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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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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.
William Newsome - Harman Family Provostial Professor, Vincent V. C. Woo Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and Professor of Neurobiology and (by courtesy) of Psychology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Newsome's Lab Homepage
The long-term goal of Dr. Bill Newsome's research is to understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior.
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.
Carla Shatz - David Starr Jordan 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joshua Elias - Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Elias's Lab Homepage
Dr. Elias's lab develops and applies mass spectrometry techniques for studying, complex biological systems.
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir - Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and Professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering and of Materials Science and Engineering
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) Homepage
Dr. Gambhir's research interests are directed at the development of techniques to study various molecular/biochemical events taking place in living animals and humans, in their natural state.
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.
Mark Schnitzer - Associate Professor of Biology and of Applied Physics
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Schnitzer's Lab Homepage
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.
Krishna Shenoy - Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Shenoy's Lab Homepage
Dr. Shenoy's group (Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory, NPSL) conducts neuroscience, neuroengineering, and translational research to better understand how the brain controls movement, and to design medical systems to assist people with movement disabilities.
Alfred Spormann - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Chemical Engineering, and (by courtesy) of Biology
Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Spormann's Lab Homepage
Dr. Spormann's laboratory seeks to understand the molecular basis of unusual microbial reactions and processes.
James Spudich - Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and Professor of Biochemistry
Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Spudich's Lab Homepage
The general research interest of Dr. Spudich's laboratory is the molecular basis of cell motility.

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