Faculty

• Alphabetical

  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

  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.

  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

  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