Chemotaxis of bacteria

Sperm guidance in humans

Studying large protein complexes involved in the protein degradation pathway using a novel mass spectrometry approach.

* Neurophysiological recordings of individual neurons in freely flying bats, using radio-telemetry -- in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

* The neural basis of behavior

* From the bat's biological sonar system to spatial cognition

* Mammalian hippocampus (hippocampal place cells) and entorhinal cortex (grid cells)

* Neuronal circuits: hippocampal and entorhinal neural activity in freely-behaving echolocating bats

* Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the mammalian brain

* Neurobiology of learning and memory: a systems neuroscience approach

Earth and environmental sciences education: research, development and implemntation from K-12.

The outdoor as a learning environment

A genetic dissection of developmental axon regeneration

Molecular mechanisms of neuronal remodeling during development: Developmental axon pruning in Drosophila

Design and analysis of algorithms, including massive data sets, data analysis, and combinatorial optimization

Embeddings of finite metric spaces, high dimensional geometry

The role of talin1 and Kindlin-3 in integrin activation and lymphocyte adhesiveness to inflamed vessels under shear stress.

Mice models for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) .

Role of lymph node chemokines in lymphocyte scanning of dendritic cells.

Effector lymphocyte trafficking to sites of inflammation.

The functions of endothelial and myeloid ICAM-1 in adaptive and innate immunity.

Endothelial stores of chemokines and their function in leukocyte extravasation.

Chemokine activation of leukocyte integrins at endothelial contacts under shear stress.

Dendritic cell behavior:

Microbial genomics and RNAomics with Illumina sequencing

CRISPR, an antiviral microbial defense system

Computational discovery of novel natural antibiotics

Development of chemical methods for remediation of water polluted by organic compounds and heavy metals.

Fluid flow and chemical transport in groundwater systems.

Percolation, scaling and statistical physics models of structural and dynamic processes in geological formations.

Experimental and theoretical analysis of reactive transport and precipitation/dissolution patterns in porous media.