Zeba Wunderlich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Department of Biology, BME)

Office 610 Commonwealth Avenue, 605B
Email zeba@bu.edu
Phone 617-353-3833
Website Wunderlich Lab

Honors and Awards

Learning Experience Design and Online Teaching Award 2021
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Dean’s Honoree 2020
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research 2019
Hellman Fellowship 2017
NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award 2012

Areas of Interest

Regulatory DNA encodes the gene regulatory networks that are required for virtually every process in an animal, from development to immunity. The Wunderlich lab is interested in understanding how a gene regulatory network’s tasks influence its architecture, robustness, and evolvability. To probe these questions, we use two model systems: the Drosophila early embryonic patterning system and the Drosophila innate immune response. In both systems, we pair imaging-based and genomic measurements of gene expression with statistical and physically based computational models to explore questions of gene regulatory network function. We exploit naturally occurring sequence variation between individuals and species as a tool to measure how changes in regulatory DNA affect transcriptional regulation.

Research Areas

regulation of gene expression; design principles of enhancers; systems biology; developmental biology; innate immunology

Zeba Wunderlich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Department of Biology, BME)

Publications