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Sharad Ramanathan
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology (joint with Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology)
Areas: Biophysics; Materials Science; Soft condensed Matter; Surface and Interface Science; Cell and Tissue Engineering
Sharad Ramanathan’s research is directed towards answering two questions. How do cells and organisms process signals from their environment? How do the underlying molecular pathways evolve?
To answer these questions he uses a combination of computational, theoretical and experimental tools. Ramanathan’s experimental work has focused on specific pathways in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae. These pathways are involved in responding to a variety of stimuli, including pheromones (in the mating process), glucose or nitrogen starvation (causing cells to invade the medium), and hyper- and hypo-osmolarity.
In addition, his lab is developing image-processing and computational tools to quantify morphogen movement in Drosophila and zebrafish, as well as tools to automate the analysis of fluorescent images from our experiments on yeast.
Ramanathan received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University and his master’s and undergraduate degrees from the Indian Institute of Information Technology/Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Since 2000, he has been a member of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard (most recently as a Bauer Fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Center for Systems Biology) and has simultaneously served as a technical staff member at Bell Laboratories at Alcatel-Lucent.
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