UO Prep Bio Faculty Names
- Matt Barber — Associate Professor, Biology (IEE)
Evolution of host–microbe interactions and their consequences for infectious disease and immunity. Lab Website - Alice Barkan — Professor Emerita, Biology (IMB)
Nuclear and chloroplast gene-expression system communication. Lab Website - Bruce Bowerman — Professor, Biology (IMB)
Molecular genetics and live imaging to study cytoskeleton regulation in early C. elegans embryos. Website - Bill Cresko — Professor; Director, Center for Biomedical Data Science, Knight Campus / Biology (IEE)
Developmental genetics and genomics of evolution in natural fish populations and quantitative population genomics. Lab Website - Vickie DeRose — Professor (Department Head), Chemistry & Biochemistry (IMB associate)
Chemical biology of nucleic acids and proteins with a focus on metal interactions and molecular sensing. Lab Website - Chris Doe — Professor; HHMI Investigator, Biology (ION/IMB)
Neural progenitors in Drosophila—temporal and spatial programming that generates neuronal diversity and assembles motor circuits. Lab Website - Judith Eisen — Professor, Biology (ION; META Center)
Cellular, genetic, and microbiological mechanisms of neural development using zebrafish, including roles of microbiota and immunity. Lab Website - David Garcia — Assistant Professor, Biology (IMB)
Prion-like regulation by RNA-modifying enzymes and methods to map RNA chemical modifications in vivo. Lab Website - Ian Greenhouse — Assistant Professor, Human Physiology (ION)
Neurophysiology of action control—how the brain prepares, initiates, and cancels movement in health and disease. Lab Website - Dan Grimes — Assistant Professor, Biology (IMB)
How developmental symmetry is broken and maintained, including cilia-driven flows, mechanotransduction, and cell polarity. Lab Website - Karen Guillemin — Professor of Biology (IMB; Director, META Center for Systems Biology)
Studies how hosts and their microbial communities shape each other during development and disease using zebrafish and fruit fly models. Lab Website - Scott Hansen — Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry (IMB)
Investigates how cells generate dynamic spatial heterogeneity in membrane-orchestrated signaling reactions. Lab Website - Mike Harms — Associate Professor of Biology (IMB)
Explores how proteins evolve by linking biophysical properties to evolutionary change using phylogenetics and high-throughput experiments. Lab Website - Marian Hettiaratchi — Assistant Professor, Knight Campus (IMB associate)
Develops protein-delivery biomaterials for regenerative medicine by integrating protein engineering, polymer chemistry, and computational design. Lab Website - Parisa Hossienzadeh — Assistant Professor, Knight Campus (IMB associate)
Designs new biomolecules—peptide therapeutics, biosensor modules, and enzymes—using advanced computational tools. Lab Website - Adrianne Huxtable — Associate Professor, Human Physiology (ION)
Examines neural control of breathing and how early-life stressors (e.g., neonatal inflammation, perinatal opioids) disrupt its development. Lab Website - Santiago Jaramillo — Associate Professor of Biology (ION)
Dissects neural circuits of auditory cognition to learn how brains assign meaning to sounds and how disorders alter these processes. Lab Website - Andrew Kern — Associate Professor of Biology (IEE)
Uses spatial population genetics and machine-learning approaches to study how selection shapes genomic variation. Lab Website - Diana Libuda — Associate Professor of Biology (IMB)
Investigates how developing sperm and eggs choose DNA repair templates to ensure faithful genome inheritance across generations. Lab Website - Andrew Marcus — Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry (IMB associate)
Probes structure and dynamics of macromolecules in living environments, including protein motions and DNA-interacting molecular machines. Lab Website - Luca Mazzucato — Assistant Professor of Biology (ION)
Studies how flexible behavior emerges from collective neural dynamics in cortical networks. Lab Website - Adam Miller — Associate Professor of Biology (ION)
Investigates formation of functional neural circuits, including electrical synapses, octopus visual system development, and zebrafish single-cell atlases. Lab Website - Cristopher Niell — Associate Professor of Biology (ION)
Explores how visual circuits compute and adapt through development and experience, including comparative studies in octopus. Lab Website - Brad Nolen — Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry (IMB)
Studies cytoskeletal regulation and how activators such as WASp/Scar stimulate the Arp2/3 complex. Lab Website - Calin Plesa — Assistant Professor, Knight Campus (IMB associate)
Builds high-throughput technologies to engineer protein-based biological systems at scale. Lab Website - Mike Pluth — Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry (IMB associate)
Uses synthetic chemistry to probe the chemical biology of reactive sulfur species. Lab Website - Rori Rohlfs — Associate Professor, Data Science (IEE)
Applies population genetics and computational biology to assess the accuracy and equity of forensic DNA methods and to study the evolution of gene expression. Lab Website - Matt Smear — Assistant Professor of Psychology (ION)
Investigates neural mechanisms of olfaction in mice by linking circuit activity to odor-guided behavior. Lab Website - Melanie Spero — Assistant Professor of Biology (IMB)
Studies how bacterial pathogens adapt their physiology to host environments and how those adaptations affect human health. Lab Website - Kryn Stankunas — Associate Professor of Biology (IMB)
Probes molecular control of cell behaviors driving vertebrate organ development and regeneration. Lab Website - Nicole Swann — Assistant Professor, Human Physiology (Center for Translational Neuroscience; ION)
Examines how human brain networks generate and control movement and how disorders such as Parkinson’s disrupt these processes. Lab Website - Mike Wehr — Professor of Psychology (ION)
Studies how cortical microcircuits encode and transform complex sensory information, using mouse auditory cortex as a model. Lab Website - Julia Widom — Assistant Professor, Chemistry (IMB; Oregon Center for Molecular & Quantum Science)
Uses biophysical methods to reveal structures and dynamics of RNA and RNA–protein complexes. Lab Website
