Genetics/ Genomics, Proteomics & Transcriptomics

Michael Baym, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Member of the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology

Our lab studies microbial evolution, primarily of antibiotic resistance, with a goal of developing practical interventions to reduce or reverse resistance.

Baym Laboratory Home Page

Baym Lab Publications

Department of Biomedical Informatics
Countway 303
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115

baym @ hms.harvard.edu

Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D. (She/ Her/ Hers)

Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Co-Chair, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program

Transcription factors and DNA regulatory elements.... Read more about Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D. (She/ Her/ Hers)

Bulyk Laboratory Home Page

Bulyk Lab Publications

Division of Genetics, Dept. of Medicine
Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
HMS New Research Building, Room 466D (4th Floor)
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

mlbulyk@genetics.med.harvard.edu

p: 617 525-4725

George M. Church, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, & Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard Medical School/ MIT
Director of HMS NHGRI-Center of Excellence in Genomic Science, Director of Personal Genome Project
Broad Institute & Wyss Harvard Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Pursuing "Next generation" DNA sequencing methods and chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing and stem cell engineering.... Read more about George M. Church, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Church Laboratory Home Page

Church Laboratory Complete Publications List

Harvard Medical School
Department of Genetics
New Research Building, Room 238
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115

church_lab_admin@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 432-1278

Benjamin de Bivort

Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Center for Brain Science, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

We study the neural circuit and molecular basis of individual differences in behavior using custom high-throughput instrumentation, with an eye to its ultimate cause in evolution.... Read more about Benjamin de Bivort

de Bivort Laboratory Home Page

de Bivort Lab Publications

Northwest Building, Room 235.30 (Office)
Room 248 (Lab)
52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

debivort@oeb.harvard.edu

Michael M. Desai, Ph.D.

Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Dept. of OEB, Dept. of Physics, FAS Center for Systems Biology

We use both theory and experiments to study evolutionary dynamics and population genetics, particularly in situations where natural selection is pervasive.... Read more about Michael M. Desai, Ph.D.

Desai Laboratory Home Page

Desai Lab Publications

457 Northwest Laboratories Building
52 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138

mdesai@oeb.harvard.edu

Min Dong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Dept. of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital
Dept. of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

Bacterial toxin biology, therapeutics, and mechanism of membrane trafficking... Read more about Min Dong, Ph.D.

Dong Laboratory Home Page

Dr. Min Dong Profile

Dong Laboratory Publications

Enders Building, Room 1070
Boston Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Ave.,
Boston, MA 02115

min.dong@children's.harvard.edu

p: 857 218-4232

Hopi E. Hoekstra

Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University

The Hoekstra Lab is interested in understanding the genetics of adaptation. ... Read more about Hopi E. Hoekstra

Hoekstra Laboratory Home Page

Hoekstra Lab Publications

16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

hoekstra@oeb.harvard.edu

p: 617 496-9040

Sahand Hormoz

Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School/ Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard/ Affiliate Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

We use synthetic biology, single-molecule imaging, and single-cell analysis combined with mathematical modeling to understand the dynamics of cell state transitions in development and disease. ... Read more about Sahand Hormoz

Hormoz Laboratory Home Page

Department of Systems Biology Profile

Hormoz Lab Publications

360 Longwood Avenue
Longwood Center Building,
9th Floor, Room 310 (LC-9310)
Boston, MA 02115

sahand_hormoz@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 582-7361

Nancy Kleckner, Ph.D.

Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Chromosome Mechanics and Dynamics... Read more about Nancy Kleckner, Ph.D.

Kleckner Laboratory Home Page

Kleckner Faculty Profile Page

Kleckner Lab Publications

Northwest Laboratories Building, Room 140
52 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

p: 617 495-4278; fax: 617 495-8308

Galit Lahav, Ph.D.

Professor and Deputy Chair of Systems Biology
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Faculty Liaison for Development and Diversity, Office for Academic and Clinical Affairs

Dynamics of cancer pathways in single cells.... Read more about Galit Lahav, Ph.D.

Lahav Laboratory Home Page

Department of Systems Biology

Lahav Lab Publications

Warren Alpert Building, Room 555
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Assistant: Andrea Chen
Email: andrea_chen@hms.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-432-6839

galit@hms.harvard.edu

p: 617 432-5621 fax: 617 432-5012

Tami D. Lieberman

Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Using computational and experimental tools to uncover the causes and consequences of evolution within the microbiome.

... Read more about Tami D. Lieberman

Lieberman Laboratory Homepage

Lieberman Lab Publications

Building E25, Room 348
MIT Campus
77 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02139

tami@mit.edu

p: 617 253-9757

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

Gary Ruvkun

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Hans-Hermann Schoene Distinguished Investigator

microRNA and RNA interference mechanisms, neuroendocrine control of detoxification, immunity, metabolism, aging, and microbial diversity... Read more about Gary Ruvkun

Ruvkun Laboratory Home Page

Ruvkun Lab Publications

Simches Research Building, 7th Floor, CPZN-7250
185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114

ruvkun@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

p: 617 726-5959

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

Amanda Whipple

Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Studying RNA chemical modifications that are guided by imprinted non-coding and how differences in the three-dimensional folding of the two parental genomes in offspring impacts imprinted expression and neurodevelopment. ... Read more about Amanda Whipple

Whipple Laboratory Home Page

Whipple Lab Publications

Biological Laboratories Building, Room 4005B
16 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138

amanda_whipple@fas.harvard.edu

The Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program

PhD Research at the Interface of Quantitative Science and Biology