Members of the Faculty Ex Officio

University Professors

University Professors Emeritus/Emerita

Jacques Barzun. University Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1932

Caroline W. Bynum. University Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Harvard, 1969

Louis Henkin. University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor; B.A., Yeshiva, 1937; LL.B., Harvard, 1940; L.H.D., Yeshiva, 1963

Donald Keene. University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature; B.A., Columbia, 1942; M.A., 1947; M.A., Cambridge, 1949; Ph.D., Columbia, 1951; D.Litt., Cambridge, 1978

Fritz R. Stern. University Professor Emeritus; B.A., Columbia, 1946; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1953

John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University Emeritus

Wm. Theodore deBary. John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus of the University and Special Service Professor; B.A., Columbia, 1941; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1953; D.Litt., St. Lawrence, 1968; L.H.D., Loyola (Chicago), 1970

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Anthropology				Back to Top
Nadia Abu El-Haj : Associate Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Duke , 1995 Interests: Social cultural anthropology, anthropology of science, colonialism, race; Middle East
Lila Abu-Lughod : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1984 Interests: Social anthropology, gender, popular culture and oral literature, self and emotion, Third World media, social transformation, politics of scholarship, Islam; Middle East
Alexander Alland Jr. (Part-time faculty) : Professor Emeritus , Ph.D. , Yale , 1963 Interests: Evolutionary theory, art and society, symbolic anthropology, French anthropology; Africa, western Europe
Partha Chatterjee : Professor , Ph.D. , Rochester , 1971 Interests: Nation and state, political theory, political economy, colonialism, religion, agrarianism, globalization; South Asia
Myron L. Cohen : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1967 Interests: Culture and society
Elaine Combs-Schilling : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1981 Interests: Symbolic anthropology, political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; sexual politics; North Africa; Middle East
Zoë Crossland : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Michigan , 2001 Interests: Historical archaeology, forensic archaeology, semeiotics; Madagascar Argentina
Terence N. D'Altroy : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Los Angeles) , 1981 Interests: Ancient empires of the Andes, Peru
E. Valentine Daniel : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1979 Interests: Semiotic anthropology, refugees, states of violence, critical theory; South Asia
Nicholas De Genova : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1999 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology and Latino studies, U.S.-Mexico migration and transnational social processes, racialization, labor and class formation, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship and immigration law and the politics of ethnographic research practice
Nicholas De Genova : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1999 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology and Latino studies; U.S.-Mexico migration and transnational social process, racialization, labor and class formation, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship and immigration law, and the politics of ethnographic research practice
Nicholas B. Dirks : Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1981 Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, philosophy of history, colonialism; British Empire, South Asia
Severin M. Fowles : Assistant Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Michigan , 1998 Interests: Archaelogical theory, religion and ritual, theocracy, landscape, village societies oral history, archaeology and ethnography of American Southwest
Steven Gregory : Professor , Ph.D. , New School , 1986 Interests: Urban studies, environmental justice, cultural race theory, African-American political activism, cultural studies
Ralph L. Holloway : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1964 Interests: Physical anthropology; evolution of brain and behavior; paleoanthropology
Marilyn Ivy : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1988 Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology
Paul Kockelman : Assistant Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Chicago , 2002 Interests: Linguistic anthropology, personhood and developmental disorders; Guatemala and urban U.S.
Brian Larkin : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , New York University , 1998 Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Brian Larkin : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , New York , 1998 Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Claudio Lomnitz : Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1987 Interests: Historical sociology of politics and culture in Mexico, Mexico
Mahmood Mamdani : Herbert Lehman Professor of Government (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs) , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1974 Interests: Reproduction of political identities, institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called "African Studies"
Brinkley Messick : Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1978 Interests: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa
Hlonipha Mokoena : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Cape Town , 2005 Interests: Zulu intellectual history, colonialism, missionaries, public spheres; South Africa
Rosalind Morris : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1994 Interests: Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction techniques on visuality
Neni Panourgiá : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Indiana , 1992 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, history of anthropology, anthropology of medicine, death, myths, anthropology and classics, concentration camps, the European Left; Europe, Greece
John Pemberton : Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1989 Interests: Modern Indonesian cultural anthropology
Elizabeth A. Povinelli : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1991 Interests: Language, culture and power, subjectivity and sexuality, critical theory, liberalism and multiculturalism, indigenous and human rights; Australia, U.S.
Nan A. Rothschild : Ann Whitney Olin Professor Emerita (Barnard) , Ph.D. , New York , 1975 Interests: Urban and historic archaeology, colonial encounters, archaeology and social organization, museum anthropology; North America, U.S.
David Scott : Professor , Ph.D. , New School , 1989 Interests: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean
Karen Seeley : Lecturer , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1997 Interests: Psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, cultural psychotherapy, comparative human development, psychoanalysis
Lesley A. Sharp : Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1990 Interests: Medical anthropology, symbolics of the body, biotechnologies, trans-cultural psychiatry, religion, anthropology of work, migration, gender and youth, theory of methods, Africa, Indian Ocean, U.S.
Michael T. Taussig : Professor , Ph.D. , London , 1974 Interests: Indigenous peoples of the Andean region, Columbia and Peru
Paige West : Associate Professor (Barnard) , PhD , Rutgers , 2000 Interests: Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics				Back to Top
William E. Bailey : Associate Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1999 Interests: nanoscale magnetic films & heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
Guillaume Bal : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Paris , 1977 Interests: applied mathematics, wave propagation in random media & applications to time reversal, inverse problems with applications to medical imaging and earth science
Allen H. Boozer : Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell University , 1970 Interests: plasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, nonlinear dynamics
Mark A. Cane : Professor G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences,Ph.D. , Ph.D. , MIT , 1975 Interests: Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; impacts of climate on society, El Nino forecasting
Barbara E. Carlson : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , SUNY Stony Brook , 1984 Interests: radiative transfer modeling, analysis & interpretation of remote sensing data, cloud physics, & tropospheric chemistry
Siu-Wai Chan : Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Sc.D. , MIT , 1985 Interests: nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films
Chia Kun Chu : Professor Emeritus (Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics) , Ph.D. , Courant Institute (New York University) , 1959 Interests: applied mathematics, large-scale scientific computing, fluid dynamics
Morton B. Friedman : Professor (Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics) , D.Sc. , NYU , 1953 Interests: applied mathematics and mechanics, numerical analysis, parallel computing;Mathematics, System Analysis, Parallel Processing Algorithms, Probability and Statistics
Timothy M. Hall : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Cornell , 1991 Interests: atmosphere & ocean dynamics, transport of geophysical tracers, ocean carbon uptake
Irving P. Herman : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1977 Interests: Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, physics of solids at high pressure, plasma processing of materials
John L. Humm : Adjunct Associate Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Polytechnic of the South Bank (U.K.) , 1978 Interests: Nuclear imaging physics, positron emission tomography, radionuclide dosimetry
James S. Im : Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1989 Interests: laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in condensed systems
David E. Keyes : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1984 Interests: applied & computational mathematics for PDEs, computational science, parallel numerical algorithms, parallel performance analysis, PDE-constrained optimization
