Max Staller

Max Staller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the College of Letters & Science and the Center for Computational Biology. His lab focuses on understanding how transcriptional activation domains regulate gene expression through interdisciplinary approaches combining experimental, computational, and theoretical methods.

Research Interests:

• Transcriptional regulation mechanisms in development and stress responses
• Functional analysis of intrinsically disordered protein domains
• Machine learning applications in protein sequence-function prediction
• Evolutionary dynamics of transcription factors

Grants & Collaborations: Lead investigator on the NSF-funded PlantSynBio project (2021) for identifying transcriptional activation domains across plant species. Collaborates with the Cohen Lab (Washington University) on mutational scanning studies.

Labs & Affiliations: Director of the Staller Lab, which integrates high-throughput experiments with computational modeling. Active in the Berkeley Bioscience community and the Center for Computational Biology.