Our scientists develop and apply a predictive, multi-scale, and integrative understanding of biological responses of metazoans to environmental challenges, to improve human and biosphere health, and drive responsible economic growth using model systems.

 Portrait of Harshini Mukundan, a person with long black hair falling over shoulders, wearing a black top.

In addition to Interim Department Head, Mukundan is the Chemical and Biological Technologies Program Lead in the Lab’s Office of National Homeland Security and the Biosciences Area’s Strategic Programs Development Group. She has been leading chemical and biological technologies program development and establishing her lab in the Biosciences Area.

 A portrait of Vivek Mutalik, a person with short black and gray hair wearing a black and white shirt. Photographed outdoors. Henrik Scheller A person with glasses wearing a blue shirt looks at a sample of brain tissue that has been exposed to wildfire smoke to study the effects the smoke has on the brain.