Michael E. Mauel : Professor , Sc.D. , MIT , 1983 Interests: plasma physics, waves & instabilities, fusion & equilibrium control, space physics, plasma processing
Ron L. Miller : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , MIT , 1990 Interests: climate dynamics, aerosols & climate
Gerald A. Navratil : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin (Madison) , 1976 Interests: plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science
Gertrude Neumark : Howe Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1951 Interests: material science and physics of semiconductors with emphasis on optical and electrical properties of wide bandgap semiconductors and light emitting devices
Ismail C. Noyan : Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Northwestern University , 1984 Interests: characterization and modeling of mechanical and micromechanical deformation; residual stress analysis and nondestructive testing; x-ray and neutron diffraction, microdiffraction analysis
Stephen P. O'Brien : Associate Professor, Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , D.Phil. , Oxford University , 1998 Interests: inorganic materials science, synthesis of novel nanocrystals, molecule-based nanoscale design
Richard M. Osgood Jr. : Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1973 Interests: Surface physics, optical and laser physics and devices, integrated optics
Thomas S. Pedersen : Associate Professor, Applied Physics , Ph.D. , MIT , 2000 Interests: plasma physics, magnetic confinement, fusion energy, non-neutral plasmas, positron-electron plasmas, plasma turbulence
Aron Pinczuk : Professor, Physics and Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1969 Interests: Condensed matter physics, spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators, quantum structures and interfaces, electrons in systems of reduced dimensions, electron quantum fluids
Lorenzo M. Polvani : Professor, Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Sciences , Ph.D. , MIT , 1988 Interests: atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics. passive and active global
Malvin A. Ruderman : Centennial Professor, Physics , Ph.D. , California Institute of Technology , 1951 Interests: Theoretical astrophysics, neutron stars, pulsars, early universe, cosmic gamma rays
Stephen A. Sabbagh : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Columbia , 1990 Interests: plasma physics, experimental MHD equilibrium reconstruction stability analysis, parallel computing, passive global mode stabilization physics
Christopher H. Scholz : Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1967 Interests: experimental and theoretical rock mechanics, especially friction, fracture, hydraulic transport properties, nonlinear systems, mechanics of earthquakes and faulting
Amiya K. Sen : Professor, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1963 Interests: plasma physics, fluctuations and anomalous transport in plasmas, control of plasma instabilities, transport in nanostructures;Plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, Plasma waves and instabilities and their feedback control, Plasma turbulence and anomalous transport
Adam H. Sobel : Associate Professor, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Environmental Sciences , Ph.D. , MIT , 1998 Interests: atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics
Marc W. Spiegelman : Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Cambridge University (U.K.) , 1989 Interests: coupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth & magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling
Horst Stormer : Professor, Physics and Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Stuttgart , 1977 Interests: Condensed matter physics, semiconductors, electronic transport, lower-dimensional physics, transport in nanostructures
Wen I. Wang : Thayer Lindsley Professor, Electrical Engineering; Professor, Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1981 Interests: heterostructure devices and physics, materials properties, molecular beam epitaxy;Ultra high speed electronics, heterogeneous materials integration, and semiconductor optoelectronics including lasers and photodetectors
Michael I. Weinstein : Professor, Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Courant Institute (New York University) , 1982 Interests: applied mathematics, nonlinear partial differential equations, analysis and dynamical systems, waves in nonlinear, inhomogenous and random media, multi-scale phenomena, applications to nonlinear optics, earth science, fluid dynamics; mathematical physics
Chris H. Wiggins : Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1998 Interests: Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dynamics, soft condensed matter, genetic networks & network inference, machine learning
Cheng-Shie Wuu : Professor, Clinical Radiation Oncology (in Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences and Applied Physics) , Ph.D. , University of Kansas , 1985 Interests: microdosimetry, biophysical modeling, dosimetry of brachytherapy, gel dosimetry, second cancers induced by radiotherapy
Yimei Zhu : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Nagoya University (Japan) , 1987 Interests: solid-state physics, materials science, nano-science and engineering, advanced electron microscopy
Architecture (History and Theory)				Back to Top
Barry Bergdoll : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1986 Interests: Modern architecture, in particular 19th-century French and German architectural theory and practice, key figures of early 20th-century modernism
Kenneth Frampton : Professor, A.R.I.B.A. , Architectural Association , 1956 Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, tectonic expression
Reinhold Martin : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1999 Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, American architecture since the 18th century, cultural theory and globalization
Mary McLeod : Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1985 Interests: History of the modern movement in architecture, contemporary architecture theory, and feminist theory
Jorge Otero-Pailos : Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preseravation , Ph.D. , MIT , 2002 Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, historic preservation,modern architecture in Latin America
Felicity D. Scott : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 2001 Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, neo avant-gardes, spatial politics
Mark Wigley : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Auckland , 1987 Interests: History of architectural theory
Gwendolyn Wright : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1978 Interests: American architecture and urbanism, transnational cultural exchanges, housing
Art History and Archaeology				Back to Top
Zainab Bahrani : Professor , Ph.D. , New York , 1989 Interests: Mesopotamian and East Mediterranean art and archaeology, art and critical theory, philosophies of aesthetics and representation
Francesco Benelli : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice) , 2001 Interests: Renaissance and Baroque architecture, history and theory
Barry Bergdoll : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1986 Interests: Modern architecture, in particular 19th-century French and German architectural theory and practice, key figures of early 20th-century modernism
Richard Brilliant : Professor Emeritus , Ph.D. , Yale , 1960 Interests: Greek and Roman arts, particularly political imagery, portraiture and narrative; antiquity and the Renaissance; historiography of art history since Winckelmann; history and theory of art history
Jonathan Crary : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1987 Interests: Visual culture, 19th-century art, film, technology
Francesco de Angelis : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa , 2003 Interests: Roman and Etruscan art and archaeology, ancient art theory and criticism, monuments and cultural memory, perceptions and functions of architectural space
Vidya Dehejia : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1967 Interests: South Asian art
Dawn Delbanco : Adjunct Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1981 Interests: East Asian art
Vittoria Di Palma : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1999 Interests: Modern European architecture and landscape
Noam M. Elcott : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 2009 Interests: Modern and contemporary art and media
David Freedberg : Professor , D.Phil. , Oxford , 1973 Interests: Art and the neurosciences; Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian painting of the 16th and 17th centuries; 16th- and 17th-century history of science; theory and criticism
Cordula Grewe : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität , 1998 Interests: 18th- and 19th-century art and art theory; German art and culture; visual piety
Robert E. Harrist Jr. : Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1989 Interests: Chinese art
Anne Higonnet : Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Yale , 1988 Interests: Art of the United States, Native North American art, the visual culture of colonialism and globalization
Elizabeth W. Hutchinson : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1999 Interests: North American art to 1914; feminist and cultural theory
Kellie Jones : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1999 Interests: African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American Art
Natalie Kampen : Professor Emeritus (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Brown , 1976 Interests: Roman art; feminist theory
Holger A. Klein : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat , 2000 Interests: Byzantine, Early Christian and medieval western art and archaeology
Rosalind Krauss : University Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1969 Interests: Modern art; theory and criticism
Matthew McKelway : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1999 Interests: Japanese art of the Muromachi, Momoyama, and Edo period (14th - 19th c.)
