The Program in Cell & Molecular Biology includes a broad range of research opportunities in areas of contemporary molecular biology and cell biology, including developmental biology, cell signaling, gene regulation, apoptosis, systems biology, immunology, cancer biology, metabolism and physiology, genetics and genomics, and microbiology. A variety of approaches are utilized, including genetics, biochemistry, microscopy, and bioinformatics. Scientific questions are explored using a number of model systems covering the evolutionary spectrum, notably humans, mice, rats, sea urchins, zebrafish, frogs, fruit flies, sea anemones, plants, and microorganisms.
Graduate students in the Cell and Molecular program are exposed to training in a wide variety of scientific areas. Interdisciplinary scientific interactions are provided through the graduate program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, which also includes faculty from the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and Health Sciences. The computational approaches used in many research laboratories are bolstered by their affiliation with the graduate program in Bioinformatics.
Faculty with Related Research
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Uwe Beffert, Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Alzheimer’s disease, apolipoproteins, lipoprotein receptors, brain development, neuronal migration, autism, cytoskeleton
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Gary Benson, Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science; Program in Bioinformatics
algorithm development for DNA sequence analysis
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Cynthia A. Bradham, Associate Professor of Biology
developmental biology; embryonic pattern formation; systems biology
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Sofía Casasa, Assistant Professor of Biology
Eco-evo-devo, phenotypic plasticity, insect development, horned beetles, nematodes, transcriptomics, functional genetics
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John L. Celenza, Associate Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
plant development, defense, and metabolism; genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology
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Lynne Chantranupong, Assistant Professor of Biology
Neurobiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Behavior, Signal transduction, Metabolism, Organellar Biology, Metabolomics, Proteomics
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Brian Cleary, Assistant Professor of Computing and Data Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biology, and Bioinformatics
Tissue organization, cellular pathways, causal modeling, statistical learning
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Elizabeth Co, Senior Lecturer in Biology
science education, human immunology and reproduction
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Geoffrey M. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of Biology
Cancer biology
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John R. Finnerty, Associate Professor of Biology
Evolutionary and ecological developmental biology; evolutionary and ecological genomics; marine biodiversity; global change biology; coral conservation.
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Ana Fiszbein, Assistant Professor of Biology
Gene regulation; RNA processing; systems biology of co-transcriptional programs; computational genomics; role of gene architecture in cancer development and therapy
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Horacio Frydman, Associate Professor of Biology
host-microbe interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal level; mechanisms of bacterial transmission through stem-cell niche infection
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Juan Fuxman Bass, Associate Professor of Biology
immune regulation, gene regulatory networks, systems biology, disease mutations, inflammation, transcription factors
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Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Professor of Biochemistry and Biology
Intercellular communication, receptor signaling, GTPases, synthetic biology tools, molecular basis of disease, cancer, neurotransmission, embryonic development
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Cecelia Gerstenbacher
Ecology & Conservation Biology
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Thomas Gilmore, Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
molecular biology, cell biology, signal transduction, cancer, molecular ecology
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Ulla Hansen, Professor Emerita of Biology
cancer, cell cycle, gene expression regulation, cell signaling, proliferation, cell survival, transcriptional networks
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Michaelyn Hartmann, Director, Postdoctoral Associate Lecturer in Biology Program
Science Education, Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
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Angela Ho, Associate Professor of Biology
Molecular and cellular basis of synaptic function in neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disease
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Hengye Man, Professor of Biology
Brain development, neuron morphogenesis, synapse formation, synaptic plasticity, AMPA type glutamate receptor, protein ubiquitination and degradation, autism, Intellectual disability, Alzheimer’s disease
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Jeffrey Marlow, Assistant Professor of Biology
microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, global change biology, metabolic activity, geobiology, astrobiology
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Kim McCall, Professor of Biology
Drosophila developmental biology, cell death, oogenesis
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Katya Ravid, Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biochemistry, Biology, Health Sciences; Director, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and BU Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office
Blood Stem Cells and Blood Cancer; Thrombosis and Purine Signaling; Vascular Biology
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Shelley J. Russek, Professor of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Biology; Director of Graduate Program for Neuroscience
Neuropharmacology, Epilepsy, Gene regulation of Neural Circuits
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Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering
systems biology, evolution of biochemical networks, genomics, metabolic engineering, microbial ecology
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Trevor W. Siggers, Associate Professor of Biology
systems biology of the immune and inflammatory systems, gene regulation in immune and inflammatory systems, inflammatory diseases, transcriptional networks, DNA-binding of transcription factors and transcriptional regulatory complexes, computational genomics, cis-regulatory logic in transcription
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Kathryn Spilios, Director of Instructional Labs; Director of the Learning Assistant Program; Master Lecturer in Biology
Science education, entomology
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Dean R. Tolan, Professor of Biology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and human genetics of enzymes in sugar metabolism
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John Tullai, Lecturer in Neuroscience and Biology
growth factor-mediated cell survival, cancer biology, transcription network mapping, gene regulation, neuroscience, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, carcinogenesis, cell biology, molecular biology, transcription regulation
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David J. Waxman, Professor of Biology, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering; Program in Bioinformatics
Genomic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling liver gene expression; molecular endocrinology and cell signaling through transcriptional networks; role of angiogenesis and innate immune system in cancer therapy and pharmacology; nuclear receptors and responses to environmental chemicals
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Zeba Wunderlich, Associate Professor of Biology
regulation of gene expression; enhancers; developmental biology; systems biology; innate immunology
