Distinguished Professors

Citovsky, Vitaly³, Ph.D., 1987, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Nuclear transport and intercellular communication in plants.

Professors

Bahou, Wadie⁶, M.D., 1980, Massachusetts Medical Center: Human genetics; gene therapy; genetic disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis.

Canli, Turhan¹², Ph.D., 1993, Yale University: Biopsychology; neural and genetic basis of emotion and cognition.

Carter, Carol A.⁷, Ph.D., 1972, Yale University: HIV and retroviral assembly and replication.

Colognato, Holly¹⁰, Ph.D., 1999, Rutgers University: Extracellular matrix in the brain: roles during development and neurodegeneration.

Davalos, Liliana M.5, Ph.D., 2004, Columbia University: Conservation biology; climate change; phylogeny.

Del Poeta, Maurizio⁷, M.D., 1992, University of Ancona, Italy: Role of sphingolipids in mediating signaling pathways and fungal pathogenesis.

Demple, Bruce¹⁰, Ph.D., 1981, University of California, Berkeley: Mechanisms and roles of human enzymes that repair oxidative (free radical) damage in DNA.

Dubnau, Joshua¹, Ph.D., 1995, Columbia University:  Genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in flies and humans; genetic circuits underlying olfactory behavior in flies.

Enikolopov, Grigori¹, Ph.D., 1978, Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Stem cells; neurogenesis; imaging; signal transduction.

Frohman, Michael¹⁰, M.D., Ph.D., 1985, University of Pennsylvania: Lipid signaling; vesicle trafficking and fusion; mitochondrial fusion; myogenesis.

Furie, Martha B.⁹, Ph.D., 1980, Rockefeller University: Interactions among endothelial cells, leukocytes, and pathogenic bacteria.

Futcher, A. Bruce⁷, D.Phil., 1981, University of Oxford: Cell cycle control, microarrays, genomics.

Ge, Shaoyu⁸, Ph.D., 2002, University of Science and Technology of China: Molecular mechanisms and function of new neurons in the brain.

Gergen, J. Peter³, Ph.D., 1982, Brandeis University: Pattern information and the regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development.

Ghebrehiwet, Berhane⁶, D.V.M./D.Sc., 1974, University of Paris, France: Role of complement C1q receptors during infection and inflammation.

Hannun, Yusuf A.⁶, M.D., 1981, American University of Beirut: Mechanisms and functions of bioactive sphingolipids in cancer.

Hearing, Patrick⁷, Ph.D., 1980, Northwestern University: Adenovirus regulation of cellular proliferation and gene expression; adenovirus vectors for human gene therapy.

Ju, Jingfang⁹, Ph.D., 1996, University of Southern California: The mechanism of translational control mediated by non-coding RNAs in cancer.

Karzai, A. Wali³, Ph.D., 1995, Johns Hopkins University: Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB- SsrA quality control system.

Konopka, James⁷, Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Los Angeles: G-protein coupled receptor signal transduction; fungal pathogenesis (Candida albicans).

Kritzer, Mary⁸, Ph.D., 1989, Yale University: Sex differences in cortical microcircuitry.

Lin, Richard Z.¹¹, M.D., 1988, University of California, San Francisco: Physiology of phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling.

Mackow, Erich R.⁷, Ph.D., 1984, Temple University: Viral regulation of cell signaling responses; hantavirus, influenza, dengue and rotavirus pathogenesis.

Marshall, Nancy Reich⁷, Ph.D., 1983, Stony Brook University: Signal transduction and activation of gene expression by cytokines; cellular defense responses to viral infection.

Moll, Ute⁹, M.D., 1985, University of Ulm, Germany: Tumor suppressor genes; role of p53 in human cancer.

Neiman, Aaron³, Ph.D., 1994, University of California, San Francisco: Vesicle trafficking and intracellular signaling in yeast.

Powers, R. Scott⁹, Ph.D., 1983, Columbia University: Cancer gene discovery; cancer diagnostics and therapeutics; cancer biology.

