Dr Lukas's work focuses on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, which are relevant to a number of neurological and other diseases, in addition to their roles in nicotine dependence and tobacco-related diseases.

Wideman strives to understand the emergence of complexity in eukaryote evolution. Using comparative genomics and cell biological approaches he reconstructs features of the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

Shrivastava uses biology, physics, and bioinformatics to find factors that shape spatial structure of the microbiome. His lab aims to find how changes in the microbiome correlate with the occurrence of diseases.

Anna Cunningham is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Director of Teaching & Learning in the School of Math & Natural Sciences, and the Co-Director of Teaching, Innovation, & Excellence in the New College.

McCutcheon studies endosymbioses, or relationships where one cell lives inside the other. He and his group focus on bacterial infections that benefit—rather than harm—their hosts.

The Florsheim group studies the impact of inflammation on physiology and behavior.

Chen's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of DNA break repair, homologous recombination, genome organization and evolution.

The Wadhwa lab seeks to understand how bacteria sense mechanical cues from their environment and how these cues are transduced into biochemical signals to modulate behavior.