39 faculty and 20 courses in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Boston University.
- Richard B. Primack, Professor h-index 81
Notable: “COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife” (2020) · 658 citations
- Thomas Gilmore, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “Introduction to NF-κB: players, pathways, perspectives” (2006) · 2,218 citations
- Katya Ravid, Professor of Biochemistry, Biology h-index 56
Notable: “Deletion of Cavin/PTRF Causes Global Loss of Caveolae, Dyslipidemia, and Glucose Intolerance” (2008) · 352 citations
- Daniel Segre, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics h-index 53
Notable: “Analysis of optimality in natural and perturbed metabolic networks” (2002) · 1,401 citations
- Les Kaufman, Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005” (2010) · 910 citations
- Hengye Man, Professor h-index 50
Focused on brain development, especially neuronal migration, morphogenesis, synapse formation, glutamate receptors and synaptic plasticity. We aim to understand the cellular and molecular processes implicated in neurodegenerative diseas
Notable: “Activation of Synaptic NMDA Receptors Induces Membrane Insertion of New AMPA Receptors and LTP in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons” (2001) · 918 citations
- John R. Finnerty, Associate Professor h-index 44
Notable: “Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA” (2000) · 2,549 citations
- Robinson W. Fulweiler, Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Rebuilding marine life” (2020) · 1,032 citations
- Sean P. Mullen, Professor h-index 38
Neotropical Adelpha butterflies. Molecular Ecology 24: DOI: 10.1111/mec.13168. Gallant JR, Imhoff VE, Martin AR, Savage WK, Chamberlain N, Pote B, Peterson CP, Smith GE, Evans BR, Reed RD, Kronforst MR, Mullen SP (2014) Ancient
Notable: “Hybridization and speciation” (2013) · 2,281 citations
- Cynthia A. Bradham, Associate Professor h-index 34
Notable: “The mitochondrial permeability transition in cell death: a common mechanism in necrosis, apoptosis and autophagy” (1998) · 1,384 citations
- Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Professor of Biochemistry and Biology h-index 34
Notable: “GIV is a nonreceptor GEF for Gαi with a unique motif that regulates Akt signaling” (2009) · 189 citations
- Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology, Biology h-index 33
Notable: “Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture” (2003) · 967 citations
- Francisco J. Naya, Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Diabetes, defective pancreatic morphogenesis, and abnormal enteroendocrine differentiation in BETA2/NeuroD-deficient mice” (1997) · 1,022 citations
- Sarah W. Davies, Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes” (2015) · 568 citations
- John L. Celenza, Associate Professor h-index 31
Notable: “A Yeast Gene That Is Essential for Release from Glucose Repression Encodes a Protein Kinase” (1986) · 684 citations
- Uwe Beffert, Research Assistant Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Reelin and ApoE Receptors Cooperate to Enhance Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Learning” (2002) · 627 citations
- Peter Buston, Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Diversity and flexibility of sex-change strategies in animals” (2005) · 410 citations
- Christopher Schmitt, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology h-index 31
Notable: “Variable responses of human and non-human primate gut microbiomes to a Western diet” (2015) · 149 citations
- Phillip S. Lobel, Professor h-index 29
On fish bioacoustics. Past research has generally concentrated on the identification of sound-producing fishes. Although many fishes produce distinct sounds while courting or calling mates, the prior lack of technology for data acquisiti
Notable: “The role of herbivorous fishes and urchins in coral reef communities” (1978) · 361 citations
- Angela Ho, Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Binding of F-spondin to amyloid-β precursor protein: A candidate amyloid-β precursor protein ligand that modulates amyloid-β precursor protein cleavage” (2004) · 217 citations
- Edward L. Loechler, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “The precautionary principle in environmental science.” (2001) · 698 citations
- Jeffrey Marlow, Assistant Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Periglacial landforms at the Phoenix landing site and the northern plains of Mars” (2008) · 146 citations
- Jen-Wei Lin, Associate Professor h-index 26
On the biophysical events underlying transmitter release and the membrane excitability of axons, using axons and synapses of the crayfish neuromuscular junction. There are three aspects to the research in my laboratory. First, we investi
Notable: “Blocking and isolation of a calcium channel from neurons in mammals and cephalopods utilizing a toxin fraction (FTX) from funnel-web spider poison.” (1989) · 632 citations
- Jennifer Bhatnagar, Associate Professor h-index 25
Notable: “A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes” (2020) · 973 citations
- Ian Davison, Associate Professor h-index 22
Notable: “In Vivo Light-Induced Activation of Neural Circuitry in Transgenic Mice Expressing Channelrhodopsin-2” (2007) · 787 citations
- Jerry Chen, Associate Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain” (2008) · 793 citations
- Juan Fuxman Bass, Associate Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Widespread Macromolecular Interaction Perturbations in Human Genetic Disorders” (2015) · 643 citations
- Brian Cleary, Assistant Professor of Computing and Data Sciences, Biology h-index 19
Notable: “Optimal-Transport Analysis of Single-Cell Gene Expression Identifies Developmental Trajectories in Reprogramming” (2019) · 848 citations
- Horacio Frydman, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Somatic stem cell niche tropism in Wolbachia” (2006) · 226 citations
- Ana Fiszbein, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Exon-Mediated Activation of Transcription Starts” (2019) · 110 citations
- Sofia Casasa, Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Insulin signalling's role in mediating tissue-specific nutritional plasticity and robustness in the horn-polyphenic beetleOnthophagus taurus” (2018) · 65 citations
- Mario Muscedere, Master Lecturer h-index 11
Notable: “Evolution of eusociality and the soldier caste in termites: Influence of intraspecific competition and accelerated inheritance” (2003) · 152 citations
- Robin Francis, Lecturer h-index 5
Notable: “Patterns, causes, and consequences of marine larval dispersal” (2015) · 179 citations
- Karina Scavo Lord, Lecturer h-index 4
Notable: “Multi-Year Viability of a Reef Coral Population Living on Mangrove Roots Suggests an Important Role for Mangroves in the Broader Habitat Mosaic of Corals” (2020) · 16 citations
- Kim McCall, Professor h-index 2
Notable: “The Transgenic RNAi Project at Harvard Medical School: Resources and Validation” (2015) · 722 citations
- Elizabeth Co, Master Lecturer
- Joe Larkin, Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics
- Kelly Aho, Assistant Professor
- Lynne Chantranupong, Assistant Professor
Confer different needs and liabilities to neurons, which they must address by adapting their molecular pathways to maintain homeostasis. When these pathways are perturbed, cell death may ensue. Differential neuronal death is a hallmark of n
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.