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Howard Berg

Herchel Smith Professor of Physics;
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Assistant:
Donna Lundberg

donna@mcb.harvard.edu

Biolabs 3063
617-495-0924

hberg@mcb.harvard.edu

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The motile behavior of bacteria

Michael Brenner

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics

Pierce 313
617-495-3336

brenner@deas.harvard.edu

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Physical mathematics

Jacques Dumais

Assistant Professor of Biology

Biolabs 1105
617-496-0751

jdumais@oeb.harvard.edu

Plant morphogenesis and mechanics

Florian Engert 

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Biolabs 2073
617-495-4382

florian@mcb.harvard.edu

Synaptic plasticity: cellular mechanisms, development of functional networks and links to behaviour

Nicole Francis

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Fairchild 315
617-496-9391

francis@mcb.harvard.edu

Mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance

Rachelle Gaudet

Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Fairchild 229B
617- 495-5616

gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu

Structural biology of membrane transport

Guido Guidotti

Higgins Professor of Biochemistry

Fairchild 387
617-495-2308

guidotti@fas.harvard.edu

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Structure and function of membrane proteins

Missy Holbrook

Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry

Biolabs 3095  
617-496-0603

holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu

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Plant systems

John Hutchinson

Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering

Pierce 315
617-495-2848

hutchinson@husm.harvard.edu

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Solid mechanics

David Jeruzalmi

Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Fairchild 229  
617-496-9734

dj@mcb.harvard.edu

Structural studies of nucleoprotein complexes that form at sites of DNA replication initiation

Andrew J. M. Kiruluta

Assistant Professor of Radiology
and Department of Physics

Assistant:
Jim Henle
617-495-4477

henle@fas.harvard.edu


Jefferson 252D and MGH/Fruit St. 
617-384-8138

kiruluta@physics.harvard.edu

Inverse Imaging of Cell Dynamics and Chemical Exchange

Nancy Kleckner

Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology

Assistant:
Jim Henle
617-495-4477

henle@fas.harvard.edu


Fairchild 301  
617-495-4278

kleckner@fas.harvard.edu

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Chromosomes

Roberto Kolter

Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

200 Longwood Ave
617- 432-1776

kolter@hms.harvard.edu

Microbial biofilms

L.Mahadevan

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Professor of Systems Biology

Pierce 402
617-496-9599

lm@deas.harvard.edu

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Applied mathematics

Tom Maniatis       

Thomas H. Lee Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Fairchild 487
617- 495-1811

maniatis@mcb.harvard.edu

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Regulation of gene expression

Eric Mazur

Harvard College Professor;
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics;
Professor of Physics

Pierce 233
617- 495-8729

mazur@deas.harvard.edu

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Nano- and bio-photonics

Venki Murthy

Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Assistant:
Lisa Yang
617-496-3806

lyang@deas.harvard.edu


Biolabs 2065
617-496-4833

vnmurthy@fas.harvard.edu

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Mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity

David Nelson

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics; Arthur K. Soloman Professor of Biophysics

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Collective effects in the physics and chemistry of condensed matter

Mara Prentiss

Edward Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics

Lyman 222
617- 495-2910

prentiss@fas.harvard.edu

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Manipulation of matter by light and by magnetic forces

Aravi Samuel

Assistant Professor of Physics

Jefferson 349
617- 384-9435

samuel@physics.harvard.edu

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Neural networks

Howard Stone

Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics  

Pierce 308
617-495-3599

has@deas.harvard.edu

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Fluid dynamics

Zhigang Suo

Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanics and Materials

Pierce 309
617-495-3789

suo@deas.harvard.edu

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Small material structures

David Weitz

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Physics

Pierce 231
617-496-2842

weitz@deas.harvard.edu

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Physics of soft condensed matter

George Whitesides

Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Mallinckrodt 229
617-495-9430

gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

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Surface chemistry

Xiaowei Zhuang

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics

Naito 032C
617-496-9558

zhuang@chemistry.harvard.edu

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Single molecule biology and mechanism