Harvard Faculty

Dr. Joanna Aizenberg

Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science, Harvard University
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

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Dr. Ariel Amir

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University

KEYWORDS biophysics; cell size; cell cycle control; cell shape; cell-to-cell variability

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Dr. Emily Balskus

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

KEYWORDS Deciphering microbes and microbial communities with chemistry

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION The central...

Dr. Michael Baym

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University
Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

KEYWORDS microbial evolutionary genomics; antibiotic resistance
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Our research crosses a broad...

Dr. Thomas Bernhardt

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

KEYWORDS bacterial growth; cell surface; genetics; biochemistry; imaging

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Determining...

Dr. Barry R. Bloom

Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

KEYWORDS infectious diseases; public health
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Dr. Barry Bloom is recognized as a pioneer in the field... Read more about Barry R. Bloom

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Dr. Gary Borisy

Professor, Department of Microbiology, Forsyth Institute

KEYWORDS imaging; microbiomes; microbial community spatial structure

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Although much of...

Dr. Michael P. Brenner

Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Kavli Scholar, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology

KEYWORDS Soft Matter, Biophysics, Applied Math and Materials Science

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Our research uses...

Dr. Robert Brucker

Junior Fellow, Rowland Institute at Harvard

KEYWORDS microbiome; host-microbe interactions; evolution; symbiosis
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION An animal’s gut microbiota (the community of...

Dr. Lynn Bry

Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center

KEYWORDS host-microbe interactions; gut microbiota; anaerobic microbes

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Dr. Caroline Buckee

Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

KEYWORDS Epidemiology; infectious disease; public health; modeling

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Dr. Federico Capasso

Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics
Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering

KEY WORDS optics;

RESEARCH Research in the Capasso Group spans the full stack of scientific procedures from...

Dr. Colleen Cavanaugh

Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Harvard University
Co-founder, Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative

KEYWORDS symbioses; marine microbiology; host-microbe interactions

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION Our research...

Dr. Xinhua Chen

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

KEYWORDS Clostridium difficile, gut infection, microbiome, microbiology, gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel diseases, probiotics, toxins,... Read more about Xinhua Chen

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Publications

xchen1@bidmc.harvard.edu

Dr. George M. Church

Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and MIT
Founding Core Faculty & Lead, Synthetic Biology Wyss Institute at Harvard University

KEYWORDS Bioengineering, biomimetics, DNA sequence analysis, genetic engineering, gene targeting, high-throughput nucleotide sequencing,...

Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI)