Theoretical & Computational Biology

Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Professor
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University Center for Minds, Brains and Machines

Investigating the neuronal circuits responsible for visual recognition and learning.... Read more about Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Kreiman Laboratory Home Page

Kreiman Lab Publications

3 Blackfan Circle, Center for Life Sciences (CLS) Building
13th Floor, Rooms 13075-13078 and CLS 18th Floor
Boston, MA 02115

gabriel.kreiman@tch.harvard.edu

p: 617 919-2530

Ying Lu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

The Lu lab aims to understand the control of cellular protein degradation, using single-molecule and proteomic approaches.... Read more about Ying Lu, Ph.D.

Lu Laboratory Home Page

Lu Lab Publications

Armenise Building, Room 649
210 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

ying_lu@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 432-5143

Debora S. Marks

Professor, Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

The overarching goal of my lab is to develop novel statistical methods that combine theory and computation to extract useful information from biological information and provide tools for the whole research community.... Read more about Debora S. Marks

Marks Laboratory Homepage

Marks Lab Publications

Armenise Building, Room 631
200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

debora_marks@ hms.harvard.edu

Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D.

Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, and Physics
Associate Member of the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT; and of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT; and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Using computational tools, modeling, and analysis of genomic data to address fundamental problems in biological physics and evolution.... Read more about Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D.

Mirny Laboratory Home Page

Mirny Laboratory Complete Publications List

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E25, Room 526
45 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

leonid@mit.edu

p: 617 452-4862

Danesh Moazed

Professor of Cell Biology
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

We are interested in understanding how epigenetic chromatin domains are assembled and stably propagated.

... Read more about Danesh Moazed

Moazed Laboratory Home Page

Moazed Lab Publications

LHRRB Building, Room 517
240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

danesh_moazed@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 432-1258

Venkatesh N. Murthy

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Co-Chair 2018-2022, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program

Algorithms and Neural Circuits in Olfaction.... Read more about Venkatesh N. Murthy

Murthy Laboratory Home Page

Murthy Lab Publications

Biological Laboratories Building, Room 4027
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

vnmurthy@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617 496-4833

Daniel J. Needleman

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

The Needleman laboratory investigates how the cooperative behaviors of molecules give rise to the architecture and dynamics of self-organizing subcellular structures.

... Read more about Daniel J. Needleman

Needleman Laboratory Home page

Needleman Lab Publications

Northwest Laboratory Building, Room 359.20
52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

dneedle@seas.harvard.edu

p: 617 384-6730

Cengiz Pehlevan

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
School of Engineering and Applied Science

My research areas are theoretical neuroscience and theory of neural computation in natural and artificial systems.... Read more about Cengiz Pehlevan

Pehlevan Laboratory Homepage

Pehlevan Lab Publications

29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall, Room 315
Cambridge, MA 02138

cpehlevan@seas.harvard.edu

Mara G. Prentiss

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Harvard University

The Prentiss group focuses on using physics tools to elucidate important problems in biology. The basic principles governing self-assembly have been a focus of recent work.

... Read more about Mara G. Prentiss

Prentiss Laboratory Home Page

Prentiss Department Home Page

Prentiss Lab Publications

Lyman Labs Building, Room 222
17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

prentiss@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617 495-2910

Sharad Ramanathan

Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Professor of Applied Physics, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Our laboratory studies how cells and organisms make decisions. ... Read more about Sharad Ramanathan

Ramanathan Laboratory Home Page

Ramanathan Lab Publications

Northwest Laboratories Building, Room 435.20
52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

sharad@cgr.harvard.edu

p: 617 384-7852

Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Multiscale Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Physical Chemical Principles of Living Matter.

Shakhnovich Laboratory Home Page

Shakhnovich Lab Publications

Mallinckrodt Building, Room 106
12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

shakhnovich @ chemistry.harvard.edu

p: 617 495-4130

Alex K. Shalek, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor
Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and Department of Chemistry, MIT
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research/ Ragon Institute/ Broad Institute/ HMS/ MGH

Development and application of new technologies that facilitate understanding of how immune cells collectively perform systems-level functions in health and disease.

Shalek Laboratory Home Page

IMES Shalek Faculty Profile

Shalek Lab Publications

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building E25, Room 348a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139

shalek@mit.edu

p: 617 324-5670

Pamela A. Silver

Elliot T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

The Silver Lab seeks to enhance our understanding of natural biological design, and to develop tools and concepts for designing cells, tissues and organisms. ... Read more about Pamela A. Silver

Silver Laboratory Home Page

Silver Lab Publications

Warren Alpert Building, Room 420
200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Assistant: Brianna Millor-Hammond
Email: Brianna_Millor-Hammond@hms.harvard.edu
Phone: 617 432-5041

pamela_silver@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 432-6401

Shamil R. Sunyaev

Professor and Distinguished Chair of Computational Genomics
Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

We are a computational genetics and genomics lab whose main research is on genetic variation, including mechanisms of spontaneous mutagenesis, functional effects of mutations and allelic variants, population genetics and relationship between genotype and phenotype.... Read more about Shamil R. Sunyaev

Sunyaev Laboratory Home Page

Sunyaev Lab Publications

Harvard New Research Building, Room 0466C
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115

ssunyaev@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

p: 617 525-4735