Why I Teach
Bio 44Y, a Stanford biology class developed by Associate Professor Tadashi Fukami that involves undergraduates in their instructors’ research, has been awarded the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI). This combination of inquiry-based instruction and faculty research has been shown to engage students much more effectively than standard lab classes.
“The students come to realize that science is a trial-and-error process,” says Fukami, “that it’s okay to have failure. They just have to keep working with the data and reformulate their questions.”
Faculty
Ecological responses to global change
Dominique Bergmann
Office: Gilbert 208B
Email: dbergmann@stanford.edu
Admin: Brenda Koehler
Lab Website
Cell fate, stem-cell behaviors, and cell polarity in plant epidermal lineages
Thermal physiology, open ocean predators, ecological physiology and tuna biology
Steven M. Block
Office: Herrin Labs 029
Email: sblock@stanford.edu
Admin: Teresita Mezzetta
Lab Website
Single molecule biophysics using optical trapping and fluorescence
Brain circuits mediating motivated behaviors; addiction, pain and depression
Larry B. Crowder
Office: HMS Loeb 7A
Phone: (831) 655-6217
Email: Larry.Crowder@stanford.edu
Admin: Marianne DiMaggio
Lab Website
Ecology, conservation, fisheries, protected species, ecosystem-based management
Martha S. Cyert
Office: Lokey 147
Phone: (650) 723-9970
Email: MCYERT@stanford.edu
Admin: Tammy Learned
Lab Website
Chemical and systems biology of Ca2+ dependent phosphatase signaling networks
Gretchen C. Daily
Office: Herrin Labs 413
Phone: (650) 723-9452
Email: gdaily@stanford.edu
Admin: Michelle Valencia
Land use, biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem services
Giulio De Leo
Office: HMS Fisher 6
Phone: (831) 655-6202
Email: deleo@stanford.edu
Admin: Cheryl Butner
Lab Website
Modeling conservation and management of marine resources, disease dynamics
Biomechanics, ecology, and ecological physiology
Understanding how plants perceive, use and interact with water at multiple scales
Rodolfo Dirzo
Office: Herrin Labs 453
Phone: (650) 736-7643
Email: rdirzo@stanford.edu
Admin: Pamela Hung
Lab Website
Evolutionary ecology of species interactions and conservation science
Investigating cell death pathways using chemical biology and functional genomics
Jessica Feldman
Office: Gilbert 306B
Email: feldmanj@stanford.edu
Admin: Vannina Champenois
Lab Website
Cell patterning and cytoskeleton organization during development
Marcus Feldman
Office: Herrin Labs 478
Phone: (650) 725-1867
Email: mfeldman@stanford.edu
Admin: Lawrence Bond
Human genetic and cultural evolution, mathematical biology, demography of China population genetics
Russell D. Fernald
Office: Gilbert 316A
Phone: (650) 725-2460
Email: rfernald@stanford.edu
Admin: Pamela Hung
Lab Website
How social behavior changes neurons and their connections in the brain
Global ecology, climate change impacts, global carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology
The evolution of gene expression, integrating experiments and computation
Protein folding, protein quality control, amyloid and misfolding diseases
Tadashi Fukami
Office: Herrin Labs 498A
Phone: (650) 721-1711
Email: fukamit@stanford.edu
Admin: Yolanda Madrid
Lab Website
Community ecology
Ion channels in excitable cells; Motor control/behavior in Cephalopods
Jeremy Goldbogen
Office: HMS De Nault 208
Phone: (831) 655-6234
Email: jergold@stanford.edu
Lab Website
Functional morphology, biomechanics, physiological ecology, energetics
Deborah M Gordon
Office: Gilbert 410B
Phone: (650) 725-6364
Email: dmgordon@stanford.edu
Admin: Joanna Pinell Knox
Lab Website
Ant colony organization, behavior, ecology, population and behavioral genetics
Role of chromatin signaling in nuclear programming and disease regulation
Elizabeth Hadly
Office: Herrin Labs 280
Phone: (650) 498-4995 ext. lab
Email: hadly@stanford.edu
Admin: LaMoria Roberts
Lab Website
Animal response to past, present & future climatic change
H Craig Heller
Office: Gilbert 420A
Phone: (650) 723-1509
Email: hcheller@stanford.edu
Admin: May Chin
Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms, memory, and thermoregulation
