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Name<\/th>\nDepartment \/ School<\/th>\nResearch Area<\/th>\nComputational or Experimental<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Allen, Karen <\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Department of Chemistry<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Banskota, Samagya<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology – Synthetic Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics \/ Biochemistry and Molecular Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beane-Ebel, Jennifer<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Medicine \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Belta, Calin<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Systems Engineering \/ Mechanical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Benson, Gary<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Computer Science \/ Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nDatabases and Computing \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bhatnagar, Jennifer<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bhattacharya, Dileep<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDirector, De Novo Analytics<\/td>\nStatistics and Machine Learning \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bradham, Cynthia<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Campbell, Josh<\/a><\/td>\nDirector, Bioinformatics Graduate Program \/ Associate Professor, Computational Biomedicine \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carvalho, Luis<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nDatabases and Computing \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleary, Brian<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), Biomedical Engineering, and Biology<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/\u00a0Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Connor, John<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Microbiology \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crovella, Mark<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Computer Science \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nStatistics and Machine Learning \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cui, Qiang<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor of Chemistry \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry & Molecular Biology \/ Structural Biology & Biophysics \/\u00a0 Statistics & Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davies, Sarah<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Biology \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DeLisi, Charles<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biomedical Engineering\u00a0\/ College of Engineering \/ Physics \/ College of Arts and Sciences<\/td>\nSystems Biology – Synthetic Biology \/\u00a0 Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Densmore, Douglas<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Electrical\u00a0& Computer Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nDatabases and Computing \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dries, Ruben<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Medicine \/\u00a0Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dunlop, Mary <\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology – Synthetic Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elliott, Sean <\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Chemistry \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Structural Biology and Biophysics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farrer, Lindsay<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Genetics and Genomics \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finnerty, John<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fiszbein, Ana<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biology\/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/\u00a0Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fuxman Bass, Juan <\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Systems Biology – Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Galagan, James<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology – Synthetic Biology \/ Genomics \/ Biomedical Engineering \/ Machine Learning \/ Databases and High Performance Computing<\/span><\/td>\nComputational<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hou, Lei<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics \/\u00a0 School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Statistics and Machine Learning \/ Systems Biology – Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Huggins, Jonathan <\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics \/ College of Arts\u00a0& \u00a0Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaacson, Samuel<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Mathematics & Statistics \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Structural Biology and Biophysics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun, Gyungah<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Genetics Section \/ Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenomics and Genomics \/ Databases and Computing \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kasif, Simon<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology and Medicine \/ Genomics \/ Biomedical Engineering \/ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \/ Databases and High Performance Computing<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Khalil, Ahmad ‘Mo’<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor \/ Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nSystems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kolachalama, Vijaya<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate\u00a0Professor of Medicine & Computer Science \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nStatistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kon, Mark<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Mathematics & Statistics \/ College of Arts & \u00a0Sciences<\/td>\nStatistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Korolev, Kirill<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Physics \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nSystems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kotton, Darrell<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor of Medicine and Pathology
\nDirector, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)<\/td>\n		Systems Biology – Synthetic Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Labadorf, Adam<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Medicine \/ School of Medicine<\/span><\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lau, Nelson<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biochemistry \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leshchiner, Ignaty<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Medicine \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lenburg, Marc<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Computational Biomedicine \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liu, Pinghua<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor of Chemistry \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
McCall, Kimberly<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mehta, Pankaj<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Physics \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nSystems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monti, Stefano<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Dept. of Medicine \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nComputational Biology and Genomics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perissi, Valentina<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biochemistry \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Przytycki, Pawel<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences (CDS)<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Databases and Computing \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Segr\u00e8, Daniel<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siggers, Trevor<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics \/ Structural Biology and Biophysics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spira, Avrum<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor of Medicine \/ Pulmonary Medicine \/ School of Medicine\u00a0\/ Director, Translational Bioinformatics Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Boston University<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steiling, Katrina<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TCW, Julia<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics \/ School\u00a0of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Multiomics \/ Statistics and Machine\u00a0Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tolan, Dean<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nBiochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology \/ Genetics and Genomics \/ Structural Biology and Biophysics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomic, Adriana<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nDatabases and Computing \/ Statistics and Machine Learning \/ Systems Biology and Systems Immunology<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tullius, Thomas<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Chemistry \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Structural Biology and Biophysics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vajda, Sandor<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nStructural Biology and Biophysics<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waxman, David<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wunderlich, Zeba<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Biology \/ College of Arts\u00a0& Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zaia, Joseph<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor, Biochemistry \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nSystems Biology – Synthetic Biology<\/td>\nExperimental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhang, Chao<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Computational Biomedicine \/ School of Medicine
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Genetics and Genomics \/ Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhang, Xiaoling<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics Section of Biomedical Genetics \u00a0\/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/\u00a0Systems Biology \/\u00a0Statistics and Machine Learning<\/td>\nComputational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Emeritus Faculty<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>\nDepartment \/ School<\/th>\nResearch Area<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Cantor, Charles<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cooper, Geoffrey<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor Emeritus, Biology \/ College of Arts & Sciences<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kepler, Thomas<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor Emeritus, Microbiology \/ School of Medicine<\/td>\nGenetics and Genomics \/ Systems Biology\u00a0– Synthetic Biology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith, Temple<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering \/ College of Engineering<\/td>\nStructural Biology and Biophysics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Research Faculty<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>\nRank<\/th>\nResearch<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Dukovski, Ilija<\/td>\nResearch Assistant Professor<\/span><\/td>\nProf. Daniel Segr\u00e8,\u00a0Dynamics and evolution of biochemical networks <\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Osborne, Melisa<\/td>\nResearch Assistant <\/span>Professor<\/span><\/td>\nProf. Daniel Segr\u00e8,\u00a0<\/span>Dynamics and evolution of biochemical networks<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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