Seeliger, Markus¹⁰, Ph.D., 2004, Cambridge University, United Kingdom: Molecular mechanisms of protein kinase and ubiquitin ligase signaling in cancer and aging.

Shroyer, Kenneth⁹, Ph.D. 1983, M.D. 1987, University of Colorado. Cancer biomarkers as diagnostic adjuncts in cervical pathology and cytopathology; cervical cancer and HPV.

Takemaru, Ken-Ichi¹⁰, Ph.D., Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan: Cell signaling and ciliogenesis in mammalian development, health, and disease.

Thanassi, David⁷, Ph.D., 1995, University of California, Berkeley: Biogenesis of bacterial adhesion organelles.

Thomsen, Gerald³, Ph.D., 1988, Rockefeller University: Embryonic developmental mechanisms, regeneration, stem cells and the evolution of developmental processes.

Tsirka, Styliana-Anna¹⁰, Ph.D., 1989, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece: Neuronal-microglial interactions in the physiology and pathology of the central nervous system.

White, Thomas¹¹, Ph.D., 1994, Harvard Medical School: Gap junction functions defined by genetic diseases and gene knockouts.

Associate Professors

Bingham, Paul³, Ph.D., 1979, Harvard University: Regulation of differentiation; transposable elements; regulation of splicing.

Carpino, Nicholas⁷, Ph.D., 1997, Stony Brook University: Positive and negative regulation of T cell receptor signaling.

Chen, Jiang⁹, M.D., Ph.D., 1995, Henan Medical University, China; 2001, University of Heidelberg, Germany: Planar cell polarity and primary cilia in skin and hair follicle development and skin cancers.

Chung, Jun⁹, Ph.D., 1999, Washington University School of Medicine: Mechanisms of tumor cell invasion and metastasis.

Kernan, Maurice⁸, Ph.D., 1990, University of Wisconsin: Genetics of touch and hearing in Drosophila; ciliogenesis and ciliary signaling.

Kim, Hyungjin¹⁰, Ph.D., 2009, Washington University: Mechanisms of mammalian DNA replication and repair in cancer development and therapy.

Luk, Ed³, Ph.D., 2003, John Hopkins University: Chromosome biology and genome regulation.

Martin, Benjamin L.³, Ph.D., 2005, University of California, Berkeley: Stem cell maintenance and differentiation; developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis.

Martinez, Luis A.⁸, Ph.D., 1998, University of Texas at Austin: Gain-of-function activity of mutant p53 oncogene.

Pisconti, Dada.³, Ph.D., 2003, University of Bari, Italy: Muscle stem cells; muscular dystrophy; muscle development; muscle regeneration; muscle aging; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.

Rest, Joshua S.⁵, Ph.D. 2004, University of Michigan: Regulatory evolution; protein network evolution; bioinformatics.

Seeliger, Jessica¹⁰, Ph.D., 2007, Stanford University: Mechanisms of cell wall and membrane assembly in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Shelly, Maya⁸, Ph.D., 2004, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: Molecular mechanisms of embryonic brain development; axon regeneration; neurodegenerative disorders.

Sheridan, Brian⁷, Ph.D., 2008, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine: Generation and maintenance of effector and memory T cells in intestinal tissues in response to bacterial pathogens.

Sirotkin, Howard⁸, Ph.D., 1996, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Specification and patterning of the neural plate; vertebrate developmental genetics.

True, John R.⁵, Ph.D., 1995, Duke University: Evolutionary and developmental genetics of color patterning in Drosophila.

van der Velden, Adrianus⁷, Ph.D., 2000, Oregon Health and Science University: The mammalian T cell response to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Veeramah, Krishna⁵, Ph.D., 2008, University College London, United Kingdom: Evolutionary genomics.

Williams, Jennie¹³, Ph.D., Purdue University: Cancer chemotherapeutics; cancer health disparity; tumor biology; chemoresistance and chemoresponse in racial and ethnic populations.

Assistant Professors

Acosta-Martinez, Maricedes¹¹, Ph.D., 2002, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Neuroendocrine regulation of the reproductive axis; signal transduction pathways and metabolic control.

