Brookhaven National Lab (Biology Dept.) - Research Sponsors

SPRING 2012 SEMESTER


Faculty Sponsor   Course   Sect.   Crs #   Research Interests

Botcheva, Krassimira               DNA damage responses; whole genome p53 & chromatin analysis

Dunn, John               Lyme disease, Technologies for epigenetics, Gene expression

Eswaramoorthy, S.               Function of selected proteins such as toxins and amino-acid processing enzymes through crystallographic structure analysis.

Freimuth, Paul               Adenovirus attachment, Expression & folding of recombinant proteins

Fu, Dax               Aquaporins, Metal transporters, Membrane protein structure/function

Heroux, Annie               X25 - Mail-in X-ray crystallographic program

Keszenman, Deborah               Interrelation between stress responses; Radiation DNA damage

Li, Huilin               Cryo-EM, Molecular machines, Protein localization in cells

Liu, Chang-Jun               Flavinoid/isoflavinoid & Plant cell wall pathways, Protein engineering

Mangel, Walter               Viral proteinases, Rational drug design

Maslov, Sergei               Systems, computational, and evolutionary biology with particular emphasis on large-scale properties of complex biomolecular networks. These networks operate inside living cells on multiple levels including protein-protein binding interactions, transcriptional regulation, signaling, metabolic reactions, etc. 

Naidu, Mamta               Increased radio sensitization of glioma cell lines by lucanthone (and its structural analogue hycanthone) due to direct physical destabilization of DNA base excision repair enzyme Apurinic endonuclease1 (Ape1). Effect of low and high LET radiation on Apurinic Endonuclease-1 (Ape1) activity in glial progenitor cells. 

Orville, Allen               Correlated single-crystal spectroscopy + x-ray diffraction

Robinson, Howard               X29 - Mail-in program, High-throughput methods

Schneider, Dieter               X12B - Beamline automation, Advanced design

Schwender, Jorg               Metabolic flux analysis, Central carbon metabolism pathways

Shanklin, John               Lipid modifying enzymes, Protein engineering, Plant oils

Soares, Alex               Mail-in program, New methods

Studier, F. William               T7, Protein production, Structural genomics

Swaminathan, S.               Toxins, Rational drug design, Databases, Structural genomics

Sweet, Robert               Technology, service, and training for synchrotron crystallography

Tafrov, Stefan               Histone Acetyltransferases and Space Radiation DNA Damage

Wall, Joseph               STEM User Facility, Protein complexes, Mass mapping

Wilson, Paul               Mammalian DNA damage response pathways, radiation biology

Xu, Changcheng               Lipid biosynthesis and storage, lipid transport, microalgae

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