Affiliated Research Faculty

Mike Airola

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the BSB Graduate Program - Co-Director ASBMB Lipid Research Division

Research: Membrane biochemistry, lipid metabolism and transport, cancer and antifungal drug development

Ivet Bahar

Professor

Leadership Positions: Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology - Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Research: Bridging Structure and Function, via Dynamics

Mark Bowen

Associate Professor

Research: Single molecule spectroscopy; Coordination of post-synaptic glutamate receptor signaling by the MAGUK family of scaffolds

Lina Carlini

Assistant Professor

Research: Intracellular transport, organelle inheritance and dynamics

Vish Chandrasekaran

Assistant Professor

Research: Structures and Mechanisms of Protein Translational Control

Vitaly Citovsky

Distinguished Professor

Research: Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants

Neta Dean

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the BCB Masters Program

Research: Protein glycosylation and cell wall biosynthesis in yeast and fungi

J. Peter Gergen

SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

Research: Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the Center for Structural Biology

Research: Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria

Kathryn Gunn

Assistant Professor

Research: Spatiotemporal regulation of metabolic enzymes

Bernadette Holdener

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of Undergraduate Biochemistry Studies

Research: Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects

Nancy M. Hollingsworth

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Research: Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis

Chi-Kuo Hu

Assistant Professor

Research: Biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism

Wali Karzai

Professor

Leadership Positions: Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Research: Biochemical, structural, and mechanistic explorations of protein and RNA homeostasis

Jae Ho Lee

Assistant Professor

Research: Linking ribosome translation kinetics to protein biogenesis and homeostasis

Benjamin Lin

Assistant Professor

Research: Cell dynamics and motility

Erwin London

Distinguished Professor

Research: Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids

Ed Luk

Professor

Research: Chromosome biology and genome regulation

Benjamin Martin

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the MCB Graduate Program

Research: Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis

W. Todd Miller

Professor

Research: Tyrosine phosphorylation and signal transduction

Aaron Neiman

Professor

Research: The cell biology of sporulation in yeast

Jonathan Nelson

Assistant Professor

Research: Repetitive DNA Maintenance in germ cell immortality

Dada Pisconti

Associate Professor

Research: Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans

Julia Rogers

Assistant Professor

Research: Mechanisms of signal-responsive gene expression

Stuti Sharma

Assistant Professor

Research: Structural Biology of membrane proteins

Keith Sheppard

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of Science Education

Research: Three areas of science education - all with the fundamental aim of improving the teaching and learning of science at every level of education

Gerald Thomsen

Professor

Research: Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development

Distinguished Professor

Research: Spectroscopic insights into enzyme mechanisms and structure

Lonnie Wollmuth

Professor

Primary Appointment in Neurobiology

Research: Structural and functional mechanisms underlying the operation of ligand-gated ion channels