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Mark L. Andermann, Ph.D. (He/Him/ His)

manderma@bidmc.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The goal of my lab is to understand the role of corticolimbic areas in guiding attention to, and imagery, learning and memory of, motivationally-salient external and interoceptive stimuli. The way that external stimuli are encoded in brain activity is...

John Earl Anderson

1985 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: The 7Å Structure of a 434 Repressor-Operator Complex PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Stephen C. Harrison and Dr. Mark Ptashne, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard University

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Amy Christine Anderson

1997 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: A Crystallographic Study of RNA Motifs PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Christin Frederick, Dept. of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School

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Bryan William Andrews

1977 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Spatial Frequency Tuning of Striate Cortical Neurons in Cat and Its Relation to Receptive Field Profile PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Arthur K. Solomon, Dept. of Physical Chemistry/ Biophysics Lab, Harvard Medical School

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Georgios Z. Archontis

1994 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Statistical Mechanical Studies of Proteins PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Martin Karplus, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University

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Zev Armour-Garb

1st Year Graduate Student in Biophysics

Haribabu Arthanari, Ph.D.

hari_arthanari@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Therapeutic Targeting of Protein-Protein Interactions. Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) are the Holy Grail of therapeutic intervention, offering a plethora of distinct structural landscapes that can be targeted with high specificity. Arthanari lab uses...

Alejandro Antonio Aruffo

1988 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Characterization of cDNAs Encoding T Cell Lineage Antigens Isolated by Transient Expression and Rescue from COS Cells PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Brian Seed, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital

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John A. Assad

john_assad@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Neurobiology

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Understanding how the brain controls behavior by integrating external sensory information with internal states, such as attention or motivation. In our lab in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, we worked for many years with non...

Dante Avalos

Danteavalos@g.harvard.edu

8th Year Graduate Student in Biophysics

I am generally interested in understanding how enzymes operate on a mechanistic level. In the Drennan Lab, I use primarily X-ray crystallography coupled with other biophysical methods to elucidate mechanisms of metalloenzymes. Currently, I am working on a...

Kevin C. Axelrod

2016 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Bistable Dynamics in Microbial Ecology and Systems Biology PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jeff Gore, Dept. of Physics, MIT Kevin graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in physics and biochemistry and...

Keith Cameron Backman

1977 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Molecular Cloning of the Lambda Repressor Gene (cI) PhD Dissertation Advisors: Dr. Mark Ptashne and Dr. Matthew Meselson, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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