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Interdisciplinary Scholars Program

Faculty Mentors

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  • Karin Åkerfeldt, Chemistry. "Calcium-binding properties of EF-hand proteins; Design and synthesis of ion channel forming peptides, and Novel porphyrin-based biomaterials."
  • Suzanne Amador Kane, Physics. "Studies of collective animal behavior using video motion capture, bioacoustics and computer simulations".
  • Frances Rose Blase, Chemistry. "The Chemical Synthesis and Analysis of Natural Products that Display Important Pharmacological Activity."
  • Rebecca Compton, Psychology. "Psychophysiology of emotion and cognition."
  • Robert Fairman, Biology. "Protein Polymerization processes in Aggregative Diseases and as a Tool in Nanoscience Applications."
  • Jerry Gollub, Physics.**note below** "Non-linear processes, including the dynamics of particles in fluids, and the interactions of swimming micro-organisms."
  • Curtis Greene, Mathematics. "Algebraic Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, and Probability."
  • Rachel Hoang, Biology. "The cell biology and evolution of embryonic shape."
  • Karl Johnson, Biology. "Biologically-inspired design: principles and applications from cytoskeletal polymers to virus particles."
  • Casey Londergan, Chemistry, "Assessing protein conformation and flexibility using vibrational
    spectroscopy."
  • Peter Love, Physics, "Computational and theoretical physics: simple discrete models of physical
    phenomena and quantum information theory."
  • Robert Manning, Mathematics. "Mathematical modeling of biomolecules."
  • Philip M. Meneely, Biology. "Genetics and Developmental Biology of C. elegans."
  • Andrea Morris, Biology.**note below** "Visual system development in Xenopus."
  • Alexander Norquist, Chemistry. "Hydrothermal synthesis of noncentrosymmetric metal oxide frameworks."
  • Iruka Okeke, Biology.**note below** "Bacterial pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance."
  • Jenni A. Punt, Biology.**note below** "The Molecular Basis for Decisions made by Developing T Lymphocytes."
  • Robert C. Scarrow, Chemistry."Synthesis and characterization of novel coordination complexes and study of their biomimetic reactivity with oxygen and other small molecules"
  • Joshua Schrier, Chemistry. "Computational nanoscience: Structural,electronic, and optical properties"
  • Walter Smith, Physics. "Electron transport in porphyrin nanorods; Atomic Force Microscopy."
  • Wendy Sternberg, Psychology. "Environmental Modulation of Pain"
  • Helen K. White, Chemistry.   "Investigations into the cycling of natural and anthropogenic carbon compounds in the marine environment."
  • Jonathan Wilson, Biology. "Quantitative paleoecology of extinct plants."

*On occasion other faculty members in the Natural Sciences Division may offer to supervise interdisciplinary research programs and may therefore serve as Hughes mentors by special arrangement.
** Professors Gollub, Morris, Okeke and Punt are not accepting HHMI students for the summer of 2013.