All undergraduates, including entering freshmen (who should also meet with their college advisor), should consult one of the MB&B Faculty Advisors assigned to their class for further information, advice, and for planning their course schedules.
Please consult the list of faculty advisors below.
Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)
Karla Neugebauer
Email: MBBUndergrad@yale.edu
Office: SHM C-0123
Undergraduate Registrar
Alysha Bucci-Lassalle
Email: MBBUndergrad@yale.edu
Office: KT 312
Majors Accepted to the B.S./M.S. Program
Karla Neugebauer
Email: MBBUndergrad@yale.edu
Office: SHM C-0123
Faculty Advisors by Class Year 2027|2028|2029
Class of 2027
Ghazia Abbas
Email: ghazia.abbas@yale.edu
Office: BASS 418
Nikhil Malvankar
Email: nikhil.malvankar@yale.edu
Office: WC Adv Biosciences Ctr
Nikhil is fascinated by how electrons move in natural and human-made systems. During his Ph.D. at UMass, he worked on how electrons move in superconductors during his PhD in UMass which helped him study electrons moving in bacterial communities called biofilms using hair-like filaments called nanowires. During his postdoc, he learned structural biology and is now working on the structures, functions, and electron transfer mechanisms of protein nanowires. At Yale, he teaches quantitative methods in biology, senior projects, and writing workshops and has mentored more than 20 undergraduates in his lab. click here to visit this lab webpage.
Steven Tang
Email: shaogeng.tang@yale.edu
Office: BASS 322
Steven Tang joined Yale’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2023. Steven tackles one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how sperm and eggs fuse with each other. Steven’s research program focuses on decoding and rewiring the cell-surface interactomes of cell-cell fusion and signaling, using structural biology, protein engineering, immunology, and cell biology. Before coming to Yale, Steven was a Merck Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at Stanford University. Steven completed his B.S. at Peking University, China and his Ph.D at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Supported by an NIH Pathway to Independence award, Steven’s research has focused on cell-surface recognition and sperm-egg membrane fusion in mammalian fertilization. His current program expands on this work to interrogate the long-standing mysteries in cell-cell membrane fusion. The long-term goal of his lab is to establish the design principles of cell-cell fusion and to inform therapeutic strategies for reproductive and regenerative medicine. Learn more at: steventanglab.com
Class of 2028
Franziska Bleichert
Email: franziska.bleichert@yale.edu
Office: YSB 345
Franziska Bleichert grew up in Germany, where she graduated from Medical School before moving to the US to obtain her PhD in Genetics from Yale University in 2010. She performed her postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow, and then at Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 2017, she started an independent research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, and joined Yale’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. Her research focuses on understanding the operating principles of macromolecular machines involved in chromosome replication and in the maintenance of genome stability using a combination of structural biology, biochemical, biophysical, and cellular approaches.
Ailong Ke
Office: BASS 238A
Ailong Ke grew up in Beijing, China and came to the States for his Ph.D. training in Biophysics with Cynthia Wolberger at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then did a three-year postdoctoral training at University of California, Berkeley, with Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. In 2005, Dr. Ke joined the faculty at Cornell University, where he rose to the rank of Full Professor in 2017. Dr. Ke relocated his laboratory to Yale University in 2024. Dr. Ke is an expert in RNA biology, best known for his contributions to the mechanistic understanding of CRISPR-Cas systems. His laboratory also actively pursues novel applications of CRISPR-Cas technologies in research and medicine. Click here to visit the Ke Lab webpage.
Karla Neugebauer
Email: karla.neugebauer@yale.edu
SHM C 123
Karla Neugebauer holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University and a PhD in Neuroscience from UCSF. She began working on RNA during her postdoc with Mark Roth at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. As a research group leader for 12 years at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, her lab studied the 3D organization of the cell nucleus and RNA metabolism in vivo by combining imaging, genomics, and RNA sequencing strategies. In 2013, she moved to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, wanting to participate in undergraduate education. She has previously been Director of Undergraduate Studies, is a long-time advisor in the major, and is an active fellow of Jonathan Edwards College. She is passionate about climate change, believing that everyone has something to contribute to meet its challenges. She has developed undergraduate biochemistry curriculum to show the relevance of the discipline to meeting the current and future needs of our planet.
Mark Solomon
Email: mark.solomon@yale.edu
Office: BASS 218
Class of 2029
Julien Berro
Email: julien.berro@yale.edu
Office: 214C ISTC (West Campus)
Professor Berro studied Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Physics at Ecole National Chimie Physique Biology in Paris, France and at the Institute National Polytechnique in Grenoble, France. He got his PhD in Mathematical Modeling in Biology at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. He did his post-doctoral research at Yale University. His lab combines experimental, theoretical and computational approaches to understand how forces are produced in the cell, especially during endocytosis. Click here to visit his lab webpage.
Christian Cammarota
Email: christian.cammarota@yale.edu
Office: BASS 420
Christian Cammarota was born in northern Delaware and considers himself to be from Philadelphia (Go Birds). He studied physics as an undergraduate at the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed his PhD in Biological Physics at the University of Rochester in 2025. His PhD thesis used Drosophila, MDCK cells, and computational modeling to address the mechanical nature of how epithelia form and maintain themselves. After that, he completed a Postdoc back at the Rochester Institute of Technology, switching his focus to computational and quantitative biology education research. He joined Yale in 2025 as a Lecturer. He primarily teaches the Introduction to Physics for the Life Sciences lab series, where he implements computational and quantitative techniques in an inquiry-based lab.
Matthew Simon
Email: matthew.simon@yale.edu
Office: 231 W-MIC (West Campus)
Rebeccah Warmack
Email: rebeccah.warmack@yale.edu
Office: 421 BASS
Rebeccah Warmack was born and raised in the Bay Area in Northern California, eventually making the long journey to graduate school at UCLA in Southern California. There she studied age-related protein post-translational modifications in the context of long-lived human proteins including crystallins and amyloid-β. After graduate school she endured an even more grueling migration from Los Angeles to Pasadena for a postdoctoral position at CalTech where she applied structural biology methods to the “Everest of Enzymes,” nitrogenase. Her lab’s current research focuses on the mechanisms and regulation of biological processes involving metalloproteins using cryoEM. @ https://www.warmacklab.com/