Faculty & Research

Research Faculty

Susan Birren

Professor of Neurobiology

781-736-2680 birren@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 1-06A

Developmental Neurobiology.
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Alexandre Bisson

Assistant Professor of Biology

bisson@brandeis.edu

Cellular Organization and Behavior in the Archaea domain of life.
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Niels Bradshaw

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

781-736-2309 niels@brandeis.edu Kosow, 206

Regulation of Protein Phosphatases and the Evolution of Cellular Signaling.

Paul Garrity

Professor of Biology

781-736-3127 pgarrity@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 2-16

Neural development and behavior.
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Jeff Gelles

Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmocology

781-736-2377 gelles@brandeis.edu Kosow, 208

Single-molecule Biochemistry and Biophysics. Transcription and RNA processing. Cytoskeletal networks and regulation.
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Bruce Goode

Professor of Biology

781-736-2464 goode@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 532

Cytoskeletal Assembly and Dynamics.
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Leslie Griffith

Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience

Director of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

781-736-3125 griffith@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 2-06B

The Biochemistry of Behavior.
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James Haber

Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology

Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medial Sciences Research Center

781-736-2462 haber@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 302

Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response.
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Liz Hedstrom

Professor of Biology and Chemistry

781-736-2333 hedstrom@brandeis.edu Kosow, 112

Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies.
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Tijana Ivanovic

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

781-736-2439 ivanovic@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 450

Uncovering fundamental molecular mechanisms of virus translocation across biological membranes
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Sebastian Kadener

Associate Professor of Biology

781-736-4915 skadener@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 332

Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism.
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Julia Kardon

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

781-736-2359 kardon@brandeis.edu Kosow, 303

Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality, and lifespan
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Isaac Krauss

Associate Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2574 kraussi@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks, 226

Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry
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Susan Lovett

Abraham S. and Gertrude Burg Professor of Microbiology

781-736-2497 lovett@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 337

Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.

Michael Marr

Associate Professor of Biology

781-736-2481 mmarr@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 334

Gene Expression in Cellular Stress Responses

Sacha Nelson

Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science

781-736-3181 nelson@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 1-21

Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex
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Suzanne Paradis

Associate Professor of Biology

781-736-5305 paradis@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 1-08A

Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
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Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan

Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics

781-736-2407 guillermina@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel 450

Biophysical mechanisms underlying flow generation by cilia arrays.
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Avital Rodal

Associate Professor of Biology

781-736-2459 arodal@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 528

Endosomal Membrane Traffic in Neurons
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Ben Rogers, Mathematics and MCB faculty member at Brandeis University

W. Benjamin Rogers

Assistant Professor of Physics

781-736-2857 wrogers@brandeis.edu Abelson-Bass-Yalem Building, 221

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.

Michael Rosbash

Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience

Professor of Biology and Howard Hughes Medial Institute Investigator

781-736-3160 rosbash@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 2-24B

Circadian Rhythms, Behavior, and Gene Expression
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Piali Sengupta

Professor of Neurobiology

Chair, Department of Biology

781-736-2686 sengupta@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 2-08A

Neurogenetics of sensory behaviors
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Timothy Street

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

781-736-4961 tstreet@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, 648A

Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell

Douglas Theobald

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

781-736-2303 dtheobald@brandeis.edu Kosow, 308

Structural bioinformatics analysis of telomeric complexes, integrating X-ray crystallographic structure determination, molecular evolution, and structure-function studies.
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Gina Turrigiano

Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science

Chair, Neuroscience Program

781-736-2684 turrigia@brandeis.edu Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, 1-28

Homeostasis and Neural Circuit Plasticity and Function
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Master's Advising Head

Maria de Boef Miara

Assistant Professor of Biology

Master's Advising Head for MCB and Neuroscience

781-736-3106 mmiara@brandeis.edu Bassine Science Building, 119

Comparative anatomy, evolution, physiology, biomechanics

Emeriti Faculty

Joan Press

Associate Professor Emeritus of Biology

Developmental immunology and immunogenetics.

Lawrence Wangh

Professor Emeritus of Biology

Mammalian embryogenesis. Gene expression in single cells.

Molecular and Cell Biology Program