Faculty

Philip Benfey - DCSB Director, Professor of Biology

Research interests: Developmental biology of plant root growth, cell specification, and transcriptional networks

Email: philip.benfey@duke.edu

Website: Benfey Lab

Joshua Socolar - DCSB Assoc. Director, Professor of Physics

Research interests: Organization and function of complex dynamical networks, controlling chaos, and aperiodic tilings

Email: socolar@phy.duke.edu

Website: Socolar Research

Ryan Baugh - Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests: Nutritional control of development in the model system Caenorhabditis elegans (worms)

Email: ryan.baugh@duke.edu

Website: Baugh Lab

Nicholas Buchler  - Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics

Research interests: Systems biology and evolution of epigenetic switches (bistability) and clocks (oscillators) in gene regulatory networks

Email: nicolas.buchler@duke.edu

Website: Buchler Lab

Blanche Capel - Professor of Cell Biology

Research interests: Sex determination, testis and ovary development, and germ biology

Email: b.capel@cellbio.duke.edu

Website: Capel Lab

Steve Haase - Associate Professor of Biology

Research interests: Control of cell cycle, DNA replication, and centrosome duplication in budding yeast

Email: shaase@duke.edu

Website: Haase Lab

John Harer - Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Research interests: Computational topology, network dynamics, yeast cell cycle, and plant root architecture

Email: john.harer@duke.edu

Website: Harer Group

Alexander Hartemink - Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research interests: Development and application of new statistical learning algorithms to complex problems in systems biology

Email: amink@cs.duke.edu

Website: Hartemink Group

Jack Keene - Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Research interests: The role of RNA-binding proteins in regulating gene expression of cellular and viral transcripts

Email: keene001@mc.duke.edu

Website: Keene Lab

Paul Magwene - Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests: Yeast functional genetics and genomics, evolutionary theory, computational biology, and bioinformatics

Email: paul.magwene@duke.edu

Website: Magwene Lab

David McClay - Professor of Biology

Research interests: Developmental biology of sea urchin embryos, transcriptional regulation and signaling

Email: dmcclay@duke.edu

Website: McClay Research

Sayan Mukherjee - Associate Professor of Statistical Science

Research interests: Probabilistic modeling, geometry and topology, complex disease models, and high-dimensional data

Email: sayan.mukherjee@duke.edu

Website: Mukherjee Research

Uwe Ohler - Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Research interests: Computational biology of gene regulation in eukaryotic organisms and phenotyping/image analysis

Email: uwe.ohler@duke.edu

Website: Ohler Lab

David Schaeffer- Professor of Mathematics

Research interests: Applied mathematics, especially partial differential equations

Email: dgs@math.duke.edu

Website: Schaeffer Research

 

Amy Schmid - Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests: Transcriptional regulatory network response to extreme conditions, data integration and network modeling

Email: amy.schmid@duke.edu

Website: Schmid Lab

Scott Schmidler - Associate Professor of Statistical Science

Research interests: Stochastic models and algorithms for complex, high- dimensional, dynamical systems

Email: schmidler@stat.duke.edu

Website: Schmidler Research

Mike West - Professor of Statistical Science

Research interests: Bayesian methods and applications, dynamic models in time series analysis, multivariate analysis, and image analysis, among others

Email: mike@stat.duke.edu

Website: West Group

Gregory Wray - Professor of Biology

Research interests: Evolution of transcriptional regulation in primates and sea urchins

Email: gwray@duke.edu

Website: Wray Lab

Lingchong You - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Synthetic gene circuits, cellular behavior, cell-cell communication, and biomedical engineering

Email: you@duke.edu

Website: You Lab