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Biology | Chemistry | Psychology | Other Departments
Students will work with Indiana University faculty who have major research programs in the sciences, such as Animal Behavior; Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Cell Biology; Cognitive Sciences; Evolution; Genetics; Genomics; Inorganic Chemistry; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Neural Sciences; Organic Chemistry; Physics; Plant Sciences; Proteomics; Pyschology, and Structural Biology.
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Department of Biology (back to top)
- Justen Andrews: Gene regulatory networks controlling sex in arthropods.
- Carl Bauer: Oxygen and light regulation of gene expression; Biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll; Prokaryotic development.
- Alan Bender: Higher Education.
- James Bever: Ecology and evolution of plants and fungi.
- J. Jose Bonner: Genetic and molecular analysis of the heat shock response.
- Yves V. Brun: Cell cycle control, cell division, and cell differentiation in bacteria. Bacterial adhesion.
- Brian Calvi: Cell cycle control of DNA replication and genome stability.
- Lingling Chen: Structural and biochemical studies on protein-protein interactions in GroEL-mediated protein folding and microbial communications.
- Peter Cherbas: Genetics and molecular biology nuclear receptors; Drosophila development; genetic methods for Drosophila cell lines.
- Keith Clay: Plant Ecology, symbiosis, disease ecology, microbial community ecology.
- David Daleke: Structure and organization of biological membranes; phospholipid transporters; effect of diabetes on membrane structure. (Medical Sciences Program)
- Lynda Delph: Evolutionary ecology, plant reproductive biology.
- Greg Demas: Behavioral endocrinology; neuroendocrine-immune interactions; aggression; biological rhythms; seasonality.
- Thomas F. Donahue: Genetic, molecular and biochemical analysis of translation initiation in yeast.
- Jim Drummond: Mechanistic studies of DNA mismatch and lesion processing.
- Viola Ellison: Human chromosome duplication and maintenance of genome integrity.
- Wayne Forrester: Mechanism of directed cell migration in C.elegans (Medical Sciences Program)
Pat Foster: Mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication, and recombination.
- Clay Fuqua: Multicellular interactions of bacteria.
- Jim Goodson: Neural/neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behavior; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of avian sociality.
- Matthew Hahn: Computational and Evolutionary Genomics; Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation; Molecular Population Genetics
- Spencer Hall: Ecology of infectious disease and food web interactions in freshwater environments.
- Roger Hangarter: Plant physiology: Environmental sensory-response systems and plant development.
- Richard Hardy: Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors.
- Elizabeth Housworth: Statistical genetics. (Department of Mathematics)
- Ke Hu: Cytoskeletal biogenesis of apicomplexan parasites.
- Laura Hurley: Neuromodulation of the auditory system; modulator-induced plasticity in neural circuits underlying behavior.
- Roger Innes: Molecular genetics of plant/pathogen interactions.
- Frederika Kaestle: Ancient DNA, human genetics, population genetics, phylogenetics, prehistoric population movement, Americas, Siberia, Pacific. (Department of Anthropology)
- Thomas Kaufman: Cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of Drosophila.
- Daniel Kearns: Bacterial multicellular behavior.
- David M. Kehoe: Environmental regulation of gene expression in bacteria.
- Ellen Ketterson: Avian biology; avian migration; mating systems and parental care; hormones and behavior; physiological mechanisms underlying trade-offs in life histories; using hormones to explore adaptation; dominance and aggression; population dynamics during the non-breeding season.
- Eric Knox: Plant evolution; speciation; phylogenetic systematics; chloroplast genome evolution; horizontal gene transfer; flora of Indiana.
- Justin Kumar: Compound Eye Development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
- Soni Lacefield: Chromosome segregation and spindle checkpoint function in meiosis.
- Curt Lively: Evolution and coevolution; sex, virulence and genetic diversity in host-parasite interactions.
- Elisabeth Lloyd: Units and levels of selection; the evolution of female orgasm; history and philosophy of biology. (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
- Michael Lynch: Evolution of molecules, genome structure, and phenotypes.
- Melanie Marketon: Molecular mechanisms of pathogenic microbe-host interactions.
- Emília Martins: Evolution of complex behavioral traits; phylogenies and the comparative method.
- Vicky Meretsky: Conservation biology. (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
- Scott Michaels: Molecular genetics of flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis and other species.
- Tai Min: Molecular mechanisms of Down syndrome, neurological disorders, and aging.
- Armin Moczek: Evolutionary developmental biology, phenotypic plasticity, morphological and behavioral diversity in arthropods.
- Kristi Montooth: Evolutionary physiological genetics; population genetics; biochemical adaptation.
- Leonie Moyle: Genetics of speciation and adaptation, comparative genomics, evolutionary ecology, plant reproduction.
- Tuli Mukhopadhyay: Structure and assembly of enveloped, RNA viruses.
- David Nelson: Chlamydial virulence factors and host response.
- Kenneth Nephew: DNA methylation in ovarian cancer, breast cancer chemoprevention, spinal cord regeneration, steroid hormone action (Medical Sciences Program)
- Jeffrey D. Palmer: Molecular evolution: Lateral transfer of mitochondrial genes to the nucleus and between organisms. Evolution of mutation rates. Molecular phylogeny.
- Flynn Picardal: Environmental microbiology, microbial geochemistry, and bioremediation. (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
- Joe Pomerening: Signal transduction pathways governing early embryonic and somatic cell cycles, and understanding the integration of feedback loops and other signaling elements in their M-phase control systems.
- Christine Quirk: Deciphering the Role of p8, an HMG-like protein, in development, tumorigenesis, and malignancy. (Medical Sciences Program)
- Elizabeth C. Raff: The control of microtubule function in vivo.
- Rudolf A. Raff: Evolutionary developmental biology and evolution of animal body plans.
- Heather Reynolds: Plant community ecology; plant-soil and plant-microbe interactions.
- Sidney L. Shaw: Microtubule dynamics and cellular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis.
- Troy Smith: Neural and hormonal control of sexually dimorphic behavior.
- Nicholas Sokol: MicroRNA Function in Drosophila.
- Stefan J. Surzycki: Characterization of C. reinhardti VNTR sequences. Study of C. reinhardti transposons.
- Roderick Suthers: Neural and physiological bases of acoustic behavior. Research is focused on the physiology of song production in songbirds and parrots. (Medical Sciences Program)
Michael Tansey: Mycology teaching.
- Milton Taylor: The interferon response in hepatitis C patients. A study using DNA array technology to explain the differences in response to treatment. Molecular mechanism of synergy between different interferons using array technology, and various virus systems.
- Gregory Velicer: Ecology and evolution of bacterial social behavior.
- Michael J. Wade: Evolution in metapopulations; Genetic basis of speciation in Tribolium; Epistasis; Evolutionary genetics of maternal effects; Sexual selection and alternative male mating strategies; Coevolution of arthropod hosts and Wolbachia endosymbionts.
- Claire E. Walczak: Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation; Regulation of microtubule dynamics during interphase and mitosis. (Medical Sciences Program)
- Maxine A. Watson: Plant developmental ecology
- Malcolm E. Winkler: The physiology, pathogenesis, molecular genetics, stress responses, and genomics of the gram-positive human respiratory pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumonia
- Joel Ybe: X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of membrane vesicle protein coats.
- Andrew Zelhof: Metamorphosis of Drosophila photoreceptor cells.
- Miriam E. Zolan: Meiosis and DNA repair.
Department of Chemistry (back to top)
- Zachary Aron: Development of molecular assembly lines as versatile tools for chemical synthesis; encompassing enzymology, protein engineering, directed evolution, peptide folding, nanotechnology, organic methodology and total synthesis.
- Mu-Hyun Baik: Computational, Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Physical Chemistry / Chemical Informatics. Development of an artificially intelligent expert system with automized data mining capabilities for analyzing large scale quantum calculations; Electronic structure theory; Computational modeling of organometallic catalysts, biomimetic complexes, metalloenzymes, anticancer drugs and novel materials; Redox reactions of DNA and metalloproteins; Computational electrochemistry.
- Lane A. Baker: Analytical Chemistry; Biophysics; Chemical Instrumentation; Materials Chemistry; Nanotechnology
- Lyudmila Bronstein: Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Polymer Chemistry
- Erin Carlson: Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, identification of potential therapeutic agents.
- Kenneth G. Caulton: Organometallic chemistry; homogeneous catalysis; solid/gas reactivity; synthesis of high temperature superconductors; inorganic photochemistry; metal alkoxides.
- David E. Clemmer: Analytic Chemistry. Structures of macromolecules; complex mixtures; proteomics; drift tube/mass spectrometry.
- Silas Cook: New strategies in synthesis, catalysis and molecular pharmacology.
- Charles Dann III: Determination of atomic resolution structures of RNA and protein macromolecules by X-ray crystallography.
- Romualdo T. de Souza: Nuclear Chemistry. Study of highly excited nuclei; nuclear equation of state studies; bulk properties of nuclear matter; characterization of multifragmentation for finite nuclear systems; synthesis and study of new proton-rich and neutro-rich nuclei.
- Richard DiMarchi: Biomolecular Chemistry. Current scientific activities of the laboratory are focused on the relationship of protein structure & function, with a particular interest in novel methods of drug delivery.
- Bogdan Dragnea: Physical chemistry of complex molecular systems from a single-molecule perspective. Dynamics of macromolecule-surface interactions, optical properties of self-assembled monolayer protected single metal nano-particles, molecular origins of viral capsid dynamics, imaging of the protein/lipid layer boundary perturbations.
- Michael Edwards: Chemical Education.
- Amar Flood: Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
- David Giedroc: "Nucleic acid-centric" problems in biological regulation.
- Gary M. Hieftje: Analytic Chemistry. Atomic and molecular emission, absorption, mass, fluorescence spectrometry; application of information theory to chemistry; chemical instrumentation; spectrochemical methods of analysis; remote sensing; signal-to-noise enhancement; biomolecular mass spectrometry.
- Ronald A. Hites: Environmental and Analytical Chemistry. Potentially toxic organic compounds in the environment: their identification, sources, and fates.
- John C. Huffman: (Professor Emeritus) Chemical Informatics
- Srinivasan S. Iyengar: Theoretical Chemistry, New methods in ab initio molecular dynamics, quantum scattering theory electronic structure theory. Computational study of nano-materials, biological ion-transport, enzyme kinetics, non-adiabatic and quantum-nuclear dynamics.
- Stephen C. Jacobson: Analytical chemistry. Liquid phase separations for peptide and protein analysis, material transport in micro- and nanofluidic devices, and cellular processes in artificial environments.
- Caroline Chick Jarrold: Material Science, Physical Chemistry. Negative ion photodetachment spectroscopic techniques to study bare metal clusters, charge transfer complexes, and reactive intermediates.
- Martin F. Jarrold: Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry. Phase transitions in metal and semiconductor nanoparticles; mass spectrometry and ion mobility measurements; peptide conformations and folding; STM/AFM studies of biological molecules at interfaces.
- Dongwhan Lee: Synthetic Inorganic and Materials Chemistry. Exploring structure-property-function relationships in electroactive materials built on redoxactive organic/inorganic modules; developing transition metal complexes for stereoselective polymerization reactions; bioinorganic models of redox-active metallocofactors.
- Liang-shi Li: Inorganic Chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry.
- Daniel J. Mindiola: Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry. Synthesis and characterization of reactive small molecules, and materials with application to catalysis and bio-inorganic modeling.
- Milos V. Novotny: Bioanalytic Chemistry. Chromatography and capillary electrophoresis of biological compounds; mammalian heromones; glycoproteins; proteomics.
- Martha G. Oakley: Biochemistry and Bioorganic Chemistry. Protein biomolecular recognition; problems under investigation include: protein-protein interactions by coiled-coil proteins; protein-lipid interactions between the signaling molecule phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate and its target proteins.
- Peter J. Ortoleva: Biochemistry; Biophysics; Chemical Informatics; Chemical Physics; Nanotechnology; Physical Chemistry; Theoretical Chemistry.
- Charles S. Parmenter: Photo Chemistry; Physical Chemistry.
- Dennis C. Peters: Electroanalytical chemistry; mechanistic and synthetic aspects of organic electrochemical processes; electrocatalysis; chemically modified and polymer-coated electrodes; transition-metal mediated redox processes involving organic compounds.
- Krishnan Raghavachari: Computational Quantum Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry. New methods in electronic structure theory; Accurate models for theoretical thermochemistry; Electronic structures and properties of molecules and materials; Spectroscopy and chemical reactions on semiconductor surfaces; Theoretical study of novel species such as clusters and fullerenes; Computational investigations of comp
lex materials and nanotechnology.
- Catherine Reck: Chemical Education; Inorganic Chemistry.
- James P. Reilly: Analytical Chemistry; Chemical Instrumentation; Physical Chemistry; Proteomics
- Jill Robinson: Chemical Education.
- Sara Skrabalak: Synthesis and/or construction of multi-functional, hierarchically complex materials that address problems related to catalysis, biotechnology, and environmental remediation.
- Philip S. Stevens: Atmospheric Chemistry. Measurements of the chemical kinetics and mechanisms of atmospheric reactions involving biogenic emissions. Ambient measurements of atmospheric free radicals in forested environments.
- Steven Tait: Functional nanometer-scale architectures at surfaces formed by self-assembly of organic building blocks.
- Thomas J. Tolbert: Biochemistry and Glycobiology. Protein Chemistry; Semisynthesis of modified proteins; Production and study of glycoproteins using chemoenzymatic and biosynthetic methods; Bioorganic Chemistry; Isotopic labeling of biomolecules; Biomolecular NMR.
- Michael VanNieuwenhze: The identification of novel antibacterial agents that function via inhibition of bacterial cell wall (peptidoglycan) biosynthesis; the synthesis and biological study of novel agents for use in cancer chemotherapy.
- Theodore S. Widlanski: Bioorganic Chemistry. Bioorganic methodology; enzyme reaction mechanisms and inhibitore; protein nucleic acid interactions; new synthetic methodology.
- David R. Williams Bioorganic Chemistry. New synthetic methodology and the total synthesis of biologically active natural products.
- Jeffrey M. Zaleski: Physical-Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry. The study of novel pharmaceutical agents based on transition metal complexes using spectroscopic methods to investigate the structure and kinetics of biologically relevant intermediates involved in enzyme and drug-related reaction mechanisms.
Department of Psychology (back to top)
- Jeffrey R. Alberts: Developmental psychobiology, neural science, animal behavior. Ontogeny of species-typical behavior, maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory.
- John E. Bates: Clinical Science. Origins of childrenís behavior problem vs. social competencies, parent-child relationships, behavior therapy and family therapy.
- Geoffrey P. Bingham: Cognitive Science. Human visual and haptic perception, motor control, dynamical systems models, ecological psychology, event perception, perception/action coupling.
- Heather Bradshaw: Biology, Behavior and Neuroscience
- Sharon S. Brehm: Clinical Science, Social Psychology. Intimate relationships; psychology of women; psychological reactance.
- Joshua Brown: Integration of computational neural modeling, functional MRI, and cognitive psychology.
- Jerome R. Busemeyer: Cognitive Science. Dynamic, emotional, and cognitive models of judgment and decision making; neural network models of function learning, interpolation, extrapolation; methodology for comparing and testing complex models of behavior; measurement theory with error contaminated data.
- Thomas A. Busey: Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science. Visual perception, recognition memory, face recognition; EEG analysis of face and object perception. Mathematical modeling techniques applied to previously mentioned domains.
- Jerome Chertkoff: (Professor Emeritus)Social Psychology.
- James C. Craig: Biology and Behavior, Neural Science, Cognitive Science. Cutaneous pattern perception and communication, psychophysical studies of tactile sensitivity.
- Brian D'Onofrio: Clinical Science, Developmental Psychology. Developmental Psychopathology, Behavior Genetics, Family Systems, Children’s Intellectual Abilities
- William K. Estes: Cognitive Science. Experimental and theoretical analyses of human and animal learning and the development of mathematical models for learning, memory, and decision-making.
- Joseph Farley: Neural Science, Cognitive Science. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; Neurobiology of behavior; Excitable membranes/ion channels; Neurobiology of nicotine abuse and addiction; Molecular bases of signal transduction; Computational models of neuronal excitability.
- Peter R. Finn: Clinical Science, Biology and Behavior, Neural Science. Risk for alcoholism, psychophysiology, disinhibition, behavioral regulation.
- Preston E. Garraghty: Biology and Behavior, Cognitive Science, Neural Science. Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analysis of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures; behavioral analysis of the effects of antiepileptic drugs on learning and memory. Secondary interests include sensory system development and comparative neuroanatomy.
- Jason Gold: Biology and Behavior, Cognitive Science. Pattern vision; Object and face recognition; Perceptual learning; Perceptual grouping and completion; Visual memory; Encoding efficiency and information use, and Ideal observer theory.
- Robert L. Goldstone: Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology. Conceptual and perceptual learning; Computational models of thought; Visual cognition and pattern recognition; Analogical reasoning, judgment, and decision making.
- S. Lee Guth: (Professor Emeritus) Cognitive Science.
- Julia Heiman: Clinical Science, Human Sexuality.
- William Hetrick: Clinical Science, Neural Science. Brain-behavior relationships that underlie perceptual and attentional anomalies associated with schizophrenia and related disorders; intra-subject response variability, including neural frequency and phase synchronization; role of endogenous opioids in the self-injurious behavior; relevant methods include human brain (EEG, ERP) and skeletomotor (EMG) recordings, and clinical-neuropsychological assessment.
- Edward R. Hirt: Social Psychology, Cognitive Science. Reconstructive memory; social cognition and social judgment; self-protective strategies; particularly self-handicapping; hypothesis testing; mood effects, intrinsic interest and creativity; social identity and allegiance, particularly fanship.
- Amy Holtzworth-Munroe: Clinical Science. Marital violence.
- Karin Harman James: Cognitive Neuroscience; Brain and Behavior; Developmental Psychology
- Thomas W. James: Biology and Behavior. Visual and haptic perception; Object recognition; Cross-sensory integration; Priming and adaptation, and Functional neuroimaging.
- Michael Jones: Computational and experimental studies of language and knowledge representation in humans and machines.
- Susan S. Jones: Developmental Psychology. Development of communication: infant facial expressions and early word-learning.
- John Kruschke: Cognitive Science. Attention in human associative learning and connectionist models.
- Cary Lai: Developmental neurobiology, the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous system function.
- Ken Mackie: Neuroscience
- Sharlene D. Newman: Biology and Behavior. fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.
- Robert Nosofsky: Cognitive Psychology. Categorization, similarity, recognition memory, mathematical psychology.
- Brian O'Donnell: Clinical Science, Biology and Behavior, Neural Science. Event-related potential abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances of early stage vision in schizophrenia and affective disorders; event-related potentials and risk for alcoholism.
- Luiz Pessoa: Behavioral and FMRI methods to study cognition and emotion with an emphasis on the interactions between cognitive and emotional brain systems.
- David B. Pisoni: Cognitive Science, Biology and Behavior. Psycholinguistics, speech perception, production and synthesis, perceptual development; spoken language comprehension, voice I/O technology, human factors; hearing impairment, cochlear implants, individual differences, and multi-modal perception of speech.
