Faculty

Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Shakhnovich@chemistry.harvard.edu

Roy G. Gordon Professor of Chemistry

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Pattee McGarry The research of Professor Eugene Shakhnovich and his group is directed towards understanding the basic principles of protein folding and structural and dynamical properties of other complex polymer systems...

JoAnne Stubbe

joannestubbe@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

At MIT Professor Stubbe studies ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), which catalyze the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides and play an essential role in DNA replication and repair. Stubbe supports a range of ongoing projects, including those...

Gregory Tucci

tucci@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Gregg Tucci is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry and a Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Villanova University and a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, Dr...

Gregory Verdine

gregory_verdine@harvard.edu

Erving Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

Sien Verschave

sien_verschave@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Suzanne Walker

suzanne_walker@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Administrative Contacts: Michael Quinn

Lu Wang

wang29@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lu Wang is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry and a Senior Preceptor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where she is involved in teaching several courses at Harvard including two...

George Whitesides

gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Melissa LeGrand George M. Whitesides was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, KY. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in...

Christina Woo

cwoo@chemistry.harvard.edu

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Coordinator: Keneisha Murphy The Woo lab draws from the fields of chemical biology, organic synthesis, and mass spectrometry to understand small molecule activity in the proteome. We seek to develop and apply chemical proteomic methods to study the...

Suyang Xu

suyangxu@fas.harvard.edu

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Hillary Piccerillo After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Peking University in China, Xu joined Professor Zahid Hasan's group at Princeton. In Hasan's group, Xu became an expert on Angle-Resolved Photoemission...

Shao-Liang Zheng

zheng@chemistry.harvard.edu

Director of Center for Crystallographic Studies

Lecturer

Shao-Liang Zheng joined Harvard in 2009 and supervises all aspects of X-ray Core. Dr. Zheng also teaches Chem 255, Practical Crystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science in spring term. Before he joined Harvard, he worked with Professor Philip...

Xiaowei Zhuang

zhuang@chemistry.harvard.edu

David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Rona Gertner Xiaowei Zhuang works in the areas of single-molecule biology and bioimaging, developing imaging techniques to study biological systems quantitatively. The understanding of living organisms has greatly...