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: 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: mRNA translation in cellular differentiation and disease

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: Biophysical mechanisms underlying flow generation by cilia arrays.

Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan will be starting at Brandeis September 2020.

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.

Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2020

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: Gene expression, cell differentiation and programmed cell death.

Expertise: Comparative Anatomy, Evolution, Physiology, BiomechanicsComparative Anatomy, Evolution Physiology, Biomechanics

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

Expertise: Ecology, conservation biology, animal behavior.

Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function

Expertise: Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology

Undergraduate Advising Head - Spring 2021

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