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  • Alphabetical

    Biochemistry and Cell Biology Primary Faculty

    Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Membrane biochemistry, lipid metabolism and transport, cancer and antifungal drug development

    Ivet Bahar, Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology; Director Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Bridging Structure and Function, via Dynamics

    Paul Bingham, Associate Professor, The role of lipid metabolism in cancer drug resistance

    Vitaly Citovsky,Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants

    Neta Dean, Professor, We study Protein glycosylation and cell wall biosynthesis in yeast and fungi

    J. Peter Gergen , SUNY Distinguished Service 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, Spatiotemporal regulation of metabolic enzymes 

    Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects

    Nancy M. Hollingsworth, SUNY 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.

    Jonathan Nelson, Assistant Professor, Repetitive DNA Maintenance in germ cell immortality

    Wali Karzai, Professor and Chair, Biochemical, Structural, and Mechanistic Explorations of Protein and RNA Homeostasis.

    Benjamin Lin, Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility.

    Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids.

    Ed Luk, Associate Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation

    Benjamin Martin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis

    Aaron Neiman, Professor, 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.

    Stuti Sharma, Assistant Professor, Structural Biology and membrane biology

    Keith Sheppard, Director of Science Education, Associate Professor, Three areas of science education - all with the fundamental aim of improving the teaching and learning of science at every level of education.

    Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins

    Gerald Thomsen, Professor, Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development

    Biochemistry and Cell Biology Joint Faculty

    Yusuf A. Hannun, MD, Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center. Primary Appointment, Director, Cancer Center; Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine; Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer Research. Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics. Email: Yusuf.Hannun@stonybrookmedicine.edu

    Martin KaczochaAssociate Professor, Primary Appointment, Anesthesiology;  Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics

    Lonnie WollmuthProfessor, Primary Appointment Neurobiology,Structural and functional mechanisms underlying the operation of ligand-gated ion channels

    Biochemistry and Cell Biology Emeritus Faculty

    Deborah Brown, Professor Emeritus

    David Bynum, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Director of LIGASE (Long Island Group Advancing Science Education), K-Postdoc education and research including science teacher education

    Dale Deutsch, Professor Emeritus, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism

    Bernard S. DudockProfessor Emeritus, Structure and Function of RNA

    Marty Freundlich, Professor Emeritus

    Harvard Lyman, Associate Professor Emeritus, Photoregulation of Chloroplast Synthesis. Redox Regulation of Phototaxis

    Kenneth B. Marcu, Professor Emeritus, Roles of the NF- k B activating IKKs in innate and adaptive immunity and cancer; Mechanisms of action AID in antibody class switching

    Jakob Schmidt, Professor Emeritus

    Sanford Simon, Professor, Extracellular degradation by neutrophil proteases.

    Rolf Sternglanz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chromatin function in gene regulation

    Lecturer

    Susan Erster

    Stefan Tafrov

     

    Adjunct Faculty

    Saikat Chowdhury, Adjunct Professor, Structural biology of macromolecule machines; cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation; Cyro Electron Microscopy

    Robert Haltiwanger, Adjunct Professor, Role of protein glycosylation in signal transduction and quality control

    Chang-Jun Liu, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory

    Qun Liu, Adjunct Professor

    David Matus, Associate Professor

    John Shanklin, Adjunct Professor, Distinguished Biochemist, Department Chair, Biology Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modification enzymes, enzyme engineering

    Changcheng Xu, Adjunct Professor

    Research Faculty

    Nurit Ballas, Research Professor,The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the autism spectrum disorder Rett syndrome 

    Raafat El-Maghrabi, Associate Professor (Research), Primary Appointment, Physiology & Biophysics. Email: raafat.el-maghrabi@stonybrook.edu

    Daniel Moloney, Research Assistant Professor

    Zuzana Zachar, Research Assistant Professor

    Jörg Schwender, Research Assistant Professor

    Xiaohong Yu, Research Assistant Professor

    Guangtao Li, Research Assistant Professor

    Jae-Sook Park, Research Assistant Professor

    Joanne Souza, Research Assistant Professor

  • iSTEM

    Science Education (iSTEM)

    Paul Bingham, Associate Professor

    David Bynum, Distinguished Service Professor, Director of LIGASE (Long Island Group Advancing Science Education), K-Postdoc education and research including science teacher education

    Peter Gergen,Professor and Director of Undergraduate Biology

    Keith Sheppard, Director of Science Education, Associate Professor, Three areas of science education - all with the fundamental aim of improving the teaching and learning of science at every level of education.