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

  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.

  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

  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.

  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.