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Recruiting for the 2026-2027 cycle
Structural investigation of viral-host interactions
Cellular basis of evolution of development
Faculty Lab(s):
https://baronelab.org/
Cell fate, stem-cell behaviors, and cell polarity in plant epidermal lineages
Thermal physiology, open ocean predators, ecological physiology and tuna biology
Faculty Lab(s):
https://www.stanfordblocklab.org/
Brain circuits mediating motivated behaviors; addiction, pain and depression
Bacterial physiology and host-microbe interactions
Chemical and systems biology of Ca2+ dependent phosphatase signaling networks
Land use, biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem services
Biogeography and macroecology
Understanding how plants perceive, use and interact with water at multiple scales
Investigating cell death pathways using chemical biology and functional genomics
Cell patterning and cytoskeleton organization during development
Human genetic and cultural evolution, mathematical biology, demography of China population genetics
The evolution of gene expression, integrating experiments and computation
Protein folding, protein quality control, amyloid and misfolding diseases
Community ecology
Collective behavior, ants, modelling, genetics, neurophysiology, ecology, evolution
Role of chromatin signaling in nuclear programming and disease regulation
Organism-wide circuits for brain-body interactions. Circuit mechanisms underlying multi-organ feedback control
Bacterial cell replication from general principles and mechanisms to Lyme disease
Genetic analysis of neural circuit organization and assembly in flies and mice
Community ecology of infectious disease
Chromatin regulation of genome stability
Biochemistry of pathogen manipulation of host signaling to promote disease
Evolutionary innovations in physiology and behavior from molecules to ecosystems
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
Human evolution, mathematical models, population genetics, statistical genetics
Novel imaging technologies to understand neural circuits, learning, and memory
The surface display of proteins by Gram-negative bacteria
How experience tunes up brain circuits during critical periods of development
Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation
Cell cycle control and systems biology
Molecular technologies for the study of protein networks, mitochondria, synapses, and RNA
Demography: animal and human; Theoretical ecology and evolution
Stem cell-mediated development, Regeneration, Chimerism and aging in marine organisms
Faculty Lab(s):
https://marinestemcell.stanford.edu/
Human brain development, neural lineage specification, and synaptic diversity
Live cell force dynamics during mitosis, and cellular mechanics during differentiation and development