Christine Schaner Tooley

Schaner Tooley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at SUNY Buffalo. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from Emory University and did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Ian Macara at the University of Virginia. As a postdoc, she discovered a new protein methyltransferase and has built her independent research program on understanding the biochemistry of this enzyme and its role in human development and disease. She has recently become co-director of a new T32 training grant at UB and will be taking over next year as the director of the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences.