The Huberman lab is focused on brain function, development and repair with emphasis on regeneration to prevent and cure blindness.

The Soltesz lab is interested in how brain cells communicate with each other in the normal brain, and how the communication changes in epilepsy.

The research interests in the Sperling Lab are Earth history and the evolution of life, and the interactions between the biosphere and the geosphere.

The Boettiger lab aims to understand how long-range interactions between non-consecutive parts of the genome are regulated to control gene expression.

Dr. Ye's professional interest is to investigate the causes and consequences of the abnormal metabolic phenotypes of cancer cells in response to microenvironmental stresses such as hypoxia and nutrient deprivation, with the prospect that therapeutic approaches might be developed to target these metabolic pathways to improve cancer treatment.

Dr. Labaree is a sociologically oriented historian of education who seeks to explore some of the major processes and patterns that define the relationship between education and society in the United States.

Dr. Hynes is a leading expert on the development of dopaminergic neurons, critical nerve cells whose degeneration causes the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Palacios is a statistician interested in mathematical models in evolutionary genomics and estimation of relevant parameters in this field.

The Rivas Lab is located in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. Their main research focus is the genetics of chronic diseases.