Chemical and Physical Biology
Faculty of the Committee on Degrees in Chemical and Physical Biology
Erin K. O’Shea, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Chair and Co-Head Tutor)
Howard C. Berg, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Michael P. Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
Jon Clardy, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Medical School)
Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics (on leave spring term)
Rachelle Gaudet, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stephen C. Harrison, Giovanni Armenise - Harvard Professor of Basic Biomedical Science and Professor of Pediatrics (Medical School)
David Jeruzalmi, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Daniel E. Kahne, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (FAS) and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Medical School) (Co-Head Tutor)
Nancy Kleckner, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology
David R. Liu, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard College Professor
Richard M. Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology
Robert A. Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology
David R. Nelson, Arthur K. Soloman Professor of Biophysics and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Stuart L. Schreiber, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry
Gregory C. Tucci, Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Suzanne Walker, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Medical School)
Christopher T. Walsh, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Medical School)
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Xiaowei Zhuang, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in Chemical and Physical Biology
A. Thomas Torello, Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Chemical and Physical Biology concentration is overseen by a Standing Committee, which includes representatives from several departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from other schools as appropriate to ensure the requisite breadth of the program. The Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences, which was established in 1926, runs the Tutorial program for the Chemical and Physical Biology concentration and the Molecular and Cellular Biology concentration. The Tutorial program offers individualized instruction to all concentrators beginning at the time of declaration.
The concentration aims to provide students with the background needed to make new advances in the quantitative understanding of living systems. Chemical and physical biology provides a link between classical approaches to studying biology and the chemical tools and physical methods required to understand dynamic changes in complex biological systems. For more information about Chemical and Physical Biology courses and the Life Sciences concentrations, visit www.lifescience.fas.harvard.edu/concentrations/.
Primarily for Undergraduates
*Chemical and Physical Biology 91r. Introduction to Research
Catalog Number: 9168
A. Thomas Torello
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Laboratory research in topics related to the CPB concentration under the direction of, or approved by, members of the Board of Tutors in CPB. A paper must be submitted to the laboratory sponsor and to the CPB Student Affairs Office for review by the Head Tutor and Course Director.
Note: Limited to CPB concentrators; written permission of both the tutor and laboratory sponsor must be submitted to the CPB Concentration Office prior to enrolling in the course. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course.
*Chemical and Physical Biology 99. Laboratory Research for Honors Thesis
Catalog Number: 7918
A. Thomas Torello
Full course (indivisible). Hours to be arranged.
For honors candidates writing a thesis in CPB. Indivisible for students enrolling in the fall term. Students intending to enroll in the fall are required to submit a written proposal to the Course Director. Students may enter the course at midyear only with the permission of the Course Director. The thesis proposal must be approved by the Coure Director and Head Tutors prior to enrolling in CPB 99.Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course.