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Jonathan Abraham, M.D., Ph.D.

abraham@crystal.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

We use methods in molecular biology, immunology, and structural biology to study host-pathogen interactions, with the goal of informing strategies aimed at treating or preventing infection. Several enveloped RNA viruses cause human viral hemorrhagic...

Karen Adelman, Ph.D.

Karen_Adelman@hms.harvard.edu

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Associate Member, Broad Institute

The Adelman lab studies the changes in gene regulation and epigenetics that drive development and stress-responses . Cell-type and condition-specific patterns of gene expression are established through a sophisticated network of interactions between...

Vineeta Agarwala

2013 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

2015 MD-PhD Graduate/ Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Integrating empirical data and population genetic simulations to study the genetic architecture of Type 2 Diabetes PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David Altshuler, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

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Syed Rakin Ahmed

2024 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Current Position: Medical Student, MD-PhD Program, Dartmouth Medical School

Dissertation Title: Generating Clinically Translatable AI Models for Cancer Diagnostics. PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer and Dr. Bruce Rosen, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Massachusetts General Hospital Rakin is an M.D...

Deniz Aksel

2022 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Coordination of patterning and morphogenesis: Illuminating principles of early embryonic development using annual killfish and human stem cell models PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sharad Ramanathan, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular...

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Bruce Michael Alberts

1965 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Characterization of a Naturally Occurring, Cross-Linked Fraction of Deoxyribonucleic Acid PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Paul M. Doty, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard University

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Nicole Albright

1st Year Graduate Student in Biophysics

Luis Aldama

5th Year Graduate Student in Biophysics

Francis Joseph Alenghat

2003 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

2005 MD-PhD Graduate/ Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Mechanotransduction Through Integrins PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Donald E. Ingber, Dept. of Pathology/ Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

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Siraj Mahamed Ali

2005 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

2008 MD-PhD Graduate/ Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: A Tale of Two mTOR Complexes PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David M. Sabatini, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Stephen Craig Almo

1990 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Crystallographic Studies of Dynamic Processes in Proteins PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Don Craig Wiley and Dr. Gregory Petsko, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Benjamin Altheimer

2019 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Single-Molecule DNA Rotation Tracking Using DNA Origami Rotors. PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology