The Todd Lab’s interest lies in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets.
Research
Wang Group
The Wang Group research centers around protein folding and function, and how problems in this area can cause disease, inparticular neurodegenerative disorders.
Weix Group
The Weix research program is focused on the development of conceptually new catalytic methods for organic synthesis.
Wickens Group
The primary focus of the Wickens Group is the discovery of new catalytic principles that can be leveraged to precisely control chemical reactivity.
Widicus Weaver Group
The Widicus Weaver Group conducts research in the emerging field of prebiotic astrochemistry to investigate the chemical mechanisms in space that lead to the development of biological systems.
Wright Group
The Wright Group focuses on using nonlinear spectroscopy as a tool to study a vast array of different molecular and material states–from low-energy vibrational modes of proteins to excitonic and ionized states of quantum dots and everything in between–and their coherent dynamics.
Yang Group
The Yang Group’s research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry, with two primary areas of interest: 1) developing hardcore theoretical methods in multicomponent quantum chemistry and 2) applying these methods to chemical, biological, and materials systems.
Yethiraj Group
The Yethiraj Group research focuses on theoretical studies of soft condensed matter.
Yoon Group
The central goal of research in the Yoon Group is to develop strategies for the controlled synthesis of complex organic molecules.
Zanni Group
The Zanni Group studies topics in biophysics and the energy sciences using 2D IR spectroscopy.