Faculty

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Computational Biology; Protein Dynamics

    Research Interests: DNA repair in cells

  • Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Neurogenetics

    Research Interests:Developing high- throughput genomic techniques to identify functional cis-elements in the genome.

  • Professor of Medical Science, DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, CELL BIOLOGY, AND BIOCHEMISTRY

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Protein Dynamics

    Research Interests: Determining the structure, dynamics, interactions of large assemblies of intrinsically disordered proteins; protein aggregates implicated in Alzheimer’s Disease; liquid-liquid phase separated forms of RNA-binding proteins associated with inclusion formation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease) and frontotemporal  dementia.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology

    Research Interests: Scanning human genomes from different populations to detect mutations in genes that have helped humans adapt to different environments like different diets, temperatures, pathogens and altitudes.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

    401-863-9775

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Computational Biology; Host-Pathogen Interactions

    My lab is interested in the interplay of multiple simultaneous innate immune responses at a systemic, cellular, and molecular level.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Director, Computational Biology Graduate Program

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Computational Biology; Development

    Research Interests: Sex differences in aging, coordinated regulation of synaptic genes, computational biology

  • Associate Professor of Surgery

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Host-Pathogen Interactions

    Rhode Island Hospital/Warren Alpert Medical School

  • Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Biology of Aging; Computational Biology

    Research Interests: Application of high throughput techniques such as RNA-seq to study changes in the transcriptional network caused by genetic and environmental interventions that extend life span in model organisms.

  • Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Computer Science

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology

    Research Interests: Problems in population genetics and evolutionary theory, using humans as a study system.

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biology

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Protein Dynamics

    Research Areas: Biophysical and machine learning-based molecular modeling, biochemical computation. The Rubenstein group is focused on developing new quantum mechanical, statistical mechanical, and machine learning tools to predict biological phenomena, including the evolution of biomolecules.

  • Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Computational Biology; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Protein Dynamics

    Research Interests: Elucidation of signaling networks relevant to human disease and exploring perturbations in phosphorylation patterns induced by pharmacological agents. Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis by mass spectrometry is a technique that allows efficient profiling of tens of thousands of phosphorylation sites over time from cells and tissues.

  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

    BioMed Building, Room 595 (office)/602 (lab)

    Research Area(s): Computational Biology; Host-Pathogen Interactions

    Research interests: genomics, viral infections, epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions

  • Daniel Weinreich

    Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Research Area(s): Cell Signaling; Computational Biology

    Research Interests: Professor Weinreich is a theoretical population geneticist who uses a combination of experimental, analytic and simulation techniques to further understanding of the general principles of biological adaptation.