Physiology and Biophysics - Research Sponsors

SPRING SEMESTER 2012


Faculty Sponsor    Course    Sect.    Crs #   Research Interests 

Acosta- Martinez, Maricedes               Neuroendocrine regulation of the reproductive axis; signal transduction pathways and metabolic control.

Bowen, Mark               Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds.

Brink, Peter               Biophysical properties of Gap junction channels.

Cameron, Roger (email)                

Clausen, Chris               Electrical properties of transporting epithelia

Cohen, Ira               Electrophysiology of the heart; synaptic physiology

Doronin, Sergey               Mechanism of nucleotide recognition by DNA polymerases

El-Maghrabi, Raafat               metabolic regulation of gene expression

Gao, Junyuan               Sodium potassium pump current in cardiac myocytes

Guo, Yuanjian               Molecular aspects of signal transduction processes associated with enzyme phospholipase

Johnson, Roger               Mechanism of hormone action; inter- and intracellular regulation of membrane-bound hormone-sensitive enzymes

Kumari, Sindhu               Biochemical and molecular characterization of gap junction channels and sodium pump

Lu, Zhongju               Neurophysiology

Mathias, Richard               Electrophysiology of cardiac muscle; volume regulation in the lens.

McLaughlin, Stuart    BIO 486   T10    42636    Biophysics of membranes

Miller, Todd               Structure and function of enzymes involved in signal transduction

Moore, Leon               Renal physiology

Potapova, Irina               Investigation of dNTP-binding site of DNA polymerases by substrate analogs and site specific chemical modifications

Rosati, Barbara               Regulation of cardiac ion channel gene expression

Scarlata, Suzanne               Mechanisms through which G proteins activate effectors

Solomon, Irene               Reflex and central neural control of cardiovascular and respiratory function

Spector, Ilan               Electrophysiology of nerve and muscle cell lines; ion channels; neurotoxins

Valiunas, Virginijus               Biophysics

Varadaraj, Kulandaiappan               Physiology and pharmacology of mammalian lens membrane transporters

Van der Kloot, William               Cellular neurophysiology

Wang, Hsien-yu               Wnt pathways. The role of Wnt/Frizzled pathways in differentiation and self-renewal of Human embryonic stem cells. 

Warren, Kelly (email)                

White, Thomas               Physiology and genetics of intercellular channels

Undergraduate Biology, 107-112 CMM/BLL, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5110 - 631 632-8530, 631-632-1680 (fax)