Computational Biology Directory

Mark Distefano headshot Mark Distefano

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Computational biology, Synthetic biology

Molecular recognition and catalysis in the context of proteins, and the process of protein prenylation

Portrait of Kathryn Fixen Kathryn Fixen

Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology, Synthetic biology

Ben Hackel headshot Ben Hackel

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Computational biology, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology

Protein engineering technologies to develop physiological molecular targeting agents for molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy

Portrait of Trinity Hamilton Trinity Hamilton

Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Microbial photosynthesis and biogeochemical cycles; genomic, functional and evolutionary study of microbial ecosystems, ecology and evolution

Portrait of Will Harcombe Will Harcombe

Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Microbial interactions, Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Systems biology

Alex Khoruts headshot Alex Khoruts

Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Microbiology Immunology and Cancer Biology Program

Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Microbiota-host interactions in health and disease

Portrait of Linda Kinkel Linda Kinkel

Professor, Department of Plant Pathology

Bioremediation and resource recovery, Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Ecology and evolutionary biology of plant-associated microbes

Dan Knights portrait Dan Knights

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Microbial Engineering Graduate Program

Computational biology

Model host-microbiome interactions; applied methods to find patterns in microbial communities that predict and diagnose human diseases.

Portrait of Chad Myers Chad Myers

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Computational biology, Microbial physiology and systems biology

Computational methods to categorize, visualize, and model biological data and systems

Christopher Staley headshot Christopher Staley

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Computational biology

Impact of microbiota disruptions on diseases and conditions