Developmental biology of dopamine neurons and mRNA processing
Ron Kopito
Office: Lokey 148
Phone: (650) 723-7581
Email: KOPITO@stanford.edu
Admin: Tammy Learned
Lab Website
Protein quality control and molecular mechanisms of disease
Sharon R. Long
Office: Gilbert 216A
Phone: (650) 723-3153
Email: srl@stanford.edu
Admin: Alexandra Bloom
Lab Website
Biochemistry, genetics and cell biology of plant-bacterial symbiosis
Evolution and development, specifically the evolution of the deuterostomes
Genetic analysis of neural circuit organization and assembly in flies and mice
Susan K. McConnell
Office: Herrin Labs 115A
Phone: (650) 725-8786
Email: suemcc@stanford.edu
Admin: Vannina Champenois
Lab Website
Determination of neuronal cell fates and connectivity
Fiorenza Micheli
Office: HMS Aggassiz 5
Phone: (831) 655-6251
Email: micheli@stanford.edu
Admin: Cheryl Butner
Lab Website
Ecology and conservation of marine ecosystems
Erin Mordecai
Office: Gilbert 406
Phone: (650) 497-7447
Email: emordeca@stanford.edu
Admin: Michelle Valencia
Lab Website
Community ecology of infectious disease
Ashby Morrison
Office: Gilbert 326B
Phone: (650) 721-6589
Email: ashbym@stanford.edu
Admin: Elyse Pierson
Lab Website
Chromatin regulation of genome stability
Mary Beth Mudgett
Office: Gilbert 228A
Email: mudgett@stanford.edu
Admin: LaMoria Roberts
Lab Website
Biochemistry of pathogen manipulation of host signaling to promote disease
William Nelson
Office: Clark E200B
Phone: (650) 725-7596
Email: wjnelson@stanford.edu
Admin: Vannina Champenois
Lab Website
We seek to understand how cell-cell interactions specify the correct cellular organization of complex tissues
Evolutionary innovations in physiology and behavior from molecules to ecosystems
Stephen Palumbi
Office: HMS Blinks 114
Phone: (831) 655-6210
Email: spalumbi@stanford.edu
Admin: Elizabeth Sheets
Lab Website
Using genomics to understand ecology, evolution & conservation of marine species
Kabir Peay
Office: Herrin Labs 227A
Phone: (650) 723-0552
Email: kpeay@stanford.edu
Admin: Alexandra Bloom
Lab Website
Ecology, community structure & ecosystem function of plant-microbial symbiosis
Evolution of genomes and population genomics of adaptation and variation
Genomics, human genetic and phenotypic variation, evolution
Cardiovascular development and regeneration
Noah Rosenberg
Office: Herrin Labs 339A
Phone: (650) 723-4831
Email: noahr@stanford.edu
Admin: Susan Mello
Lab Website
Human evolution, mathematical models, population genetics, statistical genetics
Neuron death, stress, gene therapy
Mark J. Schnitzer
Office: Clark W081
Email: mschnitz@stanford.edu
Admin: Teresita Mezzetta
Lab Website
Novel imaging technologies to understand neural circuits, learning, and memory
Evolutionary and population genetics focusing on hybridization between species
Carla Shatz
Office: Clark W157
Phone: (650) 723-0534
Email: cshatz@stanford.edu
Admin: Amy Harris
Lab Website
How experience tunes up brain circuits during critical periods of development
Kang Shen
Office: Herrin Labs 144B
Email: kangshen@stanford.edu
Admin: Clarence McClanahan
Lab Website
Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation
Planar cell polarity, cell shape and mobility, and control of cell fate
Cell cycle control and systems biology
Tim Stearns
Office: Lokey 136
Phone: (650) 725-6934
Email: stearns@stanford.edu
Admin: Tammy Learned
Lab Website
Cell organization and signaling and deciphering human genetic variation
Neurobiology, signal transduction
Alice Ting
Office: Clark W153
Phone: (650) 723-0397
Email: ayting@stanford.edu
Admin: Janet Elder
Lab Website
Molecular probes and technology applied to mitochondria, synapses, and RNA
Shripad Tuljapurkar
Office: Herrin Labs 454
Phone: (650) 723-6311
Email: tulja@stanford.edu
Admin: Michelle Valencia
Lab Website
Demography: animal and human; Theoretical ecology and evolution
Peter Vitousek
Office: Y2E2 375
Phone: (650) 725-1866
Email: vitousek@stanford.edu
Admin: Michelle Valencia
Lab Website
Pacific Islands as models for biogeochemistry and human-environment interaction
Virginia Walbot
Office: Herrin Labs 251
Phone: (650) 723-2007
Email: WALBOT@stanford.edu
Admin: Alexandra Bloom
Lab Website
Mechanisms of cell fate specification
