Faculty
Research Faculty
Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
Neural development and behavior
Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis
Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity
Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response
Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies.
mRNA translation in cellular differentiation and disease
Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
Modulation of Neural Networks
Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex
Biophysical mechanisms underlying flow generation by cilia arrays.
Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan will be starting at Brandeis September 2020.
Endosomal Membrane Traffic in Neurons.
Circadian Rhythms, Behavior, and Gene Expression.
Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
Molecular immunology. Antibody transport.
Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
Teaching Faculty
Gene expression, cell differentiation and programmed cell death.
Comparative Anatomy, Evolution, Physiology, BiomechanicsComparative Anatomy, Evolution Physiology, Biomechanics
Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.
Ecology, conservation biology, animal behavior.
Biology education and protein structure-function
Teaching Genetics and Genomic and Molecular Biotechnology
Faculty Emeriti
Super-resolution light microscopy and the structure of the synapse
Cell Differentiation, Centrioles, and Cell Death. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Naegleria.
Comparative nutritional pathophysiology in man and animals. Lipoprotein metabolism and atherogenesis, diabetes and obesity.
Mammalian embryogenesis. Gene expression in single cells.
Neural Development