Faculty & Research
Research Faculty
![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.
![Guillaume Duclos](faculty-images/duclos-guillaume.jpg)
Expertise: Self-organization of Living and Active matter.
![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.
![Leslie Griffith](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/griffith_lc_req_340.jpg)
Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity.
![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.
![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
![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.
![Joshua Meisel](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/meisel-joshua-340.jpg)
Mitochondrial genetics and metabolism in health and neurodegenerative disease
![Sacha Nelson](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/nelson-sacha.jpg)
Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex.
![Suzanne Paradis](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/paradis-suzanne.jpg)
Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.
![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
![Michael Rosbash](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/rosbash-michael.jpg)
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior and gene expression.
![Piali Sengupta](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/sengupta-piali.jpg)
Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans.
![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
![Gina Turrigiano](https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/faculty-images/turrigiano-gina-23-340.jpg)
Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties.
![Hannah Yevick](https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/faculty-images/yevick.jpg)
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems
Master's Advising Head
![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.