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Clark Center Faculty

photo of Drs. Todd Brinton, Joseph Wu, and Paul Yock in the Clark Center

Over 45 faculty from more than 20 different departments – along with all their students, postdoctoral trainees, and staff – reside in the Clark Center.

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Sergiu P. Pasca - Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
Stanford Profile
Dr. Pasca's Lab Homepage
Dr. Sergiu Pasca's lab employs state-of-the-art stem cell biology, genome engineering, imaging and neuroscience approaches to identify the dynamical processes that go awry in neural cells derived from patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia, and what should be therapeutically targeted in these conditions.
Carla Shatz - Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Executive Committee Member, Seed Grant Committee Member, Scientific Leadership Council Chair, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
Stanford Profile
Dr. Shatz's Lab Webpage
To discover cell and molecular underpinnings of circuit tuning, the Shatz lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity.
Kristy Red-Horse - Associate Professor of Biology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Stanford Profile
Dr. Red-Horse's Lab Homepage
Dr. Red-Horse's laboratory uses cardiovascular development as a model to study the signals that instruct cell fate and guide morphogenesis during organ formation in the mammalian embryo.
Benjamin Good - Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Good's Lab Homepage
The Good lab uses tools from statistical physics, population genetics, and computational biology to understand how microscopic growth processes and genome dynamics at the single cell level give rise to the collective behaviors that can be observed at the population level.
Jonas Cremer - Assistant Professor of Biology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Cremer's Lab Homepage
Dr. Jonas Cremer's lab combines wet-lab approaches and modeling to investigate the physiology of bacterial cells and their ecological interactions. The lab's current focus is the study of gut bacteria and their interactions with each other and the human host.
Axel Brunger - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, of Photon Science, and (by courtesy) of Structural Biology
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
Stanford Profile
Dr. Brunger's Lab Webpage
Dr. Axel Brunger's laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release, and how these mechanisms relate to physiological function.
Kwabena Boahen - Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Boahen's Lab Homepage
The Boahen lab is bridging the experiment–computation gap by building a computer that works like the brain, feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works.
Daniel Fisher - David Starr Jordan Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and (by courtesy) of Biology and of Bioengineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Fisher's Department Website
Dr. Fisher's primary research interests are the dynamics of evolutionary processes.
Judith Frydman - Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics
Clark Center Faculty, Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Frydman's Lab Homepage
The long term goal of the Frydman lab's research is to understand how proteins fold in living cells.
Stephen Quake - Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics, and (by courtesy) of Physics
Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Quake's Lab Homepage
Dr. Quake’s interests lie at the nexus of physics, biology and biotechnology.
Karl Deisseroth - D. H. Chen Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry & of Behavioral Sciences
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Deisseroth's Lab Homepage
Dr. Deisseroth's lab focuses on developing molecular and cellular tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits.
Surya Ganguli - Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Electrical Engineering
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Ganguli's Lab Homepage
Dr. Ganguli's lab works on theoretical neuroscience, with the fundamental goal of understanding how networks of neurons and synapses cooperate across multiple scales of space and time to mediate important brain functions, like sensory perception, motor control, and memory.
Leonidas Leo Guibas - Paul Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Guibas's Lab Homepage
Dr. Guibas works on algorithms for sensing, modeling, reasoning, rendering, and acting on the physical world.
Susan Holmes - The John Henry Samter University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Professor of Statistics
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Holmes's Lab Homepage
Dr. Holmes's Department of Statistics Homepage
Dr. Holmes's lab's work focuses on large heterogeneous multi-layer data analyses.
Steve Chu - William R. Kenan Jr. Professor and Professor of Physics and of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Chu's Lab Homepage
The Chu Lab develops and uses state-of-the-art technologies in spectroscopy and microscopy to interrogate biological systems.
Karlene Cimprich - Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and (by courtesy) of Chemistry
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Cimprich's Lab Homepage
The Cimprich lab is focused on understanding how cells maintain genomic stability, with an emphasis on the DNA damage response (DDR).
Scott Delp - James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Orthopaedic Surgery
Seed Grant Committee Member, Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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NeuroMuscular Biomechanics Lab (NMBL) Homepage
Dr. Delp's work draws on computational mechanics, medical imaging, and neuromuscular biology to improve treatments for neurologic and musculoskeletal diseases.
Michael Levitt - Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the School of Medicine and Professor of Structural Biology and (by courtesy) of Computer Science
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Levitt's Lab Homepage
Dr. Levitt uses both molecular dynamics simulation and molecular modeling in the hopes of understanding the molecular structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids in enough detail to make accurate predictions about structure and function.
Tirin Moore - Professor of Neurobiology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Moore's Lab Homepage
Dr. Moore's laboratory studies neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neurophysiological basis of cognition (e.g. visual attention, visual awareness, and working memory).
Sandy Napel - Professor of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology), and (by courtesy) of Medicine (Medical Informatics), and of Electrical Engineering
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty
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Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS)
3D and Quantitative Imaging (3DQ) Lab Homepage
Dr. Napel's primary interests are in developing diagnostic and therapy-planning applications and strategies for the acquisition and visualization of multi-dimensional medical imaging data.

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