Bialkowska, Agnieszka⁶, Ph.D., 2003, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences: Pancreatitis; pancreatic cancer; animal models; pancreatic stromal and immune cell interactions; single-cell and bulk next-generation sequencing.

Brownlee, Christopher¹⁰, Ph.D., 2013, University of Arizona: Molecular mechanisms of spindle orientation, ciliogenesis, polarity, actin cortex formation, and axonogenesis.

Cheung, Leonard¹¹, Ph.D., 2013, University College London: Physiology and genetics of the pituitary gland in development, aging, and disease.

Damaghi, Mehdi⁹, Ph.D., 2012, Max Planck Institute: Tumor evolution in its selective microenvironment using single-cell multi omics and spatial omics connecting genotype to phenotype.

Hu, Chi-Kuo³, Ph.D., 2011, Harvard Medical School: The biology of dormancy and its interaction with development and aging.

Kim, Hwan⁷, Ph.D., 2011, University of Chicago: Rickettsial pathogenesis and vaccine assembly for tick-borne rickettsioses.

Nelson, Jonathan³, Ph.D., 2016, University of Utah: Impact of retrotransposons and repetitive DNA maintenance in germline genome stability.

Rahme, Gilbert¹⁰, Ph.D., 2017, Dartmouth College: Cancer epigenetics with a focus on brain tumors.

Sher, Roger⁸, Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Davis: Neurobiology; neurodegenerative diseases; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Alzheimer's; dementias.

Talos, Flaminia⁹, M.D., 2002, Ph.D., 2006, Stony Brook University: Intra-tumor heterogeneity in prostate cancer; tissue reprogramming in the urinary bladder.

Wan, Ledong¹⁰, Ph.D., 2018, Zhejiang University School of Medicine: RNA metabolism; inflammation, cancer.

Research Faculty

Luberto, Chiara¹¹, Ph.D., 1997, Catholic University of Rome: Sphingolipid metabolism and signaling.

Zachar, Zuzana³, Ph.D., 1992, Stony Brook University: Cancer chemotherapy and drug discovery.

Adjunct Faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Amor Vegas, Corina, CSHL Fellow. Ph.D., 2021, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Senescence and immune surveillance in cancer and aging.

Beyaz, Semir, Assistant Professor. Ph.D, 2017, Harvard University: Dietary regulation of immunity and cancer; epigenetics; metabolism.

Cheadle, Lucas, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2014, Yale University: Neuro-immune mechanisms of brain development and disease.

Dobin, Alexander, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2003, University of Minnesota: Computational multi-omics; biological big data; bioinformatics tools.

dos Santos, Camila, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2007, State University of Campinas, Brazil: Epigenetic dependencies of normal and malignant breast development; gene expression in prevention and treatment of cancer.

Egeblad, Mikala, Professor. Ph.D., 2000, University of Copenhagen and the Danish Cancer Society: Tumor microenvironment; intravital imaging; tumor-associated myeloid cells; breast cancer.

Fearon, Douglas, Professor. M.D., 1968, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: Cancer immunology; immunotherapy; host response to cancer.

Gingeras, Thomas R., Professor. Ph.D., 1976, New York University: Genome-wide organization of transcription and the functional roles of non- protein coding RNAs.

Hammell, Christopher, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2002, Dartmouth Medical School: Genetic regulation of temporal development and the function of animal microRNAs.

Hammell, Molly, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2003, Dartmouth College: Computational and functional genomics; control of transposable elements; neurodegenerative disease.

Jackson, David, Professor. Ph.D., 1991, University of East Anglia, England: Plant development; genetics, cell-to-cell mRNA and protein trafficking.

Janowitz, Tobias, Assistant Professor. M.D., Ph.D., 2007, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: Host response to cancer: metabolic, endocrinological, neurological, and immunological consequences and treatment strategies in cancer medicine.

Joshua-Tor, Leemor, Professor. Ph.D., 1990, Weizmann Institute of Science: Structural biology; nucleic acid regulation; RNAi; molecular recognition; X-ray crystallography.

Koo, Peter, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2015, Yale University: Computational biology; artificial intelligence; interpretable deep learning for genomics.

Krainer, Adrian R., Professor. Ph.D., 1986, Harvard University: Posttranscriptional control of gene expression; alternative splicing; splicing in genetic diseases and cancer; splicing-targeted antisense therapeutics.

Li, Bo, Professor, Ph.D., 2003, The University of British Columbia: Neuroscience; glutamatergic synapse; synaptic plasticity; schizophrenia; depression; rodent models of psychiatric disorders.

Lukey, Michael, Assistant Professor. DPhil, 2010, University of Oxford: Metabolic reprogramming during tumorigenesis and metastasis.

Martienssen, Robert A., Professor. Ph.D., 1986, Cambridge University: Plant genetics; transposons; development; gene regulation; DNA methylation.

McCombie, W. Richard, Professor. Ph.D., 1982, University of Michigan: Human genetics; human genome variation; personal genomics; genetics of psychiatric disorders; genetics of cancer, computational molecular biology.

Meyer, Hannah, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2018, University of Cambridge, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom: Tolerance induction and generation of diversity in the developing immune system; systems immunology; transcriptomics; bioinformatics

Mills, Alea A., Professor. Ph.D., 1997, University of California, Irvine: Cancer; development; aging; senescence; epigenetics; autism.

Pedmale, Ullas, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2008, University of Missouri, Columbia: Organism-environment interactions; photobiology; signal transduction; genomics; cellular growth; decision-making in plants.

Schorn, Andrea, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2009, Freie Universitaet, Berlin: Non-coding and small RNA; transposable elements; stem cells; epigenetics

Sheltzer, Jason, CSHL Fellow. Ph.D., 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Consequences of aneuploidy and gene dosage imbalances in development and cancer.

Siepel, Adam C., Professor. Ph.D., 2005, University of California, Santa Cruz: Computational biology; population genetics; molecular evolution; transcriptional regulation.

Spector, David L., Professor. Ph.D., 1980, Rutgers University: Cell biology; gene expression; nuclear structure; microscopy; non-coding RNAs.

Stillman, Bruce W., Professor. Ph.D., 1979, Australian National University: Cancer; cell cycle; DNA replication; chromatin assembly; yeast genetics.

Tollkuhn, Jessica, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2006, University of California, San Diego: Regulation of gene expression in the brain by estrogen and testosterone.

Tonks, Nicholas K., Professor. Ph.D., University of Dundee: Posttranslational modification; phosphorylation; phosphatases; signal transduction; protein structure and function.

Trotman, Lloyd C., Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2001, University of Zurich: Cancer modeling and treatment; senescence and tumor progression; cancer visualization; PTEN regulation.

Tuveson, David A., Professor. M.D., Ph.D., 1994, Johns Hopkins University: Pancreatic cancer; experimental therapeutics; diagnostics; mouse models; cancer genetics.

Vakoc, Christopher, Professor. M.D., Ph.D., 2007, University of Pennsylvania: Transcriptional regulation of mammalian cell growth.

VanAelst, Linda, Professor. Ph.D., 1991, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium: Signal transduction; Ras and Rho proteins; tumorigenesis; neuronal development and disorders.

Westcott, Peter, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2015, University of California San Francisco: Cancer genomics and immunology; evolution of immune surveillance and dysfunction during cancer progression and metastasis.

Zhang, Lingbo, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore: Normal and malignant stem and progenitor cells; self-renewal; metabolism; therapeutic tar

Research Faculty at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Freimuth, Paul I., Scientist. Ph.D., 1980, Stanford University: Adenovirus reproduction; virus-cellular receptor binding.

 

Number of teaching, graduate, and research assistants, Spring 2024: 44

¹Department of Anesthesiology

²Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

³Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

⁴Department of Biomedical Engineering

⁵Department of Ecology and Evolution

⁶Department of Medicine

⁷Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

⁸Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

⁹Department of Pathology

¹⁰Department of Pharmacological Sciences

¹¹Department of Physiology and Biophysics

¹²Department of Psychology

¹³Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine