Faculty
- Alphabetical
Biochemistry and Cell Biology Primary Faculty
Michael Airola, Assistant Professor, Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes
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, Genetic control of development and gene expression in animals
Vitaly Citovsky,Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Neta Dean, Professor, Protein glycosylation
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
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.
Wali Karzai, Professor and Chair, Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB.tmRNA quality control system.
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 Kaczocha, Associate Professor, Primary Appointment, Anesthesiology; Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics
Lonnie Wollmuth, Professor, Primary Appointment Neurobiology
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. Dudock, Professor 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, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modification enzymes, enzyme engineering
Changcheng Xu, Research Assistant 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
Michael Lake, Visiting Scholar
- Biochemistry
Bingham, Paul, Associate Professor
Citovsky, Vitaly, Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Dean, Neta, Professor, Protein glycosylation
Deutsch, Dale, Professor Emeritus, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism
Gergen, J. Peter, Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Glynn, Steven, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Holdener, Bernadette, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Hollingsworth, Nancy M., Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Karzai, Wali, Professor, Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB.tmRNA quality control system.
London, Erwin, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids.
Luk, Ed, Associate Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation
Dada Pisconti, Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.
Simon, Sanford, Professor
Smith, Steven O., Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins
Sternglanz, Rolf, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chromatin function in gene regulation
Thomsen, Gerald, Professor, Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development
Hannun, Yusuf A, MD, Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center. Primary Appointment, Director, Cancer Center; Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine; Joel Kenny Professor of Medicine. Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
- Cancer
Bingham, Paul, Associate Professor Hannun, Yusuf A, 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
Holdener, Bernadette, Associate Professor, Genetic regulation of epithelial to mesenchymal transition during mouse embryonic development
Hu, Chi-Kuo , Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
Martin, Benjamin, Associate Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
Matus, David Q. Assistant Professor, Evolutionary, cell and developmental biological approaches to studying nematode uterine-vuval attachment and morphogenesis
Simon, Sanford, Professor
- Cell Biology
Citovsky, Vitaly,Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Dean, Neta, Professor, Protein glycosylation
Deutsch, Dale, Professor Emeritus, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism
Hannun, Yusuf A, MD, Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center. Primary Appointment, Director, Cancer Center; Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine; Joel Kenny Professor of Medicine. Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics
Holdener, Bernadette, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Hollingsworth, Nancy M., Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Hu, Chi-Kuo , Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
Karzai, Wali, Professor, Structure and function of RNA-binding proteins and biochemical studies of the SmpB.tmRNA quality control system.
Luk, Ed, Associate Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation
Neiman, Aaron, 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.
- Developmental Biology
Gergen, J. Peter, Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development Holdener, Bernadette, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Hu, Chi-Kuo , Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
Martin, Benjamin, Assistant Professor, Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis
Dada Pisconti, Associate Professor, Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans.
Thomsen, Gerald, Professor, Mechanisms of cell fate determination and embryonic development
Ballas, Nurit, Research Professor
- Genetics
Neta Dean, Professor, Protein glycosylation Peter J. Gergen, Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Nancy M. Hollingsworth, Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Hu, Chi-Kuo , Assistant Professor, biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism.
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
Rolf Sternglanz,, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chromatin function in gene regulation
Nurit Ballas, Research Professor
- Membrane Biology
Michael Airola, Assistant Professor, Structure Neta Dean, Professor, Protein glycosylation
Yusuf 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
Erwin London, Distinguished Professor, Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids.
Aaron Neiman, Professor, The cell biology of sporulation in yeast
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins
- Neurobiology
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 Bernadette Holdener, Professor, Genetic regulation of epithelial to mesenchymal transition during mouse embryonic development
Lonnie WollmuthProfessor, Primary Appointment Neurobiology
Nurit Ballas, Research Professor
- Plant Biology
Vitaly Citovsky,Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants Harvard Lyman, Professor Emeritus, Photoregulation of Chloroplast Synthesis. Redox Regulation of Phototaxis
Chang-Jun Liu, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Science Education
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.
- Structural Biology
Michael Airola, Assistant Professor, Structure
Steven Glynn,Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Steven O. Smith, Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins