Faculty

• 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

  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 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,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. 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, 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.