Life Sciences Faculty
![Shantanu Jadhav, Neuroscience professor](../images/jadhav.jpg)
![Anne Berry, Psychology](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/anne-berry-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging.
![Susan Birren](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/birren-susan.jpg)
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.
![Alexandre Bisson, Assistant Professor of Biology](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/bisson-alexandre-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cellular organization and behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
![Niels Bradshaw](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/bradshaw_niels.jpg)
Expertise: Regulation of protein phosphatases and the evolution of cellular signaling.
![Paul DiZio](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/dizio-340.jpg)
Expertise: Human spatial orientation and motor control.
![Guillaume Duclos](https://www.brandeis.edu/molecular-cell-biology/faculty/faculty-images/duclos-guillaume.jpg)
Expertise: Self-organization of Living and Active matter.
![Irving Epstein](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/epstein_340.jpg)
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems
![Thomas Fai](https://www.brandeis.edu/volen/faculty/images/fai-thomas.jpg)
Expertise: Scientific computing, fluid dynamics and mathematical biology.
![Carol Fierke](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/fierke-carol-340.jpg)
![Seth Fraden](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/fraden-seth.jpg)
Expertise: Macromolecules in suspension; physics of protein crystallization; microfluidics
![Paul Garrity](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/garrity-paul.jpg)
Expertise: Neural development and behavior.
![Jeff Gelles](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/gelles-jeff.jpg)
Expertise: Single-molecule biochemistry and biophysics; transcription and RNA processing; cytoskeletal networks and regulation
![Bruce Goode faculty image](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/goode-bruce.jpg)
Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis.
![Christine Grienberger](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/grienberger-christine-340.jpg)
Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors.
![Leslie Griffith](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/griffith_lc_req_340.jpg)
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
![Angela Gutchess](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/gutchess-340.jpg)
Expertise: Cognitive and social neuroscience; influence of age and culture on memory.
![Jennifer Gutsell](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/gutsell-340.jpg)
Expertise: Self-control; empathy and environmentalism.
![James Haber](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/haber-james.jpg)
Expertise: Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response.
![Michael Hagan, Physics faculty member, Brandeis University](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/hagan-michael.jpg)
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
![Liz Hedstrom](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/hedstrom-liz.jpg)
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
![Pengyu Hong](faculty-images/pengyu-hong.jpg)
Expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education.
![Shantanu Jadhav](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/jadhav-340.jpg)
Expertise: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory-guided behavior in the mammalian brain.
![Julia Kardon](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/kardon-julia.jpg)
Expertise: Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality and lifespan
![Donald Katz](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/katz-340.jpg)
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.
![Dorothee Kern](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/kern-dorothee.jpg)
Expertise: Dynamics of enzymes, magnetic resonance methods
![Jané Kondev](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/kondev-jane.jpg)
Expertise: 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
![Isaac Krauss](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/krauss-isaac1.jpg)
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry.
![James Lackner](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/lackner-340.jpg)
Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to spaceflight and autonomous vehicles.
![Susan Lovett](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/lovett-sue.jpg)
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
![Eve Marder](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/marder-eve.jpg)
Expertise: Modulation of neural networks.
![Michael Marr](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/marr-michael.jpg)
Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.
![Paul Miller](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/miller-paul.jpg)
Expertise: Computational and theoretical neuroscience.
![Sacha Nelson](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/nelson-sacha.jpg)
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
![Dan Oprian](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/oprian-daniel.jpg)
Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors
![Maria-Eirini Pandelia](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/pandelia-maria-340.jpg)
Expertise: Mapping the functional repertoire of (bio)inorganic systems and protein metallocofactors; paradigms of (bio)catalysts relevant to the human health and environment
![Suzanne Paradis](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/paradis-suzanne.jpg)
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
![Thomas Pochapsky](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/pochapsky-thomas-2022-340.jpg)
Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
![Avital Rodal](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/rodal-avi.jpg)
Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.
![Ben Rogers](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/rogers-benjamin.jpg)
Expertise: Self-assembly at the colloidal length scale
![Michael Rosbash](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/rosbash-michael.jpg)
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
![Klaus Schmidt-Rohr](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/schmidt-rohr-klaus1.jpg)
Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.
![Robert Sekuler](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/sekuler-340.jpg)
Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes.
![Piali Sengupta](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/sengupta-piali.jpg)
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
![Neil Simister](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/simister-neil.jpg)
Expertise: Molecular immunology, antibody transport.
Biology Undergraduate Advising Head - Fall 2023
![Barry Snider](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/snider-barry.jpg)
Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions.
![Timothy Street](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/street-timothy.jpg)
Expertise: Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell
![Douglas Theobald](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/theobald-douglas-2024-340.jpg)
Expertise: Evolution, structure, and function of macromolecular complexes
![Chi Ting](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/ting-chi-rev-340.jpg)
Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
![Jonathan Touboul](https://www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience/faculty/images/touboul-340.jpg)
Mathematical neuroscience.
![Gina Turrigiano](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/turrigiano-gina-23-340.jpg)
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
![Stephen Van Hooser](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/van-hooser-stephen.jpg)
Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits.
![Bing Xu](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/xu-bing1.jpg)
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.
![Hao Xu, Professor of Chemistry](https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/images/xu-hao-2023-340.jpg)
Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.
![Hannah Yevick](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/yevick.jpg)
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems
Teaching Faculty
![Colleen Hitchcock](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/hitchcock-colleen.jpg)
Expertise: Community ecology, phenology and climate change.
![Maria de Boef Miara](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/miara-maria.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics, comparative anatomy, evolution physiology, biomechanics.
![James Morris](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/morris-james.jpg)
Expertise: Evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education.
![Kene Piasta](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/piasta-kene.jpg)
Expertise: Biology education and protein structure-function.
![Emily Westover](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/westover-emily.jpg)
![Rachel Woodruff](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/woodruff-rachel.jpg)
Expertise:Teaching genetics and genomic and molecular biotechnology
Undergraduate Advising Head — Spring 2024