Graduate Training Faculty
The Biochemistry and Biophysics graduate training faculty include Biochemistry faculty and affiliated faculty drawn from other Division of Science departments. Biochemistry PhD students can rotate through the labs of any faculty member listed here.
![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.
![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/chemistry/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
![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.
![Leslie Griffith](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/griffith_lc_req_340.jpg)
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
![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.
![Julia Kardon](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/kardon-julia.jpg)
Expertise: Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality and lifespan
![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/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/krauss-isaac1.jpg)
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry
![Susan Lovett](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/lovett-sue.jpg)
Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.
![Michael Marr](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/marr-michael.jpg)
Expertise: Gene expression in cellular stress responses.
![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: Biological redox enzymes structure and mechanism
![Kaushik Ragunathan](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/ragunathan-k-340.jpg)
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells.
![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
![Klaus Schmidt-Rohr](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/schmidt-rohr-klaus1.jpg)
Expertise: Solid-state NMR and structure determination of complex materials, including fuel-cell membranes, semicrystalline polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, natural organic matter, and thermoelectrics; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics
![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.
![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