Tenure Track Faculty
Catherine Armbruster
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Biofilms, polymicrobial interactions, microbial ecology and evolution, genomics, microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis, cystic fibrosis, built environment microbiology, bioinformatics
Alison Barth
Professor
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Research Areas: Activity-dependent gene expression in the CNS, the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that underlie learning and memory, and the effect of behavioral training on neural excitability and anatomy
Drew Bridges
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Bacterial group behaviors; biofilm communities; bacterial signal transduction; live-cell imaging
En Cai
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: T-cell signaling and activation; cancer immunotherapy; lattice light-sheet microscopy; single molecule fluorescence microscopy; super-resolution imaging
Dannie Durand
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Computational molecular biology and computational genomics; especially the evolution of genomic organization and function
Charles Ettensohn
Professor
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Research Areas: Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; early patterning and cell fate specification; morphogenetic cell movements; cell signaling; biomineralization
Aryn Gittis
Professor
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Research Areas: Synaptic physiology; optogenetics; behavior; mechanisms of circuit dysfunction in movement disorders
Jonathan Henninger
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: RNA-directed control of transcription and cell fate in health and disease; biomolecular condensates; RNA biology and therapeutics; mammalian gene expression; transcription; super-resolution and live cell imaging; molecular biology and cellular engineering; developmental biology
Luisa Hiller
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Bacterial pathogenesis; comparative genomics; intercellular communication; strain evolution; biofilms
Veronica Hinman
Professor
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Research Areas: Developmental biology, including gene regulatory networks; evolution of developmental mechanisms
Kate Hong
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Sensory-guided behavior, systems neuroscience, in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, cortical-subcortical interactions, recovery after brain injury
Irene Kaplow
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Comparative genomics, transcriptional regulation, computational biology
Zheng Kuang
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Host-microbial interactions; genomics; gnotobiotics; laser capture microscopy
Frederick Lanni
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Biophysics, cell motility, cytoskeleton, signal transduction, microscopy
Tina Lee
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Mammalian cell biology, organelle structure and dynamics
Adam Linstedt
Professor
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Research Areas: Mechanisms of membrane compartmentalization; trafficking and inheritance
Brooke McCartney
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Mechanisms of signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization during Drosophila development
C. Joel McManus
Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Genomics; Evolution of Gene expression; and RNA structural biology
Jonathan Minden
Professor
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Research Areas: Proteomics; developmental biology; cell biology; cell death; fluorescent reagent development
Elizabeth Ransey
Assistant Professor
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Research Areas: Protein engineering; structural and molecular biology; intercellular communication and signaling; flow cytometry; microscopy
Gordon Rule
Professor and Interim Department Head
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Research Areas: Protein structure; molecular recognition; NMR spectroscopy; x-ray diffraction
Russell Schwartz
Professor and Head, Computational Biology Department
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Research Areas: Computational biology; biological modeling
John Woolford
Professor and Co-director, CNAST
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Research Areas: Yeast ribosome biogenesis; pre-ribosomal particles; RNA-protein interactions, dynamics of RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein complex assembly
Eric Yttri
Eberly Family Associate Professor
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Research Areas: Systems neuroscience, optogenetics, Parkinson's disease, behavior, motor system, computational neuroscience, network interactions, dopamine
Teaching Track Faculty
DJ Brasier
Teaching Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs
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MI 415A
412-268-1951
Maggie Braun
Teaching Professor and MCS Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
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DH 1324
412-268-6679
Amy Burkert
Teaching Professor and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives
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Warner Hall 609A
412-268-5865
Jason D’Antonio
Associate Teaching Professor and Director, Health Professions Program
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DH 1319
412-268-8494
Carrie Doonan
Teaching Professor and Director, Undergraduate Laboratories
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MI 340
412-268-3117
Kenneth Hovis
Teaching Professor and MCS Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives
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DH 1322
412-268-5934
Annette Vincent
Associate Dean for Diversity and Climate, CMU-Q
Teaching Professor, CMU-Q
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3179 (CMU-Q)
+974 4454-8523
Amanda Willard
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director, Undergraduate Studies
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412-268-3626
Emeritus Faculty
David Hackney
Professor Emeritus
Chien Ho
Professor Emeritus
Jonathan Jarvik
Professor Emeritus
A. Javier Lopez
Professor Emeritus
Bob Murphy
Professor Emeritus
Alan Waggoner
Professor EmeritusAffiliated Faculty
Bruce Armitage
Professor, Chemistry and Co-director, CNASTEmail
MI 722
412-268-4196
Phil Campbell
Research Professor, Institute for Complex Engineered SystemsEmail
1213 Hamburg Hall
412-268-4126
Phillip Compeau
Associate Teaching Professor, Computational BiologyEmail
GHC 7403
412-268-7876
William Eddy
John C. Warner Professor, StatisticsEmail
132F Baker Hall
412-268-2725
T.D. Jacobsen
Assistant Director and Principal Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical DocumentationEmail
HL HI
412-268-2434
Robert Kiger
Distinguished Service Professor of Botany, Director and Principal Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical DocumentationEmail
HL HI
412-268-2434
Carleton Kingsford
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science, Computational BiologyEmail
GHC 7719
Phone: 412-268-1769
Philip Leduc
Professor, Mechanical EngineeringEmail
415 Scaife Hall
412-268-2504
Carl Olson
Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)Email
MI 115E
412-268-2968
Andreas Pfenning
Assistant Professor, Computational BiologyEmail
GHC 7711
412-268-3256
Frederick Utech
Adjunct Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical DocumentationEmail
HL HI
412-268-4819
Adjunct Faculty
Amesh Adalja
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Senior Scholar - Johns Hopkins Center for Health SecurityRita Bottino
Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics - Allegheny Health NetworkEmail
11th Floor, South Tower
412-359-6395
Robert Cameron
Adjunct Professor, CalTech-Beckman InstituteEmail
626-395-8421
Yong Fan
Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Cellular Therapeutics - Allegheny Health NetworkEmail
11th Floor, South Tower
412-359-6987
Jon Johnson
Adjunct Professor, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry - University of PittsburghEmail
458 Crawford Hall
412-624-4295
Karl Kandler
Adjunct Professor, Professory of Otolaryngology and Neurobiology - University of PittsburghEmail
152 Eye and Ear Institute
412-605-0998
Cynthia Lance-Jones
Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Neurobiology - University of PittsburghEmail
W1442 BST
412-648-9078
Cynthia Morton
Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Curator and Head of Botany - Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryEmail
412-578-2639
Peter Strick
Adjunct Professor, Co-Director - CNBC, Professory of Neurobiology and Psychiatry - University of PittsburghEmail
BST3 4074
412-383-9961
D. Lansing Taylor
Adjunct Professor, Director - University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Professor of Computational and Systems Biology - University of PittsburghEmail
10045 BST 3
412-648-9200
Massimo Trucco
Adjunct Professor, Director - Institute of Cellular Therapeutics, Allegheny Health NetworkEmail
11th Floor, South Tower
412-359-6988
Karl Williams
Chief Medical Examiner, Allegheny County412-350-4800