Biochemistry Faculty
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
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.
Hyungjin Kim, Mechanisms of DNA damage response and repair in cancer susceptibility pathways
Jae Ho Lee, Assistant Professor, Linking ribosome translation kinetics to protein biogenesis and homeostasis
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
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.
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.
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