Robin D. Middleton : Professor Emeritus , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1958 Interests: 18th- through 20th-century European architecture
Keith Moxey : Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1975 Interests: Northern Renaissance art; social history, critical theory
Stephen Murray : Professor , Ph.D. , London , 1973 Interests: Medieval art; Gothic architecture; social and cultural history and the application of the digital media to art history
Esther Pasztory : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1971 Interests: Pre-Columbian art history; Andean art and architecture
John Rajchman : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1985 Interests: Theory and criticism; 20th-century art and philosophy
Jonathan Reynolds : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1991 Interests: History of Japanese architecture and visual culture
David Rosand : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1965 Interests: The Renaissance tradition; Venice; drawings and prints; theory and criticism
Simon Schama : University Professor , M.A. , Cambridge , 1969 Interests: 17th-century Dutch art, 18th-century French painting and politics; 16th–21st century British visual culture; landscape and environmental history; 20th- and 21st-century land and earth art; modern Western Europe, early modern Europe
Zoë Strother : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1992 Interests: Arts of Africa, 20th century and contemporary
Astronomy				Back to Top
James H. Applegate : Professor , Ph.D. , SUNY Stony Brook , 1980 Interests: Stellar dynamics; supernovae; neutron star physics; early universe
Greg Bryan : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Illinois , 1996 Interests: Numerical cosmology, theoretical astrophysics; simulations
Arlin P. S. Crotts : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1986 Interests: SN light echoes; quasar absorption lines; large scale structure
Zoltan Haiman : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1998 Interests: Cosmology, early universe, galaxy clusters
Jules P. Halpern : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1982 Interests: X-ray astronomy; active galactic nuclei
David J. Helfand : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts , 1977 Interests: X-ray astronomy; radio astronomy
Kathryn V. Johnston : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , California (Santa Cruz) , 1996 Interests: Galactic structure, numerical simulations, mergers
Laura E. Kay : Associate Professor (Barnard College) , Ph.D. , California (Santa Cruz) , 1990 Interests: Active galaxies; spectropolarimetry; Antarctic astrophysics
Kristen Menou : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Paris , 1999 Interests: Theoretical astrophysics; accretion theory
Mark-Maclow Mordecai : Adjunct Associate Professor (American Museum of Natural History,Department of Astrophysics) , Ph.D. , Colorado , 1989 Interests: Formation and evolution of planets, stars and galaxies, structure of the interstellar medium
Benjamin Oppenheimer : Adjunct Associate Professor (American Museum of Natural History, Department of Astrophysics) , Ph.D. , California Institute of Technology , 1999 Interests: Brown dwarfs, imaging of extrasolar planets, instrumentation
Frederik B. Paerels : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Utrecht (Netherlands) , 1987 Interests: X-ray astronomy; high-energy astrophysics
Joseph Patterson : Professor , Ph.D. , Texas (Austin) , 1979 Interests: Close binary stars; eruption variables
Mary E. Putnam : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Australian National University , 2001 Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution
David Schiminovich : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1998 Interests: Ultraviolet astronomy, experimental astrophysics
Michael Shara : Adjunct Professor (American Museum of Natural History) , Ph.D. , Tel Aviv , 1978 Interests: Cataclysmic variables, globular clusters, massive stars
Edward A. Spiegel : Rutherfurd Professor Emeritus of Astronomy , Ph.D. , Michigan , 1958 Interests: Theoretical astrophysics; fluid mechanics; theoretical solar physics; chaos
Jacqueline Van Gorkom : Professor , Ph.D. , Kapteyn Astronomical Institute , 1980 Interests: Galactic structure; HI observations of galaxies and clusters
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics				Back to Top
Richard Axel : University Professor , M.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1970 Interests: Defining the ogic of olfactory perception; how individual sensory neurons express a specific receptor andhow the brain distinguishes which receptors have been activated
Kathryn L. Calame : Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Ph.D. , Ph.D. , George Washington , 1975
Joachim Frank : Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction for the study of the mechanism of protein biosynthesis
Stephen P. Goff : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1978 Interests: Structure and function of retrovirus genomes and expression; retroviral replication; molecular biology of retrovirus replication; tyrosine kinases and signal transduction pathways
Max E. Gottesman : Professor, Ph.D., M.D. , Ph.D. M.D. Degree , Yale , 1960 Interests: Gene regulation and protein folding in E. coli phages and temperate coli phages; differentiation and oncogenesis in thyroid cells
Eric Greene : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Texas A&M , 1998 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair; single molecule fluorescence microscopy and other biochemical approaches
Iva S. Greenwald : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1982 Interests: Lin-12/Notch signaling and cell fate specification; cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development
Alla Grishok : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Massachucetts , 2001 Interests: Contribution of Short RNAs to regulation of gene expression through chromatin; epigenetic phenomena in C. elegans
Wayne A. Hendrickson : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1968 Interests: Macromolecular structure with an aim toward in-depth understanding of biological activity
David I. Hirsh : Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller , 1968
Oliver Hobert : Professor , Ph.D. , Max-Planck Institute , 1995 Interests: Genetic analysis of the development of neural circuits in C. elegans
Barry Honig : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins, Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel) , 1964, 1968 Interests: Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes
Thomas M. Jessell : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1977 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in the developing vertebrate nervous system
Eric Kandel : University Professor , M.D. , New York , 1956 Interests: Molecular biology of long term memory storage; initiation and maintenance of synaptic growth; examination of features shared in simple forms of learning and memory in the Aplysia nervous system and in the mammalian hippocampus
Arthur Karlin : Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller , 1962 Interests: The function of receptors in terms of molecular structures
Alvin I. Krasna : Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer , Ph.D. , Columbia University , 1955
Barbara W. Low : Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer , Ph.D. , Oxford , 1948
Richard S. Mann : Professor , Ph.D. , MIT , 1986 Interests: Control of pattern formation by homeotic genes and their downstream targets in Drosophila melanogaster
Arthur G. Palmer, III : Professor , Ph.D., North Carolina , 1989 Interests: Biomolecular dynamics, structure, and function; NMR spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the structure, function and dynamics of proteins, protein-ligand and protein-receptor complexes
Burkhard Rost : AssociateProfessor , Ph.D., , Ruprecht-Karl University, , 1994 Interests: Computational analysis relating gene sequence to 3D protein structure; bioinformatics. Goals: sequence analysis, prediction of protein structure and function.
Lawrence S. Shapiro : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1996 Interests: Structural biology of neural adhesion proteins; defining atomic-level determinats of connectivity in neural circuits
Parithychery R. Srinivasan : Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer , Ph.D. , Madras , 1953
Biological Sciences				Back to Top
Richard Axel : University Professor , M.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1970 Interests: Defining the ogic of olfactory perception; how individual sensory neurons express a specific receptor andhow the brain distinguishes which receptors have been activated
Chloë Bulinski : Professor (Cell and Molecular Biology) , Ph.D. , Wisconsin , 1980 Interests: Dynamics and functions of microtubules during myogenic differentiation and cell cycle progression; functional differentiation of cytoskeletal elements
Harmen Bussemaker : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Utrecht , 1995 Interests: Data-driven modeling of transcriptional and post-transcriptional networks based on biophysical principles. Computational analysis of genome sequences and DNA microarray data; sequence-based modeling of gene expression regulation; outpatient applications, practice guidelines, prevention, computer-based medical records
Andrea Califano : Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics; Co-Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Director of Bioinformatics, Columbia Genome Center , Ph.D. , Florence , 1985 Interests: Investigation of systems biology, using a variety of physics and knowledge-based methods
Martin Chalfie : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1976 Interests: Regulation of cell differentiation in the development of the central nervous system
Lawrence A. Chasin : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1967 Interests: Pre-mRNA splicing in cultured mammalian cells; gene regulation in cultured mammalian cells
Virginia Cornish : Professor , Ph.D , California (Berkeley) , 1996 Interests: Protein function at the molecular level, including isolated proteins in solution, large protein complexes, and protein function in biological networks in living cells
Julio Fernandez : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1982 Interests: Single molecule mechanics and engineering
Stuart Firestein : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1988 Interests: Molecular physiology of olfactory transduction
Joachim Frank : Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction for the study of the mechanism of protein biosynthesis
Jean Gautier : Professor , Ph.D. , Toulouse , 1983 Interests: Cell cycle and cell death during early development; maintenance of genetic integrity; DNA replication and response to DNA damage
Stephen P. Goff : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1978 Interests: Structure and function of retrovirus genomes and expression; retroviral replication; molecular biology of retrovirus replication; tyrosine kinases and signal transduction pathways
Eric Greene : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Texas A&M , 1998 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair; single molecule fluorescence microscopy and other biochemical approaches
Lloyd Greene : Professor , Ph.D. , California San Diego , 1970 Interests: Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and the role of growth factors therein
Iva S. Greenwald : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1982 Interests: Lin-12/Notch signaling and cell fate specification; cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development
Tulle Hazelrigg : Research Scientist , Ph.D. , Indiana , 1982 Interests: mRNA localization in Drosophila oocytes
Rene Hen : Professor , Ph.D. , Pasteur Institute (Strasbourg) , 1985 Interests: Contribution of specific serotonin receptors and hippocampal neurogenesis to pathological states such as depression and anxiety
Wayne A. Hendrickson : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1968 Interests: Macromolecular structure with an aim toward in-depth understanding of biological activity
Oliver Hobert : Professor , Ph.D. , Max-Planck Institute , 1995 Interests: Genetic analysis of the development of neural circuits in C. elegans
John F. Hunt : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1993 Interests: Structural biology and the molecular mechanism of transmembrane transport
Thomas M. Jessell : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1977 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in the developing vertebrate nervous system
Songtao Jia : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , California (Los Angeles) , 2002 Interests: Epigenetic regulation of the genome
Laura Johnston : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Washington , 1994 Interests: Growth control during organ development: linkage between pattern formation and growth.
