Keck Science RESEARCH GROUPS

Budischak Lab Website

Areas: Disease Ecology

Research Description: We study wildlife disease, especially: co-infection, costs of parasite infection, environmental drivers of infection, genomics of susceptibility, and animal migration & disease.

Van Arnam Lab Website

Areas: Biological chemistry, chemical ecology, natural products chemistry

Research Description: We study naturally occurring molecules to understand their ecological functions and/or potential as antibiotics

S. Williams Lab Website

Areas: Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology

Research Description: We use chemistry and protein engineering to understand and improve proteins that kill harmful bacteria

Leconte Lab Website

Areas: Biochemistry, Biotechnology

Research Description: We engineer proteins to create useful tools for medicine and biotechnology

Caulkins Lab Website

Areas: Biophysical Chemistry

Research Description: Probing biomolecular structure and function using NMR

Soils Lab Website

Areas: Soil science, geomorphology, paleosols

Research Description: I study the ways in which soils, sediments, and landforms record/respond to environmental change.

Solomon-Lane Lab Website

Areas: behavior, neuroscience, endocrinology

Research Description: We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms.

Email: rbrodman@scrippscollege.edu

Areas: herpetology, conservation, ecology

Research Description: Conservation of amphibians & reptiles with questions ranging from ecology to animal behavior 

McFarlane Website

Areas: Ecology, biodiversity and palaeontology

Research Description: Tropical biodiversity, palaeontology, heavy metals elements in the environment, natural radioisotopes in the environment.

Adam Landsberg Website

Areas: mathematical & computational modeling of complex systems

Research Description: (see website)

Chandrangsu Lab Website

Areas: Microbiology, molecular biology, ecology

Research Description: How microbes shape and influence the world around us from the molecular to ecological scale.

Jha Lab Website

Areas: Cell Biology; Plant-Environment Interactions.

Research Description: We study cellular mechanisms that regulate plant development especially when responding to environmental fluctuations and stress.

E. Ferree Lab Website

Areas: Behavioral Ecology

Research Description: Our lab currently studies winter social behavior, migration patterns, and suburban ecology of birds. (photo credit: Julia Brekke)

Wenzel Lab Website

Areas: organic chemistry, pharmaceutical science

Research Description: Catalyst development, asymmetric synthesis, investigation of drug falsification

Purvis-Roberts Group Website

Areas: Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Research Description: Her research probes the chemical formation of particulate matter air pollution and characterizes the water-soluble component of Secondary Organic Aerosol formation from alkyl amines and reduced sulfur precursors. 

Email: cdettmar@scrippscollege.edu

Areas: Chemistry, Microscopy

Research Description: Our lab tackles challenges in broadband UV-VIS-NIR microscopy with novel optical design approaches.

beatLab Website

Areas: Neuroscience, Cognitive science

Research Description: Using brain waves and video games as tools to study intelligent behavior

Gilman Lab Website

Areas: Marine Ecology, Climate Change

Research Description: The effect of temperature on the physiology and ecology of intertidal barnacles and snails

Email: kkron@scrippscollege.edu

Areas: Organic Catalysis Design

Research Description: We perform molecular modelling calculations and use machine learning for greener organic catalyst design. 

Armstrong Lab Website

Areas: Genetics, cell biology

Research Description: Our research goal is to understand the complex roles of chromatin remodelers in gene expression.

Email: nwilliams@kecksci.claremont.edu

Areas: organometallic, inorganic, and computational chemistry

Research Description: We study complexes of platinum and iridium designed to break alkane C-H bonds.

Sheung Lab Website

Areas: Experimental biophysics

Research Description: We study intracellular transport and the mechanics of cytoskeletal composites with custom-built optical imaging systems.

Di Luccio Website

Areas: Polymer physics, nanomaterials

Research Description: We study processing-structure-property relations of polymer nanocomposites using polarized light microscopy and x-ray scattering. 

Marzen Lab Website

Areas: theoretical/computational biophysics

Research Description: My research lab had two arms: using machine learning to better understand biological data, and interpreting biological organisms as machine learners.  We now have a third: modeling cognitive and social science data to understand which interventions are likely to produce societally positive results.

Watson Lab Website

Areas: Neuroscience

Research Description: We investigate how the brain maintains proper levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine using the fruit fly! 

email: dthomson@kecksci.claremont.edu

Areas: Conservation, Ecology, Computer modeling

Research Description: Our lab uses experiments, field research, and computational tools to understand environmental problems such as non-native species and climate change.