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
Deborah Brown, Professor, Cholestrol/sphingolipid-rich domains in membrane signaling
Saikat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Structural biology of macromolecule machines; cytoskeletal dynamics and regulation; Cyro Electron Microscopy
Vitaly Citovsky, Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Neta Dean, Professor, Protein glycosylation
Dale Deutsch , Professor, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism
Jarrod B. French, Assistant Professor, Structure, function and mechanism of proteins and protein complexes involved in human nucleotide metabolism.
J. Peter Gergen , Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Steven Glynn , Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Bernadette Holdener , Associate Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Nancy M. Hollingsworth ,Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
Wali Karzai, Professor, 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, Assistant Professor , Cell cycle regulation of morphogenesis and cell invasive behavior
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.
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
Mark Bowen, Associate Professor, Primary Appointment Physiology & Biophysics. Single molecule spectroscopy. Coordination of signal transduction by scaffold proteins
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, Assistant 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
David Bynum Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Director of LIGASE (Long Island Group Advancing Science Education), K-Postdoc education and research including science teacher education
Vince Cirillo, Professor Emeritus
Bernard S. Dudock Professor Emeritus, Structure and Function of RNA
Marty Freundlich, Professor Emeritus
William Lennarz , Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biosynthesis and degradation of glycoproteins
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
Matthew Schmidt
Joanne Souza , Lecturer and Director of the Biology Online Program
Adjunct Faculty
Crysten Blaby, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Ian Blaby, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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
Mark Bowen, Associate Professor, Primary Appointment Physiology & Biophysics. Single molecule spectroscopy. Coordination of signal transduction by scaffold proteins
Citovsky, Vitaly , Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Dean, Neta , Professor, Protein glycosylation
Deutsch, Dale , Professor, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism
French, Jarrod B. Assistant Professor
Gergen, J. Peter , Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development
Glynn, Steven , Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Haltiwanger, Robert , Professor, Role of protein glycosylation in signal transduction and quality control
Holdener, Bernadette , Associate 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.
Lennarz, William J ., Distinguished Professor, Biosynthesis and degradation of glycoproteins
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
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
Brown, Deborah , Professor Citovsky, Vitaly ,Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Dean, Neta , Professor, Protein glycosylation
Deutsch, Dale , Professor, 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, Associate 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.
Luk, Ed , Associate Professor, Chromosome biology and genome regulation
Matus, David Q. Assistant 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.
Sternglanz, Rolf , Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chromatin function in gene regulation
- Developmental Biology
Gergen, J. Peter , Professor, Regulation of gene expression during Drosophila development Holdener, Bernadette , Associate Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Martin, Benjamin , Assistant 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
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 , Associate Professor, Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects
Nancy M. Hollingsworth , Professor, Chromosome behavior in yeast meiosis
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. Assistant 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
Sasha Levy, Assistant Professor, Evolutionary dynamics, network dynamics, yeast genomics, high-throughput technology development
- Membrane Biology
Michael Airola, Assistant Professor, Structure Deborah Brown , Professor
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, The uptake of anandamide and 2-AG (the endocannabinoids) and the neurobiochemistry and cell biology of the enzymes involved in their metabolism
Mark Bowen, Associate Professor, Primary Appointment Physiology & Biophysics. Single molecule spectroscopy. Coordination of signal transduction by scaffold proteins
Bernadette Holdener , Associate 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 , Associate Professor, 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
Mark Bowen, Associate Professor, Primary Appointment Physiology & Biophysics. Single molecule spectroscopy. Coordination of signal transduction by scaffold proteins
Jarrod B. French. Assistant Professor
Steven Glynn, Associate Professor, Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria
Steven O. Smith , Professor, Structure and function of membrane proteins