Daniel D. Kalderon : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1984 Interests: Signal transduction in Drosophila development
Eric Kandel : University Professor , M.D. , New York , 1956 Interests: Molecular biology of long term memory storage; initiation and maintenance of synaptic growth; examination of features shared in simple forms of learning and memory in the Aplysia nervous system and in the mammalian hippocampus
Arthur Karlin : Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller , 1962 Interests: The function of receptors in terms of molecular structures
Darcy B. Kelley : Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller , 1975 Interests: Neural control of behavior development and adult function of neural substrates for courtship song in Exnopus.
James L. Manley : Professor , Ph.D. , State University of New York (Stony Brook) , 1976 Interests: Regulations of mRNA synthesis in animal cells. Mechanisms and control of gene expression
Richard S. Mann : Professor , Ph.D. , MIT , 1986 Interests: Control of pattern formation by homeotic genes and their downstream targets in Drosophila melanogaster
Ann E. McDermott : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1973 Interests: Solid-state NMR studies of enzyme mechanism and membrane protein structure; biophysical chemistry; synaptic transmission in the spinal cord dorsal horn
Elizabeth Miller : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , La Trobe , 1999 Interests: Protein folding, assembly and the regulation of intracellular protein transport; biochemistry
Arthur G. Palmer, III : Professor , Ph.D., North Carolina , 1989 Interests: Biomolecular dynamics, structure, and function; NMR spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the structure, function and dynamics of proteins, protein-ligand and protein-receptor complexes
Virginia Papaioannou : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1972 Interests: Genetic control of mammalian development in the peri-implantation period; genetic control of mammalian development from peri-implantation stages through organogenesis; determination of the role of T-box genes in development, using embryonic stem-cell technology and targetd mutagenesis
Dana Pe'er : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Hebrew University , 2003 Interests: The function and organization of molecular networks
Carol L. Prives : Professor , Ph.D. , McGill , 1968 Interests: Structure and function of the p53 tumor suppressor protein; tumor virus-host cell interactions
Ron Prywes : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1984 Interests: Growth factor regulation of gene expression
Rodney Rothstein : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1975 Interests: Yeast genetics and cell biology; cellular responses to DNA damage; recombination; control of genome stability
Christian Schindler : Associate Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , New York , 1985, 1986 Interests: JAK-STAT signaling and immune response; role of the JAK-STAT pathway in cytokine signal transduction
Michael P. Sheetz : William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology , Ph.D , California Institute of Technology , 1972 Interests: Cell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions
Steven Siegelbaum : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1978 Interests: Function of voltage-gated ion channels in dendritic integration of synaptic signals during learning and memory; regulation of channel trafficking and function in neuronal dendrites; genetic approaches to the study or information processing through neural circuits
Brent R. Stockwell : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1999 Interests: Diagramming disease networks with chemical and biological tools; biological and organic chemistry
Gary Struhl : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge University, U.K. , 1980 Interests: Molecular nature and mode of action of spatial information responsible for organizing cell and body patterns in Drosophila
Lorraine S. Symington : Professor , Ph.D. , Glasgow , 1982 Interests: Yeast recombination studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; genetics and biochemistry of DNA recombination and repair in yeast
Liang Tong : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1989 Interests: Structural biology of proteins involved in human diseases (obesity, diabetes, cancer); structural biology of proteins involved in pre-mRNA 3' -end processing; structural biology of signal transduction molecules
Alexander Tzagoloff : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1972 Interests: Energy coupling mechanisms
Richard Vallee : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1974 Interests: Motor proteins in axonal transport, brain developmental disease, neurogeneses and growth cone function
Jian Yang : Professor , Ph.D. , Washington , 1991 Interests: Structure, function, regulation and cell biology of voltage-gated calcium channels and TRP channels
Rafael Yuste : Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , University of Madrid, Rockefeller University , 1987, 1992 Interests: Development and function of the cortical microcircuitry
Biomedical Engineering				Back to Top
Philip O. Alderson : James Picker Professor Radiology , M.D. , Washington University , 1970
Dimitris Anastassiou : Professor (Electrical Engineering) , Ph.D. , University of California , 1979 Interests: Genomic Information Science and Technology; Digital image/video communications and processing with emphasis on multimedia applications; genomic information science and technology
Gerard A. Ateshian : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1991 Interests: Cartilage mechanics, biotribology, and tissue engineering, diarthrodial joint mechanics, soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, computer-assisted surgery
Truman R. Brown : Percey Kay and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor , Ph.D. , MIT , 1970 Interests: MR applications to physiology and neural functioning, spactroscopy
Aniruddha Das : Assistant Professor (Psychiatry) , Ph.D. , University of California (Berkeley) , 1985 Interests: Visual processing early in the coritcal pathway and its modulation by an individual's state of arousal or attention
X. Edward Guo : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1994 Interests: Bone tissue biomechanics, cellular and molecular mechanisms of mechano-signal transduction
Huang Hayden : Assistant Professor , MIT , 2002
Andreas H. Hielscher : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Rice University , 1995 Interests: Biomedical optical imaging of joints, cerebral hemodynamics, vascular reactivity and optical molecular imaging. Model-based tomographic image reconstruction algorithms and medical instrument development
Elizabeth Hillman : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University College, London UK , 2002 Interests: Cellular and sytems-level interrelations between neuronal activity and the hemodynamic response in-vivo in cerebral cortex
Jeffrey W. Holmes : Associate Professor , Ph.D., M.D. , University of California (San Diego) , 1995, 1998 Interests: Cardiac mechanics, biomechanical properties of cardiac tissue, structure-function relations and mechano-signal transduction of cardiac cells
Shunichi Homma : Margaret Milliken Hatch Professor (Medicine)
Clark T. Hung : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1995 Interests: Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on cells related to cellular and tissue engineering
Christopher Rae Jacobs : Associate Professor , Stanford University , 1994
Lance C. Kam : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , 1999 Interests: Cell interaction with micro- and nano-scale features of topology, chemistry, and extracellular signals. Biophysics of cell signalling involving biomembrane-associated proteins
Elisa E. Konofagou : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Houston , 1999 Interests: Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft tissue mechanics
Andrew F. Laine : Professor , D.Sc. , Washington University , 1989 Interests: Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis
Edward F. Leonard : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1960 Interests: Blood-material interactions, immunophysics, modeling intracellular signaling
Helen H. Lu : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1998 Interests: Interface Tissue Engineering and the formulation of multiple tissue systems, design and fabrication of novel, composite biomaterials for implantation, mechanisms of cell-biomaterial interactions
Jeremy Mao : Associate Professor , D.D.S., Ph.D. Interests: Dental and craniofacial tissue engineering
Barclay Morrison III : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1999 Interests: Universal tissue tolerance criteria, role of the cytoskeleton in injury, application of genomic and proteomic technologies to mechanotransduction, repair strategies using stem cells
Van C. Mow : Stanley Dicker Professor , Ph.D. , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , 1966 Interests: Orthopedic biomechanics and osteoarthritis research, computer-aided surgical planning, telemedicine
Elizabeth S. Olson : Assistant Professor (Surgery) , Ph.D. Interests: Mechanics of hearing and the basis for frequency tuning in the inner ear
Paul Sajda : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1994 Interests: Network models for visual processing, neuroimaging, statistical representation of natural signals, and machine learning
Michael P. Sheetz : William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology , Ph.D , California Institute of Technology , 1972 Interests: Cell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions
Samuel K. Sia : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 2002 Interests: Cellular biochemistry, systems biology, molecular modeling
R. Theodore Smith : Professor , M.D., Ph.D. Interests: computer assisted methods of retinal images, quantification of human visual system
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Belgrade , 1980 Interests: Cell and tissue engineering, bio-reactors, quantitative physiology, stem cells
Biomedical Informatics				Back to Top
Dimitris Anastassiou : Professor (Electrical Engineering) , Ph.D. , University of California , 1979 Interests: Genomic Information Science and Technology; Digital image/video communications and processing with emphasis on multimedia applications; genomic information science and technology
Suzanne Bakken : Professor , R.N., D.N.S., E.A.A.N. , California (San Francisco) , 1989 Interests: Patient care applications, nursing informatics, and qualitative evaluation; Internet health care
Harmen Bussemaker : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Utrecht , 1995 Interests: Data-driven modeling of transcriptional and post-transcriptional networks based on biophysical principles. Computational analysis of genome sequences and DNA microarray data; sequence-based modeling of gene expression regulation; outpatient applications, practice guidelines, prevention, computer-based medical records
Andrea Califano : Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics; Co-Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Director of Bioinformatics, Columbia Genome Center , Ph.D. , Florence , 1985 Interests: Investigation of systems biology, using a variety of physics and knowledge-based methods
James J. Cimino : Professor , M.D. , NY Medical College , 1981 Interests: Medical concept representation and the exploitation of that representation to provide clinical decision support
Karina Davidson : , Ph.D.
Bruce H. Forman : Associate Clinical Professor , M.D. , Harvard , 1983 Interests: Methods and standards for data interchange in health care informatics
Carol Friedman : Professor , Ph.D. , NYU , 1989 Interests: Medical language processing, controlled medical vocabulary, knowledge representation, user interfaces, statistical methods for vocabulary development
Richard Goldstein : Assistant Professor , M.D. , NYU , 1976 Interests: Knowledge discovery, clinical outcomes, and quality determinations
Joy Hirsch : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1977 Interests: Nuroimaging of cognitive, perceptual, emotional, and language processes to model healthy, psychiatric, and meurologically relevant conditions
Barry Honig : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins, Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel) , 1964, 1968 Interests: Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes
George Hripcsak : Professor , M.D., M.S. , Columbia , 1985 Interests: Automated decision support; data acquisition and access; mobile computing
Stephen B. Johnson : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , NYU , 1987 Interests: Natural language processing; text mining; information retrieval; database design
Desmond Jordan : Associate Clinical Professor , M.D. , Brown , 1979 Interests: Clinical anethesiology aspects in medical informatics
Andrew Kanter : Assistant Professor of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology , MD , Harvard , 1991 Interests: International public health, medical information systems, interface teminologies
Rita Kukafka : Assistant Professor , Dr.P.H. , Columbia , 1993 Interests: Public health informatics
Andrew F. Laine : Professor , D.Sc. , Washington University , 1989 Interests: Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis
Kathleen R. McKeown : Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1982 Interests: Natural language generation, summarization of language data
Eneida A. Mendonca : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Pelotas, Columbia , 1982, 2002 Interests: Knowledge technologies, information retrieval, decision support, evidence-based practice, infectious diseases
Satishchandra S. Pai : Assistant Professor , D.D.S., M.D.S., M.S.I., M.P.H. , Mangalore, Ireland, Michigan , 1992, 1996, 2002 Interests: Imaging; clinical information systems; knowledge management
Burkhard Rost : Associate Professor , Dr.rer.nat. , Heidelberg , 1994 Interests: Theory of biomedical structure and function; electrostatistics
Soumitra Sengupta : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , SUNY , 1987 Interests: Networking; security; systems architecture; distributed computing systems
Steven Shea : Professor , M.D. , Columbia, Harvard , 1979, 1984 Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; epidemiological studies of factors that lead to heart disease; telemedicine in monitoring the control of diabetes
Peter D. Stetson : Assistant Professor , M.D., M.A. , Columbia , 1996, 2002 Interests: The detection and prevention of adverse medical events; clinical quality assessment and improvement
Dennis Vitkup : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Brandeis , 1999 Interests: Computational network and structural biology, bioinformatics
David Wajngurt : Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor , M.D., M.A. , SUNY (Brooklyn), Columbia , 1973, 1999 Interests: Clinical databases, dictionaries and interfaces; infectious diseases in geriatrics
Adam Wilcox : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 2000 Interests: Evaluation of clinical data exchange, information systems to support chronic disease management, and clinical information systems architecture and design
John L. Zimmerman : Associate Professor , D.D.S. , Temple , 1980 Interests: Dental informatics; informatics training; WWW; information technologies in education; electronic oral health records
Biostatistics				Back to Top
Emilia Bagiella : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1997 Interests: Survival analysis, case-control studies, clinical trials, semiparametric statistics, statistics in epidemiology
Melissa Dowd Begg : Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs at the Mailman School of Public Health, Professor , Sc.D. , Harvard , 1989 Interests: Analysis of clustered data, statistics in epidemiology, oral health research, mental health statistics, clinical research training
Bin Cheng : Assistant Professor , PhD , Wisconsin , 2004 Interests: Linear and generalized linear mixed models, statistical analysis of clinical trials, longitudinal non-normal data modeling, statistical computing, statistical inference on manifolds
Ying Kuen (Kenneth) Cheung : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 2000 Interests: Design and analysis of clinical trials, methods in toxicology studies and bioassay, applications of Monte Carlo methods, dose finding, nonparametric statistics
Andrew Gelman : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1990 Interests: Public opinion, voting behavior, public policy, public health, statistical methodology
Susan E. Hodge : Professor , Sc.D. , Washington , 1976 Interests: Mathematical modeling, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology
Zhezhen Jin : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1998 Interests: Survival analysis, resampling methods, random effects models, meta-analysis, ROC curves, smoothing methods, nonparametric regression, clinical trials, empirical Bayes methods
Bruce Levin : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1974 Interests: Logistic regression, analysis of categorical data, statistics in the law, bioethics, conditional likelihood analysis, sequential experimentation, clinical trials, reproductive epidemiology, stroke, cardiology
Marianthi Markatou : Professor , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania State , 1988 Interests: Model assessment and selection, robustness, mixture models, foundations of inference, resampling rechniques, machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, biomedical informatics, pharmacokinetics, analysis of large data sets
Ian W. McKeague : Professor , Ph.D. , North Carolina , 1980 Interests: Survival analysis, competing risks in HIV/AIDS studies, inference for stochastic processes, empirical likelihood, Markov chain Monte Carlo, functional data analysis, semiparametric efficiency, Bayesian statistics, and martingale and counting process methods
R. Todd Ogden : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Texas A&M , 1994 Interests: Nonparametric regression, wavelets, functional data analysis, statistical computing, data modeling, analysis of brain imaging data
Myunghee Paik : Professor , Ph.D. , Pittsburgh , 1987 Interests: Longitudinal data analysis, mixed models, generalized estimating equations, missing data, survival analysis, neurology
Daniel Rabinowitz : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1991 Interests: Survival analysis, semiparametric inference, boundary crossing probabilities with statistical applications, genetic epidemiology
Robert Y. Shapiro : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1982 Interests: Public opinion, political leadership, policy-making, the mass media, political participation
Wei-Yann Tsai : Professor , Ph.D. , Wisconsin , 1982 Interests: Survival analysis, incomplete data methods, nonparametrics
Shuang Wang : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 2003 Interests: Statistical genetics with an emphasis on genetic linkage and association studies and mapping quantitative trait loci
Yuanjia Wang : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 2005 Interests: Statistical analysis of genetic data, semiparametric efficiency, high-dimensional data analysis, functional data analysis
Ying Wei : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Illinois , 2004 Interests: Quantile regression methods, growth chart estimation, longitudinal data analysis, semiparametric modeling, robust statistics
Business				Back to Top
Eric Abrahamson : Professor , Ph.D. , NYU , 1990 Interests: Teaching and research interest. Professor Abrahamson studies the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for organizations and their employees.
