Cellular Biology at Harvard University

37 faculty and 0 courses in Cellular Biology at Harvard University.

Faculty

• Norbert Perrimon, Affiliate Member h-index 156
  Notable: “Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes” (1993) · 9,816 citations
• Joshua Sanes, Professor Emeritus h-index 150
  Notable: “Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets” (2015) · 7,838 citations
• Richard Losick, Professor Emeritus h-index 129
  Notable: “Fruiting body formation by Bacillus subtilis” (2001) · 1,163 citations
• Nancy Kleckner h-index 94
  Notable: “Capturing Chromosome Conformation” (2002) · 3,790 citations
• Andrew Murray h-index 93
  Notable: “From molecular to modular cell biology” (1999) · 3,691 citations
• Sean Eddy h-index 89
  Notable: “tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence” (1997) · 11,207 citations
• John Dowling, Professor Emeritus h-index 89
  Notable: “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America” (2009) · 17,978 citations
• Jeff Lichtman h-index 87
  Notable: “Imaging Neuronal Subsets in Transgenic Mice Expressing Multiple Spectral Variants of GFP” (2000) · 3,141 citations
• Daniel Kahne h-index 85
  Notable: “The Bacterial Cell Envelope” (2010) · 3,699 citations
• Daniel Branton, Professor Emeritus h-index 80
  Notable: “Characterization of individual polynucleotide molecules using a membrane channel” (1996) · 3,344 citations
• James Wang, Professor Emeritus h-index 70
  Notable: “Superparamagnetic iron oxide contrast agents: physicochemical characteristics and applications in MR imaging” (2001) · 1,377 citations
• Naoshige Uchida h-index 70
  Notable: “Neuron-type-specific signals for reward and punishment in the ventral tegmental area” (2012) · 1,404 citations
• Takao Hensch h-index 68
  Notable: “The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome” (2005) · 3,593 citations
• Catherine Dulac h-index 62
  Notable: “Visualizing an Olfactory Sensory Map” (1996) · 2,019 citations
• Hopi Hoekstra h-index 61
  Notable: “Double Digest RADseq: An Inexpensive Method for De Novo SNP Discovery and Genotyping in Model and Non-Model Species” (2012) · 3,870 citations
• Matthew Meselson, Professor Emeritus h-index 56
  Notable: “The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli” (1958) · 1,227 citations
• Florian Engert h-index 56
  Notable: “Dendritic spine changes associated with hippocampal long-term synaptic plasticity” (1999) · 1,707 citations
• Venkatesh Murthy h-index 55
  Notable: “DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning” (2018) · 5,579 citations
• Philippe Cluzel h-index 54
  Notable: “Comparative Diagnostic Performances of Auscultation, Chest Radiography, and Lung Ultrasonography in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” (2003) · 1,075 citations
• Craig Hunter h-index 49
  Notable: “Systemic RNAi in C. elegans Requires the Putative Transmembrane Protein SID-1” (2002) · 863 citations
• Rachelle Gaudet h-index 46
  Notable: “Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations” (2007) · 2,275 citations
• Ethan Garner h-index 40
  Notable: “Intrinsically disordered protein” (2001) · 2,281 citations
• Cassandra Extavour h-index 40
  Notable: “Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation” (2003) · 807 citations
• Elena Rivas h-index 24
  Notable: “Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families” (2020) · 1,140 citations
• Sam Kunes h-index 21
  Notable: “Plasmid construction by homologous recombination in yeast” (1987) · 568 citations
• Alain Viel h-index 20
  Notable: “Crystal Structure of the Repetitive Segments of Spectrin” (1993) · 345 citations
• Nicholas Bellono h-index 18
  Notable: “Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways” (2017) · 893 citations
• Doeke Hekstra h-index 17
  Notable: “Four histone variants mark the boundaries of polycistronic transcription units in Trypanosoma brucei” (2009) · 367 citations
• Jeeyun Chung h-index 16
  Notable: “Lipid Droplet Biogenesis” (2017) · 788 citations
• Victoria D'Souza h-index 16
  Notable: “How retroviruses select their genomes” (2005) · 321 citations
• Kazuki Nagashima h-index 13
  Notable: “Host defense against oral microbiota by bone-damaging T cells” (2018) · 315 citations
• Carolyn Elya h-index 13
  Notable: “Thermodynamic System Drift in Protein Evolution” (2014) · 95 citations
• Ryan Nett h-index 12
  Notable: “Discovery and engineering of colchicine alkaloid biosynthesis” (2020) · 301 citations
• Amanda Whipple h-index 4
  Notable: “Imprinted Maternally Expressed microRNAs Antagonize Paternally Driven Gene Programs in Neurons” (2020) · 53 citations
• Vlad Denic h-index 2
  Notable: “The Crystal Structures of Yeast Get3 Suggest a Mechanism for Tail-Anchored Protein Membrane Insertion” (2009) · 65 citations
• Haim Sompolinsky, Professor in Residence
• Marissa Gredler

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.