Life Sciences Faculty
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology. lab website
Expertise: Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life. lab website
Expertise: Regulation of Protein Phosphatases and the Evolution of Cellular Signaling. lab website
Expertise: Human spatial orientation and motor control.
Expertise: Self-organization of Living and Active matter.
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems (lab website)
Expertise: Scientific computing, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology.
Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughout crystallization devices. group website
Expertise: Neural development and behavior. lab website
Expertise: Single-molecule Biochemistry and Biophysics. Transcription and RNA processing. Cytoskeletal networks and regulation. lab website
Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis. lab website
Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors. lab website
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity. lab website
Expertise: Cognitive and social neuroscience; influence of age and culture on memory. lab website
Expertise: Self-control; empathy and environmentalism. lab website
Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response. lab website
Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure. group website
Expertise: Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies. lab website
Expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education. Group website
Expertise: Uncovering fundamental molecular mechanisms of virus translocation across biological membranes. lab website
Expertise: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory-guided behavior in the mammalian brain. lab website
Expertise: Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism.
Expertise: Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality, and lifespan. lab website
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning. lab website
Expertise: Dynamics of enzymes. Magnetic resonance methods. lab website
Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure.
Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to spaceflight and autonomous vehicles.
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast
Expertise: Modulation of neural networks. lab website
Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex. lab website
Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors.
Expertise: Mapping the functional repertoire of (bio)inorganic systems and protein metallocofactors; paradigms of (bio)catalysts relevant to the human health and environment. lab website
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development. lab website
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons. lab website
Complex fluids and biological physics; programmable self-assembly of soft materials; colloidal interactions and phase transitions; DNA nanotechnology; self-organization of active matter; optical trapping and single-molecule science.
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior, and gene expression. lab website
Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes.
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans. lab website
Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.
Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2022
Expertise: Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell.
Expertise: Evolution, structure, and function of macromolecular complexes.
Area of Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties. lab website
Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits
Area of Expertise: 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 Faculty
Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change
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 & Spring 2023. For advising: neurouah@brandeis.edu. Book a meeting.
Expertise: Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology
Undergraduate Advising Head - Spring 2023