Michael Adler : Professor , DBA, Harvard , 1968
Daniel R. Ames : Sanford C. Bernstein Asscoiate Professor of Leadership and Ethics , Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley , 1999 Interests: Social judgment and behavior
Andrew Ang : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1999 Interests: Empirical asset pricing and applications of econometric methods to financial problems
Asim Ansari : Professor , Ph.D. , NYU , 1993 Interests: Competitive positioning and targeting, pricing, mass customization and Bayesian modeling of marketing decisions
Tim Baldenius : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Vienna , 1998 Interests: Decentralization and performance evaluation within companies
Ann Bartel : Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1973 Interests: Labor economics and human resource management
Geert Bekaert : Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics , Ph.D. , Northwestern University , 1992 Interests: Foreign Exchange market efficiency, exchange rate determination and international and emerging equity markets
Patrick Bolton : Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business , Ph.D. , London School of Economics , 1986 Interests: Contract theory, corporate finance, industrial organization, law and economics
Mark Broadie : Carson Family Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1983 Interests: Pricing of derivative securities, risk management and portfolio optimization
Joel Brockner : Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Tufts , 1977 Interests: Effects of organizational downsizing on the productivity and morale of the "survivors," management of organizational change, self processes in organizations and managerial judgment and decision making
Charles W. Calomiris : Professor, Columbia Business School , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1985 Interests: Emerging market financial markets, Latin American capital markets
Noel Capon : R.C. Kopf Professorship of International Marketing , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1975 Interests: Key/strategic account management, marketing planning and strategy and the determinants of corporate financial performance
Fangruo Chen : Ira Rennert Professor of Business , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1993 Interests: Design of cost-effective and easily implementable replenishment strategies, supply chain information sharing and coordination and the marketing-operations interface
John B. Donaldson : Mario J. Gabelli, Professor of Finance , Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon , 1976 Interests: Business cycles and asset pricing, with a particular emphasis on the real side of the economy’s impact on equilibrium pricing of financial assets
Franklin Edwards : Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1964 Interests: Financial markets and institutions, financial regulation and derivatives markets
Awi Federgruen : Charles E. Exley Professor of Management , D. Sc. , Amsterdam , 1978 Interests: Planning models for logistical systems, supply chain management and operations strategies for service systems
Raymond Fisman : Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1998 Interests: The behavior of firms in developing economies
Francis J. Flynn : Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley , 2000 Interests: Organizational behavior, specifically the antecedents and consequences of social influence in organizations
Nelson Fraiman : Professor, Columbia Business School , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1977 Interests: Operations management, Argentina and Uruguay
Marc Giannoni : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 2001 Interests: The characterization of optimal monetary policy in the face of uncertainty, the effect of monetary policy on the aggregate economy
Paul Glasserman : Senior Vice Dean, Columbia Business School , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1988 Interests: Business and the economy in Latin America, Argentina
Lawrence R. Glosten : S. Sloan Colt Professor of Banking and International Finance: Chair of Finance Economics Division , Ph.D. , Northwestern , 1980 Interests: Analyses of the operation, design and regulation of securities markets
Linda Green : Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation , Ph.D. , Yale , 1978 Interests: Quantitative models for the design and management of service operations
Bruce Greenwald : Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management , Ph.D. , MIT , 1978 Interests: Value investing, productivity and the economics of information
Kathryn Harrigan : Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership , DBA , Harvard , 1979 Interests: Strategic management and international business strategy
Geoffrey Heal : Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1968 Interests: Modeling the impact of markets for derivative securities on the allocation of risks in the economy; modeling the pricing of derivatives in a general equilibrium framework; and studying ways of controlling the impact of economic activity on the environment and ways of valuing the economic services provided by environmental assets
E. Tory Higgins : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1973 Interests: Motivational models of performance, judgement, and decision making
Laurie Simon Hodrick : A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1988 Interests: Corporate Finance, share repurchases and dividends, takeovers and optimal capital structure
Robert J. Hodrick : Nomura Professor of International Finance , Ph.D. , University of Chicago , 1976 Interests: Empirical implications of theoretical pricing models that generate time-varying risk premiums in the markets for bonds, equities and foreign currencies
Morris Holbrook : William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1975 Interests: Validity of perceptual and preference mapping, consumption experiences, nostalgia, communication effects, semiotics, and hermeneutics in marketing
Raymond D. Horton : Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1971 Interests: Municipal finance and urban affairs
R. Glenn Hubbard : Dean & Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1983 Interests: Public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions
Gur Huberman : Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance , Ph.D. , Yale , 1980 Interests: Portfolio theory, return-risk trade-offs and risk management
Paul Ingram : Kravis Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1994 Interests: Effects of the competitive environment on the structure and performance of organizations
Sheena S. Iyengar : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1997 Interests: Specializes in cross-cultural differences in worker motivation, decision making, and barriers to conflict resolution.
Kamel Jedidi : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1988 Interests: Marketing research, new product development and applied multivariate statistics
Wei Jiang : Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , University of Chicago , 2001 Interests: Incentive-related corporate finance issues
Mikhail Johannes : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Chicago , 2000 Interests: Analyzing the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is also interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility
Gita Venkataramani Johar : Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business , Ph.D. , NYU , 1993 Interests: Consumer information processing and decision making
Eric Johnson : Norman Eig Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon , 1980 Interests: E commerce, consumer and managerial decision making and brand equity.
Charles Jones : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Michigan , 1994 Interests: Municipal bond markets, indexed government debt and the relationship between the stock market and macroeconomic forecasts
Bjorn Jorgensen : Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Northwestern , 1999 Interests: Risk and its effect on compensation, disclosures and market valuation.
Ran Kivetz : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 2000 Interests: Consumer and managerial decision making, the psychology of rewards (and its application to loyalty programs), the self-control of hedonic motivations, and marketing high technology
Oded Koenigsberg : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Duke , 2002 Interests: Distribution channels and supply chain management, marketing of durable goods, pricing and promotion strategy and marketing/manufacturing interface.
Bruce Kogut : Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ehtics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1983 Interests: International direct investment, technology policy, privatization, economic sociology, and political economy
Rajeev Kohli : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1985 Interests: Information technology and how it is used for marketing and manufacturing and the use of technology for new product design
Peter J. Kolesar : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1964 Interests: Quality management and statistical quality control; applications of operations research and statistics, particularly in relation to the management of production and service systems; operations strategy, implementation of quality management, queuing theory and its applications to service system management and other applications of OR/MS and statistics.
Donald R. Lehmann : George E. Warren Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Purdue , 1969 Interests: Individual and group choice and decision making, research methodology, the adoption of innovation and new product development
Jonathan Levav : Classof 1967 Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Duke , 2003 Interests: Judgment and decision making, including preference prediction, probability judgment, affect, subjective well-being and context dependent preferences
Frank Lichtenberg : Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1982 Interests: His research examines how the introduction of new technology arising from research and development affects the productivity of companies, industries and nations
Murray B. Low : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1991
Costas Maglaras : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1998 Interests: Problems in operations management, logistics and control, with an emphasis on dynamic flow management and performance analysis for stochastic processing networks
Christopher J. Mayer : Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate , Ph.D. , MIT , 1993 Interests: Residential and commercial real estate markets
Nahum D. Melumad : James L. Dohr Professor of Accounting , Ph.D.; CPA , University of California, Berkeley , 1985 Interests: Management control systems and financial performance evaluation
Frederick S. Mishkin : Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions , Ph.D. , MIT , 1976 Interests: Monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and aggregate economy
Natalie Mizik : Gantcher Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Washington , 2002 Interests: The valuation of the firm marketing strategy and other intangible marketing assets
Partha Mohanram : Philip H. Grier Jr. Associate Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1999 Interests: The valuation of stocks, corporate disclosure and earnings management
Michael W. Morris : Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership , Ph.D. , University of Michigan , 1993 Interests: One of his main emphases is on the effects of cross-cultural differences on social judgment.
