Wansheng Liu
- Professor of Genomics
Functional annotation of farm animal genomes, structure and function of mammalian sex (X and Y) chromosome, spermatogenesis. . .
Manuel Llinás
- Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and metabolism in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using. . .
Margarita Lopez-Uribe
- Associate Professor of Entomology
How environmental change and human management shape bee health and long-term persistence of their populations in agricultural. . .
Hong Ma
- Huck Chair in Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution
- Professor of Biology
Plant development under favorable and stressful conditions; phylogeny and evolutionary biology of plant groups containing. . .
Kamesh Madduri
- Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Computational biology, algorithms, and high-performance computing.
Shaun Mahony
- Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
We apply neural networks and other machine learning approaches to understand how transcription factors control cellular. . .
Kateryna Makova
- Director of the Center for Medical Genomics
- Professor of Biology
Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, and human genetics.
Costas Maranas
- Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering
Computational studies of metabolism and gene regulation.
Paul Medvedev
- Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Please see the researcher's homepage at https://medvedevgroup.com/.
Anton Nekrutenko
- Dorothy Foher Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Genomics, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Evolution of overlapping reading frames in eukaryotic genomes.
Edward O’Brien
- Professor of Chemistry
Developing and applying Physical Bioinformatic techniques to measure rates of translation transcriptome-wide and their. . .
Denise Okafor
- Huck Early Career Chair in Biophysics
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural mechanisms of signaling and regulation in protein complexes.
Andrew Patterson
- Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
The Patterson lab is focused on understanding the host-metabolite-microbiome axis
Elizabeth Proctor
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and of Pharmacology
Systems biology of complex disease. Integration of heterogeneous data types across length scales.
Tanya Renner
- Associate Professor of Entomology
Evolution of chemical and structural defense. Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics, and transcriptomics. Origins and. . .
Stephen Schaeffer
- Professor of Biology
Population Genetics and Genomics of Chromosomal Rearrangements in Drosophila
Mingfu Shao
- Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Our research interests are designing algorithms and developing methods for solving the various challenging problems in. . .
Mark Shriver
- Professor of Biological Anthropology
Human population genomics and complex disease mapping.
Justin Silverman
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Statistical methods for the analysis of biomedical data (or any other interesting data/questions)
Aleksandra Slavkovic
- Huck Chair in Data Privacy and Confidentiality
- Professor of Statistics and of Public Health Sciences
Methodological developments in the area of data privacy and confidentiality in the context of small and large scale surveys,. . .
Moriah Szpara
- Professor of Biology
How genetic variation influences the outcomes of viral infection, particularly for neurotropic viruses such as herpes simplex. . .
Zachary Szpiech
- Associate Professor of Biology
Population and evolutionary genetics, with applications to medical genetics, anthropology, and conservation
Yasin Uzun
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Developing and applying systems biology approaches to better understand gene regulation at the molecular level in development. . .
Yogasudha Veturi
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and of Statistics
Developing novel statistical and machine learning methods to better understand shared genetics between complex human diseases. . .
Jennifer Wagner
- Assistant Professor of Law, Policy, and Engineering
Promoting the international human right to science in genetics/omics, precision medicine, and digital health technologies;. . .
James Wang
- Professor of Information Science and Technology
Modeling of objects, concepts, aesthetics, and emotions in big visual data from various domains.
Laura Weyrich
- Professor of Anthropology
Reconstructing ancient oral microbiomes and supporting ancient DNA analysis of past humans, environments, and animals.
Ruobo Zhou
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Quantitatively and functionally understanding the compartmentalization and spatiotemporal organization of protein-protein and. . .