Keck Science RESEARCH GROUPS
Below please find a list of faculty who have research groups at Keck Science. To learn more about their research programs, click on the links below their names. To see which labs have open positions, you can go here.
Budischak lab
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
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
Areas: Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology
Research Description: We use chemistry and protein engineering to understand and improve proteins that kill harmful bacteria
Leconte LAB
Areas: Biochemistry, Biotechnology
Research Description: We engineer proteins to create useful tools for medicine and biotechnology
CAULKINS LAB
Areas: Biophysical Chemistry
Research Description: Probing biomolecular structure and function using NMR
SOILS LAB (ROBINS)
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
Areas: behavior, neuroscience, endocrinology
Research Description: We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms.
Dr. Bob's Herpetology Lab
Email: rbrodman@scrippscollege.edu
Areas: herpetology, conservation, ecology
Research Description: Conservation of amphibians & reptiles with questions ranging from ecology to animal behavior
McFarlane
Areas: Ecology, biodiversity and palaeontology
Research Description: Tropical biodiversity, palaeontology, heavy metals elements in the environment, natural radioisotopes in the environment.
PROF. Landsberg (PHYSICS)
Areas: mathematical & computational modeling of complex systems
Research Description: (see website)
Chandrangsu Lab
Areas: Microbiology, molecular biology, ecology
Research Description: How microbes shape and influence the world around us from the molecular to ecological scale.
Jha Lab
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
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
Areas: organic chemistry, pharmaceutical science
Research Description: Catalyst development, asymmetric synthesis, investigation of drug falsification
PURVIS-ROBERTS GROUP
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.
Dettmar Microscopy Group
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
Areas: Neuroscience, Cognitive science
Research Description: Using brain waves and video games as tools to study intelligent behavior
GILMAN
Areas: Marine Ecology, Climate Change
Research Description: The effect of temperature on the physiology and ecology of intertidal barnacles and snails
Kron lab
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
Areas: Genetics, cell biology
Research Description: Our research goal is to understand the complex roles of chromatin remodelers in gene expression.
Nancy Williams
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
Areas: Experimental biophysics
Research Description: We study intracellular transport and the mechanics of cytoskeletal composites with custom-built optical imaging systems.
Di Luccio lab
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
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
Areas: Neuroscience
Research Description: We investigate how the brain maintains proper levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine using the fruit fly!
THOMSON lab
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.
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