Alp Muharremoglu : Assistant Professor , PhD , MIT , 2002 Interests: His research focuses on supply chain management
Oded Netzer : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Washington , 2002 Interests: Investigates the stock market response to strategic actions of a firm along with the industry and firm-specific factors moderating the market response
Doron Nissim : Professor , Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley , 1997 Interests: Financial accounting, financial statement analysis and security valuation
Daniel Paravisini : Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School , Ph.D. , MIT , 2005 Interests: Corporate finance; financial institutions
Hugh T. Patrick : R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center Interests: U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy
Stephen H. Penman : George O. May Professor of Accounting , Ph.D. , University of Chicago , 1978 Interests: Research focuses on financial statement analysis and the use of accounting information in equity valuation
Michel Tuan Pham : Kravis Professor of Business , Ph.D. , University of Florida , 1994 Interests: Areas of expertise are marketing communications and the psychology of decision making
Tano Santos : Professor of Finance , Ph.D. , University of Chicago , 1996 Interests: Interests include the field of asset pricing with an emphasis on theoretical and empirical models and the economics of financial innovations
Sergei Savin : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Wharton , 2001 Interests: Service operations management and coordination between operational and marketing decisions
Bernd H. Schmitt : Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1988 Interests: Research focuses on experimental marketing, brand management, and international business
Nachum Sicherman : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1987 Interests: Analyzes the roles of education, job-training, occupational and job mobility, moonlighting and retirement in the formation of careers and studies the various effects of technological change on US labor markets
Paolo Siconolfi : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania , 1987 Interests: General equilibrium theory, information theory, and dynamic models in monetary theory.
Nicolas Stier-Moses : Associate Professor , PhD , MIT , 2004 Interests: Quantitative models of decision-making, Argentina
Joseph E. Stiglitz : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1967 Interests: Information and financial economics, macro and monetary theory, development and international economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, contract and organizational economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Harborne Stuart : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon , 1980 Interests: Development of business theory using game theory approaches
Toby E. Stuart : Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1995 Interests: The formation and governance of strategic alliances, organizational design and new venture formation in established firms, venture capital networks and the influence of social networks in the generation of new business opportunities.
Suresh M. Sundaresan : Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions , Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon , 1980 Interests: Corporate finance, capital markets, term structure theory, commodity spot and futures markets, continuous time equilibrium models, options pricing and capital asset pricing
Terry Taylor : Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business , Stanford , 2000 Interests: Research focuses on supply chain management and incentives in operations management
Garrett J. van Ryzin : Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1991 Interests: Stochastic modeling and operations management in the service sector
Neng Wang : Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate , PhD , Stanford , 2002 Interests: Real estate capital markets, investment under uncertainty, real options, asset pricing with imperfect corporate control, consumption, saving, and asset allocations, and equilibrium wealth distributions.
Elke Weber : Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1984 Interests: The intersection of psychology and economics, including behavioral models of judgment and decision making under risk and uncertainty, specifically environmental decision making and policy
Gabriel Y. Weintraub : Assistant Professor, Columbia School of Business , Ph.D. , Stanford , 2006 Interests: Operations and management science; applied economics; Chile
Jialin Yu : Assistant Professor , PhD , Princeton , 2004 Interests: Analyzes financial markets on issues such as liquidity, information, risk premium, and rationality.
Assaf Zeevi : Professor of Business , Ph.D. , Stanford , 2001 Interests: Stochastic modeling in the areas of operations, economics, statistics, and engineering
Stephen P. Zeldes : Benjamin Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1984 Interests: Applied macroeconomic issues, including Social Security reform, the determinants of household saving and portfolio choice, the effects of government budget deficits and the relationship between consumer spending and the stock market.
Yuan Zhang : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Southern California , 2003
Amir Ziv : Professor and Vice Dean , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1990 Interests: The role of accounting information in organizational design, auditing, financial disclosure, product quality and information transmission among strategic players
Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies				Back to Top
Lawrence Abbott : Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Theoretical neuroscience
Asa Abeliovich : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , MIT, Harvard , 1994, 1996 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and the function and survival of dopamine receptors
Qais D Al-Awqati : Professor , MB, Ch.B. , Baghdad (College of Medicine) , 1962 Interests: Epithelial transport; ion pumps and channels
Konstantina Alexandropoulos : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Hunter , 1992 Interests: Molecular studies on the physiologic and transforming properties of the Src family of nonreceptor tyrosine kinases: Novel substrates, signaling specificity, and targeted inhibition of enzymatic activity
Ottavio Arancio : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. Interests: Mechanisms underlying changes of synaptic function associated with cognitive impairment
Richard Axel : University Professor , M.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1970 Interests: Defining the ogic of olfactory perception; how individual sensory neurons express a specific receptor andhow the brain distinguishes which receptors have been activated
Richard Baer : Professor , Ph.D. , Rutgers , 1981 Interests: The mechanisms of cancer development by characterizing genetic defects; Function of the BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene; retinoid signaling in mammary glands
Arthur Bank : Professor (Medicine) , M.D. , Harvard , 1960 Interests: Regulation of human globin gene expression in hematopoietic cells; gene transfer in animals
Jonathan Barasch : Associate Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Columbia , 1987 Interests: Developental biology; renal biology
Timothy H. Bestor : Professor , Ph.D. , Florida State University (Tallahassee) , 1981 Interests: DNA methyltransferases; epigenetic effects in gene expression
J. Chloe Bulinski : Professor , Ph.D. , Wisconsin , 1980 Interests: Function of cytoskeleton during cell cycle and during differentiation
Harmen Bussemaker : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Utrecht , 1995 Interests: Data-driven modeling of transcriptional and post-transcriptional networks based on biophysical principles. Computational analysis of genome sequences and DNA microarray data; sequence-based modeling of gene expression regulation; outpatient applications, practice guidelines, prevention, computer-based medical records
Kathryn L. Calame : Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Ph.D. , Ph.D. , George Washington , 1975
Andrea Califano : Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics; Co-Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Director of Bioinformatics, Columbia Genome Center , Ph.D. , Florence , 1985 Interests: Investigation of systems biology, using a variety of physics and knowledge-based methods
Marian B. Carlson : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1978 Interests: Regulations of the Snfl1/AMPK family of metabolic stress response kinases and transcriptional responses to stress in yeast
Fred Chang : Associate Professor , Ph.D., M.D. , California (San Francisco) , 1991, 1992 Interests: Molecular genetics of cytokinesis in fission yeast
Angela M Christiano : Professor (Dermatology) , Ph.D. , Rutgers , 1991 Interests: Molecular basis of inherited skin and hair disorders in humans and mice
Raphael A. Clynes : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , State University of New York (Stony Brook) , 1990 Interests: Fc receptors in tumor immunity and autoimmunity
Virginia Cornish : Professor , Ph.D , California (Berkeley) , 1996 Interests: Protein function at the molecular level, including isolated proteins in solution, large protein complexes, and protein function in biological networks in living cells
Frank D. Costantini : Professor , Ph.D. , California Institute of Technology , 1980 Interests: Molecular genetics of mammalian development
Riccardo Dalla-Favera : Professor (Pathology) , M.D. , University of Milan , 1976 Interests: Molecular genetics of cancer; molecular pathogenesis of lymphoma and leukemia; genetic control in lymphoid tissue development
William Dauer : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Columbia , 1990 Interests: Studies of the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms of diseases that disrupt normal motor control, with a focus on Parkinson's disease and dystonia
Dickson D. Despommier : Professor , Ph.D. , Notre Dame , 1967 Interests: Molecular biology of the secreted antigens of the nematode Trichinella spiralis