- Anne Prieto: Biology and Behavior, Neural Science. Molecular cellular basis of neuronal plasticity; learning and memory; functions of receptor tyrosine kinases in the central nervous system; signal transduction; developmental neurobiology; neuronal and glial differentiation; functional roles of cell adhesion molecules and extracellular matrix proteins in morphogenesis.
- George V. Rebec: Biology and Behavior, Neural Science. Mechanisms of action of drugs, neurochemical correlates of movement and motivation, and real-time assessments of neurotransmitter function during behavior.
- Robert "BJ" Rydell: Social Cognition; Attitude Formation, Representation, and Change; Impression Formation; Stereotype Threat.
- Dale Sengelaub: Neural Science, Animal Behavior. Development of the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function.
- Steven J. Sherman: Social Psychology, Cognitive Science. Social cognition; human judgment; adolescent health behavior.
- Richard M. Shiffrin: Cognitive Science. Short and long term memory; attention; stages of information processing; retrieval and forgetting; mathematical computer simulation; neural network models.
- Eliot R. Smith: Social Psychology. Role of intergroup emotions (emotions experienced with respect to one’s collective self as a group member) in prejudice and intergroup relations; new conceptualizations of cognition as situated and embodied and their implications for social cognition; connectionist or neural network models in social psychology; social cognition in general, particularly the nature of mental representations of persons and groups and their effects on social judgments, including person perception and stereotyping.
- Linda B. Smith: Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology. Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood; classification and categorization, interactions between perception and language.
- Olaf Sporns: Cognitive Science, Neural Science. Focuses on utilizing biologically based computational models of the nervous systems to better understand the relationships between neural and cognitive/behavioral states. Attempts to link computer simulations of the nervous systems to actual real world devices (robots) and study their autonomous behavior.
- Julie Stout: Clinical Science. Cognitive Science, Neural Science. Cognitive neuropsychology, especially neural substrates for selective attention and emotional influences on decision-making; cognitive neuroscience of frontal-subcortical brain circuits, models of basal ganglia in cognition; Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s diseases; Techniques include cognitive and neuropsychological testing, brain imaging, psychophysiological recording.
- William Timberlake: Animal Behavior/Neural Science/Cognitive Science. Animal behavior and learning behavior theory; regulatory processes; behavior systems analyses of learning; circadian anticipation of food and addictive drugs; neural bases of general search behavior; time horizons.
- Peter M. Todd: Cognitive Science and Social Psychology. Simple heuristics for decision making, and how they capitalize on the structure of information in environments; Evolution of behavior (experimental approaches to evolutionary psychology and computer simulations of simple organisms adapting to different environmental structures, both physical and social); Emergence of environment structure through interactions of populations of agents following simple behavioral rules; How people and other animals search for resources in time and space, from sequential search for mates or jobs to foraging for prey or parking spaces; Artificial life approaches to music, and Making decisions about food and eating, and cognition of consumption.
- James Townsend: Cognitive Science. Development of general mathematical approaches to, and experimentation in, human information processing, cognitive psychology including visual pattern recognition, memory scanning, decision theory and human factors.
- Richard Viken: Clinical Science. Antisocial behavior; social interaction; family process; behavior genetics; alcohol use and abuse.
- Stanley Wasserman: Mathematical Psychology. Applied Statistics; Social Networks
- Cara Wellman: Neural Science, Biology and Behavior, Clinical Science. Age-related changes in neural plasticity and their relationship to cognition; neurochemical and morphological correlates of uncontrollable and controllable stress; biology and behavior.
- Meredith West: Biology and Behavior, Animal Behavior. Development of behavior in animals and humans with a particular interest in how learning and species-typical experience effect ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic processes.
- Chen Yu: Developmental Psychology. Development and learning in humans and machines, Perceptual intelligence, Machine learning.
Research Opportunities in Other Departments (back to top)
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Department of Cognitive Science: faculty list
Department of Computer Science: faculty list
Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics : personnel list
School of Informatics: faculty list
Program in Medical Sciences: faculty list
Neural Science Program: faculty list
Department of Physics: faculty list
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