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    Biochemistry and Cell Biology Primary Faculty

    Michael Airola, Assistant Professor, Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes

    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

    David Q. Matus,  Associate Professor , Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior

    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.

    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.

    Sanford Simon , Professor, Extracellular degradation by neutrophil proteases.

    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

    Mel Simpson, Professor Emeritus

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

    Lecturer

    Susan Erster

     

    Adjunct Faculty

    Crysten Blaby, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory

    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

    M. Mahmood Hussain, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology SUNY Downstate & Endowed Chair, Director, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola. Regulation of lipid metabolism and stherosclerosis by microRNAs and circadian rhythms.

    John Shanklin , Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modification enzymes, enzyme engineering

    F.W. Studier, Senior Biophysicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Molecular genetics of bacteriophage T7, and use of T7 RNA polymerase to produce proteins in E. coli.

    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

    Sondra Lazarowitz, Research Scholar

    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

    Matus, David Q. Associate Professor , Evolutionary, cell and developmental biological approaches to studying nematode uterine-vuval attachment and morphogenesis

    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

    Matus, David Q.  Associate Professor , Evolutionary, cell and developmental biological approaches to studying nematode uterine-vuval attachment and morphogenesis

    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

    David Q. Matus.  Associate Professor , Evolutionary, cell and developmental biological approaches to studying nematode uterine-vuval attachment and morphogenesis

    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 Wollmuth Professor, 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