Gilbert Di Paolo : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Lausanne, Switzerland , 1997 Interests: Endocytocis and synaptic vesicle recycling in mammalian central nervous system neurons
Jane Dodd : Professor (Physiology & Cellular Biophysics) , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1979 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neural cell patterning and axon guidance in the developing mammalian central nervous system
Fiona Doetsch : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller University , 1999 Interests: Neural stem cells and their niche in the adult mammalian brain
Jonathan Dworkin : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Rockefeller , 1997 Interests: Cell biology of protein localization and chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis; C. elegans as a model host for spore-forming bacteria; quantitative analysis of a transcriptional network
David Figurski : Professor , Ph.D. , Rochester Interests: Molecular genetics of promiscuous bacterial plasmids; pathogenesis of Actinobacillus actinomycetemocomitans
Sally Findley : Professor
Jean Gautier : Professor , Ph.D. , Toulouse , 1983 Interests: Cell cycle and cell death during early development; maintenance of genetic integrity; DNA replication and response to DNA damage
Michael D. Gershon : Professor , M.D. , Cornell , 1963 Interests: Signaling molecules in the function and development of the enteric nervous system; neurovirology
Stephen P. Goff : Professor , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1978 Interests: Structure and function of retrovirus genomes and expression; retroviral replication; molecular biology of retrovirus replication; tyrosine kinases and signal transduction pathways
Joseph A. Gogos : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , M.D., National University of Greece-Athens; Ph.D., Harvard , 1987; 1993 Interests: Assembly and maintenance of sensory maps in the brain; animal models for genes predisposing to psychiatric disorders
Daniel J. Goldberg : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1974 Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of axon growth and synapse formation
Michael E. Goldberg : Professor , M.D. Interests: The physiology of cognitive processes: visual attention, spatial perception, and decision making
James E Goldman : Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , New York University , 1976 Interests: Glial differentiation in mammalian CNS development; progenitors in the adult CNS; cytoskeletal abnormalities and stress proteins in neurological disorders
Max E. Gottesman : Professor, Ph.D., M.D. , Ph.D. M.D. Degree , Yale , 1960 Interests: Gene regulation and protein folding in E. coli phages and temperate coli phages; differentiation and oncogenesis in thyroid cells
Steve Greenberg : Associate Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Macrophage signal tranduction; role of low molecular weight GTPases in innate immunity
Eric Greene : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Texas A&M , 1998 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair; single molecule fluorescence microscopy and other biochemical approaches
Lloyd Greene : Professor , Ph.D. , California San Diego , 1970 Interests: Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and the role of growth factors therein
Iva S. Greenwald : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1982 Interests: Lin-12/Notch signaling and cell fate specification; cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development
Wes Grueber : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Drosophila neuronal development; mechanisms of dendritic morphogenesis and patterning
Hua Gu : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Cologne Interests: Lymphocyte development and differentiation; mouse T-cell development; signal transduction pathways and T-cell activation
Wei Gu : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1995 Interests: Role of p53 acetylation and deacetylation in tumorgenesis; P53 in tumor suppression and aging; acetylation and deacetylation of p53 in tumorigenesis; mammalian Sir2a in stress response and aging; ubiquitination and deubiquitination in the regulation of p53 stability
Gregg G. Gundersen : Professor , Ph.D. , Washington (Seattle) , 1983 Interests: The regulation and function of the microtubule cytoskeleton
Rene Hen : Professor , Ph.D. , Pasteur Institute (Strasbourg) , 1985 Interests: Contribution of specific serotonin receptors and hippocampal neurogenesis to pathological states such as depression and anxiety
Chris Henderson : Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Motor neuron development and pathology
Wayne A. Hendrickson : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1968 Interests: Macromolecular structure with an aim toward in-depth understanding of biological activity
Oliver Hobert : Professor , Ph.D. , Max-Planck Institute , 1995 Interests: Genetic analysis of the development of neural circuits in C. elegans
Barry Honig : Professor , Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins, Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel) , 1964, 1968 Interests: Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes
Antonio Iavarone : Associate Professor , M.D. , Catholic (Rome) , 1987 Interests: Molecular genetics of tumors derived from the nervous system. The role of Id proteins in cell cycle regulation and differentiation
Jonathan A. Javitch : Associate Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins , 1986 Interests: Structure, function, and regulation of G-Protein-Coupled receptors and neurotransmitter transporters; mechanisms of action of amphetamine and cocaine; structural studies of bacterial transporters
Thomas M. Jessell : Professor , Ph.D. , Cambridge , 1977 Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in the developing vertebrate nervous system
Laura Johnston : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Washington , 1994 Interests: Growth control during organ development: linkage between pattern formation and growth.
Eric Kandel : University Professor , M.D. , New York , 1956 Interests: Molecular biology of long term memory storage; initiation and maintenance of synaptic growth; examination of features shared in simple forms of learning and memory in the Aplysia nervous system and in the mammalian hippocampus
Gerard Karsenty : Paul A. Marks Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Medical School of Paris , 1984 Interests: Deciphering the molecular pathways used by hypothalamic neurons to regulate bone mass
Robert S. Kass : Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , Michigan , 1972 Interests: Regulation and expression of ion channel proteins in normal and genetically altered cardiac cells
Richard H. Kessin : Professor , Ph.D. , Brandeis , 1971 Interests: Genetic capacity of Dictyoste-lium discoideum to study proteo-lytic mechanisms and regulation
Tae-Wan Kim : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Rutgers University , 1994 Interests: Molecular mechanisms and translational research in Alzheimer's disease
Jan Kitajewski : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1987 Interests: Wnt and notch signaling in development and oncogenesis
Anna Lasorella : Assistant Professor , M.D. , Catholic (Rome) , 1982 Interests: Molecular biology of pediatric tumors. The Rb-Id2 pathway in development and cancer
Brett Lauring : Assistant Professor , M.D., Ph.D. , NYU School of Medicine , 1996,1995 Interests: Intracellular protein trafficking in neurodegenerative diseases; Cell biological mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and microtubule severing in axonal maintenance
Rudolph Leibel : Professor , M.D. Interests: Molecular genetic analysis of human obesity
Ronald K. Liem : Program Co-Director, Professor , Ph.D., Cornell , 1973 Interests: Biochemical and molecular biological approaches in the study of the organization and composition of the neuronal and glial cytoskeletons
Ian Lipkin : Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professor of Epidemiology , M.D. Interests: Immunopathogenesis and Infectious Diseases;Microbial pathogenesis emerging infections; The role of infectious agents and immune responses in acute and chronic CNS diseases through molecular epidemiology and studies of animal models
Jeremy Luban : Associate Professor , M.D. Interests: Molecular biology of HIV-1 replication and pathogenesis; regulation of T-cell cytokine expression
Thomas Ludwig : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Heidelberg , 1992 Interests: Function(s) of the breast cancer susceptibility genese BRCA1 and BRCA2 using mice as a model system
Amy B. MacDermott : Professor , Ph.D. , Vermont , 1978 Interests: Neurophysiology, regulation of synaptic transmission in the superficial dorsal horn; neurophysiology of pain
Richard S. Mann : Professor , Ph.D. , MIT , 1986 Interests: Control of pattern formation by homeotic genes and their downstream targets in Drosophila melanogaster
Yinghui Mao : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Ohio State Interests: Kinetochore microtubule attachment, chromosome movement, and mitotic checkpoint during mitosis
Andrew R. Marks : Professor , M.D. , Harvard , 1980 Interests: Molecular mechanisms regulating contraction of normal and failing cardiac muscle, molecular triggers for cardiac arrhythmias, and coronary artery restenosis following stent placement
Carol A. Mason : Professor , Ph.D. , University of California (Berkeley) , 1973 Interests: Mammalian brain development; specifically axonal growth cone interactions during pathfinding in viual pathways and during target cell selection and synaptongenesis in the cerebellum
Brian McCabe : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , University of Cambridge (England) , 1999 Interests: Molecular genetics of synapse development and plasticity
Cathy Mendelsohn : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1989 Interests: Molecular pathways controlling development of urogenital tract.
Kenneth Miller : Professor , Ph.D. Interests: Models of visual cortical circuitry and development; analysis of visual coding
Aaron Mitchell : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1984 Interests: Molecular genetics of meiosis and its regulation in yeast
Rebecca Morris :