A pioneer in the use of lasers to study chemical reactions at the molecular level, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor Richard N. Zare pursues diverse theoretical and experimental interests in physical chemistry and nanoscale chemical analysis. The Zarelab has made a broad impact in analytic chemistry with development of laser-induced fluorescence to study reaction dynamics, and seminal contributions to understanding of molecular collision processes. The group continues to invent tools and measurement techniques to study phenomena from reaction in microdroplets to drug delivery.

Dr. Yock is the founder and director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, a multidisciplinary training and support program for physicians and engineers with the ambition and talent to become health technology innovators.

Dr. Wong's lab develops methods in multivariate analysis, machine learning, Monte Carlo, differential equations and high performance computing, and apply them to problems in computational biology and personalized medicine.

Dr. Wandless's lab employs an interdisciplinary approach to studies of biological systems, combining a bit of synthetic chemistry with biochemistry, cell biology, and structural biology.

The general research interest of Dr. Spudich's laboratory is the molecular basis of cell motility.

Dr. Spormann's laboratory seeks to understand the molecular basis of unusual microbial reactions and processes.

The Scott lab's research is aimed at learning fundamental molecular mechanisms of development, including gene regulation and cell-cell signaling.

The long-term goal of the Schnitzer lab's research is to advance experimental paradigms for understanding normal cognitive and disease processes at the level of neural circuits, with emphasis on learning and memory processes.

Dr. Salisbury's current research focuses on human-machine interaction, cooperative haptics, medical robotics, and surgical simulation.

Dr. Prakash's lab brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, physics of computation and unconventional nano-fabrication to open problems in organismic and cellular biophysics, with a current focus on hydraulic constraints on living systems.