Faculty

Research Faculty

Susan Birren
Susan J. Birren
Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor in Neuroscience
781-736-2680 Shapiro Science Center 1-06A
  • Expertise: Developmental neurobiology. 

Alexandre Bisson, Assistant Professor of Biology
Alexandre Bisson
Assistant Professor of Biology
781-736-4923 Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center 519
  • Expertise: Cellular organization and behavior in the Archaea domain of life. 

Steven DeLuca
Steven DeLuca
Assistant Professor of Biology
781-736-4951 Rosenstiel 441
  • Expertise: Developmental control of gene expression.

Paul Garrity
Paul Garrity
Professor of Biology
781-736-3127 Shapiro Science Center 2-16
  • Expertise: Neural development and behavior. 

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Bruce Goode
Professor of Biology
781-736-2464 Rosenstiel 532
  • Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis. 

Christine Grienberger
  • Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors. 

Leslie Griffith
Leslie Griffith
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience
Director of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3125 Shapiro Science Center 2-06B
  • Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.

James Haber
James Haber
Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology
Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
781-736-2462 Rosenstiel 302
  • Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response. 

Liz Hedstrom
Liz Hedstrom
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Biology Department Chair
781-736-2333 Kosow-Wolfson-Rosensweig Biochemistry 112
  • Expertise: Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies. 

Sebastian Kadener
Sebastian Kadener
Associate Professor of Biology
781-736-4915 Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center 332
  • Expertise: Molecular neurobiology and RNA metabolism.

Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev
Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev
Assistant Professor of Biology
781-736-4907 Rosenstiel 544
  • Expertise: Genomics of brain development.

Susan Lovett
Susan Lovett
Abraham S. and Gertrude Burg Professor of Microbiology
781-736-2497 Rosenstiel 337
  • Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.

Eve Marder
Eve Marder
University Professor
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Biology
781-736-3140 Volen National Center for Complex Systems 314
  • Expertise: Modulation of neural networks. 

Michael Marr
Michael Marr
Associate Professor of Biology
781-736-2481 Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center 334
  • Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.

Paul Miller
Paul Miller
Professor of Biology
781-736-2890 Volen National Center for Complex Systems 317
  • Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.

Sacha Nelson
Sacha Nelson
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science
Program Chair, Neuroscience
781-736-3181 Carl J. Shapiro Science Center 1-21
  • Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex. 

Suzanne Paradis
Suzanne Paradis
Professor of Biology
781-736-5305 Shapiro Science Center 1-08A
  • Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development. 

 Kaushik Ragunathan
Kaushik Ragunathan
Assistant Professor of Biology
781-736-2407 Rosenstiel 450
  • Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells.

Avital Rodal
Avital Rodal
Professor of Biology
781-736-2459 Rosenstiel 528
  • Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.

Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash
Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Professor of Biology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
781-736-3160 Shapiro Science Center 2-24B
  • Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression. 

Piali Sengupta
Piali Sengupta
Harold and Bernice Davis Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
Professor of Biology
781-736-2686 Carl J. Shapiro Science Center 2-08A
  • Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans. 

Neil Simister
Neil Simister
Associate Professor of Biology
Director, Professional Science Master's Program in Biotechnology
781-736-4952 Bassine Science Building 203
  • Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.

  • Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2022

Gina Turrigiano
Gina Turrigiano
Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science
781-736-2684 Carl J. Shapiro Science Center 1-28
  • Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties. 

Stephen Van Hooser
Stephen Van Hooser
Associate Professor of Biology
781-736-2721 Bassine Biology Building 326
  • Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.

Teaching Faculty

Colleen Hitchcock
Colleen Hitchcock
Associate Professor of Ecology
781-736-2634 Rabb Graduate Center 353
  • Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change.

Melissa Kosinski-Collins
Melissa Kosinski-Collins
Professor of Biology
781-736-3126 Carl J. Shapiro Science Center 0-16A
  • Expertise: Biology education.

Elaine Lai
Elaine Lai
Senior Lecturer
Senior Scientist in Biology
781-736-3152 Bassine Biology Building 406
  • Expertise: Gene expression, cell differentiation and programmed cell death.

Maria de Boef Miara
Maria de Boef Miara
Associate Professor of Biology
Master's Advising Head for MCB and Neuroscience
781-736-3106 Bassine Science Building 117
  • Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.

James Morris
James Morris
Professor of Biology
781-736-3119 Bassine Science Building 214
  • Expertise: Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.

Kene Piasta
Kene Piasta
Assistant Professor of Biology
Senior Research / Honors Coordinator
781-736-3159 Shapiro Science Center 016E
  • Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function.

Nathalie Vladis
  • Expertise: Neuroscience, aging, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, data visualization, biomedical education, academic development.

  • Neuroscience UAH for fall 2022 and spring 2023.

  • For advising: neurouah@brandeis.edu.

  • Book a meeting.

Rachel Woodruff
Rachel Woodruff
Associate Professor of Biology
781-736-3189 Bassine Biology Building 202
  • Expertise:Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology

  • Undergraduate Advising Head — Spring 2023

Faculty Emeriti

David DeRosier
David DeRosier
Professor Emeritus of Biology
  • Expertise: Super-resolution light microscopy and the structure of the synapse

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Chandler Fulton
Professor Emeritus of Biology
  • Expertise: Cell differentiation, centrioles and cell death. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Naegleria.

Jeff Hall, Professor Emeritus of Biology
Jeff Hall
Professor Emeritus of Biology
  • Expertise: Drosophila neurogenetics

kenneth c. hayes
Kenneth C. Hayes
Professor Emeritus of Biology
  • Expertise: Comparative nutritional pathophysiology in man and animals. Lipoprotein metabolism and atherogenesis, diabetes and obesity.

Joan Press
Joan Press
Professor Emerita of Biology
  • Expertise: Developmental immunology and immunogenetics.

Judith Tsipis, Professor Emerita of Biology
Judith Tsipis
Professor Emerita of Biology
  • Expertise: Genetic counseling.

Lawrence Wangh
Lawrence Wangh
Professor Emeritus of Biology
  • Expertise: Mammalian embryogenesis. Gene expression in single cells.

Kalpana White
Professor Emerita of Biology
  • Expertise: Neural development.