Faculty
- Alphabetical
Faculty
Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
Elizabeth Boon, Professor, Chemistry, Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation
Mark Bowen, Associate Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds
Ivet Bahar, Professor, molecular systems biology, modeling and simulations of structural dynamics and interactions, design of modulators of function, applications to complex diseases
Lina Carlini, Assistant Professor, Intracellular transport, organelle inheritance and dynamics
Isaac Carrico, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology
Vish Chandrasekaran, Structures and Mechanisms of Protein Translational Control
Saikat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation, cryo-electron microscopy and cell biology
Ramana V. Davuluri, Professor, Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Isoform-level Gene Regulation, Epigenetics, Alternative Promoters and Alternative Splicing
Ken Dill, Professor, Laufer Center, Computer modeling of protein molecules and theory and principles of the machine mechanisms and evolution of cells
Miguel-Garcia Diaz, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression
J. Peter Gergen , Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
David Green, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, How can macromolecular interactions be engineered in a rational manner to have the desired effects in a complex environment, such as a living organism?
Steven Glynn, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Kathryn Gunn, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Studying the regulation of pancreatic enzymes through quaternary structure using cryoEM and cryoET
Yusuf A. Hannun, Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Nancy M. Hollingsworth, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Chi-Kuo Hu, Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
Wali Karzai, Professor, Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB.tmRNA quality control system.
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.
Jae Ho Lee, Assistant Professor, Linking ribosome translation kinetics to protein biogenesis and homeostasis
Benjamin Lin, Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility
Chang-Jun Liu, Brookhaven National Lab, Flavinoid/isoflavinoid & Plant cell wall pathways, Protein engineering
Qun Liu, Brookhaven National Lab, Structural biology of membrane proteins and host-pathogen interactions, cellular structure biology.
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids.
Ed Luk, Assistant Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation
Benjamin Martin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
David Q. Matus, Assistant Professor, Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior
Lisa Miller, Brookhaven National Lab, Study of the chemical makeup of cells and tissues using synchrotron-based infrared and x-ray imaging
W. Todd Miller, Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, Signal transduction by tyrosine kinases
Jyoti Misra, Assistant Professor, Hippo signaling in Development and Cancer and Drug development
Aaron Neiman, Professor and Chair Biochemistry, The cell biology of sporulation in yeast
Jonathan Nelson, Assistant Professor, Repetitive DNA and transposable element regulation and its impact on maintaining genome stability
Dada Pisconti , Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.
Robert Rizzo, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, Structure-based drug design using computational methods; docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening
Julia Rogers, Mechanisms of signal responsive gene expression
Nicole Sampson, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology, enzymology and metabolomics
Jorg Schwender, Brookhaven National Lab, Metabolic flux analysis, central carbon metabolism pathways
Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology
Markus Seeliger, Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modifying enzymes, Protein engineering, Plant oils
Carlos Simmerling, Professor, Chemistry, Computational structural biology: to accurately simulate known properties of molecules, assist in the refinement and interpretation of experimental data and predict the results of future experiments
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins
Stuti Sharma, Mechanisms of membrane transporters using cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical tools
Dongyan Tan, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Structure and function of macromolecules involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression
Gerald Thomsen, Professor, Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development
Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry, How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands
Jin Wang, Professor, Chemistry, Biomolecular folding and recognition, especially protein folding and protein-protein/protein-DNA interactions
Lonnie Wollmuth, Professor, Neurobiology, Fundamental mechanisms underlying the operation of ionotropic glutamate receptors, ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast cell-to-cell signaling in the nervous system
- Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
Elizabeth Boon, Professor, Chemistry, Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation
Mark Bowen, Professor, Physiology and Biohysics, Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds
Isaac Carrico, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology
Saikat Chowdhury, Biochemistry, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation
Miguel-Garcia Diaz, Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression
J. Peter Gergen , Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Steven Glynn, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Kathryn Gunn, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Studying the regulation of pancreatic enzymes through quaternary structure using cryoEM and cryoET
Yusuf A. Hannun, Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Nancy M. Hollingsworth, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Chi-Kuo Hu, Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
Wali Karzai, Professor, Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB.tmRNA quality control system.
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.
Jae Ho Lee, Assistant Professor, Linking ribosome translation kinetics to protein biogenesis and homeostasis
Benjamin Lin, Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility
Chang-Jun Liu, Brookhaven National Lab, Flavinoid/isoflavinoid & Plant cell wall pathways, Protein engineering
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids.
Ed Luk, Assistant Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation
Benjamin Martin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
David Q. Matus, Assistant Professor, Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior
Todd Miller, Professor and Chair, Physiology and Biohysics, Signal transduction by tyrosine kinases
Jyoti Misra, Assistant Professor, Hippo signaling in Development and Cancer and Drug development
Aaron Neiman, Professor and Chair, The cell biology of sporulation in yeast
Dada Pisconti ,Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.
Nicole Sampson, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology, enzymology and metabolomics
Jorg Schwender, Brookhaven National Lab, Metabolic flux analysis, central carbon metabolism pathways
Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology
Markus Seeliger, Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modifying enzymes, Protein engineering, Plant oils
Sanford Simon, Professor, Extracellular degradation by neutrophil proteases.
