Research/Teaching Faculty



Research Faculty

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Area of Expertise
Jeffrey Agar
Jeffrey Agar
Shapiro Science Center
3-07
781-736-2425
agar@brandeis.edu

High resolution mass spectrometry studies of protein post-translational modification
Li Deng
Li Deng
Edison-Lecks 322
781-736-2529
deng@brandeis.edu
Asymmetric catalysis and asymmetric synthesis. Solid phase synthesis and combinatorial chemistry. Chiral recognition. Chemical approaches towards understanding protein functions.
Irving Epstein
Irving Epstein
Shapiro Science Center
3-09
781-736-2503 epstein@brandeis.edu
Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems
Bruce Foxman
Bruce Foxman
Edison-Lecks 118
781-736-2532 foxman1@brandeis.edu
X-ray structure determination, coordination plymers, chemical, physical, and crystallographic studies of solid-state reactions
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Kosow-Wolfson 112
781-736-2333
hedstrom@brandeis.edu
Relationship between protein structure and function in enzyme catalysis and inhibitor action. Understanding the effects of mutations in vivo.
Judith Herzfeld
Judith Herzfeld
Shapiro Science Center
3-06
781-736-2538
herzfeld@brandeis.edu
Solid-state NMR studies of structure and function in membrane proteins and bio-inspired materials. Statistical thermodynamics of proton transfer and transport in proteins and bio-inspired materials.
Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan
Edison-Lecks 115
781-736-2540
jordan@brandeis.edu
Statistical mechanics of membranes and of membrane transport. Electrostatic modeling of ion pores. Molecular dynamics. Theories of ionic solvation.
Isaac Krauss
Isaac Krauss
Edison-Lecks 226
781-736-2574 kraussi@brandeis.edu
Study of organic synthesis, including its interface with other areas of chemical science, including organometallics and chemical biology.
Gregory Petsko
Gregory Petsko
Rosenstiel 653 781-736-4093 petsko@brandeis.edu
Protein crystallography, especially direct observation of transient species by low-temperature and Laue methods. Signal transduction in allergy and chemotaxis. Protein dynamics.
Thomas Pochapsky
Thomas Pochapsky
Rosenstiel 655
781-736-2559
pochapsk@brandeis.edu
Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
Dagmar Ringe
Dagmar Ringe
Rosenstiel 654
781-736-4902
ringe@brandeis.edu
X-ray crystallography of proteins.Studies of protein structure and function, enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand and protein-protein interaction
Barry Snider
Barry Snider
Edison-Lecks 225
781-736-2550
snider@brandeis.edu
Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions
Christine Thomas 

Christine Thomas
Edison-Lecks 307
781-736-2576
thomasc@brandeis.edu

Synthesis of new ligands and transition metal complexes with the ultimate goal of uncovering new approaches to the catalytic activation and functionalization of small molecules and organic substrates.
Bing Xu
Bing Xu
Edison-Lecks 320 781-736-5201 bxu@brandeis.edu
New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.


Teaching/Adjunct Faculty

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Milos Dolnik
Milos Dolnik
Lecturer in Chemistry
Shapiro Science Center
00-11A
781-736-2604
dolnik@brandeis.edu

Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
Claudia Novack  Claudia Novack-Jones
Lecturer in Chemistry
Edison-Lecks 120
781-736-2582
novack@brandeis.edu
Undergraduate chemistry education.
Susan Pochapsky
Susan Pochapsky
Rosenstiel 601
781-736-2543
ssp@brandeis.edu
Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
Jason Pontrello
Jason Pontrello
Lecturer in Chemistry
Shapiro Science Center
00-08B
781-736-2545
pontrell@brandeis.edu

Organic chemistry, chemical biology and chemical education.

Arthur Reis Arthur Reis
Lecturer in Chemistry
Bassine 103
781-736-3111
reis@brandeis.edu
Single mtDNA molecule amplification for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) determination in Human biological samples that impact our understanding of aging, and use in forensic assays.
Timothy Rose
Timothy Rose
Visiting Professor of Chemistry
Edison-Lecks 119
781-736-2515
trose@brandeis.edu
Physical and Environmental Chemistry, materials science, electrochemistry, photochemistry; undergraduate laboratory development.