Human evolution and disease

Investigating how adaptive variation arises (as opposed to being selected) and testing predictions of a theory of individual-specific adaptation that complements natural selection by explaining adaptation on every timescale and level of organization

Environmental microbes and their response to human-made pollution

We study interactions between peripheral circadian clocks and exercise physiology, hypoxia signaling and metabolic pathways

Why do some people succumb to infection - while others don't?

We study bacterial ecological interactions, diversity, stability and stress in communities from pre-Cambrian oceans

Proteomic analysis of cancer heterogeneity to elucidate disease progression mechanisms and resistance to therapy

An integrative approach for the exploration of melanoma genetic and immunological interactions

Spatial transcriptomics of mammalian tissues

Characterization of the functions and mechanisms of long noncoding RNAs and of nuclear RNA export

Health effects of air polution, transport of bacteria and fungi in the atmosphere

Developing experimental and computational approaches for multiplexed imaging of clinical specimens to uncover tumor-immune interactions