Department of Biology

Expertise: Developmental neurobiology. 

Expertise: Cellular organization and behavior in the Archaea domain of life. 

Expertise: Neural development and behavior. 

Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis. 

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

Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.

Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response. 

Expertise: Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies. 

Expertise: Molecular neurobiology and RNA metabolism.

Expertise: Genomics of brain development.

Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.

Expertise: Modulation of neural networks. 

Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.

Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.

Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex. 

Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development. 

Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells.

Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.

Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression. 

Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans. 

Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.

Biology Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2023

Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties. 

Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.

Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change.

Expertise: Biology education.

Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.

Expertise: Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.

Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function.

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.

Expertise:Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology

Undergraduate Advising Head — Spring 2024

Expertise: Super-resolution light microscopy and the structure of the synapse

Expertise: Cell differentiation, centrioles and cell death. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Naegleria.

Expertise: Drosophila neurogenetics

Expertise: Comparative nutritional pathophysiology in man and animals. Lipoprotein metabolism and atherogenesis, diabetes and obesity.

Expertise: Developmental immunology and immunogenetics.

Expertise: Genetic counseling.

Expertise: Mammalian embryogenesis. Gene expression in single cells.

Expertise: Neural development.