Systems biology requires the integration of biology, technology, computation and medicine and, accordingly, a strong cross-disciplinary team of researchers. The ISB includes scientists trained in such diverse fields as biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, medicine, immunology, biochemistry, and genetics. All speak the language of biology, all are acquiring a deep understanding of biology, and all have assembled into a multiplicity of teams that are attacking focused and important problems of systems biology.

Many ISB faculty members maintain affiliate appointments with academic institutions such as the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Caltech University.

As one can see below, the strikingly cross-disciplinary faculty embodies the spirit of systems biology.

Team Members:		Area of Expertise:
Alan Aderem		Immunology, infectious disease, cell biology and  biophysics
Ruedi Aebersold		Proteomics, protein chemistry
John Aitchison		Complex molecular machines, cell biology
Nitin Baliga		Microbial genetics, extremophile biology, and  gene regulatory networks
Aimée Dudley		Genetics, Gene regulatory networks and Technology development
David Galas		Genetics, technology for biology applications,  complex network analysis and function
Tim Galitski		Genetics of systems biology
Lee Hood		Adaptive immunity, genomics and  biotechnology
Dan Martin		Proteomics
Adrian Ozinsky		Immunology, cell biology, and biotechnology
Jeff Ranish		Proteomics, macromolecular complexes and  transcriptional regulation
Ilya Shmulevich		Computational biology, signal and image  processing
Peter Small		Tuberculosis, comparative genomics, bacterial  population genetics

Scientists from around the world who specialize in systems biology also have the opportunity to access Institute resources such as the facilities and technology to generate data to use in their own laboratories.