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Brian J. Bacskai

bbacskai@partners.org

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Researching Alzheimer's disease using multiphoton microscopy to observe, in vivo, the anatomy and physiology of specific cell type in the brain. Our laboratory uses sophisticated optical techniques to address fundamental questions in Alzheimer's disease...

Alexander F. Bagley

2014 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

2016 MD-PhD Graduate/ Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Optically-Active Nanomaterials for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications to Ovarian Cancer PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Charles Baker

2018 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Developing Methods to Study Dynamic Biological Processes in Single Cells with Microscopy PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Johann Paulsson, Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School I completed my undergraduate degrees in...

Yves Jacques Balkanski

1991 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Atmospheric Residence Times of Continental Aerosols PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ralph Mitchell, Division of Engineering & Applied Science, Harvard University

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Madeleine (Mad) Ball (Price)

2010 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Sequencing-Based High-Throughput Profiling of DNA Methylation PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. George M. Church, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

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Cynthia Carol Bamdad

1997 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

CEO, Minerva Biotechnologies Corp

Dissertation Title: Novel Surfaces for the Detection and Study of Intermolecular Interactions

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Daniel Barabasi

2023 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: A Hobbit’s Guide to Neurodevelopment: An Unexpected Journey into the Innate PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Florian Engert, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology Dániel, a B.S. in Physics from Notre Dame, is interested in biological...

Luis A. Barrera

2015 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Towards a Systematic Approach for Characterizing Regulatory Variation PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Martha L. Bulyk and Dr. Manolis Kellis: Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Dept. of Computer Science, MIT

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

baym @ hms.harvard.edu

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. This will require advances both in technology and in the basic science of resistance evolution. Our...

Nicholas Welborn Beeson

1995 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of the Genetic Algorithm as a Computational Tool in Protein NMR PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Gerhard Wagner, Dept. of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

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John William Belliveau

1990 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Functional NMR Imaging of the Brain PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Eric Fossel, Dept. of Radiology, Beth Israel Hospital

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Howard Berg, Ph.D.

hberg@mcb.harvard.edu

Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Member, Rowland Institute for Science

Our quest is an understanding of the behavior of bacteria at the molecular level, especially behavior involving chemical stimuli (chemotaxis) Flagellated bacteria possess a remarkable motility system based on a reversible rotary motor linked by a flexible...