| John T. R. Nickerson | | | | 1938 | Samuel Cate Prescott (grad student) |
| Erik Zinser | | | | | Sallie W. Chisholm (post-doc) |
| Gerald J. Silverman | | | | | |
| Yongku Cho | | | 2010 | 2013 | Edward S. Boyden (post-doc) |
| Xiaofei Gao | | | 2012 | 2017 | Harvey F. Lodish (post-doc) |
| Sean D. Moore | | Biology | 2001 | 2008 | Robert T. Sauer (post-doc) |
| John Wymond Miller Bunker | | | | | |
| En Sup Yoon | | | | | |
| Qing Sun | | Synthetic Biology Center | 2015 | 2017 | Timothy K. Lu (post-doc) |
| Roger Summons | | | | | |
| Karthik Subramaniam Pushpavanam | | | 2019 | 2019 | Michael S. Strano (post-doc) |
| Angel Mojarro | | Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | 2017 | 2022 | Roger Summons (grad student), Maria Theresa Zuber (grad student) |
| Richard I. Mateles | | | | | |
| Christopher M. Johnson | | | 2011 | 2016 | Alan D. Grossman (post-doc) |
| Alan D. Grossman | | | | | |
| T. Yasuda | | | | | |
| Brandon Sit | bacterial pathogens | | | | |
| Andy H. Yuan | Bacterial transcription, bacterial prions, eukaryotic epigenetics | | | | Susan L. Lindquist (grad student) |
| Drew Endy | Bioengineering | | | | |
| James R. Swartz | Chemical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology Biology | Department of Nutrition and Food Science | | 1978 | Charles L. Cooney (grad student) |
| Yadira Marie Soto-Feliciano | Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics | Biology | 2010 | 2016 | Michael T. Hemann (grad student) |
| Sean M. Gibbons | Ecology, Microbiology, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Evolution | Biological Engineering | 2015 | 2018 | Eric J. Alm (post-doc) |
| Peter K. Kitanidis | Environmental Engineering, Microbiology Biology, Environmental Sciences | | | | John Loyd Wilson (grad student) |
| Thomas J. Montville | Food Science and Technology Agriculture, Microbiology Biology | | | 1979 | Charles L. Cooney (grad student) |
| Theodore P. Labuza | Food Science and Technology Agriculture, Microbiology Biology | | | 1965 | Marcus Karel (grad student) |
| Yong-Su Jin | Food Science and Technology Agriculture, Microbiology Biology | Chemical Engineering | 2002 | 2006 | Gregory Stephanopoulos (post-doc) |
| Marcus Karel | Food Science, Food Engineering | | | 1960 | John T. R. Nickerson (grad student), Samuel A. Goldblith (research assistant), Bernard Emerson Proctor (research assistant) |
| Kenneth J. Rothschild | General Biophysics, Microbiology Biology | | | 1974 | H. Eugene Stanley (grad student) |
| Douglas Elliott Koshland | Genetics, Microbiology Biology, Cell Biology | | | 1982 | David Botstein (grad student) |
| David Sinclair | Genetics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology Biology | Biology | 1995 | 1999 | Leonard Guarente (post-doc) |
| Gregory L. Szeto | Immunology, Virology Biology, Molecular Biology, cancer, Biomedical engineering, immunoengineering | | 2011 | 2015 | Darrell J Irvine (post-doc) |
| Arnold L. Demain | Industrial microbiology, biotechnology, industrial fermentation, antibiotics, enzymes, secondary metabolism, biofuels, bioconversions | | | | |
| Myron Solberg | meat science and food microbiology | Food Technology | | 1960 | John T. R. Nickerson (grad student) |
| Anthony J. Sinskey | metabolic engineering | | | 1967 | Gerald J. Silverman (grad student) |
| Marshall Walker Jennison | Microbiology | | | 1932 | John Wymond Miller Bunker (grad student) |
| Arpita Bose | Microbiology Biology | | | | Dianne K. Newman (post-doc) |
| Stephen C. Winans | Microbiology Biology | | | | Graham C. Walker (grad student) |
| Robert A. Bender | Microbiology Biology | | | | Boris Magasanik (grad student) |
| Peter E. Prevelige | Microbiology Biology | Biology | 1985 | 1993 | Jonathan A. King (post-doc) |
| Vincent Racaniello | Microbiology Biology | | 1979 | 1982 | David Baltimore (post-doc) |
| Anne-Frances Miller | Microbiology Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | | 1989 | 1990 | William H. Orme-Johnson (post-doc) |
| Dewey D. Y. Ryu | Microbiology Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology | | | | Richard I. Mateles (grad student) |
| Paula V. Welander | Microbiology Biology, Molecular Biology | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science | | 2012 | Dianne K. Newman (post-doc), Roger Summons (post-doc) |
| Areen Banerjee | Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Synthetic Biology, Analog Circuits, Electrical Reporting | | | | |
| Nicole J De Nisco | Microbiome, urinary tract infection, host-microbe interactions | Biology Chemistry | 2008 | 2013 | Graham C. Walker (grad student), Catherine L. Drennan (research assistant) |
| Kristina Haslinger | natural product discovery, metabolic engineering | Chemical Engineering | 2016 | 2019 | kristala jones prather (post-doc) |
| Dudley W. Lamming | Pathology, Microbiology Biology, Genetics | Biology | 2008 | 2013 | David M. Sabatini (post-doc) |
| Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez | Peptide design and engineering, synthetic biology, microbiology, computational biology | Biological Engineering | 2015 | 2018 | Timothy K. Lu (post-doc) |
| Jane Glazebrook | Plant Pathology Agriculture, Botany Biology, Microbiology Biology | | | 1991 | Graham C. Walker (grad student) |
| Animesh Ray | Systems biology, cancer, developmental biology, computational biology | Biology | 1989 | 1991 | Ethan Royal Signer (post-doc) |
| Charles Wood | Virology | | 1981 | 1983 | Susumu Tonegawa (post-doc) |