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Michael T.H. Do

michael.do@childrens.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital

Center for Brain Science, Harvard University; Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard

Our lab asks how light drives functions that are as diverse as visual perception, sleep regulation, hormonal control, and setting of the internal body clock. We pose this question for species that occupy distinct ecological niches to learn how mechanisms...

Min Dong, Ph.D.

Min.Dong@children's.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Dept. of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital

Dept. of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

Bacterial toxin biology, therapeutics, and mechanism of membrane trafficking Our laboratory has a broad interest in microbial toxins, bacterial pathogenesis in human/animal/insects, and microbiome. Along these lines of basic research, we are keen in...

Jan Drugowitsch, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

jan_drugowitsch@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Center for Brain Science

Statistical computations and neuronal mechanisms underlying complex decisions and behavior under uncertainty. The work in the lab is theoretical in nature, and we collaborate with experimentalists in a close loop to refine both theories and experiments...

Michael J. Eck

eck@red.dfci.harvard.edu

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

Professor, Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

We study cell signaling and regulation of the actin cytoskeleton using structural and biochemical approaches. We seek to understand fundamental signaling mechanisms and principles by dissecting out and determining the structure of “regulatory modules” –...

Florian Engert

florian@mcb.harvard.edu

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

HCBI: Center for Biological Imaging, Harvard University

Neural circuits and behavior in larval zebrafish The general goal of the laboratory is the comprehensive identification and examination of neural circuits controlling behavior using the larval zebrafish as a model system. To that end, we have established...

Conor L. Evans, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

Evans.Conor@mgh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

The Evans Lab’s research is focused on the development and clinical translation of optical tools to address challenges in biomedical research and clinical medicine. We use optical spectroscopy, imaging, and microscopy methods to detect, measure, and...

Lucas Farnung

lucas_farnung@hms.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology

Harvard Medical School

The Farnung Lab is interested in molecular mechanisms at the interface of transcription and chromatin. We employ biochemical, biophysical, machine learning, and structural biology approaches to understand how the transcription machinery, histone modifying...

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Ethan C. Garner

egarner@fas.harvard.edu

Professor

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Center for Systems Biology

Using in vivo dynamics of single molecules to dissect the mechanisms controlling bacterial shape and growth . My group works to understand how cells create long range order: How enzymes, each acting at the nanometer scale, work together to build micron...

Rachelle Gaudet, Ph.D. (She/ Her/ Hers)

gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Co-Chair, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program

Structural biology of signaling and transport through biological membranes. My lab is broadly interested in the mechanisms of signaling and transport across cellular membranes. We use a variety of cell-based and in vitro biochemical assays, x-ray...

Jonathan Green

jgreen@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Massachusetts General Hospital, Molecular Biology, HMS Genetics

Our research explores how we learn from our mistakes. As infants learning to walk, we take unsteady steps, fall, adjust, and eventually develop stable locomotion. This iterative cycle of action, error, and refinement continues throughout life, shaping our...

Taekjip Ha (He/ His)

George Yancopoulos in honor of Frederick Alt Professor

Dept. of Pediatrics; Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Taekjip Ha analyzes single molecules to understand how they act in complex biological systems. Ha and his team combine sophisticated biophysical manipulation techniques with fluorescence imaging to visualize and manipulate protein, RNA, and DNA molecules...

Stephen C. Harrison

schadmin@crystal.harvard.edu

Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The overall objective of our research is to understand how protein interactions determine subcellular structure. We use direct structural approaches – principally X-ray crystallography, often in combination with electron microscopy – to determine the...