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins
Stuti Sharma, Mechanisms of membrane transporters using cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical tools
Dongyan Tan, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Structure and function of macromolecules involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression
Gerald Thomsen, Professor, Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development
Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry, How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands
Lonnie Wollmuth, Professor, Neurobiology, Fundamental mechanisms underlying the operation of ionotropic glutamate receptors, ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast cell-to-cell signaling in the nervous system
- Computational Biology
Computational Biology
Ivet Bahar,Professor, molecular systems biology, modeling and simulations of structural dynamics and interactions, design of modulators of function, applications to complex diseases
Ken Dill, Professor, Laufer Center, Computer modeling of protein molecules and theory and principles of the machine mechanisms and evolution of cells
David Green, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, How can macromolecular interactions be engineered in a rational manner to have the desired effects in a complex environment, such as a living organism?
Robert Rizzo, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, Structure-based drug design using computational methods; docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening
Markus Seeliger, Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Carlos Simmerling, Professor, Chemistry, Computational structural biology: to accurately simulate known properties of molecules, assist in the refinement and interpretation of experimental data and predict the results of future experiments
Jin Wang, Professor, Chemistry, Biomolecular folding and recognition, especially protein folding and protein-protein/protein-DNA interactions
- Structural Biology
Structural Biology
Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
Elizabeth Boon,Professor, Chemistry, Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation
Mark Bowen, Professor, Physiology and Biohysics, Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds
Saikat Chowdhury, Biochemistry, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation
Ken Dill, Professor, Laufer Center, Computer modeling of protein molecules and theory and principles of the machine mechanisms and evolution of cells
Miguel-Garcia Diaz, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression
Steven Glynn, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Kathryn Gunn, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Studying the regulation of pancreatic enzymes through quaternary structure using cryoEM and cryoET
Qun Liu, Brookhaven National Lab, Structural biology of membrane proteins and host-pathogen interactions, cellular structural biology.
Lisa Miller, Brookhaven National Lab, Study of the chemical makeup of cells and tissues using synchrotron-based infrared and x-ray imaging
Markus Seeliger, Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modifying enzymes, Protein engineering, Plant oils
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins
Dongyan Tan, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Structure and function of macromolecules involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression
Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry, How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands
Jin Wang, Professor, Chemistry, Biomolecular folding and recognition, especially protein folding and protein-protein/protein-DNA interactions
- Membrane Biology
Membrane Biology
Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
Saikat Chowdhury, Biochemistry, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation
Steven Glynn, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Yusuf A. Hannun, Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.
Qun Liu, Brookhaven National Lab, Structural biology of membrane proteins in cell death and stress; technology development for X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM.
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids
Aaron Neiman, Professor and Chair, The cell biology of sporulation in yeast
Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology
Markus Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modifying enzymes, Protein engineering, Plant oils
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane and amyloid proteins
Lonnie Wollmuth, Professor, Neurobiology, Fundamental mechanisms underlying the operation of ionotropic glutamate receptors, ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast cell-to-cell signaling in the nervous system
- Neurobiology
Neurobiology
Saikat Chowdhury, Biochemistry, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation, cryo-electron microscopy and cell biology
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane and amyloid proteins
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.
Lonnie Wollmuth, Professor, Neurobiology, Fundamental mechanisms underlying the operation of ionotropic glutamate receptors, ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast cell-to-cell signaling in the nervous system
- Drug Design and Development
Drug Design and Development
Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
Elizabeth Boon, Professor, Chemistry, Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation
Yusuf A. Hannun, Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.
Robert Rizzo, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, Structure-based drug design using computational methods; docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening
Nicole Sampson, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology, enzymology and metabolomics
Markus Seeliger,Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology
Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.
Carlos Simmerling, Professor, Chemistry, Computational structural biology: to accurately simulate known properties of molecules, assist in the refinement and interpretation of experimental data and predict the results of future experiments
Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry, How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands
- Chemical Biology
Chemical Biology
Elizabeth Boon, Professor, Chemistry, Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation
Isaac Carrico, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology
Jyoti Misra, Assistant Professor, Hippo signaling in Development and Cancer and Drug development
Dada Pisconti, Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.
Nicole Sampson, Professor, Chemistry, Chemical biology, enzymology and metabolomics
Markus Seeliger,Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology
Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.
Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry, How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands
- Cancer Biology
Cancer Biology
Miguel-Garcia Diaz, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression
Yusuf A. Hannun, Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Benjamin Lin, Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility
Benjamin Martin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
David Q. Matus, Assistant Professor, Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior
Jyoti Misra, Assistant Professor, Hippo signaling in Development and Cancer and Drug development
Jonathan Nelson, Assistant Professor, Repetitive DNA and transposable element regulation and its impact on maintaining genome stability
Markus Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging
- Cell Biology
Cell Biology
Saikat Chowdhury, Biochemistry, Cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation, cryo-electron microscopy and cell biology
Kathryn Gunn, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Studying the regulation of pancreatic enzymes through quaternary structure using cryoEM and cryoET
Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Martin Kaczocha, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics
David Q. Matus, Assistant Professor, Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior
Benjamin Lin, Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids
Benjamin Martin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
Jyoti Misra, Assistant Professor, Hippo signaling in Development and Cancer and Drug development
Aaron Neiman, Professor and Chair, The cell biology of sporulation in yeast
Jonathan Nelson, Assistant Professor, Repetitive DNA and transposable element regulation and its impact on maintaining genome stability
Dada Pisconti, Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.