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
Lina Carlini, Assistant Professor, Intracellular transport, organelle inheritance and dynamics
Vitaly Citovsky, Distinguished Professor, Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants
Neta Dean, Professor, 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
Kathryn Gunn, Assistant Professor, Spatiotemporal regulation of metabolic enzymes
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.
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
Robert Haltiwanger, Adjunct Professor, GRA Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Glycosciences, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center- Role of protein glycosylation in signal transduction and quality control
Chang-Jun Liu, Adjunct Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Qun Liu, Adjunct Professor & Structural Biologist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
John Shanklin, Adjunct Professor, Distinguished Biochemist, Department Chair, Biology Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lipid modification enzymes, enzyme engineering
Changcheng Xu, Adjunct Professor & Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Research Faculty
Daniel Canals, Research Assistant Professor
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.